Innehållsförteckning för November 2024 från Inc. Magazine

"These entrepreneurs aren’t just competing with the tech giants; they’re sharing the skills and knowledge they picked up while working inside.” Issie Lapowsky A journalist whose work has also appeared in Fast Company and The New York Times, Lapowsky reported on the new wave of startups created by those who lost jobs in recent tech layoffs (page 52). “All of these people had to explore who they were without those jobs and who they wanted to be,” she says. “These founders were handed a big career setback and tried to build something new.” João Canziani Canziani’s work as a photographer for titles like Esquire and Men’s Health has taken him around the world, but he enjoyed being in his home city of L.A. to photograph Spill CEO Alphonzo Terrell (cover…

A lesson many business owners learn the hard way is that chasing growth too early can compromise the quality of a product or service. It can also overwhelm a young company’s operations, with potentially disastrous results. So how do you scale a successful business that’s inherently difficult to scale? To answer this question, we turned to three founders whose business models don’t readily lend themselves to fast growth: Sarah LaFleur, founder of womenswear brand M.M.LaFleur; Ariela Safira, founder of mental health care company Zeera; and Christina Tosi, founder of bakery chain Milk Bar. All three of these founder-CEOs have faced unique challenges while trying to expand, from struggling with delegation to managing excess inventory to launching during the early days of Covid. Working through these issues has made them better…

"We made the choice early on not to name the brand after me because we wanted to make sure it could live on without me. That’s important for this new wave of influencer-driven brands to keep in mind. A lot of people think it’s taboo to say you started a company knowing you were eventually going to sell it, but I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. When you have investors, it’s their intention to have an exit. You can have that roadmap and still be passionate. If anything, it helped us reach our milestones faster. “We started conversations with our investment banker in late 2022. They pointed out things we never would have even thought of—like a trademark we hadn’t secured in Spain—to make it a…

SO YOU WANT to go to space. To take in the expansive curvature of the Earth glowing miles above the atmosphere, surrounded by pure darkness. To experience the mind-altering overview effect described by astronauts as a transcendent state of awe, staring back at the planet on which you’ve inhaled your every living breath. But for a civilian, traveling to space is an arduous journey. First, there’s the price. The known cost of an 11-minute flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is $1.25 million. Then, of course, there are physical demands. After months of training, you must be able to climb seven flights of stairs in 90 seconds. And liftoff is a shock to the body. The first two minutes are a vertical climb accelerating to more than 2,000 miles…

Alphonzo Ter rell had just returned home from Twitter’s Los Angeles office in November 2022 when he found himself suddenly locked out of Slack—the first sign that he and about half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees had been laid off. “It was like the scene in Avengers: Infinity War when Thanos goes like this,” Terrell says, snapping his fingers, “and people start evaporating into dust.” Not that the layoffs came as any big surprise. For the better part of a year, Terrell and his colleagues had followed every twist of the will-he-won’t-he drama surrounding billionaire Elon Musk’s attempts to take over the company. They watched as Musk made a play for Twitter, tried to back out, and then had his hand forced by the board. They learned more than they ever…

HOWDY, PARTNER As 2024 wraps up, you’re probably budgeting for the new year and taking a close look at every expense. Which investments paid off beautifully, and which SaaS licenses did your teams underuse? Which business partners are worth every penny? These are the questions we seek to answer through Inc.’s Power Partners program, our definitive ranking of the best vendors and suppliers for the small- and midsize-business market. It’s crucial for businesses like yours to find the right solutions as you meet today’s challenges and keep pace with industry trends, such as remote and hybrid workforce technology, cyber security, software solutions including AI, creative financing, digital presence and omnichannel retail, and methods of attracting a new generation of employees. That’s why we have worked diligently to uncover the best…

INTUIT QUICKBOOKS 1983 Mountain View, CA CEO: Sasan Goodarzi Company Size: 17,300 XERO 2006 Wellington, New Zealand CEO: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Company Size: 4,322 Company overview When you think of SMB financial software, you probably think of QuickBooks. With more than seven million global customers, the powerhouse platform, launched by Intuit co-founder Scott Cook in 1992, offers a range of features including payments, invoicing, employee time tracking, benefits, and payroll. “We do core accounting very well, but we’ve expanded beyond that,” says Joe Black, director of product for QuickBooks Online. “Our aim is primarily to help improve and automate a lot of the back-office functionality that a small business needs to do to free up the small-business owner’s time.” Founded in New Zealand in 2006, Xero (pronounced “zero”) has been…

