Their off-the-charts growth rates are delivering an outsize impact on their regional economies.
Inc. Regionals 2024
Inc. Regionals honors the fastest-growing privately held companies by region over a two-year period. These are emerging companies. Research shows these firms also tend to be the biggest job creators in America. Their growth, by extension, often makes them disrupters. They’re formidable--and they have a lot of wisdom to share.
Here's the exact process behind ranking the fastest-growing private U.S. companies by region. Inc. today revealed the 2024 Inc. Regionals, our rankings of the fastest-growing U.S. companies over two years in a particular region: Pacific, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, …
Wildwonder founder and CEO Rosa Li kept Shark Tank waiting while she built a redundant supply chain. The company is nearly profitable, earning $10 million in revenue. Long hours of working in finance had taken a toll on Rosa Li's health, and she decided that the thing to do was reboot her gut. She …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
Pair Eyewear co-founders Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri patented a design that allows users to switch frames every day. Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri, both 29, co-founded Pair Eyewear in 2018, fresh out of Stanford University, where they came up with the idea. It started after a phone …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
Six Degrees Agency co-founders Desmond Attmore and Brian Wright don't see people who look like them in marketing. And that has been the key to their success. After meeting at Atlanta's Morehouse College, Brooklyn natives Brian Wright and Desmond Attmore collaborated on a clothing brand. They …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
CEO Vale Diaz co-founded Dava, a one-stop marketing shop for creators, when he was just 19. Now his childhood hero is one of his clients. Vale Diaz, 24, grew up on a steady diet of YouTube content. He got so into making videos that at 17, with his mom's blessing, he left home in Provo, Utah, to take …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
Jacquie and Todd Golbus wanted something to do when their kids went to college. So they founded Carolina Signs and Wonders and turned it into a multimillion-dollar business. As Jacquie and Todd Golbus, both 48, faced becoming empty nesters, they knew exactly what they wanted to do with all that free …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
Founder and CEO Shayna Atkins leverages her physics degree to help nonprofits and billion-dollar companies keep up pace with the digital transformation. Shayna Atkins, 35, always dreamed of becoming a scientist. But even with her physics degree from Spelman College in hand, she wound up in another …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …
Founder and CEO Jake Brander took a 50 percent turnover rate as a cue to transform the anxiety-inducing culture at his 15-person IP address brokerage. The result? Nearly $200 million in revenue. Jake Brander was at a cross-roads in his career as an IT sales director when he discovered a way to …
Companies on the 2024 Inc. Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of …