Company Profile / Innovation Outsourcing
The privately owned Latin American engineering firm that quietly builds the software behind banks, governments and Fortune 500s.
In 2003, in a Buenos Aires office far from Silicon Valley, engineer Valerio Adrian Anacleto started a company on a contrarian premise: that Latin America could build world-class software, not merely consume it. Twenty-three years later, Epidata employs more than 700 people - "Epidaters," as they are known internally - across roughly ten offices from Argentina to San Francisco, and its code runs inside some of the largest institutions in the Americas.
Epidata is a global, privately owned company that specializes in what it calls innovation outsourcing. In plain terms, it supplies the engineering muscle - and increasingly the strategy - that organizations need to design, modernize and run software. That spans custom software development, staff augmentation, DevOps, big data, machine learning, robotic process automation (RPA), software testing and enterprise integration.
The firm frames its purpose around a single discipline: software architecture and engineering. Where many services shops chase whatever framework is fashionable, Epidata's stated vision is to "achieve excellence in value generation through Software Architecture and Engineering" - a north star that has held steady while the tools underneath it changed generation by generation.
Its clients read like a directory of institutions that cannot afford software failure: JP Morgan, HSBC, Walmart, Telecom, Tenaris, Turner, Monsanto, Asana and Stanford Research Institute International, among others. These are enterprises and governments for whom "move fast and break things" is not an option - and that shapes how Epidata works.
Unlike the venture-backed startups it sometimes resembles, Epidata grew on its own capital, expanding market by market and, more recently, acquisition by acquisition. It is less a rocket ship than a compounding machine - a business built to last across two decades rather than one hype cycle.
"Committed to achieving project success together with our clients, creating and sharing knowledge, in a collaborative and professional environment."
— Epidata, company mission
Large enterprises and public-sector bodies that need to build or modernize software faster than they can hire for it.
Epidata absorbs the hard, unglamorous work of enterprise software:
Agile, R&D-driven outsourcing teams that design and build custom software end to end.
On-demand engineers embedded into client teams across architecture, dev, QA and DevOps.
Technical training and agile coaching to build capability inside enterprise teams.
ISTQB-certified QA and testing, added through the acquisition of Gestion IT.
Big data analytics, machine learning and robotic process automation for efficiency and insight.
MuleSoft-powered API management, cloud migration and application modernization.
Epidata organizes its work into practice areas rather than a single product. The relative weight below is indicative of the firm's public positioning across its portfolio.
Nearshore, not offshore. For North American clients, Epidata's Latin American teams work in overlapping time zones and a compatible business culture - a practical advantage over the traditional 12-hour-gap offshore model, and one that has redrawn the map of where enterprises source engineering talent.
Architecture-first. The firm anchors on engineering discipline rather than any single technology, which is why its through-line has survived from the Java era into the age of cloud-native systems and AI.
Partner-certified integration. Epidata is a Salesforce Cloud reseller and MuleSoft partner in the USA, a Datadog Gold Partner for Latin America, and works with Microsoft, UiPath, Red Hat, GitLab, Oracle and AWS. Its edge is making other vendors' platforms work together.
Self-funded and patient. Where rivals raised and burned, Epidata compounded. Growth has come from reinvested capital and targeted acquisitions rather than external venture rounds.
Epidata is a B2B services company. Revenue flows from four channels: project-based software development, staff augmentation, training, and the reselling and implementation of partner software licenses and cloud subscriptions. It is privately held, and third-party estimates put annual revenue in the region of US$30M (not company-confirmed).
In the crowded IT-services market, Epidata sits between boutique consultancies and the global outsourcing giants. It competes with regional players such as Globant, Baufest and Hexacta, and, on larger deals, with Accenture, Infosys and TCS - differentiating on nearshore proximity, architecture depth and a partner-certified integration stack.
Valerio Adrian Anacleto launches Epidata to deliver software architecture and engineering from Argentina.
The firm opens offices across Latin America, moving from local shop to regional player.
Epidata establishes a US presence in California to serve North American enterprise clients.
Epidata LLC becomes a MuleSoft partner in the United States, deepening its integration practice.
Adds ISTQB-certified testing/QA and enterprise architecture capabilities through strategic acquisitions.
Achieves Gold Partner status, strengthening its observability offering across the region.
Cloud reseller and USA integration partner for enterprise API management.
Cloud, the future of work, task automation and open-source project management.
Gold Partner for Latin America (2024) for observability and monitoring.
RPA with UiPath, plus Red Hat, GitLab, Oracle, MariaDB and AWS.
"Achieve excellence in value generation through Software Architecture and Engineering."
— Epidata, company vision
Epidata is an innovation-outsourcing technology company. It provides software development, staff augmentation, DevOps, big data, machine learning, RPA, software testing, integration and digital transformation services to enterprises and governments.
It is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with around ten offices across Latin America and the United States (San Francisco, California), delivering services in more than 30 countries.
Epidata was founded in 2003 by Valerio Adrian Anacleto, who serves as Founder and CEO.
Clients include large enterprises and governments such as JP Morgan, HSBC, Walmart, Telecom, Tenaris, Turner, Monsanto and Asana.
Epidata partners with MuleSoft/Salesforce, Microsoft, Datadog, UiPath, Red Hat, GitLab, Oracle, MariaDB and AWS, among others.