A startup I worked with raised a seed round in Lisbon, then went to raise a Series A from a UK fund. Same company, same numbers, same traction. Three different people translated three different documents (the deck, the financial model notes, and the term sheet summary) over three weeks, with no shared glossary. The result: "receita" became "revenue" in one file and "turnover" in another, ARR was calculated two different ways in the deck versus the model, and the investor's associate flagged it in the first due diligence call.

Nobody lost the round over this, but it cost a week of clarifying emails during a period when speed matters more than almost anything else. The source article on pitch deck translation for funding rounds covers why this happens from a linguistic and financial-register perspective.…