Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i Inc. Magazine

It has not been easy, has it? This road toward birthing something and helping it grow and seeing it mature and succeed. That’s especially true these days, which, with each passing month, seem, disturbingly, less like a pandemic-induced anomaly and more like a way of life. And, yet, that did not stop you. You made it to the peak. You are a 2022 Inc. 5000 honoree. Congratulations, and salute, to BlockFi, the No. 1 company, to Kitrum, with offices in Ukraine, to the revolutionary SnapNurse, to Castillo Engineering, and to all the others in these pages or whom I’ve spoken to in the past months and the even more of you found on Inc.com. I know your struggle to get to this place, to the top 0.07 percent of all…

1 | MENTEE Trina Spear Co-founder and co-CEO, Figs 2 | MENTOR Meg Whitman Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard, eBay "WHEN YOU’RE running a fastgrowing business that’s actually turning a profit, a lot of people have useful but conflicting advice. Most of the time, it’s a lot of noise—but my mentor, Meg Whitman, cuts through it. One of Figs’ investors introduced Meg and I two years ago when we were getting ready to IPO, and we really hit it off. Meg comes from public businesses, where profits matter, so her perspective has been very useful now that we are public. Plus, she knows how to lead with integrity—and how to do it your way. When I approach Meg with some thing my co-founder, Heather Hasson, and I are grappling with, she will…

IF YOU THINK a recession is a good time to sleep on hiring, you need to wake up. Take it from Reid Hoffman, who started LinkedIn during the dot-com bust and grew it through the 2008 crash. Now, as the pandemic reshapes markets and another downturn looms, Hoffman, a 2011 Inc. 5000 honoree, returns to Inc. with advice on finding and retaining top talent. NO. 517 In 2011 How will hiring change in the next year? During volatile periods, many businesses mistakenly play defense instead of offense when it comes to hiring. But if you have the capital and revenue, now is the time to hire, because others aren’t doing that. That will put you in a really strong position in two to five years. The next decade? People will…

When the cybersecurity experts at Praetorian are trying to protect a client from online threats, they start by looking for weaknesses. By attempting to infiltrate companies’ digital footprints, they can evaluate the effectiveness the organization’s cybersecurity program. Once they succeed—which they do 99 percent of the time—they help companies rethink how to invest in people, processes, and technology to strengthen their cyber defenses. “We fundamentally understand what works, what does not, and why. Because we are them. Applying our offensive filter to defensive initiatives helps organizations prioritize their cybersecurity investments by efficacy,” says Founder and CEO Nathan Sportsman. Sportsman started Praetorian “to put a dent in the escalating cybersecurity problem.” If the need for digital security was substantial then, it is gargantuan now. During the last 14 years, the volume…

NO.1 BLOCKFI CEO: ZAC PRINCE CATEGORY: FINANCIAL SERVICES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 245,616% ANTICIPATION WAS BUBBLING for Collision, Toronto’s annual tech-veneration fest, and it seemed the perfect stage for young fintech star Flori Marquez, co-founder of BlockFi, who was expected to be one of this year’s headliners. It was the first in-person Collision in three years, during which time great leaps had been made in areas such as Web3, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cryptocurrency. Marquez filled the bill perfectly. The daughter of Argentinian immigrants, she had eschewed a traditional path to banking to dive into crypto finance, and the company she helped create in 2017 had become one of the cryptoverse’s comets. But days before the conference kickoff on June 20, her name suddenly disappeared from the program. That included…

NO. 658 BARBARAKARES CEO: JOSHUA FLOURNOY CATEGORY: HEALTH SERVICES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 958% Evalena “Barbara” Flournoy was none too pleased when her youngest sons, identical twins Joshua and Caleb, dropped out of college in 2007 to start their own company. But she supported their dreams, allowing them to move back home until they found success in the $126 billion home health care market with their company, Primecare. Then, the twins parted ways, and Joshua founded his own home care business, BarbaraKares, named after his mom. Today, the Milledgeville, Georgia, company provides home health care services to elderly and disabled customers across the state. But first, Joshua, 36, had to navigate the industry’s growing labor shortages. —AS TOLD TO REBECCA DECZYNSKI On the way home from college after our junior year…

