Faces of Gengo: Erika
Erika lives in her hometown of São Paulo, Brazil, but dreams of one day living in Japan. She counts her main interests as languages, Harry Potter, and sci-fi movies (possibly not in that order). This English to Portuguese-Brazilian translator loves being able to work from almost anywhere in the w...
Faces of Gengo: Shoma
At Gengo, we track a wide array of metrics for all our translators. Looking at the average speed at which our translators work, for example, allows us to serve our customers who need large amounts of text translated in a short time frame. In addition, translator’s quality scores tell us what type...
Gengo-dō: Dogfooding
Last year Gengo launched a new initiative called dogfooding, where every member of our team regularly tests and uses our own platform. While most of our teams already use Gengo daily, including Marketing, Ops, Engineering and Support, we wanted for everyone to have the chance to test and try out ...
Faces of Gengo: Jesse
Jesse works in the Marina District in San Francisco. Having worked as a VP of Marketing for four different startups in Silicon Valley, he now builds Japanese-English translation into his work running a cross-cultural marketing and PR firm in the city. How did you become a translator? Do you trans...
Gengo announces $5.4M in Series C funding
We’re excited to announce that we recently closed our Series C funding round of $5.4M led by Recruit of Japan. Recruit are an international leader in supporting diverse aspects of global companies from Japan, and we’re excited to have them join our team of investors. Also participating in t...
Faces of Gengo: Ana
Although Ana has only lived for a few months outside her home country of Portugal, she translates across four language pairs: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese and Portuguese to English. Outside of a short-lived childhood dream of wanting to become a firefighter, ...
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