"We built a custom project-budgeting and forecasting tool that integrates with our QuickBooks accounting system and provides our teams with real-time cost data and revenue projections on their construction projects.” "Docusign IAM, an AI-powered platform that helps businesses navigate the critical information hidden in their agreements for smarter decisions, faster work-flows, and greater efficiency.” “Tools that enable hybrid work. Our Bevi water machine, infrared sauna, Sonos setup, and Zoom rooms help ensure that in-office collaboration time is fun and worthwhile, while remote work vibes rely on G Suite and Slack.” “Financial Flywheel, an advanced reporting platform that enhances our team’s ability to deliver deeper insights, driving smarter decisions to fuel our clients’ growth and strategic goals.” “An AI-powered essay grader that gives immediate feedback and recommendations, providing students within one…

STEMREGEN.CO NO 1765 2024 Ranking 2016 Year Founded 2021 Launched in the U.S. 297% 3-Year Growth Nearly 30 years ago, when Christian Drapeau first shared his hypothesis that stem cells are the body’s repair system, and plant extracts can stimulate your stem cells, most of the medical community thought he was nuts. But Drapeau stayed the course and discovered existing, long overlooked scientific studies that supported his hunch. “A voice kept telling me, ‘Stick with it. It’s just a matter of time,’” he recalls. Eventually, the world caught up. Stemregen, the company Drapeau founded in 2016 to pioneer a plant-based approach to supporting stem cell function and cellular regeneration, after decades of studying the impact of plant extracts on stem cell stimulation, is a 2024 Inc. 5000 honoree. Steeped in…

DJBHOSPITALITY.COM NO3624 2024 Ranking 5X Inc. 5000 Honoree 131% 3-Year Growth 17 Locations Chat with Dennis Barbaro about his business, DJB Hospitality, and you will leave the discussion hungry, thirsty, and ready for a night on the town. Because Barbaro’s business is restaurants—and his passion is infectious. “I love the energy in a restaurant,” he explains. “And we don’t know why guests come in. It could be for a happy occasion. It could be for a sad occasion. It could just be because it’s a Wednesday. I love that for many people, going to a restaurant is escapism.” And Barbaro gets to curate that escape. A concept with legs 2024 marks DJB Hospitality’s fifth Inc. 5000 honor. A key to its success is a focus on people: guests and employees.…

GROUNDGAME.HEALTH NO447 2024 Ranking $20M+ Revenue in 2023 993% 3-Year Growth 145 Employees in 2023 When Susan Rawlings Molina and Sri Akula were looking to start up a company around 2020, they knew they wanted to combine Molina’s health care and Akula’s product and technology backgrounds. They found the perfect combination in an existing startup, GroundGame.Health. The company’s technology and services solution helped reduce emergency room visits by identifying and solving health plan members’ social needs locally. Some of the most common social needs included food, transportation, housing instability, and financial assistance. “And we were getting paid for it,” Molina says. GroundGame.Health brought in $1.5 million in revenue that year. In 2021, Molina joined as CEO and Akula as president, raising money to stabilize and grow the business. The hourglass…

AUTISMTHERAPYUSA.COM NO132 2024 Ranking 2607% 3-Year Growth 367 Employees $11M+ 2023 Revenue Derek Bullard, CEO of Already Autism Health, unwittingly followed in his mother’s footsteps when she left the banking industry to pursue her dream of becoming a foster parent for a child with special needs. Bullard wanted to be a “big brother” and help his parents care for their 15-year-old foster son, going so far as to receive official training. That action triggered far-reaching ripple effects. About a week after earning his license as a foster parent, Bullard received a call from a social worker asking if he would consider temporarily taking in a 14-year-old boy named James. That placement lasted four years and shifted Bullard’s entire career focus. From employee to entrepreneur The experience Bullard gained while serving…