NO.26 ATHLETIC BREWING COMPANY CEO: BILL SHUFELT CATEGORY: FOOD & BEVERAGES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 13,071% Bill Shufelt, 39, started his craft beer business in 2017 in a moribund segment of an otherwise booming industry: non-alcoholic brews. Shufelt bet that there were many nondrinkers like him who wanted lagers and IPAs that tasted better than water, and were fit for fancy dinners as well as the finish line. Since then, his Athletic Brewing Company, based in Stratford, Connecticut, has raised about $75 million from investors. Sales were nearly $37 million last year, and non-alcoholic brews, while still a small portion of the $109 billion global craft beer market, are its fastest-growing category. Before helping create that momentum, however, Shufelt encountered plenty of folks who found his idea for a product hard…

NO.393 US HYDROVAC CEO:KULDIP PANCHAL CATEGORY:CONSTRUCTION THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,521% Kuldip Panchal arrived at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2012, ready to study construction management. He’d emigrated with his family from India to Indiana, and grew up working the front desks, pulling overnight shifts, and doing construction at the motels his family had come to own. He watched his parents sweat and struggle, and resolved that, someday, he’d help his father run his renovation projects. But on his very first day on campus, Panchal received the worst kind of phone call: His father had fallen three stories off a hotel roof and sustained critical injuries; Mahesh Panchal died eight days later. Devastated, Kuldip took time off before returning to school, got his MBA, and looked for construction-related opportunities upon which…

NO.45 PARTAKE FOODS CEO: DENISE WOODARD THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 7,48 9% Denise Woodard’s parents didn’t go to college. Their advice for their daughter? Find job security. Woodard, 39, listened. She went to school and worked a series of corporate jobs at Philip Morris, FedEx, and Coca-Cola. Then, in 2015, she gave birth to her daughter, Vivienne, and on subsequent multiple trips to the emergency room, learned that her child was severely allergic to ingredients found in many foods. Stability be damned: In 2016, Woodard wrote her corporate exit plan and founded Partake Foods, a New York City-based maker of cookies, brownies, and baking mixes that are free from the nine ingredients responsible for more than 90 percent of food allergies. Woodard settled on baked goods because she wanted Vivienne to…

NO.461 PIEDMONT GLOBAL LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS • CEO: MOHAMED HUSSEIN CATEGORY: BUSINESS PRODUCTS & SERVICES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,353% As a first-generation Somali American and the oldest of eight kids who grew up in a packed household in Northern Virginia, Mohamed Hussein, 32, has been honing his skills as an interpreter and an entrepreneur since childhood. He and his siblings would respond in English to his parents’ Somali, and he was always running a hustle to earn pocket money. In his early 20s, he taught English and facilitated occasional livestock deals in Saudi Arabia, after which, in 2013, he founded PGLS (Piedmont Global Language Solutions), in Arlington, Virginia. The company, which recorded nearly $32.5 million in 2021 revenue, has 57 employees and provides translation, interpretation, and related services for those speaking…

NO.225 BEAR WALKER CEO: BEAR WALKER THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 2,357% Growing up on his builder father’s construction sites in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Bear Walker knew he wanted to work with his hands. His parents urged him to avoid manual labor, so he studied graphic design and print, but found the recession-era job market less than welcoming when he graduated in 2011. He worked a stint designing book covers for Amazon and another at an outfit where he carved signs out of unfinished wood. “Every day, my hands were getting so torn up,” he says. And that gave him an idea. Walker had gotten into skateboarding at college, and he realized that a carved design in rough wood could make for great traction, not unlike skateboard grip tape. “I wanted…

Inc. Best Workplaces Year Founded 2017 Number of Employees 42 Partners Merck KGaA (EMD Serono) Series B Funding About $70M Raised Unlearn probably spends more time thinking about culture than most early-stage startups, says Founder and CEO Charles K. Fisher. Since its founding in 2017, the company has assembled a team whose members care deeply about their work and each other, taking a scientific approach to everything they do. In April 2022, Unlearn closed $50 million in Series B funding to support its growth. Fisher says a strong culture played an outsized role in this success. A MISSION THAT UNITES Unlearn uses machine learning (ML) to to improve clinical trial timelines. Using ML models trained on historical patient data, Unlearn created TwinRCTs™, randomized clinical trials that require a smaller control…

