Gengo

The startup is getting new funds and a new CEO as co-founder Matthew Romaine takes center stage.

Several founders of Asian startups that Tech in Asia reached out to revealed that they practice transparency to a large extent with their employees.

Websites can use this widget to instantly translate text into ten languages. Unlike Google Translate, however, the translations can be manually tweaked.

Here’s a recap of the first half of the first day of Tech in Asia’s inaugural event in Japan.

Founder Robert Laing will be on stage for a fireside chat, where we’ll warmly welcome him with burning questions like, “Why can’t I just use Google Translate?”

After months of beta testing, today Fliplingo goes live to the public with its human-powered Twitter translation service.

Yesterday Writepath, the Taiwan-based online editing startup, announced it raised a seed funding round worth US$525,000. Japan’s B Dash Ventures led the round, with a bevy of Taiwan-based investors including

Tokyo-based translation platform Gengo revealed earlier today that it has translated over 200 million words to date.

Achieving success as an entrepreneur anywhere is a challenge, so while I could understand the appeal of targeting Silicon Valley, there are enough factors to consider that are agnostic to location.

The story of Gengo’s Robert Laing and Matthew Romaine is a source of inspiration for many gaijin (foreigners) building a tech startup in Japan.