Ibidem Group

Name

Ibidem Group

Legal name

IBIDEM GROUP S.L.

Website

https://ibidemgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Translation Services: Per-word translation fees for professional document translation including legal, financial, technical, medical, and commercial documents. Prices vary by language combination and document complexity.
2. Certified/Notarized Translation (Traducciones Juradas): Fixed per-document pricing for certified translations of official documents (certificates, diplomas, criminal records) with validity for international legal procedures. Price varies by language and document type.
3. Interpretation Services: Per-hour, half-day, and full-day rates for consecutive, simultaneous, and escort interpretation services. Includes simultaneous interpretation at conferences requiring equipment.
4. Urgent Translation Services: Premium pricing for 24-hour urgent delivery service on certified translations and standard documents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Ibidem Group is a professional translation and interpretation agency founded in 2003 in Barcelona, Spain, delivering multilingual services across 30+ languages. Core offerings include sworn (certified) translations, specialized legal, financial, technical, and medical translations, website and software localization, and on-site/remote interpretation for corporate, legal, and individual clients across Spain, the UK, France, Italy, and Germany.

Product overview

Ibidem Group is a professional translation agency offering a comprehensive portfolio of translation and interpretation services across more than 30 languages. The core offering consists of Professional Translation Services (covering documents like certificates, contracts, manuals, websites) and Official Sworn Translations with international legal validity certified by MAEC-registered translators. Specialized services include Legal, Financial, Technical, Medical, Scientific translations, Website/eCommerce Translation (with expertise in WooCommerce, Prestashop, Shopify, Magento), Software Localization, and Interpretation (simultaneous, consecutive, whisper, and escort). The company operates its own online payment platform (integrating Stripe, Banco Sabadell, Bizum) and a dedicated sworn translation processing portal. Additional operational tools support project management and quality control. Founded in 2003 in Barcelona, the company maintains offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Girona, and Málaga across Spain, with international presence in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Translation Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 99%+ acceptance rate for certified translations by official bodies worldwide
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers27 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• AnetiminorOthersProfessional association member. Aneti is the Spanish Association of Translation Companies. Membership provides industry credibility and networking.
• EliaminorOthersEuropean Language Industry Association membership. Provides international industry recognition and networking opportunities for European translation providers.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationPayment gateway integration for online payment processing. Stripe provides secure SSL payment processing through Banco Sabadell for online translation orders.
• Banco SabadellcoreTechnology or IntegrationBanking partner for online payment processing. Payment gateway provider for secure credit card payments (VISA, Mastercard, American Express) and Bizum.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Translated: Translated (formerly translated.net) is a European-based translation agency offering professional, certified, and machine-translation-augmented services across 200+ language pairs. Like Ibidem, it serves enterprise and SMB clients with a hybrid digital + human-delivery model and targets similar mid-market and large enterprise translation needs.
• Welocalize: Welocalize is a US-anchored translation and localization services provider serving enterprise customers across multiple industries. It is a comparable mid-to-large agency competitor with overlapping service portfolio and customer types.
• Acutrans: Acutrans is a US-based translation and localization agency providing certified and professional translation services to legal, business, and government clients. It targets a similar customer mix and service portfolio to Ibidem at comparable SMB-to-mid-market scale.
• Euroscript: Euroscript is a European translation and content services company providing professional, technical, and certified translation services across regulated industries. Comparable to Ibidem in business model, customer segment, and European market focus.
• LanguageWire: LanguageWire is a European mid-market translation and language services company headquartered in Denmark, providing certified and enterprise translation across multiple verticals. It is a direct comparable in business model, scale, customer mix, and regional focus.

Emerging players

• Smartling: Smartling is a US-based translation management system and AI-powered localization platform serving enterprise customers with software and content localization. It overlaps with Ibidem's eCommerce/software localization services but competes through a SaaS model rather than agency model.
• Unbabel: Unbabel is a Portugal-based, AI-augmented translation platform combining large language models with human post-editors. It targets enterprise translation workflows and represents the technology-enabled competitive threat to traditional agencies like Ibidem.

Broad incumbents

• TransPerfect: TransPerfect is the world's largest privately held language services provider, offering translation, interpretation, and localization across all major verticals. It competes with Ibidem across enterprise accounts and certified-legal translation, but at vastly larger scale.
• Lionbridge: Lionbridge is a global translation and localization services incumbent serving enterprise customers across content, gaming, and life sciences. It overlaps with Ibidem on enterprise translation work and certified/legal localization needs, but operates at substantially larger scale and geographic breadth.
• RWS Group: RWS Group is a UK-listed translation and IP services company that owns SDL Trados, the dominant translation-memory technology platform. RWS overlaps with Ibidem on certified and enterprise translation and shapes industry technology standards that influence agency-level competitive dynamics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/IbidemGroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/ibidemgroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ibidem-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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

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