Aqrate

What Aqrate does

Aqrate S.r.l. is an Italian B2B software company, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bologna, that provides an AI-enhanced translation management platform for large enterprises with high-volume multilingual documentation needs. The platform does not perform translations itself; instead, it centralizes fragmented corporate translation memories, optimizes word counts, manages project workflows, and applies the proprietary QAi engine — a combination of NLP, proprietary text-analysis algorithms, and LLM-based machine-translation assessment — to detect meaning-level errors, rationalize terminology, and report on cost and quality in real time. Aqrate is privately held, has 1–10 employees, and operates from a registered office on Via Galliera and operational offices on Viale Giuseppe Fanin in Bologna, with data hosted on Google Cloud Platform and ISO 9001:2015 certification (2024).

Aqrate sells primarily to enterprise localization, documentation, and procurement teams, with a horizontal segmentation approach targeting large companies with significant multilingual documentation volume. Its go-to-market is a consultative, direct enterprise sales motion (enterprise field sales) supplemented by partner/referral channels and a self-serve web app at app.aqrate.biz. Revenue is generated through a success-fee / shared-savings model (clients pay only if they save money), platform subscription / usage fees scaled to translation volume, and a one-time €2,000 Starter Pack entry point. A standalone sub-brand, LanguageCheck.ai, was launched in 2025 to expose QAi to a broader audience of LSPs and individual translators.

The company has received four consecutive European Commission Seal of Excellence awards (2017–2020), EU cohesion funding from Regione Emilia-Romagna for international expansion, and an EISMEA grant (~$82,941, 2018). Disclosed customer outcomes include 78% average savings on translation costs, 270 million words recovered from existing translation memories, and 8-year customer relationships with decreasing cost trends. The company is led by co-founders Michele Fariselli (CTO) and Marco Baglioni (Managing Director).

Name

Aqrate

Legal name

AQRATE S.r.l.

Website

https://aqrate.biz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aqrate S.r.l. is a Bologna-based B2B software company that provides an AI-enhanced translation management platform (QAi) helping large enterprises centralize translation memories, reduce translation costs via shared-savings pricing, and monitor multilingual documentation quality without changing their existing translators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Translation Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Model Development & Training Platforms (AutoML, Notebooks, Feature Stores) (HDAEANAB)

Keywords

• Translation management software
• Translation memory centralization
• AI translation quality assurance
• Multilingual documentation platform
• Localization cost optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Bologna

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Success Fee / Savings Sharing Model: Win-win pricing model where Aqrate shares in the savings achieved. If customers save money, Aqrate receives a portion of the savings. If no savings are achieved, no fee is charged. This aligns company incentives with customer outcomes.
2. Platform Subscription / Usage Fees: SaaS platform access through web application with user profiles (Superuser and User). Fees determined by rates in Economic Proposal accepted by Client, typically based on word counts and translation volume.
3. Aqrate Starter Pack: Entry-level package at 2,000 EUR providing basic services to get started with the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Aqrate sells an AI-enhanced web-based translation management platform that lets enterprises centralize translation memories, optimize word counts, and monitor translation cost and quality in real time, without requiring them to switch translators. The platform embeds QAi, a proprietary AI quality-assurance engine that detects meaning-level errors in multilingual documentation, and is offered alongside LanguageCheck, a standalone spin-off of the same technology, plus an entry-level Aqrate Starter Pack priced at €2,000.

Product overview

Aqrate offers a unified translation management platform centered on its AI-enhanced web application, supplemented by a dedicated AI-powered quality assurance tool (QAi) and a standalone spin-off product (LanguageCheck). The core Aqrate Platform serves as the web-based management portal where companies centralize translation memories, run word-optimization algorithms, track projects, and monitor costs. QAi — the proprietary AI engine — is embedded within this platform to analyze multilingual documentation for quality, consistency, and LLM translatability, and to generate detailed reports. LanguageCheck is a separate, streamlined product (available at languagecheck.ai) that makes the same QAi-powered translation checks available as a standalone tool. A Starter Pack (€2,000) provides an entry-level introduction to the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LanguageCheck.ai: A streamlined translation quality control tool built upon the same QAi technology that powers the Aqrate platform, launched in 2025. It offers AI-powered translation checks without changing the user's way of working.

