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Lokalise is a technology company.
Lokalise provides a comprehensive localization platform designed to streamline and automate the process of adapting digital content for global audiences. Its core offering facilitates efficient translation workflows, integrating artificial intelligence for machine translation alongside tools for human translation, quality assurance, and real-time collaboration. The platform supports a wide array of file formats and integrates with common development and content management systems, enabling continuous localization.
The company was founded by Nick Ustinov and Petr Antropov, whose entrepreneurial journey began with developing a mobile application aimed at helping users avoid roaming charges while traveling. As their initial app scaled to over a million users across diverse linguistic regions, they encountered significant challenges in managing its localization. This firsthand experience revealed a critical market need for a more effective and scalable localization solution, prompting them to establish Lokalise.
Lokalise serves a broad spectrum of users, including product managers, developers, designers, and translators across various industries, from internet and software to finance and retail. Its vision centers on making content adaptation for every market and language straightforward, allowing businesses to effortlessly overcome linguistic and cultural barriers. The company is committed to continuous innovation in modernizing localization processes for global enterprises.
Lokalise has raised $56.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Lokalise has raised $56.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Lokalise is a B2B SaaS localization platform that enables development, design, marketing, and localization teams to adapt digital content—like mobile apps, websites, software, games, and marketing materials—for multilingual audiences.[1][2][4][5] It serves agile tech teams at startups and Fortune 500 companies, solving the inefficiencies of traditional translation management by automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools (e.g., GitHub, Figma, GitLab), and combining human translation with AI orchestration that selects optimal engines like DeepL or GPT-4o based on context.[1][2][4] Lokalise drives growth momentum through expansions like AI-powered Language Quality Assurance (LQA), glossary enforcement, and long-form content support, achieving 97% CSAT, 80% cost savings for users, and #1 ease-of-use ranking while operating as a fully remote global company with 185 employees.[2][4]
Lokalise was founded in 2017 by Nick Ustinov (self-taught developer) and Petr Antropov in the Baltic region, initially as an internal tool rather than a planned localization platform.[1][4] The idea emerged from their frustration building a mobile app that hit over a million users across language regions; existing translation solutions were slow, lacked context, and demanded manual work, prompting Nick to create an automated, context-aware alternative.[4] Early traction came from sharing this tool with others, evolving it from a basic translation management system (TMS) into a comprehensive localization platform now used by global enterprises, marking it as one of the fastest-growing SaaS startups in the region.[1][4]
Lokalise rides the wave of globalization and AI-driven content adaptation, capitalizing on surging demand for multilingual digital products as companies expand into non-English markets amid e-commerce and app growth.[1][3][5] Its timing aligns with maturing LLMs and dev tools, transforming clunky TMS into seamless platforms that embed localization in CI/CD—critical as 75%+ of the world speaks non-English languages first.[2][6] Market forces like remote work, AI translation debates (AI augments but doesn't replace humans), and regulatory pushes for cultural accessibility favor Lokalise's enterprise-grade, developer-centric approach, influencing the ecosystem by setting standards for automated, high-quality localization that accelerates go-to-market for SaaS, gaming, and IoT firms.[1][4][7]
Lokalise is poised to dominate as the gold standard for intuitive, AI-enhanced localization, with expansions into long-form marketing/support content and more LLM integrations signaling aggressive growth toward deeper enterprise penetration.[1][6] Trends like multimodal AI, real-time OTA localization, and hyper-personalized global experiences will propel it, potentially evolving into a full content orchestration hub. As barriers to multilingual scaling dissolve, Lokalise's developer-first innovation—born from real pain—will amplify its influence, empowering more teams to conquer global markets effortlessly.[2][4]
Lokalise has raised $56.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Lokalise's investors include CRV, 3VC, Chloe Sladden, Earlybird Venture Capital, F-Prime Capital Partners, Frontline Ventures, Maven Ventures, NextView Ventures, OrbiMed, Otherwise Fund, Tiger Global Management, Tribe Capital.
Lokalise has raised $56.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $50.0M Series B in December 2021.