Azavea Makes the 2009 Inc. Magazine 500 | 5000 List

Vol. 4 Issue 4
September 2009

Azavea Journal

Next time you drop by our Philadelphia offices to say hi, don't be surprised to find us wearing mustaches, trench coats, and conversing with our good friend Dr. Watson. For the past several months we've been sleuthing, exploring, and solving spatial mysteries. We've developed new ways to search Japanese Gardens, have traversed the entire Philadelphia map to determine the most 'walkable' neighborhoods in the city, and have added heat map 'hunch' visualizations to our HunchLab software. Our newly exercised sleuthing skills enabled us to find ourselves among the ranks of the 2009 Inc. Magazine 500|5000 list of the nation's fastest growing companies! Welcome to another edition of the Azavea Journal.

After ranking 13 on the 2009 Inner City 100 List, we are thrilled to announce that, in August, we were named one of the nation’s fastest-growing companies on the 2009 Inc. Magazine’s 500|5000 List at number 1,741 and ranked 52 in the Greater Philadelphia region, based on our 182.4 percent revenue growth over the past three years.

The 2009 Inc. 500|5000 serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the current gloomy economic situation, the aggregate revenue among the companies on the 2009 Inc. 5000 List increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy.

Read more about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000, here.