RP Professional Services, Pie Insurance and more DC companies landed on the Inc 5000 list

For local companies eager to see how their growth stacks up against their peers, the results are in: Today, Inc. Magazine released its annual Inc. 5000 list, measuring the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

291 DC-area companies made it onto this year’s list. It’s a bit of a downgrade from the past few years’ rosters, which listed 330 companies in 2021 and 462 in 2020. Companies need to report three-year revenue growth in order to qualify.

To make matters a little more complicated, the two top regional companies aren’t actually in the DC metro area, but rather the extended Baltimore, Maryland-to-Richmond, Virginia corridor. Summit Human Capital, a Richmond-based IT and human relations company, led the local charge at #20 (the company also ranked #1 on the Mid-Atlantic list released earlier this year, citing 3,677% growth in the past two years). Boosted by a $100 million Series C in January, Baltimore’s Facet Wealth was the next on the list at #46.

In the actual DMV, RP Professional Services placed highest at #74, with 5,300% growth. The Ashburn, Virginia-based government services firm was followed by Integrated Management Strategies of Alexandria, Virginia, which placed at #76 and reported 5,271% growth.

The DC metro’s top company in last year’s listings, digital marketing firm Olympic Media (which came in at #13, citing 20,330% growth), didn’t make it onto this year’s list at all. Fairfax, Virginia- and Rockville, Maryland-based Behavioral Framework, last year’s runner-up at #46, came in at #1,468.

Other 2022 standouts included Fairfax gifting company Bonnie & Pop (#105), which grew 4,141%, and DC fintech company Ordway (#237), which grew 2,229% over the last few years. Rockville, Maryland’s 20/20 Gene Systems also made an appearance at #131, citing 3,512% growth (last year, the company began trading shares on the StartEngine Secondary crowdfunding platform, raising over $10 million). Other familiar DC faces like Pie Insurance (#163, 3,139% growth), Upside Services (#308, 1,858% growth), Adlumin (#569, 1,113% growth) and Arlo Solutions (#583, 1.088% growth), also made the cut.

Here are 10 other local companies featured on the list:

• OneZero Solutions (#111, 3,948% growth)
• Pingwind (#129, 3,522% growth)
• Chexout (#221, 2,403% growth)
• Epigen (#270, 2,008% growth)
• Ignite IT (#298, 1,096% growth)
• Gen3 Technology Consulting (#318, 1,795% growth)
• GreenBrilliance (#326, 1,756% growth)
• Axiom Consultants (#352, 1,656% growth)
• Mytonomy (#396, 1,518% growth)
• ThinkNimble (#459, 1,357% growth)