Here Are The Fastest Growing Companies In Fort Lee

FORT LEE, NJ — Growth is something everyone can aspire to, and that’s no different for America’s most successful new companies. Inc., a magazine which publishes weekly content about small businesses and startups in the United States, recently released their annual report outlining the 5,000 fastest-growing privately owned companies in the nation.

Companies were ranked according to their percentage revenue growth from 2015 to 2018, according to the report. New Jersey has 127 of the most successful new companies in the country.

The 5,000 companies come from over 25 different types of industry, including construction, real estate, and software. To earn a spot on the list, companies must have been generating revenue by March 31, 2015, and then had a minimum revenue of $2 million by 2018. Additionally, all the companies are privately held, for profit, and independent of any other larger company, according to Inc.

Fort Lee has three companies in the top 5,000.

Here are the fastest growing companies in Fort Lee:

• Company Name: OwnBackup
• Growth: 3,245 percent
• Industry: Software
• Revenue: $9 million

• Company Name: GonLED
• Growth: 336 percent
• Industry: Energy
• Revenue: $9.5 million

• Company Name: Bridge
• Growth: 187 percent
• Industry: Advertising and marketing
• Revenue: $36.8 million

The top spot on the business magazine’s list goes to the advertising & marketing company Freestar, which is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Here are the top ten fastest growing companies in the United States:

1. Freestar — Phoenix, Arizona — 36,680 percent growth.
2. FreightWise — Brentwood, Tennessee — 30,548 percent growth.
3. Cece’s Veggie Co. — Austin, Texas — 23,880 percent growth.
4. LadyBoss — Alburquerque, New Mexico — 21,850 percent growth.
5. Perpay — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — 18,166 percent growth.
6. Cano Health — Miami, Florida — 14,183 percent growth.
7. Bear Mattress — Hoboken, New Jersey — 13,481 percent growth.
8. Connected Solutions Group — Mechanicsville, Virginia — 12,565 percent growth.
9. Providence Healthcare Management — Cleveland, Ohio — 12,565 percent growth.
10. NOM — Los Angeles, California — 11,996 percent growth.

"The beautiful thing is, when you start making people more money and helping them run their businesses better, they typically have pretty big mouths," says David Freedman, the co-founder of the No. 1-ranked Freestar, a company that sells solutions and services that help publishers make more money online by perfecting advertising operations.

Freestar had a revenue of $36.9 million in 2018.

Patch reporter Gus Saltonstall contributed to this report.

Email: daniel.hubbard@patch.com