Founder of a listed tool
Ivan Smolnikov
Founder and CEO, named behind the Smartcat listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ivan builds
Smartcat C · Translation
Smartcat is a hosted AI translation and localisation platform with projects, translation memories, glossaries and a linguist marketplace. Agents reach it through a REST API with webhooks, a real-time translation endpoint and a command-line tool.
Founder and CEO, researched 29 October 2026 · the people behind it
Backed by
Matrix FJ Labs Left Lane Capital
Questions
Who is Ivan Smolnikov?
Ivan Smolnikov founded Smartcat in 2013 and is its CEO. In 2003 he founded a translation company that was sold to ABBYY Group, renamed ABBYY Language Solutions, and run by him as CEO until 2015. Smartcat's author page describes him as a physicist-turned-entrepreneur.
What does Smartcat Platform Inc. (Smartcat) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Smartcat from Smartcat Platform Inc. (Smartcat). Smartcat is a hosted AI translation and localisation platform with projects, translation memories, glossaries and a linguist marketplace. Agents reach it through a REST API with webhooks, a real-time translation endpoint and a command-line tool.
Who has invested in Smartcat Platform Inc. (Smartcat)?
The sources our research read name Matrix, FJ Labs and Left Lane Capital.
How are Ivan's tools graded?
Smartcat is graded C, 54.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://www.smartcat.com/blog/behind-our-7m-in-series-a-how-we-make-translations-better-for-everyone/
- https://www.smartcat.com/blog/series-c-funding-press-release/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smartcat-raises-43-million-series-c-for-expansion-of-enterprise-language-ai-302242152.html
- https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/10/enterprise-focused-ai-translation-platform-marketplace-operator-smartcat-raises-43m-funding/
- https://www.fjlabs.com/portfolio/smartcat
- https://www.smartcat.com/about-us/
- https://www.smartcat.com/llms.txt
- https://www.smartcat.com/legal/terms/
- https://developers.smartcat.com/changelog/
- https://api.github.com/orgs/smartcatai
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