At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Language Learning companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Language Learning Companies & Startups (California, United States)
TruValue Labs
TruValue Labs’ products provide advanced analytics to create usable and real-time sustainability metrics for better investment decisions.
Founder(s): Hendrik Bartel, Phil Kim
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Language Learning, Machine Learning, Software
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AllRight.com
AllRight.com is an online english school for kids and children on educational and exciting programs.
Founder(s): Oleg Oksyuk
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Internet, Language Learning
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Chatterbug
Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
Founder(s): Liz Clinkenbeard, Russell Belfer, Scott Chacon, Tom Preston-Werner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, E-Learning, Education, Language Learning, Video
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ROYBI
Roybi Robot is an AI-powered companion robot for young children in language learning & early childhood education.
Founder(s): Elnaz Sarraf, Elnaz Sarraf
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Machine Learning, Robotics
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Elsa
Elsa is an AI-enabled language learning platform focusing on English pronunciation training and accent reduction.
Founder(s): Vu Van, Xavier Anguera
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning, Education, Language Learning, Mobile Apps
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PandaTree
PandaTree vision is to be the preeminent trusted source of online language learning for kids globally.
Founder(s): Kristina Klausen, Rich Matsuura
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Education, Internet, Language Learning, Online Games
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Elevate Labs
Elevate is a cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills.
Founder(s): Andy Mroczkowski, Jeff Evans, Jesse Pickard, Karl Stenerud
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Education, Internet, Language Learning, MMO Games, Mobile Apps
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Edwin
Edwin merged with Buddy.ai to provide affordable EFL tutoring at scale by using a virtual voice-enabled character.
Founder(s): Dmitry Alekseev, Dmitry Stavisky, Igor Lyubimov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Machine Learning
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Colingo
Colingo offers live, online, teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized training and private tutoring for English.
Founder(s): Angel Steger, Benjamin Lowenstein, Lee Jacobs
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning
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popexpert
Popexpert is an online video education marketplace that lets students connect with experts in one-on-one video chats.
Founder(s): Ingrid Sanders, Jeremy Thomas, Ken Howery
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Career Planning, Education, Health Care, Language Learning, Music, Nutrition
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Lingoland
Lingoland is a foreign language immersion from home that offers tutorial services using realistic 3D scenes.
Founder(s): Chuck Moyes
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Language Learning, Software
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LearningOnline.xyz
Learningonline.xyz creates learning solutions that contribute to happier, more fulfilled lives across borders.
Founder(s): Ivan Vassiliev, Moaz Khan
Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Language Learning
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Speech Buddies
Speech Buddies is committed to improving the lives of people living with speech and communication challenges.
Founder(s): Adrienne Penake, Alexey Salamini, Gordy Rogers, M.S. CCC-SLP
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Health Care, Language Learning, Medical, Therapeutics
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EcoSystemOne
Multiuser VR platform for the after-school science enrichment programs. Operating through subsidiary Univirtual.Academy
Founder(s): Alex Stolyarik, Kunitake Aoki, Marina Kolesnik
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Online Games, Tutoring, Virtual Reality
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Dakwak
Dakwak offers a website translation and localization platform for small and medium-sized businesses.
Founder(s): Waheed Barghouthi, Zaid Amireh
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Local, Software
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Kidbee
Kidbee incentivizes learning with tangible rewards.
Founder(s): Vasily Trofimchuk
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Children, Edutainment, Language Learning, Mobile Apps, Toys
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GlobeChat
GlobeChat provides a single global communication platform seamlessly connecting people regardless of language or distance.
Founder(s): Kevin Strom
Location: San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Messaging, Mobile, Telecommunications, Travel, Video, Wireless
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Nulu
Nulu is an interactive web platform that helps users learn languages.
Founder(s): Avi Stieglitz, David Allison, Eitan Geft
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, News
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LinguaTrip
LinguaTrip Book language courses and student accommodation worldwide.
Founder(s): Dmitry Kravchuk, Dmitry Pistolyako, Marina Mogilko
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Marketplace, Tourism, Travel
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PlaySay
PlaySay, a social educational app, enables language learners to have real conversations with one another and receive pronunciation feedback.
Founder(s): Ryan Meinzer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, EdTech, Education, Language Learning
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SkimaTalk
SkimaTalk is an online language-learning platform that connects language students with native language speakers.
