Papercup was founded in 2017 with a mission to make all the world’s videos watchable in any language. Using state-of-the-art machine learning, Papercup has created an AI system capable of translating people’s voices into other languages. The delivery is indistinguishable from human speech and can also retain characteristics of the speaker's voice. Papercup empowers content owners such as Sky News and Yoga with Adriene to reach global audiences eager to watch videos in their native language which they couldn’t access before. The London-based startup has raised over $14 million in funding to date, with backers including leading venture funds LocalGlobe, Sands Capital Ventures, Guardian Media Group Ventures, Entrepreneur First and BDMI as well as media leader Sky (now owned by Comcast).