With the backdrop of a worldwide pandemic, supply chain issues, the Great Resignation, and now rising inflation, running a company over the past three years—much less growing one—has been a daunting task. Which is why this year’s Inc. 5000 honorees just might be the most remarkable group we’ve seen. These founders have been resilient and innovative, driving their businesses forward and creating more jobs for their communities. Just consider that in the past three years, the 2022 Inc. 5000 companies added close to 1.2 million jobs. Beyond record-setting growth, the past year has seen a universal desire for a return to normalcy—and during that time, we at Inc. found ways to bring our communities together. We began with smaller gatherings at the end of 2021, and then in March unveiled…

Should your employees’ happiness be your top priority? That’s the question we look at in our new book, Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. We explore how the Inc. 5000 alum strove to keep his staff content with parties, generous wages, and a quirky office culture. But, as we show, the search for more joy often makes people lonelier, so the best parts of Happy teach leaders that real satisfaction comes from focusing on more impactful ideals—like commitment, courage, and well-being. Read more at inc.com/happy-at-any-cost.…

WHEN NICK WERNIMONT asked VC Mike Apostal to join his meal-delivery company in 2015, Apostal was excited. He saw real potential in Factor 75, now known as four—time Inc. 5000 honoree Factor. The Chicago-based business was bringing in only $500,000 in annual sales, but after engaging in some due diligence, Apostal agreed to invest and assume the role of COO. He knew he’d be facing a challenge. What he didn’t expect was the size of the challenge—or the tragedy—that lay on the road ahead. NO. 715 In 2020 2019: No. 447 2018: No. 264 2017: No. 133…

CELESTE BEATTY DIDN’T set out to be the first Black woman in the United States to own a brewery. It just happened that way. After years of homebrewing in her New York City apartment, Beatty founded Harlem Brewing Company in 2000. But while that represented progress, growing the brand hasn’t been easy. Since Harlem Brewing launched its first beer, Sugar Hill Golden Ale, competition in the U.S. craft beer industry has exploded, with the number of domestic breweries growing from around 1,500 to more than 9,000. Beatty’s company remains a small operation, with distribution only in New York, Virginia, and North Carolina. Still, Anheuser-Busch saw enough value in the brand to make an acquisition offer in 2006, which Beatty declined. She currently has no plans to sell the business. Indeed,…

THEY DON’T FOLLOW THE RULES. THEY DON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER. THEY PUSH HARDER WHEN EVERYONE ELSE QUITS. AND THEY ARE AMERICA’S MOST DILIGENT JOB CREATORS. MEET THE CEOS RUNNING THE FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES IN THE U.S. THIS IS HOW THEY GOT HERE.—LINDSAY BLAKELY 43% OF INC. 5000 CEOS STARTED THEIR BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THEY COULD MAKE THEIR IDEAS HAPPEN. 35% WANTED TO LEAD THEIR OWN COMPANIES. “I NEVER SAW WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE AS A CHOICE. I NEVER CONSIDERED ANY OTHER LIFESTYLE.”—Benjamin Grossman, Pinpoint Payments “The reason I started the business was for personal freedom. I wanted to make enough money so that I could manage my life on my terms. Bringing on a partner means that I have to answer to someone, and that is the opposite…

NO.605 BIOLYTE CEO: JESSLYN ROLLINS CATEGORY: FOOD & BEVERAGES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,052% In 2012, to help her mother through chemotherapy, Jesslyn Rollins’s father began developing a hydration drink meant to work like an over-the-counter IV. Now, 10 years later, Biolyte, of Marietta, Georgia, is booming, having booked nearly $17 million in sales in 2021. It’s well poised to keep growing, too: The global electrolyte drinks market is projected to reach $56 billion by 2030, up from $33 billion in 2020, according to Allied Market Research. Here’s how Rollins, 30, went from selling out of the back of her car to landing major retail deals across the country. —AS TOLD TO BRIT MORSE My mom learned she had breast cancer in 2005. As she was going through her chemo treatments,…

