The company was founded by Itschak Friedman and Dinu Toiba in Israel in 1986, and developed and sold LIMS software.

[3] Friedman was CEO until the company was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2009 for $123 million; at that time the company had 160 employees and most of its operations and sales were in the US, the UK, and Hong Kong.

[1] By the time of the sale, STARLIMS was offered as a web application.

[4] Abbott intended to fold STARLIMS' products offerings into its other health information technology businesses in an effort to improve its clinical diagnostics business.

[7] In August 2023, it was announced STARLIMS had acquired the London-based R&D Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) platform, Labstep for an undisclosed amount.