CABINETRESTYLERS.COM NO2311 2024 Ranking 226% 3-Year Growth 60 Employees HQ Ashland, Ohio Based in Ashland, Ohio, Cabinet Restylers provides custom kitchen cabinetry to the remodeling industry across the United States. Along with earning a spot on this year’s Inc. 5000, the company ranked No. 56 on the magazine’s list of the fastest-growing businesses in the manufacturing industry. The family-owned business got its start in 1967 as a retail cabinet restyling provider but no longer sells directly to homeowners. Nevertheless, Eric Thiel, who took over as president 27 years ago, says: “We have the end user in mind every day.” Besides making sure everyone at Cabinet Restylers stays laser-focused on satisfying those who will have the products installed in their kitchens, Thiel points to another key reason for the company’s rapid…

ENGAGESTAR.COM NO1936 2024 Ranking 271% 3-Year Growth $52M 2023 Revenue 229 Employees When Mark Johnson founded STAR, a Minneapolis-based trade show company, in 1993, there wasn’t much outside-the-box thinking in his industry. Agencies would ask clients for the date of their trade show and the size and color of their booth, and that was about it. Johnson saw an opportunity to be different. People-first vision “We wanted to be the Nordstrom of the trade show industry,” says the company co-founder and CEO. “We wanted to have customer intimacy as our No. 1 business model, by asking our clients about their ideal customer, find out what made them different, and ultimately become an extension of our client’s marketing departments.” That vision has been central to its success. During the last 31…

• Scott MacGregor, founder of Madison, Connecticutbased talent strategy company Something New, is one of the best networkers I’ve ever met. But not in the way you might think. Nearly a decade ago, Scott and I chatted briefly before I spoke about my book How Will You Measure Your Life? at a conference he was attending. A few months later, Scott reached out: He had decided to leave his job as a chief revenue officer to start his own company—something partly inspired by my talk. I couldn’t help with his business, but we connected over the struggles and joys he would face as an entrepreneur. We’ve stayed in touch in the years since, periodically checking in as we navigate personal and professional challenges. Scott has had his share of both.…

I recently asked a group of Inc. 5000 CEOs which marketing channels were performing best this year in terms of sales conversion. I’m not exactly sure what answers I expected, but I would not have been shocked to hear about partnering with TikTok influencers, plowing budget into demandgeneration campaigns, or fine-tuning email newsletters. And some of those tactics certainly came up. But to my surprise, the most common answer was decidedly nondigital: the classic word-of-mouth referral. Natasha Miller, founder and CEO of Entire Productions, was one of the founders who told me her company has ben e fited from referrals this year. When we spoke, Miller was in a Lyft, having just returned to San Francisco from a 10-day vacation in Italy. Unlike many businesses, her events-production company is having…

Recently, I invited an experienced luxury hotelier to visit the new campus we were building near Santa Fe for Modern Elder Academy, the midlife wisdom school I co-founded in 2018. Looking out at the 2,566-acre site, he remarked, “You’re quite a risktaker.” He’s not wrong, but his tone was more cautionary than it was cheerleading. My entrepreneurial balloon of confidence popped. I went for a long walk after that meeting. “Could he be right?” I worried. “Am I a lunatic?” I had so much invested in growing the business, which to me is a calling. This new campus was supposed to show a U.S. proof of concept after the success of our Baja campus. Was it too much, too soon? Throughout my career, people have called me a risk-taker. They…

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made as a founder is misjudging my audience. From the moment my brand launched, I limited its growth potential. I started my business, Hugimals World, in the summer of 2022 because of my need for our anchor product: a substantially weighted, design-forward, machine washable, eminently huggable plush I could use to calm my racing mind as I tried to sleep. Though I had created Hugimals with input from therapists on what would help anxious adults like me, they were also suitable for kids, and I was intently aware that this was a line of stuffed animals, which are usually seen as toys for children. So upon debuting Hugimals at a specialty toy trade show, I marketed almost exclusively to families and children. This seemed…