Founder(s): Koji Shimizu, Ted Smith, Yutaka Hosoai
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Online Portals
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Blue Moon Learning Center
Blue Moon Learning Center is an American private educational center for children.
Founder(s): Steve Glinberg
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Child Care, Children, Education, Language Learning, Primary Education
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Kaliki
Kaliki is the spoken word platform that allows consumers to access their favorite audio news and information content on-demand, anytime
Founder(s): Bruce Hopkins
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Content, Language Learning, Software
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Hey Wordy
Hey Wordy is an entertainment company that produces animated television series created to educate children.
Founder(s): David Burke
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Children, Digital Entertainment, Language Learning, Music
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SmallTalk
SmallTalk is an online language simulator that improves English speaking skills, prepare for IELTS, TOEFL, and job interview.
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Location: Walnut, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Natural Language Processing
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iReady
iReady is a Santa Clara-based company that delivers high performance TCP and IP solutions.
Founder(s): Mike Johnson
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Education, Language Learning, Manufacturing
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LanguageLine Solutions
LanguageLine Solutions is the global langauage solutions provider of on-demand, spoken interpretation and translation services.
Founder(s):
Location: Monterey, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Natural Language Processing, Translation Service
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StartSpanish
StartSpanish is an online Spanish school that offers group live lessons, private classes and interactive courses.
Founder(s): Alfonso Santiago
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning
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Bravolol
Free & Offline Bilingual Dictionary & Phrasebook Apps in 22 major languages.
Founder(s): John Lee
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Travel
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Cudoo
Cudoo is the world’s first One-for-One e-Learning community offering 800+ online courses in Languages and Professional Development Skills
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Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Information Technology, Language Learning
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Engine ML
Engine ML builds distributed deep learning infrastructure so you can train your machine learning models in minutes or hours, not days.
Founder(s): Benjamin Perez, Jeffrey Kiske, William Skinner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, GPU, Internet, Language Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, SaaS, Software
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Moonshoot
Moonshoot was a company that aimed to make English language learning fun for children by integrating it into online games.
Founder(s): Jay Jamison, Koji Kato
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Children, Language Learning, Online Games
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Essaypop
Writing is hard. We make it easy.
Founder(s): Andrew Wang, John Glenn, John Teichert, Michael Hicks, Steve Torres
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Internet, Language Learning, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Skill Assessment, Software, Tutoring
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Rype
Rype provides membership for private language lessons online.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Language Learning, Natural Language Processing
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Skritter
Skritter is an educational website that helps students learn to write Chinese and Japanese characters.
Founder(s): George Saines, Nick Winter, Scott Erickson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Language Learning
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Scientific Learning Corporation
Brain development, human learning and performance.
Founder(s): Michael Merzenich, Paula Tallal, Steve Miller, PhD, Steven L. Miller, William M. Jenkins
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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Jiveworld
Mobile, E-learning, Language Education
Founder(s): Daniel Raynaud, Joseph Elliott
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Language Learning, Mobile
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Lingocard
Global education network for study of any foreign languages and speaking practice.
Founder(s): Andrew Kuzmin
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Storage, Education, Information Technology, Language Learning, Mobile, Social Network, Software
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Language Weaver
Language Weaver is a human communication solutions company that develops and licenses automated translation solutions for multinationals.
Founder(s): Kevin Knight, Richard Morganstern
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Information Technology, Intelligent Systems, Language Learning, Software
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Lexicon Marketing
Lexicon is the developer and marketer of Inglés sin Barreras, the world’s best selling video-based English learning program.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Video
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btrax, Inc.
Service design & Branding Consultancy
Founder(s): Brandon K. Hill
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brand Marketing, Consulting, Language Learning, Public Relations, Social Media, Web Design
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YY Technologies
A company specializing in providing intelligent auto-response software
Founder(s):
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Language Learning, Software
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1-Stop Translation USA
Translation and Interpretation agency
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Local
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Language Select
Language Select provides progression and growth of the interpreting industry.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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SORU
SORU provides data analytics as a service by utilizing natural language processing and human assisted AI to tap into common data sources.
Founder(s): Emre Ertan, Ertan Dogrultan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Center, Language Learning
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Better Chinese
Better Chinese is a language publishing company that develops materials and programs to teach the Chinese language and culture.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Publishing
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Sinatra
Sinatra is a web framework written in Ruby that consists of a web application library and a domain-specific language.
