STRGY AI Raises €1M to Bring Always-On Strategy Execution to Growing Companies

HELSINKI, Aug. 12, 2026 — STRGY AI Oy, the Helsinki-based startup building StrategyOS, today announced it has raised €1M in angel funding, backed by a private investor base spanning the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Finland, with additional equity participation from Innovestor’s Angel CoFund and non-dilutive support from Business Finland.

The round reflects a deliberately international investor base from day one – a signal, the company says, of how broadly the shift toward AI-native strategy execution resonates across Northern and Western Europe.

The investment will be used to ramp up the commercial side of the business, invest in product development, and fuel growth.

StrategyOS is an AI-powered strategy execution platform that helps organizations turn strategy into daily, trackable action. Instead of static plans and one-off reporting cycles, StrategyOS gives leadership teams an always-on view of how work across the organization connects to strategic priorities – flagging drift early, automating board-ready reporting, and keeping teams aligned even during the busiest periods. The platform serves Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Strategy, and COOs at mid-market organizations who need clear, continuous visibility into whether execution is actually moving the business toward its goals. StrategyOS is already in use with early customers across consumer brands and private equity-backed companies, with additional enterprise deployments in progress.

“Most companies have a strategy. Very few have a way to know, day to day, whether their teams are actually executing on it. That’s the gap we built StrategyOS to close – giving leadership teams an always-on view of execution, instead of finding out weeks or months later that priorities have drifted,” said Samuli Bäck, Co-founder & CEO of STRGY AI.

The round’s investors include Maryne Lemvik, whose executive and board experience led her to invest after testing and evaluating StrategyOS firsthand.

“Having led international businesses and served on several boards, I’ve seen that strategy execution is often the weakest link, while leadership teams spend far too much time pulling together information for board reporting. What convinced me about STRGY is its ability to turn strategy into a continuous management discipline rather than a periodic exercise. That has the potential to significantly improve how leadership teams and boards make decisions. That’s the kind of company I want to support,” she said.

STRGY’s founding team includes Co-founder & CEO Samuli Bäck and co-founder Anton Skarp, alongside Head of Agentic Systems Oskari Listomaa and Head of Agentic Design Niko Savander.

STRGY plans to grow its commercial team, deepen its enterprise customer relationships, and prepare for further product launches later this year.

About STRGY AI

STRGY AI is a Helsinki-based startup building StrategyOS, an AI-powered platform that gives leadership teams an always-on view of strategy execution – connecting daily work to strategic priorities, flagging drift early, and automating board-ready reporting. StrategyOS serves Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Strategy, and COOs at mid-market companies across Europe. Learn more about STRGY at www.strgy.com.

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New Kruze Consulting Data Reveals COOs, Not CEOs, Command the Highest Pay at Growth-Stage Startups

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 — Kruze Consulting, a leading accounting and finance firm serving venture-backed startups, today released its 2026 C-Suite Salary Guide, a benchmarking report on CEO, CTO, and COO cash compensation drawn from actual payroll records rather than self-reported surveys. The findings challenge a common assumption in startup compensation planning: That the CEO is always the highest-paid executive.

The study focuses solely on base salary, not equity compensation like stock options or restricted stock units.

According to the report, startup CEOs, CTOs, and COOs each earn an average of roughly $165,000 to $167,000 in overall cash salary. But that convergence masks a striking pattern beneath the surface: The highest-paid role changes as companies mature.

CTOs command the top average salary at the Seed stage, at $155,000, reflecting fierce competition for scarce technical talent. The average salary at Seed for CEOs is $135,000, while COOs earn an average of $144,000.

By Series B, however, COOs overtake both CEOs and CTOs, reaching average salaries of $246,000 at Series B. In comparison, CEOs earn an average of $216,000, and CTOs earn an average of $238,000 at Series B. This shows boards pay a premium for experienced operators who can scale day-to-day execution.

