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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO.\n\nIvan 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-smolnikov/\n\n## What Ivan builds\n\n- [Smartcat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.md), graded C, 54.3/100, in 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 2026-10-29.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Matrix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matrix/)\n- [FJ Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fj-labs/)\n- [Left Lane Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/left-lane-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ivan Smolnikov?\n\nIvan 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.\n\n### What does Smartcat Platform Inc. (Smartcat) make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Smartcat Platform Inc. (Smartcat)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Matrix, FJ Labs and Left Lane Capital.\n\n### How are Ivan's tools graded?\n\nSmartcat is graded C, 54.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.smartcat.com/blog/behind-our-7m-in-series-a-how-we-make-translations-better-for-everyone/\n- https://www.smartcat.com/blog/series-c-funding-press-release/\n- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smartcat-raises-43-million-series-c-for-expansion-of-enterprise-language-ai-302242152.html\n- https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/10/enterprise-focused-ai-translation-platform-marketplace-operator-smartcat-raises-43m-funding/\n- https://www.fjlabs.com/portfolio/smartcat\n- https://www.smartcat.com/about-us/\n- https://www.smartcat.com/llms.txt\n- https://www.smartcat.com/legal/terms/\n- https://developers.smartcat.com/changelog/\n- https://api.github.com/orgs/smartcatai\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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