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DeepL

Short Description
Founded in 2017. Cologne machine-translation company (real German SE office). Strong MT reputation; not a U.S. human/CJIS transcription vendor. Not CJIS; court-certifiable transcripts typically no.

Physical Address: Maarweg 165, 50825 Cologne, Germany

Public business registration: DE HRB DeepL SE — https://www.deepl.com/en/publisher

Google reviews: ★★★★☆ 3.5 / 5 from 64 Google reviews
https://www.google.com/maps/place/DeepL+SE/@50.9455855,6.8967689,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47bf25aa9c873131:0xb3e5f389155b84be!8m2!3d50.9455855!4d6.8967689!16s%2Fg%2F11ry3d5lff

Known public notes: Cologne HQ + hosted ISO/SOC PDFs; MT product (not human LE transcription)

Other review sites: Glassdoor · Indeed · Trustpilot
Description

𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: Maarweg 165, 50825 Cologne, Germany

DeepL provides machine translation used by individuals and organizations for documents and multilingual content, with API and productivity tooling for teams. It is a strong fit for draft translation workflows that still need human review for critical content.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝:
Document and text translation
API and productivity tooling for teams
Draft translation workflows that still need human review for critical content

𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://www.deepl.com/

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞:
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: DeepL SE, Maarweg 165, 50825 Cologne, Germany.
𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Verified office
𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫: Amtsgericht Köln HRB 104617. CEO Dr. Jaroslaw Kutylowski. Directory research treats this as a verified office, not a mill.

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Germany (Amtsgericht Köln commercial register)
𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: DeepL SE
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 / 𝐃𝐁𝐀: DeepL
𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 / 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐃: HRB 104617
𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝: https://www.deepl.com/en/publisher
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: Official DeepL publisher/impressum page states registration at Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 104617, Maarweg 165 Cologne (matches listing HQ). Status wording not separately scraped from the court extract this pass.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞:
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: counts below are LinkedIn or LeadIQ people associated with the company. Marketplace and transcription firms often mix freelance/contract transcribers with staff. These figures are not a single-office headcount.
LeadIQ ~1.5K associated people.
Germany: 677
United Kingdom: 288
United States: 115
Japan: 87
Netherlands: 65
Spain: 32
Poland: 26
France: 18
Brazil: 11
Indonesia: 10
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: LeadIQ DeepL employee directory: https://leadiq.com/c/deepl/5d9c8a66408f0cc3d9199d12/employee-directory

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:
𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐋 𝐒𝐄 — 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐦): Official publisher/imprint page stating DeepL SE is registered at Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 104617; address Maarweg 165, 50825 Cologne; VAT-ID DE349242045. Primary source: https://www.deepl.com/en/publisher. Commercial register: Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 104617.
𝐈𝐒𝐎/𝐈𝐄𝐂 𝟐𝟕𝟎𝟎𝟏:2013 certificate (TÜV Rheinland): Third-party ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate PDF for DeepL SE. Certificate Registr. No. 01 153 2000420. Scope: development, operation and distribution of in-house developed translation software. Validity stated as 2023-12-22 until 2025-10-30 (first certification 2020). Primary source: https://www.deepl.com/files/ISO_27001_EN.pdf. As of fetch date 2026-09-11, the stated validity end date 2025-10-30 has passed; treat as historical published certificate unless a newer public cert is located.
𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐋 𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝟐 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝟐 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 / 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 (𝐇𝐊𝐊𝐆): Public SOC 2 Type 2 report / audit verdict for DeepL SE cloud service controls for security, confidentiality, and availability for period October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. Signed Cologne, December 22, 2023 by HKKG GmbH. Primary source: https://assets.ctfassets.net/pplyeawnfzc7/6ME8nhfxNMIx54UhI88rNg/aa65dbf11f0a6979750babccb8f2336d/Audit_Verdict_DeepL_SOC_2_Type_2.pdf. Auditor: HKKG GmbH; Wirtschaftsprüfer engagement terms referenced.
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 (𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝):
𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐋 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 / 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-data-security — Company security marketing and Trust Center portal (https://trust.deepl.com/). Additional badges beyond the public PDFs above were not independently verified in this pass.
𝐂𝐁𝐈 𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔-𝟎𝟗-𝟏𝟏): this company does not appear among the ~619 names on Colorado’s published CBI CJIS Vendor Management Program list. CBI also states that directory listing is not itself a guarantee of full CJIS compliance.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬:
𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐀: company claim (blog: HIPAA-compliant Language AI) — https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/safeguard-health-data-hipaa
𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐑𝐀: no public evidence found
𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒: not CJIS (foreign / offshore workforce)
𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝟐 / 𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝟑: independent SOC 2 Type 2 audit verdict (HKKG) — https://assets.ctfassets.net/pplyeawnfzc7/6ME8nhfxNMIx54UhI88rNg/aa65dbf11f0a6979750babccb8f2336d/Audit_Verdict_DeepL_SOC_2_Type_2.pdf
𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝟐𝟕𝟎𝟎𝟏: independent ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate PDF (TÜV Rheinland; validity window on published PDF ended 2025-10-30 — treat as historical unless a newer public cert is located) — https://www.deepl.com/files/ISO_27001_EN.pdf
𝐆𝐃𝐏𝐑: company claim / EU HQ subject to GDPR — https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-data-security
𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐀: not applicable (machine-translation product; no public FERPA education-records program found)

𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬
Not CJIS compliant.
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧: work involving people outside the U.S. is incompatible with FBI CJIS Security Policy handling of criminal justice information (personnel must be U.S.-based and background-checked for CJI). Directory workforce data for this company includes people associated outside the United States (staff and/or freelance/contract transcribers).
𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭-𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬: typically no.
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧: these vendors generally do not certify transcripts for U.S. court use. An overseas transcriber is not available to appear in a U.S. court to authenticate the transcript.

𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
Street-verified Cologne SE office (Physical Address).
Company-hosted ISO/IEC 27001 certificate PDF — https://www.deepl.com/files/ISO_27001_EN.pdf
Company-hosted SOC 2 Type 2 audit verdict PDF — https://assets.ctfassets.net/pplyeawnfzc7/6ME8nhfxNMIx54UhI88rNg/aa65dbf11f0a6979750babccb8f2336d/Audit_Verdict_DeepL_SOC_2_Type_2.pdf
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬:
Machine-translation / Language AI product — not a U.S. human LE transcription company — https://www.deepl.com/
Not CJIS; court-certifiable transcripts typically no (see CJIS section).

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬:
★★★★☆ 3.5 / 5 from 64 Google reviews
https://www.google.com/maps/place/DeepL+SE/@50.9455855,6.8967689,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47bf25aa9c873131:0xb3e5f389155b84be!8m2!3d50.9455855!4d6.8967689!16s%2Fg%2F11ry3d5lff
𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬:
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/DeepL-Reviews-E2426949.htm
Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Deepl-Se
Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.deepl.com
Widely regarded machine-translation vendor headquartered in Cologne. Not a transcription marketplace; still relevant in language-services directories for MT draft workflows. Confirm data-processing terms for sensitive documents.

𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:
https://www.deepl.com/
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐈𝐐 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: https://leadiq.com/c/deepl/5d9c8a66408f0cc3d9199d12/employee-directory
Amtsgericht Köln HRB 104617
𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: MT output still needs human review for critical or regulated content.

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