Statement Bag Louis Vuitton Graceful PM, $1,760 “I knew I wanted to buy a nice purse for myself that I would feel proud to wear. When we hit our first milliondollar mark, I bought my first designer handbag—a Louis Vuitton.” Noelle McInerney, founder and CEO, Ladidadi Events & Incentives Indelible Ink Montblanc Meisterstück Classique, from $460 “When my brother and I first made the Inc. 5000, I bought us two Montblanc pens engraved with the year of the deal that landed us on the list.” Paul L. Gunn Jr., founder and CEO, KUOG Winning Watch Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M, $7,100 “I had my eyes on a luxury watch, a reward I promised myself once I hit $1 million in sales. Within a year, I’d surpassed my goal. I was…

VIRTRU 2012 Washington, DC CEO: John Ackerly Company Size: 158 John Ackerly was working on federal privacy legislation at the National Economic Council, a White House advisory group, when terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. “I saw firsthand the pain that happens when you can’t connect dots that should be connected,” says Ackerly, cofounder of encrypted email and secure file-sharing company Virtru. Meanwhile, the privacy protections for citizens’ data that he and his colleagues planned to lobby for legislation around went out the window with the passage of the Patriot Act. A few years later, John’s brother Will got a job as a cloudsecurity architect for the National Security Agency, devising ways to protect classified information. Through their government work, the Ackerlys became…

HUBSPOT 2006 Cambridge, MA CEO: Yamini Rangan Company Size: 7,829 HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM platform, which empowers teams to use customer data insights for the creation of targeted sales strategies and personalized marketing content, has earned the company thousands of clients and revenue of $2.17 billion in 2023. It also recently launched Breeze, a suite of AI tools. We asked HubSpot SVP Karen Ng how businesses can get the most out of every interaction. Q: What’s the most common mistake businesses make in trying to understand customers? A: The average company uses 15 different apps just to manage customer interactions, which is not only inefficient, but also often results in disconnected data. From the beginning, HubSpot made a big bet on small businesses by making complex technologies approachable. We’re big champions…

AWESTRUCK.AGENCY NO 121 2024 Ranking 2,811% 3-Year Growth $17.4M 2023 Annual Revenue 60 Employees Making its second consecutive appearance on the Inc. 5000, the destination marketing agency Awestruck has had a three-year growth rate close to 3,000 percent. Co-founders and co-CEOs Ryan Sprance and Dave Marcy, who have been friends for more than 25 years, say a big reason for that success has been their close alignment as business partners. They share the same business instincts but bring different experiences and skill sets to the table. Marcy has a more extensive history in advertising sales, while Sprance has a deeper background in corporate structure and operations. “We teach each other every day, which lends to the strength of this organization” Marcy says. “At the same time, we’re great friends, and…

COMPEO.IO NO17 2024 Ranking 10,915% 3-Year Growth HQ Dania, Florida 2017 Year Founded When COMPEO, a provider of cost-effective, customized HR management software platforms, entered the scene in 2017, most, if not all, of the professional employer organization (PEO) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions on the market were designed for people behind a desk, says COMPEO CEO and co-founder Oscar Montenegro. These solutions won’t work for the on-the-go business owner, specifically those in blue-collar industries, like contractors in construction. COMPEO’s proprietary underwriting platform and mobile app make it simple for business owners to obtain workers’ compensation and manage HR processes from the palm of their hand—a game changer when you’re jumping from job site to job site. By filling a need for a previously overlooked market, COMPEO has achieved astronomical scale, landing…

NORTHCROSSGROUP.COM NO1706 2024 Ranking 305% 3-Year Growth 50 Employees 3 Locations Christopher Bender takes pride in competing against the big consulting firms to help clients with compliance and growth efforts. As founder and president of the Northcross Group (NCG), a professional services and advisory company, “we try to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes” to determine what needs to happen for success. NCG works with companies in highly regulated environments, like banking, health care, transportation, manufacturing, and the federal government. They often help with mergers and acquisitions integrations or implementing compliance programs. “What makes us different is that we take a client-centric look at challenges for a complete solution perspective,” Bender says. “Others like to specialize in either programmatic steps, pure compliance, or tech.” With NCG’s model, the company avoids…

