POCKETALK
Musical Electronics · Translation Services
6open roles
1backers · Miyako Capital
Btruth index, 75 of 100
13stories in the press
Overview
POCKETALK is a Japanese company that makes the Pocketalk AI translation device for two-way conversation in more than 90 languages and the Sentio AI interpretation service for online meetings and lectures. Its products are used by more than 10,000 companies and sold in the United States, Europe and Asia, and it hires product managers, mobile app engineers and product engineers. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 6 open roles at POCKETALK. POCKETALK is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Open roles
- 6Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, JapanAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 17Named in its job postings
How POCKETALK hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
POCKETALK scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Hiring now
7
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Miyako Capital
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
20/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
380 days
faster than 3% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
25% ▲
Frontend
25% ▲
DevOps
25% ▲
QA
25% ▲
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at POCKETALK over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
80/100
Languages
C++
JavaScript
Node JS
PowerShell
Frameworks & libraries
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Vue.js
Databases
Redis
Cloud & platforms
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Figma
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17 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
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News
Is Conversation During Overseas Travel Still Manual? Verifying the POCKETALK S2 Plus Through Its Specificationsガジェット速報
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The Truth Behind Pocketalk's Postponed IPO: Why It Is Evolving Beyond the Smartphone Barrier into a 'City AI Concierge'クールポップ
Starting with the recent news about the 'postponement of Pocketalk's IPO,' which has been a hot topic, I would like to consider the realistic challenges of the translation business and the 'near-future multilingual DX' that lies beyond it.In fact, underst
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Pocketalk Celebrates Growth and Key Partnerships in the First Half of 2024
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Pocketalk Introduces Comprehensive Suite of Translation Solutions to Address Global Language Needs with Pocketalk for Business
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Tokyo
Tokyo
Japan
HQ
2 open roles 100% engineering $78k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Mobile
How to cite this page
Alion, "POCKETALK: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/pocketalk-jp
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