Starschema Explained

Type:Private limited company
Industry:Professional services
Founded:2006 in Budapest, Hungary
Hq Location:Arlington, VA
Hq Location Country:United States
Revenue Year:2020
Num Employees Year:2020

Starschema Inc. is a global data services consultancy based in Arlington, VA with additional offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Szeged.

History

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.[1] In 2016, the Government of Hungary awarded Starschema the Grand Prix for Innovation in IT,[2] and the company opened its US headquarters in the following year[3] after a $5m investment by the Central European venture capital fund PortfoLion.[4] Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Starschema posted a revenue of $14.2m for the 2020 fiscal year.[5] On 14 January 2022, HCL Technologies announced an agreement to acquire Starschema for, subject to regulatory approvals from the Government of Hungary.[6] The acquisition was finalized on 6 April 2022.[7]

Services

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

Awards and recognition

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]

References

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  2. Web site: Elismerték a legjobb magyar fejlesztéseket. June 25, 2021. Világgazdaság. March 29, 2017 . hu.
  3. Web site: Amerikában terjeszkedik a magyar big data cég. June 25, 2021. Computerworld. hu.
  4. Web site: February 20, 2018. Groundbreaking Hungarian Data Company Starschema to Receive $5 Million Investment. June 25, 2021. Hungary Today. en.
  5. Web site: Folytatódott a Starschema növekedése. June 25, 2021. ProfitLine.hu. hu.
  6. News: HCL Technologies acquires Hungary's Starschema for $42.5 million. The Economic Times. 2022-01-27.
  7. As of today, Starschema is officially an HCL Technologies company . 1511766056745984006 . starschemaltd . Apr 8, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220408154230/https://twitter.com/starschemaltd/status/1511766056745984006 . 13 July 2023 . en . limited . live .
  8. Web site: Gyógyszeripari megrendelések tartják növekedési pályán a vezető magyar big data céget. June 25, 2021. ProfitLine.hu. hu.
  9. Web site: July 30, 2020. Élelmezési gondok: magyar big data cég segít a globális probléma megoldásában Forbes.hu. June 25, 2021. forbes.hu. hu.
  10. Web site: AWS Partner Solutions Finder. June 25, 2021. partners.amazonaws.com.
  11. Web site: Services. June 25, 2021. Starschema. en-US.
  12. Web site: Smith. Ian. March 1, 2019. The FT 1000: third annual list of Europe's fastest-growing companies. June 25, 2021. www.ft.com. en-GB.
  13. Web site: Deloitte: NNG shows how Hungarian startups can conquer the world – BBJ. June 25, 2021. BBJ.hu. en.
  14. Web site: Egyre csökken a munkavállalók lojalitása. June 25, 2021. www.origo.hu. hu.
  15. Web site: Big data's newest tool to fight malaria. June 25, 2021. Built In. en.
  16. Web site: Starschema launches COVID-19 dataset on Snowflake's Data Exchange. June 25, 2021. itbrief.co.nz. en.
  17. Web site: Starschema Brings Single Source of Truth for COVID-19 Incidence Data to Snowflake Data Exchange. June 25, 2021. Snowflake. en-US.