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December 14, 2021

Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation

Investors are betting on the rise of multilingual-by-default and hyper localised content, and the software that can make that happen


Kit Gillet

4 min read

Lokalise cofounders Petr Antropov and Nick Ustinov

Could we be looking at a not-to-distant future where all websites and apps are available in almost any language, at the drop of a hat, localised to different currencies and other features? That’s the bet some are making.

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