NO.553 BOUNDLESS IMMIGRATION • CEO: XIAO WANG CATEGORY: LEGAL THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,131% Xiao Wang, 36, was working as a senior product manager at Amazon Go when he met someone who had spent more than $10,000 on an immigration attorney for a green card application. It reminded him of the story of his own family, who’d spent nearly five months’ worth of rent money on attorney fees after immigrating to the U.S. from China when Wang was a child. To address such nightmarish predicaments, in 2017 Wang founded Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based technology company that helps people complete their application for citizenship via its online platform. Now a prime online resource for immigration information as well, the company has raised $45 million in funding, and last year it recorded revenue…

ADVERTISING & MARKETING Includes traditional advertising agencies and public relations firms, as well as SEO specialists, data-analysis experts, and developers of online marketing platforms. Number of companies 35 | Total revenue $539.6M | Median revenue $6.6M | Median growth rate 2,536% | Total employment 1,952 AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES Pertains to companies engaged in farming, horticulture, forestry, and fishing, as well as agtech. Number of companies 1 | Total revenue $48.9M | Median revenue $48.9M | Median growth rate 14,708% | Total employment 25 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Companies that provide services and platforms to support artists in the music and entertainment industries. Number of companies 2 | Total revenue $48.3M | Median revenue $24.1M | Median growth rate 3,262% | Total employment 339 AUTOMOTIVE Companies that provide everything from maintenance…

Phil Dumontet DASHED: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 WHOLE SOL BLEND BAR: 2022 Phil Dumontet started Dashed right after he graduated from Boston College in 2009. It was a few years before on-demand delivery would become ubiquitous, and the idea of food from all kinds of restaurants showing up at your front door—fast—was a novelty in most cities. “From day one,” he recalls, “we said we needed to deliver faster than anyone else.” The Boston-based company expanded to nine cities and had amassed an army of 2,000 drivers before Dumontet sold it to Grubhub in 2017 for an undisclosed sum. • But he wasn’t done. The following year, Dumontet and his nutritionist wife, Alexa Squillaro, founded Whole Sol Blend Bar, a Denver-based chain of smoothie-bowl restaurants. • Today, Dumontet thinks…

Inc. Best Workplaces Inc. BWP Winner 3x Inc. 5000 Honoree 8x Workforce 110 Employees All-Time Net Promoter Score +92 “Building a company is incredibly hard,” “says Nathan Sportsman, founder and CEO of Praetorian, a leading cyber-security company. Entrepreneurs have their greatest shot at success, though, when they rally people around a common pursuit that is meaningful to all involved. “Do what you love, do it well, and make enough money to keep doing one and two,” he advises. Sportsman is lucky enough to “skip to work” to a team that shares his ardor. Vision, mission, and values have been Praetorian’s north star since the beginning. A VALUES SYSTEM BROUGHT TO LIFE The company’s mission is to keep the world safe and secure as society’s dependence on the internet grows. One…

Inc. Best Workplaces 2-Year Work-force Growth 100% Number of Employees 300+ Remotely Employees 50% Number of Clients 4,000+ With job openings outnumbering available candidates by two-to-one, recruiting and retaining the best and brightest employees has never been more difficult, especially in the technology sector. Generous health and welfare benefits and the additional perks tech companies famously provide are just table stakes now. Winning in the talent wars requires something more. For Ncontracts, a Nashville, Tennessee-based provider of integrated risk management and compliance software, workplace culture is its formula for success. “Our workplace culture is often the number-one factor behind our success in recruitment and retention,” says Cathy Guthrie, the company’s executive vice president of human resources. Not only does it attract top candidates, but it also makes current employees want…

Inc. Best Workplaces Year Founded 1998 Number of Employees 300 Number of Clients 75 Remote Workers 70% Focusing on emerging technologies, Pramod Sajja, CEO of Paramount Software Solutions, isn’t afraid of reinvention or disruption-even when it’s internal. While the pandemic changed operations at most companies, Sajja says it reshaped his Alpharetta, GA, based software development and information technology (IT) firm, shifting its vision to three concepts: rethink, reinvent, give back. First, the company started rethinking how everyone works. In tech, it’s common for employees to work long hours to complete projects. Instead, Sajja incorporated practices like flexible hours, enhanced leave policies, and mindfulness training that improve work-life balance. The company also holds family days, inviting employees and their children to video conferences. “We recently provided a platform for moms and…

