{"id":161305,"date":"2025-08-20T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161305\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:29:08","slug":"houston-makes-strong-showing-on-2025-inc-5000-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161305\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston makes strong showing on 2025 Inc. 5000 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Houston-area businesses appear in this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/inc5000\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inc. 5000<\/a> ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., with a security software provider capturing the region\u2019s No. 1 spot on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Landing at No. 29 nationally and No. 1 in the software category, the top-ranked Houston-area private company is Houston-based Action1. The company recorded median revenue growth of 7,188 percent from 2021 to 2024, according to the Inc. 5000.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first appearance on the Inc. 5000 list for Action1,  founded in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Action1 produces patch management software. A patch, or fix, quickly repairs software to resolve functionality problems, improve security or add features, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchenterprisedesktop\/definition\/patch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to TechTarget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern organizations understand that proactive patch management is essential to staying ahead of today\u2019s rapidly evolving threat landscape,\u201d Mike Walters, co-founder and president of Action1, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.action1.com\/company-news\/action1-ranks-as-the-fastest-growing-private-software-company-in-america\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a>. \u201cOur continued hypergrowth reflects the increased demand for enterprise cybersecurity innovation. You can\u2019t be just powerful and secure \u2014 you must also be simple to deploy and scale and cost-effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below are the Houston-area businesses that earned a ranking among the top 1,000 companies, including their industries and their three-year growth rate. To see the other Houston-area companies in the Inc. 5000, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/inc5000\/2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">inc.com\/inc5000\/2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 29 Houston-based Action1, software (7,188 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 49 Spring-based Bogey Bros Golf, retail  (5,540 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 84 Houston-based Turtlebox Audio, consumer products (3,818 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 87 The Woodlands-based Allied Wealth, financial services (3,796 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 319 Houston-based Strategic Office Support, business products and services (1,228 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 324 Houston-based Novo Communications, security (1,212 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 363 Houston-based OptiSigns, software  (1,101 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 385 Houston-based Cart.com, business products and services (1,053 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 421 Houston-based Sydecar, financial services (962 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 471 The Woodlands-based Acuity Technology Partners, IT services (869 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 577 Stafford-based Dahnani Private Equity Group, real estate (718 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 706 Houston-based Why Not Natural, consumer products (585 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 709 Stafford-based Signarama Sugar Land, manufacturing (584 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 744 Houston-based FINBOA, software (557 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 747 Houston-based Amundson Group, human resources (557 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 793 Houston-based Field Industries, manufacturing (533 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 957 Friendswood-based Good Ranchers, food and beverage (448 percent)<\/li>\n<li>No. 999 Houston-based ARIA Signs &amp; Design, business products and services  (428 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Houston-area businesses appear in this year\u2019s Inc. 5000 ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[93487,93497,93492,93502,93505,93490,70545,93498,93489,93503,93501,93504,4345,85879,93494,93495,93488,93500,93493,93496,358,93491,3187,93499],"class_list":{"0":"post-161305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-action1","9":"tag-acuity-technology-partners","10":"tag-allied-wealth","11":"tag-amundson-group","12":"tag-aria-signs-design","13":"tag-bogey-bros-golf","14":"tag-cart-com","15":"tag-dahnani-private-equity-group","16":"tag-fastest-growing-private-companies","17":"tag-field-industries","18":"tag-finboa","19":"tag-good-ranchers","20":"tag-houston","21":"tag-inc-5000","22":"tag-novo-communications","23":"tag-optisigns","24":"tag-security-software-provider","25":"tag-signarama-sugar-land","26":"tag-strategic-office-support","27":"tag-sydecar","28":"tag-texas","29":"tag-turtlebox-audio","30":"tag-tx","31":"tag-why-not-natural"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}