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about flitto

• * Provides human-powered, community verified, crowdsourced content.
• * More than 2.5 million registered users, 170 countries and $0 marketing effort as of March 2014
• * Provides accurate, cost effective, real time translations that can be accessed from your mobile phone (iOS/android) and on the web
• * Enables user to read social media in their native language
• * Aids user to translate languages in images, audio, text
• * If you’re a translator, you can earn points, which can be exchanged for real goods AND you get to earn a good reputation among your fellow flitto members.

Team

Bottom (Left-Right): Dan Kang(Co-Founder, Engineer) , Simon Lee(Founder, CEO) , Jinggu Kim(Co-Founder, Engineer)

Top (Centre): Min Hee Song(Global Sales Director)

Mission

“Helping in preservation of languages and cultures by allowing the millions of multilingual people around the world to completely break the language barriers through translations in a dynamic, fun, and interactive way.”

Vision

People to refer to Flitto when they need translations - "Just flitto it!"

Awards & Achievements

• Seedstars World Seoul 2013: Winner
• Start tel aviv Korean competition 2013: Winner
• BeGlobal K-Startup Program 2013: Winner (Best Startup)
• Superstar M Award 2013: Winner
• In Golden Pentagon: Winner
• Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning Award Ceremony: 1st
• Mobile Startup Korea 2013: 4th
• Only Korean startup pitching at the Plug and Play Fall Expo
• Top 10 companies to participate at BeGlobal

News

• "The top 7 things you missed at SXSW"
• "7 Digital Tools Discovered at SXSW to Make Your Startup Rock"
• "SXSW: International Companies To Keep An Eye, Ear, And Brain On"
• "Flitto, the Korean startup that uses crowdsourcing to destroy Google Translate"
• "Simon Lee, co-founder of Flitto"
• "How did translation app Flitto bag the top spot at Seedstars World?”"
• "CEO experiments crowd-sourced translation"

business model

• Matching fees
  • Connect requestors & translator
  • Takes a % from the transaction when completed

• Transaction fees
  • Charged to translate content in flitto

• Big data (transaction database sharing)
  • Integration with other platforms or services for a fee

Challenges

• What content that attracted people or translators ready to translate content?

• Simon was the only translator and would spend the entire day translating tweets and pushing them to celebrities and fans on Twitter.

• Lack of competitors to benchmark with.

Motivations

"Provide accurate translation that even Businesses can use."
"Realizing dreams and creating value for people."

other info

Website: flitto
Available on Apple Store here
Available on Android Play Store here

Download our slides here!