EXPERT ADVICE FROM THE ELITE FOUNDERS OF THE INC. 5000 Inc.5000 NO. 854 In 2022 2021: No. 215 2020: No. 362 YOU DON’T RIP OFF a man’s gi. It’s just common decency. Which is why, when Pete Roberts, a former world-class Brazilian jujitsu competitor, discovered that his overseas vendor was copying his company’s martial arts apparel, he went for a take-down—of sorts. The founder of Origin grabbed a chain saw and, in a fit of rage, began felling pine trees to build his own factory. Roberts had grown up watching American manufacturing—and dependent communities—crumble, and he wanted to fight back. He found a few scrapped L.L. Bean sewing machines, an abandoned loom in Lewiston, Maine, and one of five remaining “old-timers” who knew how to run it. Over the next…

FOR MANY YEARS, WT Stevens supplemented his Detroit autoworker income with a small construction business. But there was nothing small about his impact on the people of Flint, Michigan. When Stevens, a father of eight, died in February 2002, his daughter Rhonda Grayer realized that the “nice, nonconfrontational guy” she had known had another side. “I was just amazed at his funeral, how many people’s lives he’d i mpacted,” she says. Many mourners told Grayer that her dad had trained them for free, given them a chance when nobody else would, and in some cases inspired them to start their own businesses. Those stories changed Grayer’s life: To carry on her father’s legacy, she registered his side business as a corporation, launching WT Stevens Construction in April 2002. By 2019,…

NO. 762 In 2018 ALEX AND MIKE Faherty didn’t snag the No. 762 spot on the Inc. 5000 back in 2018 without a fair amount of sweat. No, really—the founders of the eponymous vintage surf apparel brand, both former college athletes, say that the secret to their success is exercise. And they don’t just mean surfing: Back in 2018, the Fahertys befriended Hector Guadalupe, who, after spending 10 years in prison, launched a nonprofit, A Second U Foundation, which trains formerly incarcerated folks to be personal trainers and provides business mentorship. The brothers joined the organization’s board and began working out in person with A Second U trainers that year. When the pandemic shut gyms down, Guadalupe was quick to launch remote classes, and the Fahertys saw this as an…

Some people find themselves with a little time on their hands and start a hobby. A retired former tech executive, Joel Kocher decided to work with some of the foremost experts in medicine, physiology, and nutrition to bring innovation to human health. Kocher is the co-founder and CEO of nutrition and life sciences company Humann, which develops plant-based supplements that support cardiovascular, metabolic, and brain health, among other functions. The company is the force behind bestsellers like SuperBeets and Neo40 supplements. Such products have driven the growth that secured Humann’s spot on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies an impressive eight consecutive times. Of course, Kocher is no stranger to fast growth. He was Michael Dell’s second-in-command during Dell Computers’ ascent to a top technology brand. There,…

NO.450 MARKET WAGON CEO: NICK CARTER CATEGORY: THREE-YEAR FOOD & BEVERAGE REVENUE GROWTH: 1,385% A fourth-generation Indiana farm kid, Nick Carter, 39, grew up expecting to join the family business. But by the time he was in high school in the late 1990s, he knew that was not a viable option. The farm crisis of the previous decade had ravaged the Midwest, and while the Carters dodged foreclosure, the collapse of hog prices drove the family out of farming as a commercial enterprise. Instead, Nick went to college. Twenty years later, in 2017, he co-founded Market Wagon in Indianapolis to help small farms survive by selling directly to local consumers online. Now the Carters’ hogs have returned, and the family farm is back in business—without the reliance on a contract…

NO.2 SNAPNURSE FOUNDER: CHERIE KLOSS CATEGORY: HEALTH SERVICES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 146,319% WHEN SHE WAS 15 years old—decades before she would go on to revolutionize health care staffing—SnapNurse founder Cherie Kloss was emancipated from her family. Her mother was suffering from acute mental illness and had to leave the home to get care. Her parents divorced. Then her father, a Korean immigrant, decided he needed to return to Seoul to pursue a job opportunity. Cherie, who was on the Venice High School swim team and content being a 1980s Southern California kid, declined to go with him. “If you don’t leave with me, you’re on your own,” her father told her. “OK,” she said. “I’ll be alone.” Even though her family had been “super poor” before it broke apart (“inner…

