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Enterprise aims to address one of the biggest problems in international business: language barriers. Although email, chat, and video conferencing have made it easy to communicate over long distances, international colleagues don't necessarily understand each other.
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In 2015, Verbling raised $ 2.7 million in series A round funding to expand its technology to more platforms. The same year the company began offering free lessons in
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In October 2016, the company launched Verbling Enterprise, a platform designed for companies to help their employees take language lessons online, with
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is an online language learning platform that pairs individuals with language teachers via video chat. The company was created at
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Verbling was founded in 2011 by Jake Jolis, Mikael Bernstein, and Gustav Rydstedt after meeting while attending
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In 2012, the company raised $ 1 million in funding and moved its headquarters from
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In November 2013, the company added nine new languages and 299: 367: 637:"Verbling Raises $ 1M To Link Up Language Learners Through Video Chat" 323: 683:"Verbling Brings Immersive Language Learning Into Your Living Room" 614:"Verbling: Instantly Connecting Language Learners Around the World" 577:"Verbling Wants To Be a Next-Generation Language Learning Service" 378: 554:"New Website Connects Language Newbies With Native Speakers" 244: 429:"5 Startups to Watch From Y-Combinator's Summer 2011 Class" 190: 455:"YC-Backed Verbling Teaches Its Way to $ 2.7 Million" 727:"Verbling Syria Swedish Lessons for Syrian Refugees" 290:in 2011. In 2015, Verbling raised $ 2.7 million in 273: 255: 239: 229: 215: 207: 197: 181: 45: 33: 705:"Verbling Garners $ 2,700,000 Series A Funding" 203:Mikael Bernstein, Jake Jolis, Gustav Rydstedt 8: 19: 754:(in Swedish). 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Private
San Francisco
US
Founder(s)
Online education
Translation
Services
www.verbling.com
Y Combinator
series A round
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
SV Angel
Sam Altman
Joshua Schachter
Stanford University
Gigaom
Palo Alto
San Francisco
Google Hangouts
Swedish
Syrian Civil War
Volkswagen Group
Inditex
Android
iOS
mobile apps
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