Products and services

• Aqrate Platform AI-enhanced web-based translation management platform that lets enterprises centralize translation memories, optimize word counts, manage translation projects, and monitor cost and quality in real time, without requiring them to change their existing translators or organizational processes. Targets localization managers, documentation managers, and procurement teams at large enterprises with high multilingual content volume.
• QAi (Quality AI) Proprietary AI-powered quality assurance tool integrated within the Aqrate platform. Uses proprietary text-analysis algorithms combined with AI to analyze millions of sentences, detect meaning-level errors in source and translated documentation, assess translatability for LLM-based machine translation, and generate quality, terminology, and translatability reports. Aimed at enterprises and language teams needing scalable multilingual QA.
• LanguageCheck Standalone AI-powered translation QA tool available at languagecheck.ai, built on the same QAi technology as the Aqrate platform. Provides streamlined translation checks covering quality analysis, terminology, and translatability without changing the user's existing workflow. Targets LSPs, enterprise localization teams, and individual translators.
• Aqrate Starter Pack

Quantifiable outcome

• 78% savings on translation costs
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationAqrate's customer data is stored in Google Cloud Platform data centers, described as the most secure in the world. All system operations, web management, and data transfers occur via GCP infrastructure with 99.95% uptime guarantee.
• Let's Encrypt Authority X3coreTechnology or IntegrationSecure HTTPS protocol implementation using certificate from Let's Encrypt Authority X3, providing highest level of authentication and 256-bit encryption supporting SHA-1 and SHA-2 algorithms for all Aqrate web platform communications.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Phrase: Phrase (formerly Memsource/Phrase) is a leading cloud-based translation management system targeting enterprise localization teams. It directly competes with Aqrate's platform across TMS, translation memory, and AI-assisted quality workflows.
• memoQ: memoQ is an established TMS platform with strong translation memory, terminology management, and QA features. Its core LSP and enterprise customer overlap with Aqrate's translation memory centralization and QA value proposition.
• Smartling: Smartling is an enterprise translation management and localization platform offering TMS, AI translation, and translation memory capabilities. It competes for the same enterprise localization-budget pool as Aqrate, with a much broader product surface.
• Lokalise: Lokalise is a modern translation and localization platform with developer-friendly APIs, integrations, and TMS features. It overlaps with Aqrate in serving enterprise localization teams that need centralized translation memory and QA.
• Transifex: Transifex is a cloud-based localization platform serving digital products, with TMS, translation memory, and AI translation features. It competes with Aqrate for enterprise and digital-product localization spend.
• Wordbee: Wordbee is a translation management system with strong terminology and TM features for LSPs and enterprises. It is comparable to Aqrate as a TMS/workflow competitor, particularly in European markets.

Emerging players

• Unbabel: Unbabel combines AI translation with human post-editing and offers a quality estimation layer. Its AI-in-the-loop QA workflow overlaps conceptually with Aqrate's QAi approach to translation quality.
• DeepL: DeepL is an AI-native machine translation provider with high-quality neural translation. It is adjacent to Aqrate—DeepL pushes down raw translation cost while Aqrate measures and ensures quality, so they increasingly intersect at the QA-of-MT layer.

Broad incumbents

• LanguageWire: LanguageWire is a large language services and tech provider offering TMS, translation memory, and AI translation tools to enterprises. It competes with Aqrate across both translation services and platform capabilities.
• RWS Group: RWS (formerly SDL) is a large language services and translation technology group owning Trados, the most widely used TMS in the industry. Trados competes directly with Aqrate's translation memory and QA capabilities for enterprise localization budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Aqrate.biz
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aqrate

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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