Founder(s):
Location: Burbank, California, United States
Industries: Domain Registrar, Language Learning, Web Apps
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Stages learning materials
Stages learning materials creates educational opportunities for students on the autism spectrum with resources and teaching materials.
Founder(s):
Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Training
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Lango LLC
Lango Teaches foreign language speaking classes that offer Spanish, French, and Mandarin classes to kids in the United States
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Language Learning, Training
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GoGo Lingo
GoGoLingo is a way for children to learn foreign language.
Founder(s): Afsoun Yazdian
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Children, Gaming, Language Learning
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KellynKai
KellynKai is an online platform for live one-to-one Chinese classes.
Founder(s): Crystal Zhu
Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: EdTech, Language Learning, Tutoring
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FlipWord
Learn a language while browsing.
Founder(s): Thomas Reese
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Online Portals
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Mightyverse
Mightyverse is a language learning community of people who love sharing their language and exploring other cultures.
Founder(s): Sarah Allen
Location: Sausalito, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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Book Passage
Book Passage provides bookstore and cafe services.
Founder(s):
Location: Corte Madera, California, United States
Industries: Events, Hospitality, Language Learning
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StoryWorld
StoryWorld is an online platform that deals with language learning, storytelling and e-learning.
Founder(s): Cynthia Barbera
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, E-Learning, Language Learning, Online Portals
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Hein Speech language Pathology
Hein Speech language Pathology is an evaluation and treatment of adults and children with a wide variety of communication disorders.
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Education, Health Care, Language Learning, Professional Services
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Lingro
Lingro creates an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Education, Internet, Language Learning, Mobile Apps, Software, Translation Service
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Hua
Hua is an application that enables its users to learn various languages by chatting with native speakers from around the world.
Founder(s): Jack Hoge
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Communities, Education, Language Learning
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Before Media
Before Media is an internet marketing firm that focuses on social media.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Language Learning, Social Media, Web Design
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ClassMonkeys
ClassMonkeys is a mobile social media platform for students in New Zealand.
Founder(s): Danielle Mawlaoui, Kiernan McGuire, Todd Huss, Vincent Rubino
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Adventure Travel, Art, Cooking, Education, Fitness, Language Learning
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L.A. Translation and Interpretation
L.A. Translation and Interpretation provides language solutions for legal, medical, and business needs.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Customer Service, Language Learning, Service Industry, Translation Service
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Anova Center for Education
Anova Center for Education is school provides behavioral and therapy services for autism community.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Skill Assessment, Training
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LASC Language Scholastics
Language Scholastics (LASC) was founded in 1982 to assist newly arriving immigrants in learning English.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning
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Linguistic
Linguistic is a language education company that provides a language learning platform.
Founder(s): Barry Baxter, Tyler Nickerson
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Mobile Apps
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LiNKS SIGN LANGUAGE & INTERPRETING SERVICES
LiNKS SIGN LANGUAGE & INTERPRETING SERVICES provides language interpretation services
Founder(s):
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Professional Services, Service Industry
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Classify Learning
Classify Learning providing in class assessment, reporting, and learning management tools that save educators time.
Founder(s):
Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Skill Assessment, Software
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Center for Speech, Language, and Occupational Therapy
Center for Speech, Language, and Occupational Therapy offers a range of language services to cure disorders for children and adults.
Founder(s): Brendan O’Connor
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Hospital, Language Learning
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SpeakTime
SpeakTime is a virtual classroom platform for on-demand live language lessons.
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Language Learning, Training
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Cal Interpreting & Translations
Cal Interpreting & Translations is an interpreting, translation and multilingual transcription company.
Founder(s):
Location: Burbank, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Service Industry, Training, Translation Service
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HaskellWiki
The HaskellWiki is a communication means for people interested in the programming language Haskell.
Founder(s):
Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Software
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DeepLIFT Technologies
DeepLIFT brings interpretability to deep learning by taking these black box models and looking inside them to understand why they work.
Founder(s):
Location: Stanford, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning, Education, Language Learning, Machine Learning
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Translation4all
Translation4all provides translations, interpresting, graphic design, and localization services.
