Lingotek Closes Internal Financing Round
SALT LAKE CITY--(Business Wire)-- Lingotek (www.lingotek.com) today announced it has completed a round of internal financing. The financing included investments from In-Q-Tel, Canopy Ventures and Flywheel Ventures. This new round of funding positions Lingotek to expand its product development, marketing and sales activities and other general corporate activities. "Lingotek has demonstrated that its innovative Community Translation Platform is providing a novel solution to overcoming traditional translation barriers," said Scott Caruso of Flywheel Ventures. "The list of international corporations and organizations turning to Lingotek is growing and will continue to do so as Fortune 5000 businesses globally expand their markets and revenue." The company has recently signed 14 new clients with an integrated software and translation services offering. In addition, Lingotek is accelerating product development to more rapidly take advantage of the growing demand for corporations to leverage their communities to incorporate community translation as an integral part of their global expansion strategy. "We look forward to continued success as we work with investors who share our vision and commitment to enabling greater possibilities with language translations," said Rob Vandenberg, president and CEO of Lingotek. "Our Web-based community translation platform exponentially increases the amount of content that can be translated at a fraction of the current cost-this allows companies to access to new markets more quickly and more cost-effectively than ever before." This is the fourth round of funding for Lingotek since its inception in 2006. Financial details of the transaction are not disclosed. About Lingotek Lingotek is the leading global provider of Collaborative Translation Technology. Lingotek enables companies and organizations to harness the power of communities to distribute products and services around the world in each market's localized language. Lingotek's Collaborative Translation Platform brings machine translation, translation memories, terminology management together with a social network to enable the social production of localized content. Lingotek puts you, in business, everywhere. More information is available at www.Lingotek.com. About In-Q-Tel In-Q-Tel is the strategic, not-for-profit investment firm that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Launched by the CIA in 1999 as a private, independent organization, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community's critical technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and investors to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA and the larger Intelligence Community. To learn more about In-Q-Tel, visit www.iqt.org. About Flywheel Ventures Flywheel Ventures is a venture capital firm that empowers entrepreneurs to build globally-competitive businesses based on innovations in information technology and the physical sciences. Flywheel typically makes the first institutional investments in companies with origins in the Mountain West region of the United States. The firm matches talented entrepreneurs and market opportunities with Flywheel's capital, entrepreneurial experience, and industry relationships to accelerate innovations into profitable companies. Flywheel is based in Santa Fe and also has offices in Albuquerque and San Francisco. For more information on Flywheel, please visit www.flywheelventures.com. About Canopy Ventures Canopy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm targeting information technology and life science companies primarily in the state of Utah. Since Canopy's founding in 1995, the firm has invested in more than 100 high-growth companies and made a significant contribution to the Utah marketplace. More information may be found at http://www.canopy.com. SNG PR Tim Rush, 801-208-1100 tim.rush@sng.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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