Private and public money has increasingly sought out the language and localization industries to the point that it is worth following what language-related stocks and private venture capital placements are doing. To keep competitive in this market, companies need money to grow. However, this development poses a double challenge to managers of localization firms as they now have to keep investors (and short-tempered analysts who make predictions on their stocks) as well as clients happy.

In this new quarterly column, which expresses solely the views of JFA, we have sought to list all public companies activities and those private placements that we were able to identify. If we have left something out it was not by design. The objective is not only to inform readers of what is going on but also to demonstrate some of the strategies used by the companies surveyed to gain a larger financial following. We encourage receiving press releases, earnings reports, and news of private placements or first and second round financing to be sent to us at the e-mail given at the end of this article.