We're delighted to announce that myGengo has raised a $5.25MM Series A financing from Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, and 500 Startups, the US seed fund. We're really happy to be working with Hiro, Chris and the rest of the team at Atomico — they bring a great understanding of the potential of what we're doing, and infectious enthusiasm for entrepreneurship. View the full press release here. You can also check out the TechCrunch and GigaOM coverage.
This is an exciting day for myGengo, but more importantly it's a fantastic opportunity for us to bring bigger and better things to our users.
We'd like to say a BIG "thank you" to everyone who has supported myGengo through the first stage of our growth, and our customers and our translators. With your help we've built an awesome team that is ready to take the company to the next stage. In no particular order, and excluding many names of people who have done hugely valuable work for us: Takashi, Skyrm, Dave McClure & the whole 500 Family, Aki, Brian Nelson, Benjamin Joffe, Andrew & Irene Laing, Machiko & Steve Romaine, Mitch Kapor, Wences Casares, Takeshi Amano, Mark Goines, Christoph Janz, Felix Miller, Joshua Schachter, Pawel Chudzinski, Ray Solnik, Swimmy Minami, Yokum Taku, Riya Kuo, Dana Zimmerling, Neil Bortnak, Michael Case, Jennifer, Yelena, Nina, Graham, Nina, Martin, Chris, Bryant, Yuria, Yurie, Brian, Andrea, Dice, Gen, Timo and many more besides!
As you can imagine, we're hiring — so now is a great time to consider working for myGengo and helping us achieve the vision of seamless cross-border communication. If you're an engineer, marketer or All-Round Smart Person visit our careers page now.
