Shavely

Piroune Balachandran, Mason Bachmann, and Tatsuya Murakami looked at group chat and realized something was broken—in a world where teams span Tokyo, Toronto, and Tunisia, we're still forcing everyone to type in the same language. Shavely fixes that. It's group chat where every message auto-translates into each person's native language, so a thread can have someone typing in Japanese, someone in Spanish, and someone in French, and everyone reads it in their own. No copy-pasting into Google Translate, no asking "wait, what did they say?", just actual seamless multilingual conversation.

This is one of those ideas that's so obvious you wonder why it took someone this long to build it properly. The founders clearly understand the pain—between them they've got names that span three different continents, which means they probably lived the problem personally. Group chat is how modern teams communicate, and language barriers are how modern teams fall apart. Shavely just made that friction disappear.

Based in Tokyo and currently in beta, looking for early teams to test the multilingual magic.