EMPIFY.COM NO652 2024 Ranking 712% 3-Year Growth 2017 Year Founded HQ Atlanta, Georgia Ashley M. Fox, founder of Empify—a fintech startup on a mission to revolutionize how adults and children learn how to build wealth—never wanted to run a business. She wanted to be “a profound African American woman on Wall Street.” After three Wall Street internships, she landed a job in asset management at a large investment bank, working with individuals with a net worth of $25 million or more. “I saw the ins and outs of how wealthy individuals built their wealth. I was inside the bank accounts of millionaires and billionaires every day,” Fox explains. The seeds that sprouted a new approach Fox soon found herself wanting to become the clients she served and to show the…

MAINELECTRICSUPPLY.COM NO4631 2024 Ranking 87% 3-Year Growth 621 Employees HQ Santa Ana, Calif. From 1946 to 1999, the year nowprincipal and CEO Scott Germann joined as a salesperson, Main Electric Supply Co. was a one-location supplier of electrical material to the construction industry. But Germann immediately saw that the business had greater potential. Within a year of being hired, Germann conducted an audit of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. He wrote up what he found and called his report, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Main,” sharing it companywide. This vision for what Main Electric could grow to become earned him a promotion to manager in 2000. Germann understood the assignment from the outset, starting with converting the operations from an outdated paperbased system to a…

ROYALTYSHIPS.COM NO3381 2024 Inc. 5000 Ranking 20 Employees 144% 3-Year Growth 2018 Year Founded Rachel Blatt had the seed of entrepreneurship planted at a very young age. Her father was the first employee at Compuware, a startup that later became a billion-dollar publicly traded company. After watching Compuware grow as she herself grew up, she also landed her first corporate job with the company. There, she began to learn the art of sales. When she stepped into the auto industry she incorporated her tech knowledge, becoming a top performer. Blatt had the opportunity to work for three different companies before deciding to do it better on her own. In 2018, she founded Royalty Logistics. “I fell in love with the industry, the customers, and saw tons of opportunity,” she says.…

THEWISERAGENCY.COM NO1686 2024 Ranking 308% 3-Year Growth 2X Inc. 5000 Honoree HQ Austin, Texas There’s a Reddit channel devoted to talking trash about Chris Wiser. People have posted that he is cocky or selling results that are too good to be true. But Wiser doesn’t mind. In fact, his company sells “Chris Wiser Sucks” T-shirts. “You get polarizing when you are dealing with an industry that has never changed,” he explains. Some IT services professionals cling to how things have always been done. Most are introverted and risk averse, Wiser says. That’s the opposite of his approach. His coaching program, 7 Figure MSP, a Wiser Agency brand, challenges entrepreneurs to think bigger, expand their mindset, and, ultimately, increase sales. A few of its clients earned their first Inc. 5000 win…

MARCELLANYC.COM NO577 2024 Ranking 780% 3-Year Growth 61 Employees 3X Inc. 5000 Honoree Leaving corporate America to bootstrap the women’s designer fashion brand Marcella, husband-and-wife duo Andy and Siyana Huszar quickly recognized that they would need to reimagine the entire fashion business model. Adopting a conventional approach couldn’t be profitable while still being ethical, sustainable, and socially impactful. As a result, Marcella rethought the fashion process from top to bottom, shrinking the time to market, minimizing textile waste, and boosting profitability, all the while advancing women and girls across the brand’s every aspect, says Siyana, co-founder and chief creative officer. Minimalist designer fashion with a mission Marcella’s distinctive “minimalism with an edge” clothing, shoes, and accessories are designed in New York City and handcrafted in Europe’s traditional textile hub, Bulgaria.…

BOYNECAPITAL.COM 2006 Year Founded ~$700M Assets Under Management 30 Employees 19 Portfolio Companies When Dr. Khan Nedd, founder of Infusion Associates, met representatives of Boyne Capital in 2018, he already knew he had tapped into a tremendous opportunity. The infusion treatment center’s first location in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was growing fast, and Nedd was focused on finding a partner to help take its services to more communities. It was a critical inflection point for the business. In just over five years following Boyne’s investment, Infusion Associates grew sales and earnings by five times, expandiwng from one to 14 locations in four states across the Midwest and becoming a major industry player. “Boyne Capital wasn’t just a partner—they were the missing piece we needed to reach our true potential,” Nedd says.…

