Elanex
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Translation services |
| Founded | 2002 in San Francisco, California, USA |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
Key people | Donald Plumley (Chairman, CEO, President) Jonathan Kirk (Founder) |
| Products | Language localization, translation, interpreting, machine translation |
| Parent | Straker Translations |
| Website | www |
Elanex, Inc. commonly known as Elanex, was a translation services company based in San Francisco, California, USA. The company was acquired by Straker Translations of New Zealand in February 2017.[1] Elanex provided localization, translation, and interpreting services. Elanex primarily offered professional human translation, managed by an advanced internally developed technology platform.[2] They primarily served the high technology, financial services, manufacturing, energy, retail, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) industries.[3]
History[edit]
The company was founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kirk, has operations in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Washington, New York, New York, San Francisco, California, USA; Tokyo, Japan; London, England; Sydney, Australia; Montreal, Quebec, Canada;.[4]
In June, 2012, Elanex launched expressIt, a rapid response translation service that marries the best of professional human translators with AI-guided automatic workflow.[5]
In September, 2014, Elanex launched VeriFast, a service that combines machine translation with expert human verification.[6] Building on Elanex's automation and workflow technologies, it enables large volumes of content to be quickly translated and reviewed for accuracy.