UK competitor to Zoom and Microsoft Teams posts strongest financial result ever in the year of the pandemic
– StarLeaf sees video conferencing, calling, and chatting revenue growth of 60% in the first half of 2020.
– In the third quarter of 2020, StarLeaf made 12.8 million calls – nearly quadrupling from last year.
– Sam Jansen will be named Chief Technology Officer, while Co-Founder William MacDonald will serve as Chief Strategy Officer.
UK-based video conferencing provider StarLeaf announced today that its half-year revenue grew 13% to $ 15.1 million in the first half of 2020. This is due to a 357% increase in call minutes compared to the previous year.
The security-focused competitor of Zoom and Microsoft Teams]]], which mainly works with larger companies, benefited from the rise of teleworking from the spring. Notably, the total call minutes increased 357% year over year, while the total number of calls made through StarLeaf increased to 12.8 million in the third quarter – an increase of 379% year over year.
Mark Richer, CEO and Co-Founder of StarLeaf said: “It has been an exceptional year in which the StarLeaf team have worked tirelessly to help our new and old customers migrate to teleworking with minimal effort and great efficiency. In particular, we have been honored to help over 100 [[[NHS]]] customers take full advantage of video solutions in the most difficult of circumstances so that important clinics, appointments and meetings could be upheld. „
“This year’s growth enabled us to invest heavily in our product range and expand the functionality for video conferencing, messaging and calls in the office-to-office, home-to-home and office-to-home areas. We will continue to hire and expand globally as more and more companies and organizations turn to StarLeaf for a reliable, secure, high quality video conferencing solution. „
StarLeaf has hired 59 additional employees worldwide – 40 of them at the company’s headquarters in Watford. StarLeaf also announced today that [[[Sam Jansen]]], StarLeaf’s Director of Engineering, has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer with immediate effect. Sam is taking over from [[[William MacDonald]]], a co-founder of StarLeaf, who is named Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).
[[[Sam]]] has been with StarLeaf for over ten years and is a founding member of the development team. Prior to joining StarLeaf, Sam worked at Intel, Google and Barclays after starting his academic career in his native New Zealand.
[[[William MacDonald]]], Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of StarLeaf commented, “[[[Sam]]] is one of our longest-serving employees and joined us over a decade ago as a founding member of the development team. He is passionate about maintaining our values in the areas of high security and user-friendliness, which he and his team achieve through outstanding development work. As Chief Strategy Officer, I will spend more time thinking about how StarLeaf can best serve its customers going forward. I will be doing this with our CEO and my co-founder [[[Mark Richer]]] as we try to build on a year of transformation for StarLeaf. „
Over the course of the pandemic, StarLeaf has significantly enhanced its offering in 2020:
– At the start of the pandemic in March, StarLeaf made a free version of its conferencing software available to ensure business continuity for companies around the world that had to migrate to telecommuting.
– StarLeaf released [[[StarLeaf Room for Poly]]] in September – Poly’s new line of video conference room systems now supports StarLeaf software by default.
– StarLeaf was recognized as a visionary for conferencing solutions in the [[[Gartner]]] 2020 Magic Quadrant.
– StarLeaf launched [[[StarLeaf Huddle]]] in February – Huddle is an all-in-one video conferencing room system solution designed to provide the best user experience for video conferencing in smaller rooms.
Earlier this month, StarLeaf announced that over 100 [[[NHS]]] organizations across the UK are using StarLeaf video conferencing and chat solutions to connect both internal and external teams to ensure medical appointments, Training and recruiting take place. Ensuring the ability to host 11,181 scheduled [[[NHS]]] meetings daily, StarLeaf has played a key role in helping [[[NHS]]] move to virtual solutions during the pandemic, with over 50,000 medical professionals are registered in these 100 trusts.
In addition, StarLeaf has gained new customers not only in the corporate sector, but also in local and national government, education and legal sectors.
StarLeaf’s recent success with businesses and healthcare providers is due to the reliability, safety and high audio / video quality of the product range. StarLeaf has a 99.9999% uptime guarantee, while other vendors have suffered outages in the past few months. StarLeaf is one of the few video conferencing providers to have [[[ISO / IEC 27001]]] certification – the most respected standard in information security and compliance.
StarLeaf also offers a data sovereignty guarantee – customers can be sure that their data remains under their control and is processed in accordance with the data protection regulations of their own region.