Weglot
👤 Augustin Prot & Rémy Berda (An ex-M&A banker (Lazard) and a developer. First paid sale — 15 euros — Nov 2015; 20 customers before they incorporated.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
An ex-banker and a developer turned translation into SEO real estate — indexable /fr/ pages. Bootstrapped to $11M ARR.
Will it work? · our read
Sell the plumbing. Translation is a commodity; the moat is boring SEO plumbing — indexable URLs, hreflang, and a free WordPress plugin that funnels installs.
01How the money moves
Install free WordPress plugin or JS snippet
→
Free under 2,000 words / 1 language
→
Pay $16-760/mo as words + languages grow
02The numbers
$11M
ARR (end 2021)
Weglot
25,000
paying customers
founder
$50M
Series A, Partech 2022
TechCrunch
One small 2017 seed, then years to $11M ARR and profit before the $50M raise. Slator
$11M ARR (2021) · 25K paying customers · $50M raised 2022
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The Weglot story — founders' own origin account: first 15-euro sale, 20 early customers.Weglot: our $50M growth investment — company blog: profitable, 25K paying customers.Slator (2022) — EUR 10M / $11M ARR at end of 2021.TechCrunch (2022) — $50M Series A from Partech after a small 2017 seed.Weglot on WordPress.org — free plugin, 100,000+ active installs (the distribution channel).
Revenue = $11M ARR at the 2021 Series A (Weglot's own blog + Slator, first-party); post-2021 ARR isn't disclosed, so today's figure is likely higher but unstated. Prices shown are USD conversions of EUR list prices. Rival weights and the "distribution is the real moat" read are our interpretation, not company claims. We never score you.