“The data shows compensation planning can’t be a flat rule applied across the leadership team,” said Vanessa Kruze, CPA, Founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting. “Founders and boards need a stage-specific and role-specific view of pay, because the executive who commands the top salary at Seed is often not the same one commanding it by Series B.”

Key findings from the report include:
 

  • Convergent averages, divergent stories: CEO, CTO, and COO cash pay each average close to $165,000-$167,000 overall, but the roles reach that figure through very different trajectories by stage.
  • CTOs lead early; COOs lead later: CTOs post the highest average pay at Seed ($155,000). COOs take the lead at Series A ($227,000) and hold it at Series B ($246,000).
  • Medians reveal a small pool of outliers: Median pay sits below the average for all three roles, indicating that a smaller group of well-funded, later-stage executives is pulling each average upward.
  • CTO pay is the most consistent benchmark: CTO average and median compensation differ by less than $1,000, making it the most reliable figure for hiring against.
  • COO pay is the most stage-dependent: COO compensation starts lowest of the three roles at Seed, then rises fastest, ultimately becoming the highest-paid role by the growth stage.

The report attributes these patterns to the post-2022/2023 correction in venture funding, which pushed startups toward smaller, more milestone-driven early rounds and more disciplined cash compensation overall. As companies reach Series B with proven product-market fit, larger rounds allow boards to fund the technical and operational leadership needed to scale — which shows up directly in CTO and COO pay.

Unlike many published salary benchmarks, which rely on surveys that can lag market conditions by a year or more and skew toward the best-funded respondents, Kruze Consulting’s figures are drawn directly from the payroll systems of its US-based, venture-backed client companies. All data was anonymized and aggregated before analysis, so no individual company or executive can be identified.

The full C-Suite Salary Guide includes detailed average and median compensation breakdowns by role and funding stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B), along with guidance for founders and boards on benchmarking executive pay responsibly in the current fundraising climate. A companion report, the Startup CEO Salary Report, offers a deeper, founder-focused analysis with historical trends and year-over-year data.

About Kruze Consulting

Kruze Consulting provides accounting, finance, tax, and advisory services to venture‑backed startups, helping founders manage their finances, understand their metrics, and make data‑driven decisions about compensation, fundraising, and growth.

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NEROS RAISES $250M SERIES C AT $2.5B VALUATION TO SCALE AUTONOMOUS AND INTERCEPTOR DRONE PROGRAMS

Neros announces new products including Archer AI, Bandit c-UAS interceptor, and tech stack required for multi-drone control. 

TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2026 — Neros Technologies has announced a $250M Series C at a post money valuation of $2.5B co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic Technology Fund (ASTF) with participation by Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, and Dylan Field.

These funds will accelerate the development and production ramps for new drone programs including Archer AI, an FPV platform augmented with autonomy features including Terminal Guidance and GPS-denied Position Hold, and Bandit, a c-UAS interceptor drone intended to counter Class 2 and 3 drone threats including Shahed-style systems.

These platforms are being developed with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control (often termed “swarming”) while retaining the cost efficiency Neros is known for – and that’s essential to achieving true attritable mass. 

Both Archer AI and Bandit will be deployed in theaters of combat by the end of 2026.

“This newest round of funding accelerates Neros into a multi-capability drone manufacturer. Our mission to produce one million drones per year hasn’t changed, but the span of drones and mission sets we can support are multiplying. Our core business has seen explosive growth since our last financing round in November, and this added capital gets our systems into war fighter hands faster, and at the scale needed for decisive outcomes on the battlefield.”

— Soren Monroe-Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO, Neros

This expansion of products will enable Neros to own the entire mass-manufactured, small drone segment: manual FPV augmented by autonomous strike, counter-UAS interceptors, and coordinated effects through multi-asset control.

Through owning the core technology, vertically integrating its component stack, and leveraging its preexisting domestic production capacity, Neros is positioned to deliver credible deterrence by building millions of drones per year for America and its allies.

