Yaraku
AI-powered translation platform for multilingual business communication.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| investor | €0.0 | round | |
N/A | Early VC | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Yaraku is a software development company, founded in August 2009 by Suguru Sakanishi, specializing in multilingual translation solutions. After studying accounting at UCLA and gaining business development experience in New York, Sakanishi returned to Japan to establish Yaraku. The Tokyo-based company's primary offering is 'Yaraku Translate' (formerly YarakuZen), an AI-powered computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool. Effective April 1, 2025, the service was rebranded from YarakuZen to Yaraku Translate to reflect its evolution into a more advanced CAT tool incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs).
The platform is designed for business use, allowing users to drag and drop files such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF for translation. It integrates multiple machine translation engines, including options like ChatGPT and Google Translate, and enhances accuracy through post-editing. The system learns from user edits, saving corrections to a private translation database (Phrases and Glossary) to improve the quality of future automatic translations. This ensures that all data uploaded is encrypted, managed individually, and not shared with other users or companies. Yaraku's business model is subscription-based, offering personal, company, and enterprise plans with fixed monthly fees.
The company serves a diverse client base, including manufacturers, IT/EC companies, and businesses in the inbound tourism sector. In 2021, Yaraku introduced a marketplace for 'post-editing' services, connecting clients with professional translation firms. It has also expanded its offerings by integrating with the content cloud platform Box. The company's investors include Konica Minolta, Sony Network Communications Inc., and Advanced Media, Inc.
Keywords: translation management, AI translation, computer-assisted translation, CAT tool, multilingual communication, natural language processing, machine translation, localization, document translation, business translation, Yaraku Translate, post-editing, translation memory, terminology management, generative AI, language technology, corporate translation solutions, secure translation, file translation, subscription translation service