Cuckoo is on a mission to break down language barriers for global teams using AI. Starting with our real-time translator, we help companies speak the languages of their customers, communities, and partners worldwide. Cuckoo is trusted by the world's leading companies—including Snowflake, PagerDuty, and Weights & Biases—and backed by Y Combinator (W25).
With product-market fit unlocked and $1.8M raised, Cuckoo is ready to scale. Join us as founding team members, at the earliest stage of our journey as we build the next category-defining product in global communication.
From marketing and sales to onboarding and customer support, language barriers quietly stall global growth. Conversations break down and opportunities slip away not because the product lacks value, but because it wasn’t understood.
Most human translators aren’t equipped for the technical depth of today’s conversations. They change from meeting to meeting without retaining context or building institutional knowledge. Finding someone who is both technically fluent and multilingual is nearly impossible.
Too often, companies lean on bilingual employees to fill the gap—pulling them into ad-hoc translation tasks and away from their core roles. Even companies with the luxury of in-house translators struggle, as those teams are often overbooked, forcing schedules to revolve around their availability.
This isn’t just a challenge for non-English-speaking teams. Top U.S. companies lose ground in local markets to regional players who leverage language as a competitive advantage. Meanwhile, local companies with world-class products rarely break out globally because they don’t speak the world’s shared language.
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Cuckoo is a real-time AI translator built for highly technical, high-stakes conversations—whether on Zoom or in person. We go beyond word-for-word translation. We deliver custom, contextualized translation that replicates the experience of having an always-available in-house interpreter accessible to companies of any size or industry.
Our interpreter learns from every conversation, improving over time. Customers can upload sales deck, documentation, and product guides into Cuckoo’s knowledge base, enabling translations that actually reflect their business.
By leveraging our foundation of real-time conversations and company-specific knowledge, we’re building a new kind of localization layer—one that supports global sales, marketing, and support at every stage of the customer lifecycle.
Help us raise the bar across infrastructure, personalization, and experience.
Our customers rely on us for high-stakes meetings—from closing contracts to resolving production incidents. Any failure on our side is a lost business opportunity for our customers. You’ll help us ensure they never miss a word.