Wordbee was founded in 2008 by José Vega and Stephan Böhmig to provide a cloud-based collaborative workspace platform for the management of translation projects (TMS) and a CAT editor (Computer Assisted Translation) to those in travel and tourism, high tech, games localization, marketing agencies, and media corporations. The name of the company came from the linguistic element “word” combined with “bee,” which we chose because of how honeybees communicate with each other through signs, vibration, and signals.

The story of Vega and Böhmig was very much about being in the right place at the right time and making the most of the opportunity. They focused on translation software just when both personal computers and translation memory (TM) technology were coming of age and foresaw the role computers would soon play in translation. The market for TMS tools had existed since the 1990s and was dominated for a long time by a handful of companies, mainly in Europe.

One of the big challenges for Wordbee was to develop a strategy to convince their target clients to let go of their traditional vision of these tools, and to assure them that Wordbee’s innovative cloud solution would be a game changer for them.

Before long, small businesses as well as big enterprises entrusted Wordbee with their translation projects, benefiting from the latest technologies and a thriving team that has its clients’ best interest at heart and is constantly looking to improve the user experience.

Over the years, Wordbee’s translation management system has seen many improvements and new features, won various awards, and been implemented by hundreds of companies with more than 13,500 unique users all over the world. Here’s to 10 years of successful business, and many more that are yet to come!

Evolution of Wordbee over the past 10 years:

This timeline shows the main events which shaped our business.