About Neros
Neros is building a new era of credible deterrence for America and its allies by establishing a domestic drone industrial base in the United States. By 2028, Neros will be producing a million drones per year across a range of capabilities including long range strike, close-quarters combat, and interceptors. Neros has major contracts with the Army, Marine Corps, as well as contracts with every component of SOCOM and half a dozen allied countries. The company is partnering with allies across Europe via its UK subsidiary, as well as other allied nations across Asia and the Middle East in support of their own defense and sovereign manufacturing needs.

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SugarShot Joins Treeline as First Design Partner in a New Model for Managed IT

Two years in: revenue nearly doubled, 24/7 global support live, and SugarShot’s white-glove service model left intact

LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 — Treeline announced that SugarShot, the Los Angeles-based managed services provider, joined the company in August 2024 as its first design partner. In the two years since, SugarShot has nearly doubled its revenue while keeping the client teams that define its brand.

Treeline is challenging the decades-old acquisition playbook: that scale and efficiency come at the expense of the client experience. Treeline’s model inverts that assumption. SugarShot keeps its structure, leadership, and ways of working with clients. What it gains is engineering capabilities, institutional credibility, and ultimately, the ability to scale impact without sacrificing client experience.

That strategy has paid off; since August 2024, SugarShot has grown revenue nearly 100% by going deeper with existing clients and landing new, larger accounts. Headcount has grown 68%, all while service delivery quality continued to improve.

“By pairing the strongest companies and operators in this market with world-class engineering and go-to-market capabilities, Treeline can build and define the future of this industry,” said Peter Doyle, CEO of Treeline. “One that doesn’t depart from the value of people and high-touch service, but leverages software development, automation, and AI to provide a better experience to customers who are constantly growing and evolving.”

For clients, the SugarShot experience stayed consistent. “Clients are still able to work and interact with the same people who already know their environment and own the problem until it’s closed,” said Brandon Fox, Head of Technology at SugarShot. “What has changed is that I trust every ticket is triaged, worked, and escalated inside our service levels, which means I finally get to work on the business instead of in it.”

SugarShot has expanded the range of the work it can take on. Tina Grintjes, Director of Operations, said, “Historically, our conversations were primarily around managed IT, security, and technology operations. Today, through Treeline, we can have much broader conversations around AI, compliance, cloud infrastructure, and more. We can grow alongside our clients in ways we simply couldn’t before.”

Before joining Treeline, roughly 5% of SugarShot’s client base had significant overseas operations; today, about 50% of new clients do. SugarShot has also stood up a follow-the-sun support model, giving clients 24/7 coverage and eliminating the weekday on-call rotation for its technicians.

“We are now partnering with clients that we would never have partnered with if Treeline hadn’t pushed us to look at them differently, and there are also clients Treeline would never have won without SugarShot,” said Pam Boston, CEO of SugarShot. “It’s truly a two-way street. Treeline has given us not only the resources, but also the encouragement, to really run headfirst into opportunities that we might not have looked twice at in the past.”

SugarShot was Treeline’s first design partner. Treeline is excited to be applying learnings from the success with SugarShot as the business selectively brings additional partners into the model.

About SugarShot

SugarShot is a Los Angeles-based managed services provider, formed in 2018. The company delivers managed IT, cybersecurity, and technology solutions to mid-market companies, with a focus on healthcare and manufacturing. SugarShot is led by CEO Pam Boston and has been part of Treeline since August 2024.

About Treeline

Treeline is a modern IT and security partner for mid-market and scaling companies, delivering the ownership and accountability of an internal team without the cost of building one. Built on AI-native infrastructure and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Treeline works with best-in-class service providers to bring that model to clients.

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Horatio Celebrates Seven Years of Growth as a Nine-Figure Annual Recurring Revenue Business

After seven years of profitable growth, the bootstrapped company now operates at nine figures in annual recurring revenue.

MIAMI, Aug. 11, 2026 — Horatio, a global leader in AI-enabled business solutions and tech-powered talent, today marked seven years in business as a bootstrapped company operating at over nine figures in annual recurring revenue. Operating at this scale without outside capital places Horatio among less than 1% of companies that have achieved profitable recurring revenue through bootstrapped growth.

