Tilde
Provide trusted, secure language AI built in and for Europe, enabling multilingual communication while strengthening digital equity for European languages.
Founding Story
Tilde was founded in 1991 to overcome language barriers in the digital age, starting with the creation of a basic application to enable typing Latvian diacritics on computer keyboards.
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Leadership
Founders
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Co-founder and Executive Chairman. PhD in Computer Science, AI expert, and member of several European AI advisory boards. Instrumental in the development of Tilde's language technology since 1991.
Uldis Dzenis
Co-founder and Board Member. Has been with the company since its inception in 1991, focusing on product development and management.
Executive Team
Artūrs Vasiļevskis
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Appointed CEO in 2023; previously a member of the machine translation research group since 2020.
Mārcis Pinnis
Chief AI Officer
Senior researcher and expert in natural language processing and machine translation.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS Subscriptions, API usage fees, and custom enterprise solutions development.
Pricing Tiers
Includes unlimited text translation and 5 files per month.
Includes higher file limits and advanced features (as reported by software comparison sites).
Scalable solutions for large organizations with custom engine training and API access.
Target Markets
- Enterprises
- Public Institutions
- Media & Entertainment
- E-commerce
- Legal Services
- Multilingual business communication
- Public sector document translation
- Media transcription and subtitling
- Customer support automation
- Academic and legal record transcription
- European Commission
- Microsoft
- SAP
- European Space Agency
History & Milestones
Announces strategic partnership to help Ukraine develop its national AI ecosystem.
Launches TildeOpen LLM, a 30-billion parameter open-source large language model for 34 European languages.
Wins the European Commission's Large AI Grand Challenge, receiving funding and supercomputing resources.
Tilde's subsidiary/product Jumis Pro (accounting software) is acquired by Visma.
Expands focus on Machine Translation with support from Eurostars and other EU research programs.
1 AI Tool by Tilde
Tilde Open LLM is a multilingual large language model with strong support for Baltic and other European languages, designed for open and commercial use.
