Native

Native is a secure platform for multilingual messaging.

Last Funded May 2023

$704,999

raised from 74 investors

Highlights

1
Revenue grew 740% in the past year, from $50K in 2021 to $420K to date in 2022.
2
We received $930K in bookings in 2022.
3
We have active pilots with Schlumberger, PenFed Credit Union, and Dell.
4
Native received 3 SBIR contracts from the Air Force worth $875K in nondilutive government funding.

Our Team

Ben Lang is a former Army Ranger with a background in technology and design. Ben has held global leadership roles in military special operations, national intelligence, and innovation-focused organizations, from startups to large enterprises.
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering
Lukas Novak is a Czech engineer with a background in robotics and microprocessor programming. Lukas previously architected data science capabilities for CDN77 and has built and scaled mobile teams for CDN77, LegalZoom, and Bankjoy.
Head of Operations
Cami Reyes is a Chilean design strategist with experience developing innovation capacities within large enterprises. Most recently, she worked at DocuSign, enabling the organization to build, scale and maintain high-performing, healthy teams.

Pitch

Collaboration is essential to getting work done every day: colleagues collaborate over Slack or Teams, relationships develop, and important decisions are made.

The pace is fast - faster than email, with messages being delivered one after another. It’s designed for efficiency.

But what happens when critical team members speak different languages? Most business conversations may take place in English, and businesses lose value and efficiency by not being able to utilize their non-native English speaking employees' full capacities.

To solve this challenge, we built Native, a secure platform that seamlessly integrates chat and translation into a unified messaging experience.

Our platform currently supports one-hundred and thirty-seven of the most common languages, enabling organizations to build trust while people chat in their preferred language.

We’re operating at the confluence of three giant markets that we think won’t be slowing down anytime soon.

We’re pioneering a huge new opportunity, and if you think the nearly $28 billion sale of Slack was incredible, Native’s potential is even greater.

Native's collaboration app unlocks efficiencies in business by allowing everyone to use their primary language. No more desperate translating, searching, and grammar checking on the side as you try to work at the speed of thought.

Other organizations integrate Native’s multi-source translation and intelligence services via API into chat software like Intercom and Zendesk.

Forward-looking financials are projections and not guaranteed.

In 2021, we secured our first revenues from the U.S. Air Force. This year we received our third contract from the Air Force and grew bookings to over $900,000.

We’re also working on a handful of pilots with multinational companies like Dell, Schlumberger, and PenFed where our API is being implemented in customer and employee support tools like Salesforce and ServiceNow.

Today, organizations use a number of fragmented solutions to overcome language barriers. We all know Google Translate - it’s a commodity service that often fails to translate our exact meaning.

Meanwhile, human translators are the best at capturing sentiment, but scaling a translation workforce is expensive and not realistic for collaboration between stakeholders every day.

Forward-looking financials are projections and not guaranteed.

We have already raised $650,000 in this round, and plan to raise up to $1.235 million more through WeFunder. These funds will give our company the fuel needed to accelerate development and sales in advance of raising a series seed round next summer.

We will be submitting a patent application for the process for privacy in translated, real-time communications - and we believe that future entrants to the multilingual space will have to license our technology if they want to be able to market privacy features to their customers.





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