ISS, seven other area companies make Inc. list
Colorado Springs-based software developer Intelligent Software Solutions has made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies for a seventh time, one of just 59 firms to qualify for the ranking seven or more times.
ISS is one of eight Springs area companies and 144 statewide included in the latest ranking, which is posted on the magazine’s website, www.inc.com, and is in its September print edition. The 14-year-old ISS, which employs 528 and reported revenue growth of 180 percent between 2007 and 2010 to $122 million, has made the list every year since 2004, except for 2008; it ranked 1,536th this year. Just 16 other companies, including Broomfield-based Noodles & Co., have made the list more often than ISS. (The list began as “The Inc. Private 100” in 1981.)
“This is a testament to our business model that is focused on leveraging open-source technologies to provide a cost-effective product for our customers, which is paramount in an uncertain economy,” ISS CEO and co-founder Jay Jesse said in a press release on the ranking.
Other area companies included in the ranking are:
• The WireNut, a Colorado Springs-based electrical repair and installation contractor with 26 employees that reported revenue growth of 320 percent between 2007 and 2010 to $3 million; ranked 953rd.
• Chromatic Technologies, a Colorado Springs-based manufacturer of temperature-sensitive and other specialty inks with 33 employees that reported revenue growth of 230 percent between 2007 and 2010, to $8.2 million; ranked 1,263rd.
• Maxx Sunglasses, a Monument-based wholesaler and online retailer of high-definition sunglasses with 39 employees that nearly tripled sales between 2007 and 2010 to $3.7 million; ranked 1,434th.
• Advisors Asset Management, a Monument-based provider of services and products to financial advisers and investment brokers with 335 employees that more than doubled revenue between 2007 and 2010 to $102.9 million; ranked 2,277th.
• Infinity Systems Engineering, a Colorado Springs-based provider of advisory, engineering, intelligence and information technology services for satellite systems that employs 77 and reported revenue growth of 63 percent between 2007 and 2010 to $13.7 million; ranked 3,128th.
• Delta Solutions & Strategies, a Colorado Springs-based provider of technical and management consulting to military and government customers that employs 78 and reported revenue growth of 62 percent between 2007 and 2010 to $14.3 million; ranked 3,171st.
• Braxton Technologies, a Colorado Springs-based software developer for space communications and satellite systems that employs 80 and reported revenue growth of 57 percent between 2007 and 2010 to $14.1 million; ranked 3,300th.
To make the list, companies had to be founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007, based in the United States and be privately held, for-profit and independent — not units of other companies — as of Dec. 31, 2010. The minimum 2010 revenue requirement for the list was $2 million.
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