Starschema Inc. is a global data services consultancy based in Arlington, VA with additional offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Szeged.
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| Industry | Professional services |
| Founded | 2006 in Budapest, Hungary |
| Headquarters | Arlington, VA, United States |
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| Website | starschema |
Founded in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary, Starschema initially worked for the European market. By the early 2010s, the company counted a number of Fortune 500 companies among its clients, including General Electric, Apple Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. [2] In 2016, the Government of Hungary awarded Starschema the Grand Prix for Innovation in IT, [3] and the company opened its US headquarters in the following year [4] after a $5m investment by the Central European venture capital fund PortfoLion. [5] Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema posted a revenue of $14.2m for the 2020 fiscal year. [1] On 14 January 2022, HCL Technologies announced an agreement to acquire Starschema for US$42,500,000, subject to regulatory approvals from the Government of Hungary. [6] The acquisition was finalized on 6 April 2022. [7]
Starschema's customer base has in recent years shifted towards a greater emphasis on the healthcare and life sciences portfolio. [8] Alongside large multinational corporations, Starschema also serves a range of NGOs, such as the UN's World Food Programme. [9] The company's global network of partners includes Amazon Web Services, [10] Snowflake Inc. and Tableau Software. The company's main practice areas are
The Financial Times ranked Starschema among the 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe in 2019, [12] and the company was listed as one of the fifty fastest-growing technology companies in Central Europe by Deloitte. [13] In 2018, Aon Hewitt ranked Starschema as one of the best places to work in Hungary. [14]
Starschema's work in public health has been widely recognized, including the company's cooperation with PATH on malaria surveillance in Ethiopia, Zambia and Senegal. [15] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema partnered with Snowflake Inc. to provide a comprehensive COVID-19 data set through Snowflake's Data Exchange. [16] [17] [18]
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