What Pharmacy Stars does

Pharmacy Stars is a US-based, privately-held compliance education company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The company operates with 11-50 employees and serves pharmacy compliance professionals — specifically qualified evaluators responsible for sterile compounding operations assessment under USP <797> and <800> regulatory standards. Its target users include hospital pharmacists, compounding pharmacy managers, and compliance officers who require both hands-on competency training and continuing education credits for license maintenance.

The company's sole core product is Compounding360, positioned as "The World's #1 Choice for Cleanroom Compliance." Compounding360 is an educational platform rather than a proprietary software product; its core offering centers on live, hands-on training delivered in-person across functioning cleanrooms. The flagship format is the Compounding360 Studio Sessions Qualified Evaluator Workshop, which provides up to 8 ACPE-accredited continuing education credits. The company partners with Camino Compass as lead faculty to deliver instruction. The first workshop in Nashville (June 2026) trained 64 qualified evaluators across four cleanrooms.

Pharmacy Stars operates an event-driven go-to-market model. The flagship Qualified Evaluator Workshop is offered free of charge and consistently fills to capacity, indicating the company uses this as a demand-generation and brand-building channel. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed; the company is described as generating revenue through professional services delivery, likely via sponsorships, partnerships, and additional paid programs beyond the free workshop. The vertical is narrowly defined — pharmacy regulatory compliance training — with no evidence of adjacent product lines or broader market expansion.

Name

Pharmacy Stars

Website

https://pharmacystars.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pharmacy Stars is a US-based compliance education company that operates Compounding360, delivering hands-on cleanroom compliance training and ACPE-accredited continuing education to pharmacy professionals serving as qualified evaluators under USP <797> and <800> sterile compounding standards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pharmacy Compliance Education

NAICS

Pharmacies and Drug Retailers (456110), Technical and Trade Schools (61151)

SIC

Retail-Drug Stores And Proprietary Stores (5912)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy) (EDAAALAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

Keywords

• Pharmacy compliance training
• Cleanroom compliance education
• Sterile compounding training
• USP compliance programs
• Continuing pharmacy education

Headquarters

HQ city

Green Bay

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Educational Workshop Delivery: Pharmacy Stars generates revenue through hosting educational workshops and training sessions for pharmacy professionals. The Compounding360 Studio Sessions offer continuing education credits (up to 8 ACPE credits) to qualified evaluators. While the specific workshop mentioned was free, the company likely charges for other programs or derives value through sponsorships and partnerships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Pharmacy Stars delivers Compounding360, a cleanroom compliance education program for pharmacy professionals. The core offering is hands-on workshop training (Compounding360 Studio Sessions) that prepares qualified evaluators on USP <797> and <800> sterile compounding competency standards, awarding up to 8 ACPE continuing education credits per workshop.

Product overview

Pharmacy Stars offers a single core product, Compounding360, described as 'The World's #1 Choice for Cleanroom Compliance.' The platform focuses on sterile compounding competency training and compliance, providing workshops and educational programs for pharmacy professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained 64 qualified evaluators in a single workshop session with hands-on instruction across four functioning cleanrooms

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Camino CompasscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Camino Compass serves as the lead faculty for the first-ever Compounding360 Studio Sessions Qualified Evaluator Workshop. The partnership provides expert instructional capacity for training 64 qualified evaluators on sterile compounding competency standards under USP <797> and <800>, with hands-on instruction delivered across four functioning cleanrooms.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• CriticalPoint: CriticalPoint provides sterile and non-sterile compounding training and cleanroom compliance education for pharmacy professionals. It is the closest direct peer to Compounding360 in both content (USP <797>/<800> competency) and delivery format (hands-on training with virtual cleanroom simulations).
• LP3 Network: LP3 Network delivers compounding-focused continuing education for pharmacists, including sterile compounding and cleanroom compliance programs. It competes directly for ACPE-accredited CE hours among qualified evaluators and pharmacy managers.
• PharmCon: PharmCon is an established provider of ACPE-accredited continuing education for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, including compounding and compliance topics. It is a direct competitor for CE-credit-driven attendance and could easily expand into hands-on sterile compounding workshops.
• Power-Pak C.E. Power-Pak provides free ACPE-accredited continuing education to pharmacists and technicians across multiple therapeutic and regulatory topics. It is a comparable peer given shared reliance on ACPE accreditation as the value driver and a broad pharmacy professional audience.
• ProCE: ProCE provides ACPE-accredited CE programming and live pharmacy conferences across a broad set of clinical and regulatory topics. It is a direct peer in the ACPE-accredited pharmacy CE market and could expand into sterile compounding workshops to compete with Compounding360.

Broad incumbents

• ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists): ASHP is a large professional pharmacy association offering ACPE-accredited CE, sterile compounding guidelines, and certification programs. It is a broad incumbent with established relationships across hospital pharmacy systems and could scale hands-on compounding workshops within its existing platform.
• Spectrum Pharmacy Products: Spectrum Pharmacy Products supplies compounding ingredients, equipment, and training resources to compounding pharmacies. Its training arm is comparable to Compounding360 as a complementary offering for the same customer base, though it operates within a broader product portfolio.
• Fagron: Fagron is a global leader in pharmaceutical compounding supplies, education, and sterile compounding support. It is comparable to Pharmacy Stars as a broad incumbent that serves compounding pharmacies with both products and educational services in USP <797>/<800> compliance.

Emerging players

• ACA Compliance Group: ACA Compliance Group provides pharmacy regulatory and compliance consulting, including mock inspections and training. It is an emerging peer in the pharmacy compliance services space with overlapping customer segments but a consulting-led (rather than workshop-led) delivery model.

Others

• ACHC (Accreditation Commission for Health Care): ACHC is a healthcare accreditation body that defines standards and audits compounding pharmacies for USP compliance. It is thematically adjacent—Pharmacy Stars' qualified evaluator training supports the compliance readiness that ACHC audits validate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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