"The tool works across documents from contracts to slide decks, offering translations in over 120 languages while keeping every table, chart, image, and layout intact. Founder Daphne Tay said she came up with the idea after spending "countless hours" at Bain reformatting translated documents for international projects. "I was doing exactly what our clients do now - copying and pasting text from translation tools, fixing formatting, and losing hours that should have been spent on actual consulting work," she said."
"Bluente raised $1.5 million in a seed-plus round led by Menlo Park-based Informed Ventures. No other investors participated, and Tay declined to share the company's valuation. Unlike most founders who pitch dozens of VCs, Bluente's process was short. Informed Ventures approached the company directly. "They actually faced the same problem themselves," Tay said, adding that the firm's partners had worked as bankers handling multilingual transactions."
Bluente is a Singapore startup that automates translation while preserving original formatting across contracts, slide decks, tables, charts, images, and layouts. The platform supports translations in over 120 languages and targets professionals who lose time fixing translated documents. Founder Daphne Tay founded Bluente after experiencing repeated manual reformatting during consultancy work at Bain. Bluente launched in 2021 and initially released a business-focused language-learning app before pivoting to document translation. The company raised $1.5 million in a seed-plus round led by Informed Ventures, which approached the startup after recognizing the same multilingual-document problem. Funds will support go-to-market expansion in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the US, and hiring.
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