Tilde

Name

Tilde

Legal name

Tilde, SIA

Website

https://tilde.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Language AI Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Translation and Interpretation Services (541930), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

LLMOps & Generative AI Platforms (Prompt/Agent Orchestration, RAG) (HDAEANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Prompt Engineering, Orchestration & LLMOps Tooling (HDAAACAD), Generative AI & LLM Solutions Services (RAG, Agents, Copilots) (BPAEAHAG)

Keywords

• Machine translation software
• Multilingual language AI
• Large language model platform
• Speech translation technology
• AI localization services

Headquarters

HQ city

Riga

HQ country

Latvia

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Machine Translation: Subscription-based machine translation services for enterprises with API access and scalable deployment options.
2. AI Assistant Solutions: Customized AI assistant implementations for customer support, workplace, and learning - sold as enterprise solutions with integration services.
3. AI Data Services: End-to-end AI development services covering strategy, data preparation, model training, and secure deployment - professional services model.
4. Speech Technologies: Real-time transcription, translation, and voice synthesis services for events and conferences.
5. On-premises/Cloud Licensing: Organizations can deploy TildeOpen LLM on-premises or in Europe-based clouds, ensuring data sovereignty for public bodies and enterprises handling sensitive information.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Tilde develops and sells multilingual language AI software centered on its proprietary TildeOpen LLM (30+ billion parameter foundation model for 34 European languages). Its product portfolio includes machine translation platforms with API access, multilingual AI assistants for customer support, workplace, and learning, real-time speech transcription and translation for events, voice synthesis, and end-to-end AI data services including fine-tuning and RAG. The company also provides professional translation and localisation services.

Product overview

Tilde offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its TildeOpen LLM foundation model and Tilde AI Platform. The core offerings include multilingual AI Assistants (Customer Support, Workplace, and Learning variants), AI-powered machine translation (with consumer, enterprise, API, and website translator modules), speech technologies (Transcribe, Event Assistant, Voice Synthesis), and AI Data Services (fine-tuning, RAG, managed knowledge-based AI). Additional offerings include document anonymisation, terminology management, and localisation services. All solutions are designed for European languages, values, and regulations, with deployment options across on-premises, private cloud, or European cloud environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TildeOpen LLM: Multilingual large language model optimized for 34 European languages, developed as part of the European Union's AI Grand Challenge.
• Tilde Machine Translation
• Tilde AI Assistants
• Tilde Event Assistant

Products and services

• TildeOpen LLM Europe's foundational multilingual large language model with 30+ billion parameters optimized for 34 European languages, providing a powerful base for AI applications that can be fine-tuned and deployed locally or in European clouds. Developed on behalf of the European Commission via the Large AI Grand Challenge.
• Tilde Machine Translation Machine translation solution for translating texts and documents securely at scale, now enhanced with TildeOpen LLM for more accurate and natural translations across 34 European languages.
• Tilde Enterprise Machine Translation Enterprise-scale machine translation solution for organizations requiring high-volume, secure translation capabilities with on-premises or cloud deployment options.
• Machine Translation API API access to Tilde's machine translation engine, allowing developers to integrate high-quality translation capabilities supporting 34 European languages into their own applications, workflows, and systems at scale.
• Tilde Website Translation Website translation tool that turns websites multilingual, enabling businesses to serve their web content in multiple European languages automatically.
• Tilde AI Platform AI-powered language translation platform that serves as the unified infrastructure for Tilde's translation and AI solutions, enabling enterprises to manage multilingual workflows at scale.
• Customer AI Assistant AI-powered chatbot solution for automating customer support, handling multilingual interactions and tasks with integration into existing customer systems and workflows.
• Workplace AI Assistant AI assistant that brings scattered workplace systems into one unified source, improving internal communication and automating employee workflows across multilingual teams.
• Learning AI Assistant AI assistant providing learning, guidance, and knowledge assessments for educational and training applications, supporting multilingual content delivery.
• Tilde AI Data Services End-to-end AI data services covering strategy, data preparation, model training, and secure deployment, including LLM fine-tuning and RAG capabilities, allowing organizations to build custom AI solutions without internal AI teams.
• Tilde Transcribe Speech-to-text transcription service for online and on-site use, transcribing and translating spoken content across European languages.
• Tilde Event Assistant Real-time transcription and translation solution for conferences, meetings, and public events, making spoken content accessible to multilingual audiences in real time, both on-site and remotely.
• Tilde Voice Synthesis Text-to-speech solution that transforms text into natural-sounding audio output, supporting multiple European languages for accessibility and content applications.
• Localisation Services World-class professional translation and localisation services for adapting content to specific European markets, complementing Tilde's machine translation offerings.

