Smartcat
Smartcat is an AI-powered content creation and translation platform for enterprises, with 385 employees. The company raised $72M in a Series C round in September 2024.
The growth story
Smartcat grew from 233 to 385 employees between 2023 and 2026, raising $72M along the way, most recently a Series C in September 2024.
About
Smartcat provides AI tools that automate content generation, translation, and localization across multiple languages and formats. Enterprises use it to maintain brand consistency while scaling multilingual content production.
The company has raised $72M in funding, with notable investors including AltaIR Capital and Matrix. Its engineering team makes up the largest function at 49 employees.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is the largest department with 49 employees. The company has a median tenure of 2 years among staff.
The Smartcat org chart
Ivan Smolnikov (CEO & founder) leads 47 mapped leaders with 6 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
- Chief Financial & Strategy Analyst I Strategic Business PartnerExecutive
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Media and Communication 104 (-3% YoY), Engineering 81 (+5% YoY), Sales 38 (0% YoY), Information Technology 27 (+13% YoY), Operations 19 (+12% YoY), Customer Success and Support 19 (-24% YoY).
Talent flow
Smartcat recruits heavily from Russian tech firms, with Yandex (7 hires), Genesys (6), and Tinkoff (5) as top sources. Alumni frequently move to other Russian tech companies like Tinkoff and Ozon Tech.
Most common previous employers of Smartcat staff: Yandex (7), Genesys (6), Tinkoff (5), Oracle (5), EPAM (5), ALS.ltd (4). Former Smartcat employees most often moved to Tinkoff (3), Ozon Tech (2), Lokalise (2), Peak Technologies (2), Intento (2), Caspian Tech CJSC (1).
Alumni worth knowing
The Smartcat mafia
17 alumni have founded companies, including Dreem (57 staff) and Passwork, a self-hosted password manager business with 24 employees.
17Dima Litvinov, was General Manager EMEA & APAC until 2023Alex Muntyan, was Head of Customer Success until 2019Arseny Konov, was Talent & Operations Leader until 2024Dave Murphy, was Enterprise Account Executive until 2025Artas Oorzhak, was VP of Finance until 2023Alina Petrova, was Head of Growth (Organic) until 2025
Sanaz Khanjani, was Persian LSP until 2022
Myk Pono, was Head of Product, Growth until 2024
Dwayne Ernest, was VP of Global Sales & Customer Success until 2021
Amin Jaoudat, was GTM until 2025
Sinan Yalçın, was Account Executive until 2019
Anton Kulikov, was Lead Product Manager, Fintech until 2025
Andrey (Andy) Nikulin, was Senior Product manager, ML / Translation Technology until 2024
Tan Ağırkaya, was Translator until 2020
Nicole Kaminski, was Freelance Translator until 2023
Lawrence Chiwesa, was Freelance Translator until 2024Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 55% direct, 21% search, 5% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Smartcat: Research Skills (188), Technical Translation (177), Localization (172), Teaching (169), Foreign Languages (150), Spanish (146), Translation (97), Communication (94).
Where the team actually sits
Smartcat people are concentrated in Belgrade, Serbia (9), Yerevan, Armenia (9), Massachusetts, United States (7), Tbilisi, Georgia (7).
Search footprint
Smartcat attracts about 11,930 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $110K a month if bought through ads. It gained 3,816 ranking keywords and lost 4,972 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.40 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.40 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.30 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.00 / 5
Frequently asked
Smartcat has 385 employees as of September 2026.
Smartcat has raised $72M in total, most recently a Series C round in September 2024.
Smartcat was founded in 2016 by Ivan Smolnikov.
Ivan Smolnikov (CEO & founder) sits at the top of Smartcat's reporting structure, with 6 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Smartcat staff are Yandex (7 people), Genesys (6 people), Tinkoff (5 people).
Former Smartcat employees most often move to Tinkoff (3), Ozon Tech (2), Lokalise (2).
At least 17 companies have a founder who previously worked at Smartcat, including Dreem, Passwork. Self-hosted password manager for your business, Neera.
Smartcat attracts about 11,930 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $110K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Smartcat staff are Research Skills, Technical Translation, Localization, Teaching, Foreign Languages.
Smartcat staff are concentrated in Belgrade, Serbia (9), Yerevan, Armenia (9), Massachusetts, United States (7).
Smartcat has about 104 people in Media and Communication, down 3% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Smartcat has about 81 people in Engineering, up 5% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 217 current and 270 former Smartcat profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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