Southern California is home to 25 of the 500 fastest-growing technology firms in the nation, according to a new industry ranking.
The 30th edition of the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 ranks rapidly expanding companies in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech and energy innovation across North America. Rankings were tied to revenue growth between 2020 and 2023.
Southern California’s highest-ranked firm was Gamefam, a video-game developer and platform in Los Angeles. It earned a No. 30 ranking on the Fast 500 because of its 6,390% growth in sales over three years – that’s a 65-fold jump in revenue.
Ponder the 24 other firms in what Deloitte considered Southern California in this scorecard tracking sales growth …
No. 34 Postal.io: Revenue surged 5,215% in three years for this software/services firm from San Luis Obispo.
No. 54 PatientFi: 2,566% growth, fintech in Irvine.
No. 62 Boulevard Labs: 2,276% growth, software/services in Los Angeles.
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No. 73 Fun Express: 1,900% growth, digital content/media/entertainment in Irvine.
No. 79 Transcend: 1,744% growth, software/services in Covina.
No. 81 Xos: 1,586% growth, energy/sustainability in Los Angeles.
No. 105 Akido Labs: 1,139% growth, life sciences in Los Angeles.
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No. 107 Live Nation Entertainment: 1,122% growth, digital content/media/entertainment in Beverly Hills.
No. 160 Placer Labs: 729% growth, software/services in Covina.
No. 161 Sunbit: 726% growth, fintech in Los Angeles.
No. 162 ITC2.0: 725% growth, fintech in Irvine.
No. 181 Well Health/Artera: 654% growth, software/services in Santa Barbara.
No. 207 Navitas Semiconductor: 571% growth, hardware/semiconductors in Torrance.
No. 282 FloQast: 409% growth, fintech in Los Angeles.
No. 287 Specright: 407% growth, software/services in Tustin.
No. 296 SearchStax: 392% growth, software/services in El Segundo.
No. 318 ZestFinance: 368% growth, fintech in Burbank.
No. 352 Planet DDS: 325% growth, software/services in Irvine.
No. 364 SocialEdge: 310% growth, software/services in Pasadena.
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No. 374 AuditBoard: 306% growth, software/services in Cerritos.
No. 396 SuperMoney: 277% growth, fintech in Santa Ana.
No. 407 RealDefense: 267% growth, software/services in Pasadena.
No. 412 HAAWK: 266% growth, digital content/media/entertainment in Studio City.
No. 424 Evolus: 257% growth, life sciences in Newport Beach.
Southern California and Washington, D.C. each had 4% of the Fast 500, the fifth-largest slices of these swiftly growing companies. The largest shares were in the Bay Area (17%), New York-New Jersey-Connecticut (16%), New England (7%), and Texas (6%).
Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for the Southern California News Group. He can be reached at jlansner@scng.com
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