This could be a typical startup flywheel story: Mikus Krams and Janis Vavere joined a promising Latvian startup Lokalise, a platform which helps companies translate and localise websites, apps and marketing materials, as early employees. After a couple of years, they sold their shares, and with the money started their own company: Trace.Space, a tool that manages requirements for complex engineering projects.
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