# Waygo: Translation & localization, Mountain View, United States

> Waygo: Traveling to China? Waygo by Translate Abroad makes becoming a local easy, tackling the language barrier that can hold you back during a business or...

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/waygo-3 (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United States · [Translation & localization startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Waygo

Traveling to China? Waygo by Translate Abroad makes becoming a local easy, tackling the language barrier that can hold you back during a business or leisure trip.

Funding reported Last round: Non equity assistance

Translation & localization Mountain View, United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2011 15 years old
- **Team:** 4 1 to 10 people
- **Funding reported:** $1.6M in dollars
- **Last round:** Non equity assistance Feb 2016

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Waygo has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Waygo

Traveling to China? Waygo by Translate Abroad makes becoming a local easy, tackling the language barrier that can hold you back during a business or leisure trip.

Using optical character recognition (OCR), Waygo instantly translates Chinese characters to English text by simply holding your smartphone camera over the characters with no need for an internet connection. It is also a helpful tool for language learners to master new words and phrases. Waygo uses proprietary algorithms to create simple phrases. When benchmarked against ABBYY (the top commercial OCR) our software is five times faster, two times more accurate, and a tenth of the file size. Go like a local. Download in the App Store: http://bit.ly/downloadWaygo or visit us at http://WaygoApp.com.

## What company datasets say Waygo raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **$1.6M** in dollars

Rounds **3**

Last round **Non equity assistance**

Last round date **Feb 2016**

Investors listed **7**

## Founders and team

From Waygo's own website: 3 founders, 1 on the team.

**Ryan Rogowski** Co-founder & CEO

**Huan-Yu Wu** Co-founder & Director of Technology

**Kevin Clark** Co-founder & Director of Product

- **Ali Murphy** Software Engineer

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [Super Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/super-ventures)

Each firm lists Waygo on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## The company, in detail

What they build

Known for

real-time processing optical character recognition mobile apps multilingual support chinese japanese korean translation mobile ocr sdk multilingual ocr support proprietary algorithms real-time ocr ios sdk ocr translation and localization services information technology & services translation of vertical text ocr for asian scripts file size optimization

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- **Sector:** Translation & localization
- **Industry code:** NAICS 54151, SIC 7375
- **Region:** California
- **Revenue:** $4.5M a year, as listed
- **Full record:** [Every detail in the company directory](https://millionrounds.com/directory/waygo-visual-translator)

## Translation & localization in United States

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- [**LetzChat, Inc.** Los Angeles · founded 2010](https://millionrounds.com/startup/letzchat-inc)

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