90 Houston-area companies make 2021 Inc. 5000 list - Houston Business Journal (2024)

At least 90 companies on this year's Inc. 5000 list are based in the greater Houston area — and more than 40 of them are repeat honorees.

Inc. ranks companies on the list by revenue growth from 2017 to 2020.

Only one of the local companies cracked the top 100: Homestead Brands, a family-owned e-commerce firm in Humble that sells various brands of multifunctional furniture. The company, owned and founded by brothers Brenden and Kyle Marquardt, took the No. 98 spot with 3,916% revenue growth over three years. The company was founded in 2008, according to Inc.

Brenden Marquardt leads Homestead Brands' supply chain, customer experience and finance, according to the website. Before forming Homestead, he worked as an investment analyst at Merrill Lynch and Rice University's $6 billion endowment fund. He also worked as a business development manager for Kinder Morgan. Kyle Marquardt leads the company's marketing and corporate strategy. Before launching Homestead, Kyle worked as a consultant at management firm Bain & Co., led the North America business strategic planning for W. W. Grainger (NYSE: GWW) and served as the head of transformation design and strategy at Spanish airline Vueling Airlines in Barcelona.

"Our success has been a slow and steady journey over the last several years: in 2018 we doubled, in 2019 we quadrupled, and in 2020 we quintupled," Kyle Marquardt told the Houston Business Journal. "We were on a great growth trajectory prior to the pandemic, but the lockdowns created more awareness and demand for our product (Murphy beds) as people looked for ways to make their indoor spaces more functional. While we had that tailwind in 2020, the pandemic in 2021 has created serious shortages of the type of wood we use to make our beds, which has led to limited supply and cost increases for us. Even with that consideration, we’re on track to double or triple again in 2021."

Overall, the median revenue growth of the 90 Houston-area companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 was 191% — up 41 percentage points from last year's 150%. The previous year's list had 110 Houston-area companies.

The median revenue growth for all 5,000 companies on the list was 167%. The Houston companies' combined revenue for 2020 totals $7.3 billion, about 2.9% of the total for all 5,000 companies.

Click here to read more about all of the companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000, including their leaders, industries, innovations and more.

Here are the Houston companies on this year's list and their three-year revenue growth:

No. 98: Homestead Brands (Humble) –– 3,916%
No.120: Rayne Staffing –– 3,390%
No.141: Endo1 Partners–– 2,936%
No.165: ReMedi Health Solutions ––2,547%
No. 184: Zulie Venture Inc. (Stafford) —2,283% (repeat honoree)
No.254: Cinch Kit –– 1,801%
No. 289: Blackbuck Resources Energy –– 1,616%
No. 295: Einstein Associates Consumer Products & Services (Stafford) ––1,562%
No. 620 Scalable Brands (Stafford) –– 777% (repeat honoree)
No. 625: Bagel Dots –– 772%
No. 662: Big Country Maintenance (Tomball) –– 733%
No. 686: Garrison Construction Group –– 711% (repeat honoree)
No. 773: Holland Parker –– 640% (repeat honoree)
No.792: Centric Advisors –– 619%
No. 805: Friendly Faces Home Health & Senior Care –– 602%
No.868: Oakdale Mortgage (Sugar Land) –– 561%
No. 908: First Primary Care –– 534%
No. 1,009: Belvoir Real Estate Group –– 479%
No. 1,101: Best Case Leads –– 441% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,130: XLR8 Delivery –– 430%
No. 1,188: Onit –– 408% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,263: ChangeStaffing –– 381% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,284: GoCo.io –– 374%
No. 1,298: Instafuel (Bellaire) –– 369% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,335: Flocknote (Spring) –– 357% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,356: Odyssey Engineering Group –– 352%
No.1,424: Velentium (Katy) –– 333% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,470: I Buy Beauty. –– 323% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,478: Victory Solar (Stafford) –– 321%
No. 1,521: Ledge Lounger (Brookshire) –– 309%
No. 1,663: Sira Consulting –– 276%
No.1,697: PF WaterWorks –– 270%
No. 1,708 Advance LED Solution –– 269% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,722: Oak Harvest Investment Services –– 266%
No. 1,737: CIVE –– 264% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,789: Chance Brown Real Estate –– 254%
No. 1,794: Double M Laser products –– 254% (repeat honoree)
No. 1,798: Mpact Beverage Solutions –– 253%
No. 1,980: VIR Ventures (Richmond) –– 224% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,118: Energy Ogre –– 206% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,128: US Med-Equip –– 204% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,142: Amstill Roofing Company –– 203% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,194: Trademark Engine –– 197%
No. 2,218: Total Pump Solutions –– 193% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,228: Recruiting Source International (Katy) –– 192% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,256: Nash Industries –– 189% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,302: Netsync Network Solutions –– 185% (repeat honoree)
No.2,560: M7 Services –– 162% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,574: Illuminate Vintage –– 161%
No. 2,614: Spotlight Energy –– 157%
No. 2,654: NRL Mortgage –– 154%
No. 2,681: Decode Digital Marketing ––151% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,718: Swyft FIlings –– 149% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,741: Sarvicus –– 147% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,852: Gulf Coast Crating –– 138% (repeat honoree)
No. 2,977: AcctTwo Shared Services –– 129% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,075: G&A Partners –– 123% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,114: SIA Solutions –– 121% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,133: VistaVu Solutions Ltd. –– 120%
No. 3,184: Lexitas –– 116% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,212: Dhanani Private Equity Group (Sugar Land) –– 114% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,259: InterLinc Mortgage –– 111%
No. 3,283: J-Tech Digital (Sugar Land) –– 110% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,347: Rockstar Capital –– 106% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,360: Cambay Consulting (Katy) –– 106% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,408: RSB Environmental –– 103% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,428: Signorelli Co. (The Woodlands) –– 102%
No. 3,442: A&C Plastics –– 101%
No. 3,461: Ecosystem Planning and Restoration (Tomball) –– 100% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,512 Gem Food Services Corp. (Rosenberg) –– 97%
No. 3,541: ZTERS –– 96% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,790: JD Precision Plumbing (Conroe) –– 86%
No. 3,825: Select Title –– 84%
No. 3,868: Karya Property Management –– 82%
No. 3,960: Method Architecture –– 79% (repeat honoree)
No. 3,985: Chief Outsiders –– 78% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,040: Softeq Development Corp. –– 76% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,098: TransTex Treating –– 73% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,231: Poetic Digital –– 69%
No. 4,246: Encompass Lending Group LP (Katy) –– 68%
No. 4,279: Industrial Air Flow Dynamics (Cleveland) –– 67%
No. 4,359: VC5 Consulting –– 64% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,447: Tanches Global Management –– 61% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,524: Techwave Consulting –– 58% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,786: Modality Solutions (League City) –– 48% (repeat honoree)
No. 4,801: Forthea. –– 47%
No. 4,832: Air Innovations –– 46%
No. 4,836: Tanglewood Legacy Advisors –– 45%
No. 4,892: GSK Solutions (Katy) –– 43%
No. 4,896: E Contractors USA (Sugar Land) –– 43%