Founded in 2018 by Jose Herrera, Alex Ross, and Jared Karson, Horatio has grown from a startup focused on customer support into a global operation serving more than 125 clients across healthcare, fintech, ecommerce, and other high-growth industries. Today, the company operates at over nine figures in annual recurring revenue—all without raising outside capital.

“What started as a vision to build a better workplace and a better customer experience partner has grown beyond anything we could have imagined,” said Jose Herrera, CEO and Co-Founder of Horatio. “Reaching this milestone is a testament to our team, our clients, and our beliefs that customer experience can be a strategic driver of business growth when powered by exceptional people and the right technology.”

Over the past seven years, Horatio has expanded its footprint across the United States and Latin America, with operations in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Honduras. The company now employs more than 3,500 team members globally and continues to scale at 40% year-over-year, with 77% of customers expanding their team size and scope with the brand. 

Recent milestones include:

  • Operating as a nine-figure annual recurring revenue business without outside capital
  • Growing to more than 3,500 employees across the U.S. and Latin America
  • Nearly doubling its workforce in 2024 to meet growing demand from ecommerce and technology companies
  • Launching HoratioHX, the company’s healthcare-focused division, to support patient engagement, revenue cycle management, and healthcare operations
  • Opening operations in Honduras, further strengthening Horatio’s nearshore delivery network and access to top bilingual talent across Latin America
  • 3 out of 4 customers expand their team size and scope after partnering with Horatio

“What we’re most proud of isn’t just winning customers—it’s earning their trust over time. Today, 77% of our customers expand after their first engagement, which we believe is the strongest validation of our model,” said Herrera. “When we launched Horatio, we set out to challenge the perception of what outsourcing could be. The future of customer experience isn’t about replacing people with technology, it’s about combining exceptional talent with AI and operational excellence to deliver better outcomes at scale.”

As the company looks ahead, Horatio plans to continue its AI capabilities, consulting services, and regulated-industry expertise while deepening partnerships across healthcare, fintech, and ecommerce.  For more information, visit www.hirehoratio.com or follow @HireHoratio.

About Horatio
Horatio is a global leader in AI-enabled business solutions and tech-powered talent. The company combines AI-enabled business solutions with world-class global talent to help companies scale faster across customer experience, trust and safety, back-office operations, and other business-critical functions. Founded in 2018, Horatio partners with many of the world’s fastest-growing startups and enterprises, helping them build more efficient operations, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and unlock growth. With headquarters in New York City and Miami and operations across the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Colombia, Horatio is committed to innovation, talent development, and creating economic opportunity throughout the Americas. Horatio is ISO/IEC 27001 certified, reinforcing its commitment to the highest standards of information security and data protection for clients operating in highly regulated industries, including healthcare and fintech.

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Soctera raises $4 million to break the thermal ceiling of defense and space systems

ITHACA, N.Y., Aug. 11, 2026 — Soctera, Incorporated (Soctera) has closed $4 million in seed funding backed by Anorak Ventures and Multiball Capital, with additional participation from 9Yards Capital, Mana Ventures, and Red Bear Ventures. The company will use the funding to develop its power amplifiers: the electronic devices that dictate wireless signal range and fidelity for radar, electronic warfare, satellites, and telecommunications networks.

When a power amplifier overheats, the system it powers goes with it. Range collapses and signals distort. The increasing demands of modern systems have made heat the fundamental constraint on wireless performance. Soctera attacks that constraint at the semiconductor level, enabling longer-range detection and communication, clearer signals, and hardware that lasts.

“By co-optimizing the semiconductor stack electrically and thermally, we reduce the gallium nitride (GaN) content in each device by 20X and halve thermal resistance. We are now turning our materials-level advantage into qualified power amplifiers,” said Reet Chaudhuri, co-founder and CTO of Soctera.

“The people building next-generation radar and satellites are already asking for more than any amplifier can deliver,” said Austin Hickman, co-founder and CEO of Soctera. “This raise lets us answer them, scaling the team and the manufacturing to put that hardware in their hands.”

