#60 Semantix Exec Britta Aagaard on EUR 34m EU GROW Translation Contract

In this week’s SlatorPod, Semantix Chief Business Officer Britta Aagaard joins us to talk about their recent major deal win — a EUR 34m translation contract for the EU GROW project. Britta discusses what’s involved in bidding for, winning, and setting up to go live on a contract of this size, as well as the role of Semantix’s technology partner ESTeam.

Britta also talks about her path to joining Semantix, which resulted from the 2017 acquisition of Textminded, the translation company that she headed as CEO before its sale to public sector interpreting specialist Semantix. 

Four years later, Britta shares how learnings from the public sector carry over to servicing private sector customers, and how the acquisition of Textminded has seen Semantix expand its offering to become a bonafide full-service LSP. 

First up, Florian and Esther discuss dating website operator Match.com's acquisition of a multilingual video chat platform built on Google Translation API for a cool USD 1.73bn, while Microsoft rolled out ‘Document Translation’ for LSPs and Enterprises. 

The two unpack the latest financial results from Australia-listed companies Ai-Media — a captioning and subtitling provider that delivered upwards of seven million minutes in the six months to December 31, 2020  — and Appen, whose shares tumbled despite 12% growth in 2020.