It’s Christmas for business nerds — the Inc. 5000 2017 full list has dropped today.
For the uninitiated, the Inc. 5000 ranks the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., and small-but-mighty Rhode Island has an eight-slot showing.
Wakefield’s ChartWise Medical Systems was the highest-ranked Rhode Island company on the list, coming in at the #797 spot with $5.7 million in revenue and a growth rate of 565 percent, which I didn’t realize was mathematically possible.
Best Practice Energy was #1498, bringing in $2.8 million with a growth grate of 272.05 percent.
Outside of Chartwise, the other Rhode Island tech companies on the list are Trade Area Systems, a provider of site selection data and analytics for retailers, and Compass IT Compliance, an IT security, audit and compliance firm.
They’re not the only ones. Here’s a list of all the Rhode Island companies making a splash on the list:
| Rank | Company | Growth | Revenue | Industry | Metro |
| 797 | ChartWise Medical Systems | 565.00% | $5.7M | Software | Wakefield |
| 1498 | Best Practice Energy | 272.05% | $2.8M | Energy | Wakefield |
| 2671 | TribalVision | 129.88% | $4.5M | Advertising & Marketing | Warwick |
| 3801 | Trade Area Systems | 77.39% | $3.6M | Software | Providence |
| 4011 | Compass IT Compliance | 70.34% | $2.5M | IT Services | North Providence |
| 4495 | ADI Energy | 55.15% | $13.1M | Energy | Smithfield |
| 4589 | Preventure | 52.45% | 16.4M | Health | Coventry |
| 4876 | Embrace Home Loans | 44.37% | 159.4M | Financial Services | Newport |