Founder(s):
Location: Fullerton, California, United States
Industries: Graphic Design, Language Learning, Translation Service
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FlashRead.net
flashread offers tools and solutions that enable its users to learn languages.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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ZippyMind
Lively Language Learning for Kids
Founder(s):
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning
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LogTera ClassK12
Startup focused on developing next generation K-12 education solutions to improve student engagement and promote intrinsic learning.
Founder(s): Rahul Jauhari, Shailesh Khare
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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FluentKey
FluentKey is a startup for language classrooms that’s based on games.
Founder(s):
Location: Pebble Beach, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Language Learning, Online Games, Training
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Street Smart Brazil
Street Smart Brazil provides brazilian portuguese lessons via video meetings.
Founder(s): Luciana Lage
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Language Learning
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i2istudy INC.
Platform for language exchange. StartUP
Founder(s): Anna Prasikova, Ilya Osipov, Vadim Grishin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Software
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eLanguage, LLC
eLanguage is a developer of language learning products such as dictionaries, audio courses, and business and school editions.
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Location: Novato, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Software, Training
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Jennifer Katz
Jennifer Katz provides holistic speech, language, feeding and orofacial myofunctional assessments and therapies.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Language Learning
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Hanna Interpreting Services
Hanna Interpreting Services offers translating, transcription, document translations, website localization and interpretation services.
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Location: Spring Valley, California, United States
Industries: Document Preparation, Language Learning, Translation Service
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Alcance Media Group
Hispanic focused digital marketing
Founder(s): Christopher Stanley, Mark Stacey
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Ad Network, Advertising, Consulting, Language Learning
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Bilingva
Bilingva delivers services for interpretation, document translation, proofreading and website translation.
Founder(s): Catherine Neyman, Paul Neyman
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Professional Services, Translation Service
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Deep Sky Concepts
Deep Sky Concepts deals with knowledge management and cognitive computing with systems for voice and texting language services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Knowledge Management, Language Learning, Software
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Excel Test Prep
Excel Test Prep is one of the most rapidly growing test preparation companies in California.
Founder(s):
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Language Learning
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SunSed
SunSed is an IT company that builds programmable websites for developers.
Founder(s):
Location: Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Web Apps, Web Development
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Columbia West College
Columbia West College is an ACCET-accredited ESL school in Los Angeles committed to providing outstanding English language.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Language Learning
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NovaKid
Novakid is an EdTech platform for learning English as a Second Language (ESL) for children between the ages of 4 and 12 years old.
Founder(s): Dmitry Malin, Maxim Azarov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Children, EdTech, Education, Language Learning
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VNLabs
Providing Languages Solutions for the Desktop and the World Wide Web.
Founder(s):
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Language Learning, Operating Systems, Software
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LindsayUSD
LindsayUSD provides educational service.
Founder(s):
Location: Lindsay, California, United States
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Language Learning, Tutoring
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REFORMA-AMBAC Agreement
REFORMA-AMBAC Agreement is involved in promoting library collections to Latinos and Spanish Speaking.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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SoftIntegration
SoftIntegration is an online platform providing coding-related learning solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Davis, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Software
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ChattingCat
ChattingCat is an online application that provides instant corrections of written English.
Founder(s): April Kim, Geunbae Lee
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Professional Services
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AIVU
AIVU is an app for English-language learning.
Founder(s):
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Language Learning
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Logkr Media, Inc.
Language Learning Solution Provider
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Video
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Alliance Francaise Silicon Valley
Alliance Francaise Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that offers language and culture classes to children, teenagers and adults.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Non Profit
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CCSLI
CCSLI specializes in language interpretation, employment interviews, corporate meetings, medical appointments and consultation services.
Founder(s):
Location: Castroville, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Health Care, Language Learning, Professional Services, Translation Service
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Linguos
Linguos focuses on the development of technology solutions that enable their customers to search non-English web.
Founder(s): Venkat Ramdass
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning, Search Engine
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FIELD
FIELD provides educational and workforce development programs to foster economic with social prosperity.
Founder(s): Cesar Chavez
Location: Tehachapi, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Nutrition, Training
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Speakoach
Speakoach is a smart platform for personalized English conversations with an animated avatar.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Language Learning
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Oakland Literacy Coalition
Oakland Literacy Coalition is a non-profit organization that aims to provide education, schooling and mentorship for children.
Founder(s):
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Education, Language Learning, Non Profit, Social
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