The Inc. 5000 is a list that compiles several thousand of the fastest-growing private companies each year.
While the metric is monetary, maintaining consistent earnings momentum takes more than running a business well. It requires vision, energy, and, above all, innovation. Each business on this list has earned a spot due to the market-disrupting creativity that has helped it meet customer needs and address client pain points better than comparable companies offering similar services.
Here are a few examples of some of the top innovative brands from this year’s list.
Vytalize Health is Reframing American Medicine
Let’s start with the number one company. Vytalize Health landed the top spot on the Inc. 5000 list — and for a good reason. The Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is focused on infusing personalization into the cold and calculated healthcare process.
You know the saying, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic”? The healthcare machine in America has officially reached a size where everything happening on a national scale is merely a statistic. This is the trend that Vytalize Health is fighting against.
The ACO functions as a middleman between the nationwide behemoth that is Medicare and the private practices that individuals use on a regular basis. The company helps patients communicate with both of these organizations, critically emphasizing the need for unique and individual solutions to each individual’s needs and circumstances.
At the same time, Vytalize Health looks for ways to save the U.S. Medicare system money. One of its prime goals is to help people live healthier lives, and when that happens, it leads to fewer trips to overcrowded emergency rooms and fewer demands on healthcare resources.
In addition, eliminating inefficiencies is always a win for all parties involved. If Vytalize Health can help someone make an appointment on time or avoid missing a surgery, it ensures that medical professionals aren’t waiting and every bed and operating table remains in useful service.
Vytalize is creating positive encounters all over the healthcare world, which explains why they are getting so much attention — and have a three-year growth rate of 90,779%.
Just in Time GCP is Optimizing Clinical Research
Let’s stay in the healthcare field for another minute to look at a company that is focused not on current patient care but rather on future breakthroughs in research. Just in Time GCP specializes in helping clinical trial teams maintain high-quality operations and successful outcomes.
Clinical research may be a well-established area of the healthcare field, but that doesn’t mean everything is seamless. On the contrary, modern changes in culture and technology have shifted the clinical research landscape. Digital tools are making it easier to recruit and work with participants. Growing bodies of research are opening new frontiers. All of this is good news, but it also requires research teams to navigate compliance and regulation concerns to ensure studies are conducted safely and effectively.
That is where Just in Time GCP comes into the picture. The consulting and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) compliance services provider is committed to facilitating best-in-class performance and innovation. Specifically, the company focuses on helping its clients ensure their systems and processes are compliant, and prepare them for regulatory inspections.
As regulations change, Just in Time GCP provides essential services to clinical trial operators that enable them to innovate and effectively conduct complex trials in a restricted and constantly evolving setting. Just in Time GCP’s emphasis is on operational excellence, compliance, and data integrity. Recognizing that no two clinical studies are alike, Just in Time GCP customizes and adapts solutions to the unique needs of each client through Trial Master File (TMF) management support, short-term quality assessments and compliance roadmaps, to long-term scalable solutions that adapt with the client through product development.
Just in Time GCP’s innovative approach to its services is helping clinical research teams produce higher-quality results that blaze the trail for their own forward-thinking analysis. The effect is exponential and is turning heads — which is why the company didn’t just make the cut for the Inc. 5000 list. They’re celebrating their fourth consecutive appearance on that prestigious honor roll.
Manhole Covers Direct is Innovating Where No Man Has Innovated Before
When cutting-edge innovation comes up, it usually sparks thoughts of tech gurus and retail titans — not manhole covers. And yet, that is precisely the market need that Manhole Covers Direct has capitalized on.
The company started back in 2014 when its entrepreneurially-minded owner had the idea and bought the domain name. The company percolated as a side project for a while, until three years later, when GE got in touch requesting a custom manhole cover for a windmill.
Fast forward the better part of a decade, and the company has landed on the Inc. 5000 list. It is a full-fledged operation that produces manhole covers for large commercial enterprises, government entities, and even military bases. Each product is uniquely custom-made to the specifications of each customer — and everything is made in America.
The first order was $1,300. Today, the company is spending $30,000 a month on advertising alone. It is a numerical testament to what can happen when an individual is willing to recognize a need, match it with their skills and resources, wait for the opportunity, and then put in the effort required to help the idea catch fire.
Every company on the Inc. 5000 list has its own version of these stories. They started as ideas backed by individuals with the tenacity and resources to turn concepts into reality. While grit and the metaphorical “blood, sweat, and tears” are always essential, though, more is required. In every single case, these businesses wouldn’t have reached such impressive pinnacles of success if it weren’t for the creative, problem-solving, innovative mindsets that drove them. When determination meets innovation — that’s where the magic happens.
