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Nick Ustinov

Co-founder, Lokalise, Inc., named behind the Lokalise listing on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, Lokalise, Inc.

Nick Ustinov co-founded Lokalise, a localisation platform for translating apps and other software. He and Petr Antropov first built a mobile app that helped travellers avoid roaming fees, and as it passed a million users Ustinov, a self-taught developer, wrote an internal tool to automate its translation. That tool became Lokalise.

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What Nick builds

  • Lokalise BB · Translation

    Lokalise is a hosted translation management system for software strings, documents and marketing content. Agents reach it through a REST API, the lokalise2 CLI, SDKs in four languages and a hosted MCP server in beta.

    Co-founder, Lokalise, Inc., researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Backed by

CRV Creandum Dawn Capital Chalfen Ventures capital300 3VC S16VC Andrey Khusid, CEO of Miro Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-founder of Algolia) Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom Matt Robinson, CEO of Nested Rich Waldron, founder of Tray Alistair Russell, founder of Tray Dom Lewis, founder of Tray Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas Eugene Katz Stephane Kurgan Charlie Songhurst Daniel Dines Guillaume Cabane

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Who is Nick Ustinov?

Nick Ustinov co-founded Lokalise, a localisation platform for translating apps and other software. He and Petr Antropov first built a mobile app that helped travellers avoid roaming fees, and as it passed a million users Ustinov, a self-taught developer, wrote an internal tool to automate its translation. That tool became Lokalise.

What does Lokalise, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Lokalise from Lokalise, Inc.. Lokalise is a hosted translation management system for software strings, documents and marketing content. Agents reach it through a REST API, the lokalise2 CLI, SDKs in four languages and a hosted MCP server in beta.

Who has invested in Lokalise, Inc.?

The sources our research read name CRV, Creandum, Dawn Capital, Chalfen Ventures, capital300, 3VC, S16VC, Andrey Khusid, CEO of Miro, Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-founder of Algolia), Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom, Matt Robinson, CEO of Nested, Rich Waldron, founder of Tray, Alistair Russell, founder of Tray, Dom Lewis, founder of Tray, Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas, Eugene Katz, Stephane Kurgan, Charlie Songhurst, Daniel Dines and Guillaume Cabane.

How are Nick's tools graded?

Lokalise is graded BB, 71.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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