NO.193 SIONO • CEO: ANDY HILL CATEGORY: HUMAN RESOURCES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 2,747% Andy Hill went on vacation in Cuba in 2018, and while the beaches were great, he’s not one to lounge. Instead, Hill went around saying “¡Hola!” and—with the help of a friend who actually speaks Spanish—peppering locals with questions about business opportunities. He is, after all, a guy who has founded 12 companies since his college days. (He also runs those startups while holding down a day job as chief revenue officer for City Furniture, a nearly $1 billion company near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.) All of which explains why, after he kept hearing “software engineering” in Cuba, Hill launched a firm to staff U.S. companies with Latin American software engineers. He named it Siono, riffing on a…

MARC NOLAN NO.222 CEO: SEBASTIAN MALCZEWSKI THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 2,39 0% In 2005, Sebastian Malczewski stumbled on a mom-and-pop men’s shoe store in the old industrial neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Stunned by the merchandise— “showstoppers,” he says, “with a bolder vibe” that spoke to the lifelong love of fashion instilled in him by his grandmother—he got to talking with the owner, Marc Wilczewski, like him a Polish immigrant. A mentorship of sorts followed. Malczewski worked for Wilczewski for the next 12 years, absorbing all he could about running a small business, from day-to-day operations to finding the best manufacturers in China. In 2018, eager to parlay those skills into an e-commerce business, Malczewski set up in Chicago and founded men’s footwear brand Marc Nolan, named for his mentor and his…

NO.297 FELTMAN’S OF CONEY ISLAND • CEO: JOE QUINN CATEGORY: FOOD & BEVERAGES THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,909% Mike, Jimmy, and Joe Quinn spent their childhood summers on the boardwalk of Coney Island in Brooklyn, where their grandfather, then in his 80s, would start to eat a hot dog and then spit it out and complain, “This isn’t how Feltman used to make it.” Charles Feltman, a German immigrant who started with a pie cart on Coney Island, had invented the hot dog back in 1867, and the brothers longed to revive the brand to honor that legacy—and their grandfather. Decades later, the resulting company, Feltman’s of Coney Island, would go head-to-head with one of the giants of the $19 billion U.S. hot dog and sausage market. But with Joe, 42,…

NO.715 DRAGON GLASSWARE CEO: MATT ROLLENS THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 882% When Matt Rollens received the glass tea bottle he ordered from Amazon in 2016, he was so disappointed with its quality that he decided to make a better one himself. A former exec at a small ad agency, Rollens had never designed a physical product. But he’d always wanted to start his own business. Soon he’d be doing both. In 2017, working with manufacturers in China, Rollens, 36, founded Sacramento-based Dragon Glassware. Though he started by developing his own tea bottle (double-walled, for either hot or cold brews), he wondered what else could be done with glass. Then he spotted a gap in the specialty drinkware market: No one was making bold, modern barware that stood out on store shelves.…

6sense reinvents the way business-to-business (B2B) organizations create, manage, and convert pipeline to revenue. 6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets right accounts at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction, and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer success teams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably. Cowbell is signaling a new era in cyber insurance. By harnessing technology and data, we provide small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) with advanced warning of cyber risk exposures bundled with cyber insurance coverage adaptable to the threats of today and tomorrow. This unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, which includes Cowbell’s continuous underwriting platform powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the…

Inc. Best Workplaces Year Founded 2000 Number of Employees 1,700 User Community 100,000+ Number of Clients 20,000+ Boomi’s philosophy is simple: hire good humans and provide them with the best possible employee experience, then foster connections between them. That approach has helped Boomi become a leading global software as a service (SaaS) company known for intelligently connecting data, applications, systems, and processes. Boomi’s approach to its team members also made the company an Inc. Best Workplaces honoree in 2022, its second such designation in four years. Boomi staff members continually improve and innovate on the company’s integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering, which has fueled the growth that secured the company a spot on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. “Boomi people lead through relationships,” says…