Quantifiable outcome

• Supports 34 European languages with equal representation - unlike English-centric global models
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Baltic Satellite ServicecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 March 2026Subcontractor for the EO Baltic Platform AI Assistant project financed by the European Space Agency. Baltic Satellite Service works with Tilde to develop natural language interfaces for Earth Observation and geospatial data in Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, and English.
• AMDcoreTechnology or Integration · 15 December 2025Tilde trained TildeOpen LLM on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs using the LUMI supercomputer, marking successful deployment of AMD hardware for large-scale multilingual AI training. Partnership advances European AI sovereignty.
• LUMI Supercomputer (EuroHPC)coreTechnology or Integration · 15 December 2025LUMI supercomputer in Finland used for training TildeOpen LLM - one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers providing the computational infrastructure for large-scale AI model development.
• Hugging FaceminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 15 December 2025TildeOpen LLM published to Hugging Face platform with open-source licenses, making the model available to the global AI developer community. Fine-tuned versions to follow.
• European CommissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTilde developed TildeOpen LLM (30B parameter multilingual model) on behalf of the European Commission after winning the Large AI Grand Challenge. The model is designed for European language AI support and published under open-source licenses.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• DeepL: (Already listed; duplicate removed in ranking.)
• DeepL: German-based AI-powered machine translation service widely used across European enterprises. Closely comparable to Tilde in MT quality, European focus, and enterprise go-to-market, but with a larger customer base and significantly more funding.
• Unbabel: AI-driven language operations platform combining machine translation with human post-editing. Was a co-winner with Tilde of the EU Large AI Grand Challenge and competes in the same enterprise MT and AI language services space.
• Translated: Rome-based AI translation and localization provider using its own MT models and a global translator network. Overlaps directly with Tilde's MT, localization, and AI data services offerings for enterprise and public-sector clients.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Translator: Translation service bundled into Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, serving global enterprises. Competes with Tilde in enterprise MT but as part of a much broader hyperscale cloud and productivity portfolio rather than as a specialist.
• Google Translate: Consumer and API translation product from Google supporting 100+ languages. A broad incumbent alternative to Tilde MT, with weaker quality on smaller European languages but unmatched reach and free-tier availability.
• RWS Group: UK-listed global leader in translation, localization, and language technology including its own MT engines. Comparable to Tilde across enterprise MT, localization services, and AI data services, but operating at far greater scale.
• Lionbridge: Large global language services provider offering translation, localization, and AI data services. Competes with Tilde on localization and AI data services for enterprise customers, though without Tilde's proprietary foundation model.

Emerging players

• Mistral AI: Paris-based open-weight foundation-model company positioned as the European sovereign alternative to US LLMs. Most comparable to TildeOpen LLM as a European AI-sovereignty play, though Mistral focuses on general-purpose rather than multilingual-specialized models.
• Textgain: Belgian AI text analytics company and co-winner with Tilde of the EU Large AI Grand Challenge. Comparable as a fellow European SME winner building AI models for European languages and competing for similar EU institutional customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tildecom
• Facebookfacebook.com/TildeAi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tilde-ai
• Instagraminstagram.com/tilde.ai

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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