Localazy
A Czech software localization company, launched in 2020 by Václav Hodek in Brno, that raised two independently reported funding rounds and expanded into the Polish market in 2024.
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- Established
- 2020
- Location
- Brno / Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Founded
- 2020
- Founder
- Václav Hodek
- Headquarters
- Brno area, Czech Republicstated by the subject
- Total funding reported
- Approximately €1 million across two rounds (2020, 2023)
Overview
Localazy is a Czech software localization and translation-management company founded by Václav Hodek, who had previously developed Floating Apps, an Android multitasking application that reached 7.5 million downloads (CzechCrunch). Hodek launched Localazy in March 2020 to address translation-management problems he had encountered with his earlier app; within its first month public, the platform secured seed investment from Prague-based Lighthouse Ventures, whose managing partner Michal Zálešák called it “a bet on a capable entrepreneur who has already achieved success previously” (CzechCrunch; Lupa.cz).
Funding
In June 2023, Forbes Czech Republic reported a further funding round of approximately €500,000, led by the Garage Angels group — including named investors Jiří Hlavenka and Karel Obluk — alongside 12Bullets, JIC Ventures and returning investor Lighthouse Ventures, based in Slavkov u Brna (Forbes Czech Republic). That brought the company’s total reported funding to nearly €1 million across two rounds, with the company describing itself as already profitable at the time.
Expansion
In April 2024, Localazy expanded into the Polish market. AIN reported a client roster spanning commercial and social-enterprise customers, including ROUVY, Scaleway, Plastic Bank, Donar Online and CARE (AIN); Tech.eu independently covered the same expansion but did not name specific clients (Tech.eu).
What this profile does not claim
No claim is made about the company’s marketed reach figures (“500 million” to “1 billion people impacted”), since these originate in the company’s own materials and are repeated uncritically across press coverage rather than independently verified. No claim is made about a reported partnership with UNICEF, since no independent confirmation of it was found. No industry award or formal recognition is stated, since none was independently confirmed.
Timeline
- 2020
- Václav Hodek, previously the developer of the Android app "Floating Apps" (7.5 million downloads), launches Localazy in March; the platform secures seed investment from Prague-based Lighthouse Ventures within its first month public.
- 2023
- Raises a further funding round of approximately €500,000 from Garage Angels, 12Bullets and JIC Ventures, alongside returning investor Lighthouse Ventures, bringing total funding to nearly €1 million.
- 2024
- Expands into the Polish market; AIN names clients including ROUVY, Scaleway, Plastic Bank, Donar Online and CARE, while Tech.eu independently covers the same expansion without naming specific clients.
What we could not verify
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- AIN states the 2023 funding round was "€1 million at a €4.5M valuation," while Forbes Czech Republic — the source this profile otherwise follows — gives the round's amount as approximately €500,000. This funding-amount conflict between two independently reported figures is not resolved here.
- Sources give slightly different founding years: contemporaneous 2020 press describes the platform as newly public, while a 2023 article describes the company as founded "four years" earlier, implying 2019. This profile uses 2020, the year supported by the earliest independent reporting.
- A reach figure ("500 million" to "1 billion people impacted") appears in company materials and is repeated uncritically across several press pieces; it is not independently verified and is not stated here.
- A reported customer relationship with UNICEF appears only in the company's own materials and is not independently confirmed; it is not stated here.
Sources
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Each source below was fetched and read against the claim it supports. A widely repeated marketing figure claiming the company's tools have "impacted 500 million to 1 billion people" originates in the company's own materials and is not independently verified; it is not repeated here. No independent confirmation of a reported partnership with UNICEF was found, so it is not stated here either.
- Even Hlavenka took interest: a startup from Brno raised a million-crown investment Supports: The 2023 funding round amount and investors, and the company's location in Slavkov u Brna.
- Everyone has the right to use mobile apps in their own language, believes Václav Hodek — his tool Localazy is raising tens of millions Supports: The founder's background, the platform's launch, and the 2020 seed investment from Lighthouse Ventures.
- Brno's Localazy raised tens of millions for automatic app translation Supports: Corroboration of the 2020 founding, Brno location, and funding.
- Localazy expands into Polish, CEE markets Supports: The 2024 Polish market expansion and named clients (ROUVY, Scaleway, Plastic Bank, Donar Online, CARE).
- Localazy brings its localised translation services to Polish brands Supports: Independent corroboration of the 2024 Polish expansion.
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