Esther Dyson admits she grew up in “one of the world’s most bubbly bubbles,” surrounded by Nobel Prize winners in Princeton, New Jersey, where her father, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, worked for J. Robert Oppenheimer. But the 73-year-old Swissborn investor and futurist has spent her adult life following her interests in unexpected directions. That’s included working on Wall Street, immersing herself in the Eastern European startup scene after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and training to go to space; she’s now wrapping up work on the community health nonprofit Wellville, which she founded in 2014. Dyson, who has backed prominent companies such as Square and LinkedIn, affirms that her success isn’t a product of opportunity; it’s a consequence of curiosity. 1 SEEK SOLUTIONS, NOT A JOB TITLE People who…

Inc. 2024© On Tuesday, May 7, 2024, Steve Albini ended one long day of work by preparing for the next. The renowned audio engineer was recording the sixth album by a local Chicago band called FACS, which had booked an entire week at Albini’s Electrical Audio studios. When he opened the two-story brick recording complex in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood in 1997, Albini was 35 years old and already the most celebrated audio engineer of his generation. His fame was tied to a set of ideals that led him to reject the title “record producer” and many of the traditions that went with it. It was also inseparable from his having recorded three classic albums that helped define what what came to be called alternative music: the 1988 Pixies record Surfer…

SLACK 2014 San Francisco, CA CEO: Denise Dresser Company Size: 72,000 01 Focus on Outcomes Grace acknowledges that many hybrid team leaders fear not being able to see what their employees are working on. She advises bosses with such concerns to “focus on outcomes rather than timecards,” adding that as a manager herself, any worries she has about her team’s efficiency should be “my problem, not my employees’ problem.” 02 Use DMs Sparingly At Slack, Grace’s team mainly works out of project-specific channels, and tries to keep all nonpersonal communication out of DMs. While some of the best ideas come from informal one-on-one conversations, either in person or through direct mes sages, if these ideas aren’t brought into a central location, it can create confusion for the workers who weren’t…

CARROT FERTILITY 2016 Menlo Park, CA CEO: Tammy Sun Company Size: 450 Like millions of Americans who use employer-sponsored health care, Tammy Sun’s fertility treatments were not covered when she underwent three rounds of egg freezing about a decade ago. So, she left her job in tech and, in 2016, planted the seeds of Carrot Fertility, a benefits platform that works with employers and insurance com panies to provide employees with affordable access to egg freezing, in vitro fer tili zation, gender- affirming care, menopause support, and more. Today, Carrot works with more than 1,000 health plans and employers ranging in size from 100 employees to more than 70,000. “The workforce today is as diverse as it’s ever been, which includes age, sex ual orientation, and gender identity. There are varying needs…

CECILIANPARTNERS.COM NO1033 2024 Ranking 492% 3-Year Growth 2024 Inc. Best Workplaces Honoree 2019 Year Founded John Cecilian Jr.’s initial pitch to his brother-in-law and co-founder Philip Worland wasn’t in a boardroom–it was in the MetLife Stadium parking lot, during a family tailgate in 2017. The unlikely setting didn’t diminish the impact. Cecilian’s vision for a new venture was so compelling that Worland, who was then thriving in a client advisory and digital innovation role at Accenture, found himself at a coffee shop two years later, laying the groundwork for what would become Cecilian Partners. This Inc. 5000 honoree is now bridging the digital divide between homebuilders, community developers, and home buyers with a multi-patented technology platform. It starts with a vision Their first brainstorming session was electric. “We sat there…

LAUREL.AI NO700 2024 Ranking 35 Employees 679% 3-Year Growth HQ San Francisco, Calif. The business Ryan Alshak started up in 2018 began life as Time by Ping, the trailblazing creator of AI time software for professional service firms. Six years later, the company has raised $55 million in venture funding, undergone a complete platform rebuild, and rebranded to a new name. Now known as Laurel, the San Francisco-based company has clients that include a Big Four accounting firm and one of the world’s top five law firms. It has an average contract value of ~$200,000, with multiple contracts topping seven figures. Alshak’s inspiration for the business came when he was a corporate litigator who abhorred the manual logging of his time required for billing. “I was billing out $650 an…

