Twenty-five companies in Greater Washington earned places in the top 500 of the annual Inc. 5000 list tracking the country’s fastest-growing private companies, down slightly from 2021.
Ashburn government services firm RP Professional Services (No. 74) and Alexandria health care consulting and program management firm Integrated Management Strategies (No. 76) were the only local firms to crack the top 100 of the list. RP Professional Services posted 5,300% growth, according to data analyzed by Inc., while Integrated Management Solutions recorded 5,271% growth.
The magazine’s list, posted every year since 1982, ranks the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. To qualify, the companies must have generated at least $2 million in revenue by 2021, and the companies must not be subsidiaries of other companies.
Last year, 29 firms from the region made the top 500, while Olympic Media, an Arlington company that specializes in digital copyrighting, advertising and marketing automation, came in at No. 13 overall posting 20,330% growth. It was the top-ranked Virginia firm on the list and the overall No. 1-ranked advertising and marketing firm.
The other local companies that cracked the Inc. 500 for 2022 include: Fairfax edible gift company Bonnie and Pop (No. 105), Alexandria cyber firm OneZero Solutions (No. 111), Annandale cyber firm PingWind (No. 129), Gaithersburg lab diagnostic company 20/20 Gene Systems (No. 131), D.C. insurance firm Pie Insurance (No. 163), Vienna health IT company Chexout (No. 221), D.C. billing and revenue automation platform Ordway (No. 237), McLean IT services contractor Epigen (No. 270), Ashburn government services firm Ignite IT (No. 298), D.C. retail tech firm Upside (No. 308), D.C. cyber company Gen3 Technology Consulting (No. 318), Herndon solar company GreenBrilliance (No. 326), Rockville IT modernization firm Axiom Consultants (No. 352), Alexandria financial software firm Bent Ear Solutions (No. 357), Chevy Chase federal contractor Windsor Group (No. 368), Bethesda health-tech firm Mytonomy (No. 396), Rockville government services firm Audley Consulting Group (No. 407), North Bethesda video monetization company Uscreen (No. 423), Falls Church federal tech contractor Sierra7 (No. 457), D.C. startup software company ThinkNimble (No. 459), Arlington language and translation firm Piedmont Global Language Solutions (No. 461), D.C. author services platform Manuscripts (No. 468) and Gaithersburg government services firm DAS Federal (No. 475).
Among the top 500 companies on this year’s list, the average median three-year revenue growth rate was 2,144%. Cumulatively, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