The company spun out of Cornell University’s Jena-Xing group, a top research lab in the field of wide bandgap electronics. Prior to the seed raise, Soctera won over $4.2 million in non-dilutive grant funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and the CHIPS Act to develop and demonstrate its core technology. As defense and space systems take on harder jobs at longer distances, the reach and reliability of every signal increasingly decides what those systems can do.

“The ability to immediately detect threats at greater range with improved fidelity is increasingly becoming a key advantage for the modern warfighter,” said Greg Castle, Managing Partner at Anorak Ventures. “The shift towards autonomous systems is accelerating the need for improved signal handling. Soctera’s technology will give the U.S. and our allies a key advantage for communication and detection both on and off the battlefield.”

About Soctera

Soctera builds power amplifiers that extend the range, fidelity, and reliability of modern systems that detect threats and carry critical communications. From defense radar and electronic warfare to satellite and commercial networks, Soctera is building the semiconductor foundation these next-generation systems will run on. Learn more at www.soctera.com or reach out at [email protected].

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House of Student Secures $2 Million Seed as the Founder Behind the World’s First Student Housing Marketplace Drives the Next Evolution of Global Student Living

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026House of Student, a global student living technology company operating the world’s largest student housing marketplace with over 2.5 million verified student rooms across 25+ countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UAE, Singapore, and 18 European nations, has raised $2 million in seed capital through a mix of equity and debt. The funding will accelerate product innovation, AI capabilities and global expansion.

The round is led by Saltwater Sutra, a New York-Mumbai based investment banking group, alongside Nirmitsu Inspirational Ventures. Other participants include Gautam Verlekar (co-founder, Saltwater Venture Sparks), Glen Fernandes (MD, Bank of New York Mellon), Richard McCallum (former MD & CEO, UK India Business Council), Ali Moosa (Exec-Vice Chairman, Singapore Gulf Bank), and other strategic investors. Existing investors from Unilodgers also continued their support.

The company was founded in 2025 by Vaibhav Verma, who earlier built Unilodgers, the world’s first student housing marketplace, bootstrapping it until the company reached $109 million in valuation. For Verma, House of Student isn’t a second venture but the continuation of a 15-year mission & responsibility towards students globally. Much of the original Unilodgers leadership, including leaders Ayushi Gupta and Deepak Bahuguna, has stayed on to build this next chapter.

Verma’s inspiration traces back to his own housing struggles as a student in London and Nottingham, UK, where he relied on classifieds and broken networks to find accommodation, a gap that led him to found Unilodgers on principles of trust and care.

“We never started with the ambition of building an accommodation company,” said Vaibhav Verma, Founder of House of Student. “Student housing was simply the first problem we wanted to solve. Today, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted company around student life.”

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the sector significantly, including Unilodgers, prompting Verma and his team to ask a bigger question: what responsibility do they have to support students throughout their university journey? The answer was House of Student.

About House of Student 

Headquartered in San Francisco with teams across India, the UK, and the Middle East, House of Student operates the world’s largest student housing marketplace, with a broader mission to become the most trusted company around student life globally.

Learn more: https://houseofstudent.com/

 

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Invoca Names JB Brown Chief Technology Officer as AI Agent Adoption Accelerates

Brown joins from Smartsheet with two decades of engineering leadership and a track record of
scaling AI-native development

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2026 — Invoca, the AI-powered leader in revenue execution, today announced the appointment of JB Brown as Chief Technology Officer. Brown joins as the company expands its AI agents that run buyer journeys for consumer brands, following the June launch of Nico, its AI revenue conversion agent.

Brown comes to Invoca from Smartsheet, where he led the engineering organization through its transition to AI-native engineering and agentic development workflows.

At Invoca, he will own the engineering strategy and platform architecture as the company expands the Invoca Platform and the AI agents that run buyer journeys for marketing, engagement, and contact center teams, turning buyer interactions into revenue.

