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  "markdown": "Founder, Memsource (now Phrase).\n\nDavid Čaněk founded Memsource in Prague in 2010, with Memsource Cloud launching publicly in early 2011. Memsource acquired the Hamburg localisation tool Phrase in 2021, and the two brands were unified under the Phrase name in 2022.\n\n## What David builds\n\n- [Phrase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phrase.md), graded B, 64.2/100, in Translation. Localisation platform from Phrase a.s. in Prague. Its Language AI API translates text and files through automatically selected machine translation engines, and its Strings and TMS APIs, CLI and hosted MCP server manage translation projects, term bases and translation memories. Founder, Memsource (now Phrase), researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [The Carlyle Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/the-carlyle-group/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is David Čaněk?\n\nDavid Čaněk founded Memsource in Prague in 2010, with Memsource Cloud launching publicly in early 2011. Memsource acquired the Hamburg localisation tool Phrase in 2021, and the two brands were unified under the Phrase name in 2022.\n\n### What does Phrase a.s. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Phrase from Phrase a.s.. Localisation platform from Phrase a.s. in Prague. Its Language AI API translates text and files through automatically selected machine translation engines, and its Strings and TMS APIs, CLI and hosted MCP server manage translation projects, term bases and translation memories.\n\n### Who has invested in Phrase a.s.?\n\nThe sources our research read name The Carlyle Group.\n\n### How are David's tools graded?\n\nPhrase is graded B, 64.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://phrase.com/\n- https://phrase.com/about/\n- https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memsource\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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