Company

Localize Direct AB is a Swedish software development and translation service company. Our clients are game developers and publishers. Our product LocDirect is a localization content and dependency management system as well as a collaboration tool involving all the stakeholders in the localization process. Localize Direct's mission is to provide our customers with the best solution to localize in-game assets. 

Management team

Christoffer Nilsson, CEO

Christoffer has over 20 years experience in the videogames industry and has managed the development of 20+ commercial video game projects. These games were localized into a variety of languages and Christoffer has first hand experience of the entire process both from a development as well as a publisher perspective. Previous experience includes founding and managing Atod, the first videogame development company in Sweden. Atod was successfully sold in 2002 to Warthog Plc one of the largest independent developers of videogames at the time. Christoffer also co-founded Keyfactor AB, a technology company with Mattias Wennerholm in 1998. Keyfactor AB was sold to Swedish stock-quoted company Netrevelation in 1999. Prior to founding Localize Direct, Christoffer set up and established a development studio for Eidos Plc, one of the world’s leading developers of entertainment software.  

Mattias Wennerholm, CTO

Mattias has 15 years experience in the software development business. Mattias has worked in many roles including senior software engineer, system architect, project manager and chief technical director. Mattias co-founded Keyfactor AB in 1998 with Christoffer Nilsson. At Keyfactor, Mattias designed and managed the development of an advanced platform and internet based transaction system for the transportation industry. In 1999 Keyfactor was sold to stock-quoted Swedish company Netrevelation. In 2002 Mattias joined up with Christoffer again and became development director of Warthog Sweden and managed the development of multimillion dollar video game Richard Burns Rally – hailed as the most realistic rally car simulation game ever created. In 2006 Mattias was in charge of game development at Eidos Studios Sweden. Mattias’s multidiscipline background and extensive experience in both business systems and video games makes him the perfect choice to drive and develop our technology.

 
Michael Souto, Business Development Director
With fifteen years Games Industry experience, ten years of which spent at Eidos and most recently at nDreams, Michael brings a wealth of internal and external development production experience to the LocalizeDirect team. Perfectly placed to appreciate Developer and Publisher issues during the localization phase, he is able to reinforce and promote our aim to streamline and de-stress the process. He has produced 18 titles resulting in 160 localized releases and is fully aware of the issues experienced first-hand. Michael will be responsible for developing working relationships with existing and prospective LocalizeDirect customers. He will also be responsible for developing strategies for attracting new clients, promoting service enhancements and will seek to expand LocalizeDirect’s market share. 
 

Investors

TeknoSeed is a leading venture capital firm in southern Sweden, with focus on high growth technology based start-ups. Since inception in 1997, TeknoSeed has made more than 30 investments in companies within the ICT, Life Science and Technology sectors.