Our mission is to tear down language barriers
We believe that everyone should be able to access software in their native language. That is why we are so proud to be helping teams around the world to enter new markets more productively and successfully than ever before.
The story behind
“We should have the platform available in 4 weeks!”, our investor told us at the travel booking platform we were building. Then he added, "It must be available in 24 languages." Our team at the time was experienced in developing software for fast-growing startups, but this kind of pace in internationalization was rapid even for us. Our search for a product that could facilitate the localization of our software at this scale was fruitless. Finally, we decided to build an application to enable our translators to localize our web templates in-place while browsing our booking platform. The in-place editing instantly sped up our process and eventually became the foundation of our In-Context Editor.
We showed it to fellow developers and received lots of positive feedback, and they told us that they would love to use it in their projects. So, in late 2011 the idea to build a localization platform from the tools we had created blossomed into a prototype for Phrase.
A year later we had a growing number of customers, and we expanded the tool to become a platform, offering API clients, integration tools and workflow support for the complete localization process. Our objective became clear: We need to solve localization for software developers and strive for even simpler solutions for the typical tasks of localization managers and translators of software alike.
This is what we are here for and will continue to do: We constantly aim to eliminate unnecessary steps from localization processes and make software localization simpler in every way. Phrase is growing rapidly and now serves hundreds of businesses in over 60 countries.
60+countries
145+different languages
30k+Phrase users
260+million translated words
Success Stories
Learn how other companies use Phrase to build stronger relationships with their customers and change the way they do business.
Meet our awesome team
We believe that everyone should be able to use software in their native language.
Passionate about the power of communication, we partner with teams around the world to help them achieve their global goals.
Sönke Behrendt
Gamze Kaplan
Stefan Bruhns
Patrick Hampel
Justyna Piwowarska
Louis Jacobs
Wafaâ Jlaoui
Caroline Gruner
Dalibor Stajic
Kristina Reinhardt
Colin Witt
Stefan Greffenius
Felix Meese
David Ost
Janina Kölske
Nils Weigeldt
Henning Schlinkmann
Corinna Maier
Julia Pachal
Maximilian Schröder
Mustafa Cetin
Laure Salinas
Manuel Boy
Jakub Freisler
Kristof Kraemer
Finn Adomat
Stephan Schöning
Lisa Reisch
László Rózsás
Sven Dunemann
Rafał Lisowski
Ida-Anna Thiele
Moritz von Buchwaldt
Mansoor Khan
Til Fabel
Pierre Zenker
Nadine Steinert
Kathryn Ross
Aleks Maksimow
Jana-Marie Lecher
Björn Minkmar
Jannis Rhein
Szymon Dziewoński
Frederik Vollert
Mariana Tutlys
Tobias Schwab
Paul Baumgarten
Kai Stüß
Elizabeth Orwig
Wolfram Graetz
Work with us
Do you want to be part of a team that is unified by the passion to build something great that truly matters? Where you have space to unfold your creativity, bring your own talents to the table, and where you are welcomed as you are? Then reach out, find your place and join us!
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