Vasco Pedro

Vasco Pedro is a seasoned entrepreneur and expert in language technologies, currently serving as Co-founder and CEO of Unbabel since August 2013, a company that offers scalable translation services powered by AI and a global community of translators. In addition to this role, Vasco serves as an investor at Replai and as a mentor at Beta-i, aiding startups in their early development stages. Prior experience includes co-founding Dezine.com, leading a technical team, and Bueda, Inc., where innovative semantic advertising solutions were developed. Vasco's academic background includes a PhD and a Master of Science in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, where involvement as both invited researcher and research assistant added to a robust skill set. Further experience includes internships at Google and Siemens Medical Solutions, and research contributions that significantly advanced semantic parsing and social network analysis.