Ivan Smolnikov

CEO & founder at Smartcat

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

About

For over 15 years, I’ve been building and leading companies at the intersection of language, AI, and global communication. I founded Smartcat in 2016 to transform how organizations create, translate, localize, and scale global content. What began as a unified TMS and marketplace has evolved into an enterprise AI platform powered by expert-enabled AI Agents, helping teams accelerate global communication with unmatched speed, quality, and control. Today, Smartcat serves 1,000+ global enterprises, bringing together AI Agents, human expertise, and the largest embedded marketplace of professional linguists to help businesses capture global demand at pace. Smartcat’s expert-enabled AI Agents orchestrate content workflows across hundreds of use cases while continuously learning from feedback. We empower teams to grow global markets faster without the usual barriers to market entry or multilingual engagement.

Experience

  • CEO & founder at Smartcat
    Feb 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

    Smartcat is the enterprise AI platform for global content that helps organizations scale teams and business across markets and languages. Our expert-enabled AI Agents automatically create, translate, and localize content all at once, so you can grow every market at the same time. Trained on your brand voice and continuously learning from human feedback, they deliver high-quality, on-brand content at scale. We help teams speed up time-to-market, reduce costs, and ensure consistency across every language and region.

  • ABBYY LS (14 yrs)
    • Board Member
      Mar 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      ABBYY Language Solutions is a global language technology partner and service provider. More than 3,500 companies worldwide, including 25 companies in the TOP 100 Global Brands and 35 Fortune 500 companies, rely on us for translation and localization to deliver their businesses to the global market. We focus on translation workflow automation and cutting-edge linguistic solutions to streamline multilingual content maintenance for our clients. For more information please visit www.abbyy-ls.com

    • CEO, co-founder
      Jan 2004 - Mar 2016 · 12 yrs 3 mos

      In 2004 co-founded and built from scratch a company specializing in language solutions that later attracted ABBYY as a strategic investor and was rebranded as ABBYY LS. Today ABBYY LS is one of the global leading providers of linguistic technologies and services, with offices in the USA, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

  • Scientist at Fiber Optics Research Center at the General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences
    Sep 2001 - Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Single-mode chalcogenide fibers. Automation and numerical simulation of experiment.