LILT INC
Emeryville, CA · Founded 2015 · CIK 0001642656 · Defense · Private
Machine translation and automatic speech recognition system for analyzing oral proficiency interviews across multiple languages
lilt.com →- Grants
- $4.3M
- 2 awards
- Sector median: 2
- Raised
- $139M
- 6 Form D · Jun 2025
- 16 months since last filing
- Contracts
- —
- No federal contracts on record
- Patents
- 11
- 8 granted · 3 pending
- Sector median: 0
Capital Timeline
Federal ↑Equity ↓2014201620182020202220242026
| Date | Event | Source | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $650,000 | |
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $2,998,773 | |
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $9,500,000 | |
| Federal grant | Department of Defense · Phase II · Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need | $3,000,000 | |
| Federal grant | Department of Defense · Phase II · AI/ML Foreign Language Translation Integration with Automatic Speech Recognition Technology | $1,250,000 | |
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $45,421,272 | |
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $55,499,961 | |
| Private capital raised | Form D · SEC | $24,999,992 |
Federal grant · SBIR/STTRForm D · SEC
Peer position
| # | Company | Contracts | Disclosed equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1191 | Dev-Lock Systems, Inc. | — | $300K |
| 1192 | GoPlug Bags, Inc. | — | $338K |
| 1193 | Auv LLC | — | — |
| 1194 | LILT INC | — | $139M |
| 1195 | GVD CORP | — | — |
| 1196 | 9 Mothers | — | — |
| 1197 | AGI Holding Company, LLC | — | $4.3M |
Ranked on federal contract value rather than capital raised. The equity column is the comparison worth making — companies at the same procurement position often sit at very different points in their funding history.
Founders & Team
- William CoughranDirector
- John DeNeroDirector · Executive Officer · Promoter
- Jonathan FeiberDirector
- Ashley FontanaDirector
- Spence GreenDirector · Executive Officer · Promoter
- Mark RostickDirector
Patents
- Cross-lingual Human-preference Alignment For Neural Machine Translation With Direct Quality Optimizationapplication
- Partial Execution Of Translation In Browsergranted
- End-to-end Neural Word Alignment Process Of Suggesting Formatting In Machine Translationsgranted
- Partial Execution Of Translation In Browsergranted
- End-to-end Neural Word Alignment Process Of Suggesting Formatting In Machine Translationsgranted
- Apparatus And Method For Accurate Translation Reviews And Consistencey Across Multiple Translatorsgranted
- Apparatus And Method For Accurate Translation Reviews And Consistency Across Multiple Translatorsgranted
- Apparatus And Method For An Adaptive Neural Machine Translation Systemgranted
- Apparatus and Method for Prefix-Constrained Decoding in a Neural Machine Translation Systemgranted
- End-to-end Neural Word Alignment Process Of Suggesting Formatting In Machine Translationsapplication
- Cross-lingual Human-preference Alignment For Neural Machine Translation With Direct Quality Optimizationapplication
Regulatory activity · Defense
- Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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