Kunendo is developing a crowd sourcing platform to industrialize the translation market by making translations 100x cheaper and faster than traditional translation agencies. Their software prototype uses a general purpose engine that combines the computation power of computers with the cognitive capabilities of people to efficiently crowd source micro translation tasks. Their team includes ICT professionals and researchers from the University of Zurich with expertise in areas like recommender systems, software engineering, machine learning, and more.

1. KUNENDO
Crowd Sourcing Translations
Dr. Amancio Bouza!
Founder Kunendo AG
Venture Kick, 14. Jan. 2014
supported by:

2. Machine Translation is Bad
Uns läuft das Wasser im
Mund zusammen
Us runs the water in the
mouth together
Image source: http://cutelypoisoned.com/

3. Computers are Ineffective,!
People are Inefficient
Crowd source tasks
when computers fail.

4. We are Industrializing the Translation Market
(USP)
100x!
cheaper & faster
& good quality
University of Zurich (Kunendo): 4 hours, 67$
Translation Agency: ~400 hours, 7’000$ - 50’000$
(Book: 544 pages; 250 words/page; 5cents/word)

5. We have a Software Prototype to !
Crowd Source Translations and much more
General purpose engine that
combines computation power
of computers and cognitive
capabilities of people
Efficient crowd sourcing of
micro tasks
Enables dynamic adaptation
and rapid development of
different processes for
different applications

6. Translation Market Industry
34 Billion $
Translation agencies
operate mainly local
World!
16%
Europe!
49%
USA!
35%
Source: Common Sense Advisory, 2012

7. Customers are:!
Order Management
Translation
Quality Assurance
some secrets
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Billing & Payments

8. Customers are:!
Order Management
Post-Editing
Quality Assurance
some secrets
KUNENDO
Crowd Translation
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Billing & Payments

9. Team of ICT Professionals and Researchers
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Dr. Amancio
Bouza
K
Damian Schärli
Recommender Systems Software Engineering
Machine Learning
Project Management
Semantic Web
Entrepreneurship
Data Science
UZH
UZH
Patrick Minder
Prof. Abraham
Bernstein
Crowd Sourcing
PHD Student
Entrepreneurship
Distributed Systems
Semantic Web
Collective Intelligence
Data Mining

10. SWOT Analysis
Strengths:!
Weaknesses:!
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some secrets
Opportunities:!
Threads:!
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11. Project Plan & Use of Funds
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12. Summary of KUNENDO
USP!
100x!
cheaper &
faster than
Translators
Crowd Sourcing
Engine !
based on recent
research
supported by:
Highly Qualified
Team!
Scientists and
Professionals