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Verbalizeit’s crowd-sourced translators are paid for their time, ensuring that travelers and business relying on the service for affordable and accessible translations will have help whenever it’s needed.
Verbalizeit, a startup service connecting human translators to travelers and businesses with one phone call, announced an iPhone app, two new business partners, and five new team members at last week’s TechStars Demo Day in Boulder, Colorado.
When the company entered the startup accelerator earlier this summer, they were a bootstrapped team of two. The co-founders met at the Wharton School of Business where they shared similar travel horror stories of finding themselves unable to ask for help in a foreign language. This sparked the idea for the company they founded in March 2011, then known as PalmLing.
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