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Germany's DeepL is considering going public in US, Bloomberg reports
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 2, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Global Banking & Finance Review®
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 2, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
DeepL, a German AI translation firm, is exploring a US IPO with a potential $5 billion valuation to expand its US market presence.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -DeepL, a Germany-based developer of artificial intelligence-based translation, is considering an initial public offering in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter.
The Cologne-based startup company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
DeepL has held preliminary discussions with potential advisers on a U.S. listing as soon as next year, Bloomberg said, also citing some of its sources as saying that it could seek a valuation of as much as $5 billion.
The startup company said in May last year that it was valued at $2 billion in a funding round led by investor Index Ventures.
DeepL Chief Revenue Officer David Parry-Jones told Reuters in May that the company was seeking to make inroads into the U.S. market because of sizeable growth opportunities and that a it had opened an office there in 2024.
He added at the time that the company has more than 200,000 business customers and millions of paying and non-paying daily users.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, Alexander Huebner and Hakan Ersen, Editing by Friederike Heine)
An initial public offering (IPO) is the process through which a private company offers its shares to the public for the first time, allowing it to raise capital from public investors.
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Artificial intelligence in finance refers to the use of machine learning algorithms and data analysis to enhance financial services, improve decision-making, and automate processes.
A funding round is a stage in which a company raises capital from investors, typically through the sale of equity or debt, to finance its operations and growth.
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