Collabera

Collabera Inc
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation Technology
Founded1991[1]
HeadquartersBasking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Number of locations
60 +
ServicesIT Services, Enterprise Software
RevenueIncrease US$ 1.2 Billion (2021)[1]
Number of employees
16,000 +[2]
Websitewww.collabera.com

Collabera Inc is a company that provides information technology consulting.[3] Its North American headquarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, while the Asia Pacific headquarters is in Vadodara, Gujarat India.[4] Collabera is the largest privately held technology company in New Jersey, by revenue, with $525 million in revenue for 2015 and approximately 4,200 employees throughout their New Jersey offices.[1]

History

The company was founded in 1991 as Global Consultants, Inc. (GCI).[5] The company was purchased by Hiten Patel And Sham Patel in 1996, when it had $2 million in revenue. Collabera had $520 million in revenue in 2014.[6] In 2007, GCI began a series of company acquisitions, including IVL India (for SAP services),[7] Planet Asia,[8] and Blue Hammock (for strategic consulting).[9] In 2008, GCI changed its name to Collabera.[5][10]

In 2012, Collabera built a third development center (along with existing ones in Bangalore and Trivandrum) named "Collabera House" in Vadodara, India, with plans to open another in the country.[11] The following year, Raj Mamodia was appointed as CEO.[12] Then, in 2014, Collabera's IT services formed a subsidiary company Brillio, headed by Mamodia, and Hiten Patel resumed his previous role as CEO.[13][14]

On July 1, 2020, Karthik Krishnamurthy became CEO.[15]

On Aug 11,2022 Collabera has formed another subsidiary company Ascendion[16] and appointed a new CEO, Mike Fromhold, for its staffing arm, Collabera LLC.[17]

YouTube content moderation

The video sharing website YouTube has used Collabera as a contractor to hire content moderators, who review videos to determine if their content violates YouTube's content policies. A September 2020 lawsuit filed against YouTube included reports by a former Collabera employee who said that she was given little to no mental health training or support and made to sign an NDA before being shown examples of content that appears in the review queues. She reported being made to regularly exceed YouTube's stated limited of four hours per day of viewing graphic content.[18][19]

References

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  3. ^ "Company Overview of Collabera Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
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  5. ^ a b "Global Consultants, Inc. (GCI) is Now Collabera". PR Newswire. 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  6. ^ "After starting Collabera with his last dollar, Patel setting his sights on revenue milestone". PR Newswire. 2014-06-09. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  7. ^ "GCI Solutions buys IVL India". The Hindu. 2007-01-24. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
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  9. ^ "Company Overview of Blue Hammock, Inc". Bloomberg Business. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  10. ^ "Company Overview of Collabera Inc" (Press release). Bloomberg Business. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  11. ^ "Collabera eyes expansion in IT solutions". Business-standard.com. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  12. ^ "Collabera appoints Raj Mamodia as new CEO". indiatimes.com. 2013-10-04. Archived from the original on 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
  13. ^ "Hiten Patel explains Collabera's spinoff of Brillio". New York Business Journal. 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
  14. ^ "Collabera spins off next-gen tech business". The Times Of India. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  15. ^ "Collabera Names new CEO". SIA. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  16. ^ Ascendion. "Ascendion - A Software Engineering Ally for Digital Innovation - Launches". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  17. ^ LLC, Collabera. "Collabera, LLC Welcomes Mike Fromhold as New Chief Executive Officer". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  18. ^ Vincent, James (September 22, 2020). "Former YouTube content moderator sues the company after developing symptoms of PTSD". The Verge. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  19. ^ Elias, Jennifer (September 22, 2020). "Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in new lawsuit". CNBC. Retrieved October 11, 2020.