Cuckoo, now backed by Y Combinator
Our mission at Cuckoo is to help global teams expand their presence worldwide without the barriers of language. This means conducting user interviews with your first customer in Turkey, meeting enterprise clients in Japan, organizing community events with your HQ team in Korea, and so much more.
With Y Combinator, we have the best partners to make this a reality.
What is Cuckoo again?
Cuckoo is an AI interpreter for global teams. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and translates into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization. It's like having an always-available in-house interpreter.
Since launching in July 2024, we’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with global teams like Snowflake, PagerDuty, Weights & Biases, dbt Labs, and SeAH as our very first customers. These teams rely on Cuckoo for multilingual meetings, events, business trips, and more. Since Day 1, they taught us new things, from new use cases to bug fixes, and their supports have been incredibly motivating.
Why Y Combinator?
Y Combinator holds a special place in our journey. Gunwoo and I vividly remember watching YC partner David Rusenko’s YouTube video during our mid-terms. Many of the founders and companies we admire—Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Gusto, Brex, and few thousands more—came out of YC.
Being a part of this community with such a fantastic group of founders and partners is really special for us.
What's next?
Cuckoo’s mission is to break down language barriers for global teams using AI. We’re still at the very beginning of our journey, and we’ll continue to work on new features and improvements to give our customers the best possible experience as they connect with teams and customers worldwide.
If this is something that excites you, join us as founding team members at the earliest stage of our journey as we build a category-defining product in language, localization, and something bigger.