“JB has spent his career driving change by teaching and modeling the behaviors he wants to see, working alongside engineers to evolve how software gets built and shipped,” said Gregg Johnson, CEO, Invoca. “Teams that build with AI every day build better AI for customers. That is the connection JB makes, and it is why he will move our platform and our agents forward faster.”

Brown has spent the last several years working directly on agentic systems. At Smartsheet, he designed an agentic software development lifecycle, embedding specialized AI agents across architecture, implementation, testing, and operations. He is also a top 15 contributor to Roo Code, an open-source AI coding agent project, and most recently founded Prosponsive, where he has been building an agentic development framework and a personal autonomous agent platform.

“Invoca has built a rare combination of trusted first-party data and real AI expertise, and that foundation is what makes agentic technology genuinely useful for revenue teams,” said Brown. “The draw for me was an engineering culture where agentic development is already the way the work gets done rather than a pilot running on the side. That is how you attract the best engineers and turn raw velocity into a lasting competitive edge.”

Brown joins Invoca following the June 2026 launch of Nico and the release of the company’s 2026 Lead Conversion Benchmarks Report, an analysis of 70 million voice and SMS conversations that found leads referred from ChatGPT convert at the highest rate of any channel.

Explore open roles on the engineering team, along with several other opportunities across the business: https://www.invoca.com/company/careers

More Information

About Invoca

Invoca is an AI-powered revenue execution platform that connects marketing, commerce, and contact center teams to orchestrate seamless buyer journeys and turn every interaction into measurable, profitable growth. The Invoca platform features deep integrations with leading technology partners, enabling revenue teams to connect paid media investments to business outcomes, improve digital engagement, and convert more leads into sales.

Invoca’s AI vision centers on using trustworthy, first-party data to deliver AI that is intelligent, authentic, and empathetic – connecting digital and human experiences to build lasting customer relationships. Top consumer brands, including Mayo Clinic, Mutual of Omaha, and Verizon, rely on Invoca to power profitable growth. Invoca has raised $184M from leading investors, including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.invoca.com.

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The Pipeline Group Named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 List, the Most Prestigious Ranking of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

This Marks the Company’s Sixth Consecutive Year on the List, Earning Its Place Among the Nation’s Most Successful Independent Businesses

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2026The Pipeline Group (TPG) today announced it has been named on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list is the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs, and shaping the future of the economy. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Oracle, and Patagonia.

This marks TPG’s sixth consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 list. The company has also been featured on Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies in the Pacific list three years in a row (2024-2026) and named an Inc. 2025 Power Partner.

“No matter how many times we find ourselves on the Inc. 5000 List, we’re incredibly honored to be in conversation with such an elite group of organizations,” said Ken Jisser, Founder and CEO of TPG. “This is a reflection of our discipline, partnerships, and desire to build a superior level of performance for our clients. We’re looking forward to what the future holds.”

In 2026, TPG is focused on scalable growth, from expanding its leadership team to launching TPG Terminal, an enterprise platform created to provide revenue leaders a single source of truth for pipeline performance. The company is focused on pipeline predictability, operational discipline, and market leadership.  

This year’s Inc. 5000 recognizes a new class of companies redefining what growth looks like. From AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, consumer products, and professional services, these businesses are expanding their impact, creating jobs and proving that entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years.

For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.

“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance–it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement.”

Inc. 5000 List Methodology
Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2025. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2025 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.

About The Pipeline Group
The Pipeline Group (TPG) is the premier business development and pipeline performance management partner for B2B technology companies. With more than 600 employees worldwide, TPG combines rigorously trained Sales Development Representatives (SDRs), proprietary technology, and data-driven execution to deliver a predictable, high-quality pipeline. Recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years and named an Inc. Power Partner in 2025 and 2026, TPG is trusted by enterprise and growth-stage companies to launch new products, enter new markets, and build durable, measurable revenue engines. For more information, visit https://www.thepipelinegroup.io/about.

About Inc.
Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

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