CBSCLINIC.COM NO3309 2024 Ranking 144 Employees 8 Locations HQ Los Alamitos, Calif. When the doctors at Cancer and Blood Specialty Clinic founded their Los Angeles-area practice in 2009, they had a clear vision: to create a health care environment where patient care is the absolute priority. Drawing from diverse backgrounds—including large health care corporations and venture capital-funded entities—these physicians were united by a common goal: to establish a practice driven by compassion, excellence, and ethical integrity. Cancer and Blood Specialty Clinic is not just another health care group; it’s a physician-led team that operates with a flat organizational structure. This streamlined approach to decision making allows the group to remain agile, efficient, and deeply focused on what matters most— patient care. “Our flat structure means we can make decisions quickly…

THESCIENTIFICGROUP.COM NO406 2024 Ranking 210 Employees 1093% 3-Year Growth 10K+ Client Locations The Scientific Group stands out in the building services industry as a rare self-performing provider. The company is adept at delivering comprehensive solutions for commercial building management without relying on subcontractors. “A building is a living, breathing thing,” Jeffrey Kaufman, CEO of The Scientific Group explains, with a multitude of interconnected systems. When one system fails, it frequently impacts others. His firm’s unique approach addresses this complexity through a diverse portfolio of 12 in-house service providers handling nearly every aspect of building maintenance and management. Kaufman highlights how common building amenities like automatic doors, elevators, climate control, and clean carpeting are often taken for granted. The Scientific Group ensures these elements are always operational by offering a one-stop…

TACTACAM.COM NO352 2024 Ranking 1,244% 3-Year Growth 322 Employees 800K+ Customers The hunting community is close-knit, so in 2013 when husband-and-wife hunters Jeffand Tara Peel set out on a weekend trip in Wisconsin and met fellow hunter Ben Stern, they became fast friends. Stern had developed a new hunting camera to allow his aging grandfather to share the experience. Branded as Tactacam, the point-of-view camera could be mounted to a bow or rifle to record a video of the hunt, which could then be shared with his grandfather to allow him to see what Stern saw out in the woods. Stern gave one to the Peels to try; they were immediately impressed. A few months later when word got out that Stern wanted to sell Tactacam, the Peels proposed working…

MONTWAY.COM NO4643 2024 Ranking 86% 3-Year Growth 6X Inc. 5000 Honoree 100K Online Customer Reviews Thomas Gartland, chairman and CEO of the top-rated auto transport company Montway Auto Transport, makes being a six-time Inc. 5000 honoree sound almost simple. First, you develop a strategy and continually refine it. Next, you get the right people in the right jobs and execute together. “Inspect what you expect. Manage the execution. When I get up in the morning, I go through a whole set of KPI documents to understand ‘What happened yesterday?’” Gartland shares. While the approach is straightforward, every business owner knows the magic–and the challenge–lies in the execution. Montway’s focus on customer service, smart strategy refinements, and clever ideas for driving sales amount to yet another Inc. 5000 honor for the…

NO1106 2024 Ranking 463% 3-Year Growth 45 Employees 3 Locations LEGACYRETAIL.COM The largest retailers are only getting bigger and more complex. Each retailer’s approach is different and requires deep knowledge of their merchandising strategies and process. Legacy Retail has grown its business on this knowledge, landing a spot on the latest Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row. Founded in Rogers, Arkansas, near one of the most prolific retailers, Walmart, Legacy’s location has helped the company develop its capabilities and understand how to create value for its clients. The region’s retail ecosystem helped it attract cross-functional teammates including some of the most talented people working in retail. Offices in Issaquah, Washington, Costco’s home base, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, which boasts Target headquarters, helped the company grow its expertise…

CEDARGATE.COM NO427 2024 Software Ranking 116% 3-Year Growth 1036 Employees $124M 2024 Revenue Ever since David B. Snow Jr. launched his career in the 1980s, the veteran health care executive has wanted to fix what he viewed as a broken system. “I saw how perverse fee-for-service incentives were and how they contributed to poor clinical and financial outcomes,” says the chairman and CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies. Since then, Snow has advocated for a value-based health care system, which encourages proactive care to keep patients healthy versus the existing model, which focuses entirely on volume, without accountability for patient outcomes. In 2014, as health care shifted to a value-focused approach, Snow launched Cedar Gate Technologies. The Connecticutbased software platform offers health care analytics, care management, and payment technology. At the…