2021 Fast Growth 150: The Top 25 Solution Providers
Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate.
Quick Thinking
With the global pandemic, the resulting economic upheaval and massive changes in how everyone works, the last 18 months have been a turbulent time for the IT industry and for the channel.
The pandemic created big opportunities for strategic service providers and solution providers—someone, after all, had to deliver the technology, services and support for all those remote workers. But the pandemic also brought big challenges and for solution providers growth was by no means been assured.
All the more reason to recognize those who have not just survived but thrived.
The CRN Fast Growth 150 ranks solution providers, with annual sales of at least $1 million, by their average two-year revenue growth rate.
Overall, this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 recorded an average two-year growth rate of 83 percent. That’s slower than the 101 percent growth rate for the Fast Growth 150 list in 2020 and the 147 percent growth rate for the 2019 class. The average two-year growth rate for the 2018 Fast Growth 150 was also 83 percent.
The 150 companies on this year’s list collectively generated revenue of $94.78 billion, considerably above the $37.80 billion generated by last year’s Fast Growth 150 and $55.93 billion by the 2019 class. (The cumulative revenue figure can vary widely year to year depending on the mix of small and large companies on the list.)
Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s Fast Growth 150.
25. White Rock Cybersecurity
Location: Dallas
Two-Year Growth Rate: 109.59 percent
Top Executive: James Range, President
White Rock Cybersecurity was founded in 2013 with a focus on cybersecurity and information technology. The company works with such vendor partners as Barracuda, Bitdefender, Cisco, ESET, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Retrospect, Sophos, Unitrends, Veeam, Veritas and VMware to design and manage networks and drive down total cost of ownership. White Rock offers a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity and IT solutions, along with volume licensing agreements for corporate, government, academic and nonprofit customers, to protect them from existing and emerging cybersecurity threats.
24. SinglePoint Global
Location: Ashburn, Va.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 110.97 percent
Top Executive: Gregory Browning, President, CEO
SinglePoint Global, founded in 2007, offers IT services and managed services including managed help desk, cloud services, unified communications, cybersecurity, network connectivity and colocation services to customers in the health-care, legal, technology, nonprofit, education and government markets. Customers can enlist SinglePoint Global for its unlimited U.S.-based support, real-time monitoring of IT environments, proactive notifications, antivirus and malware protection, cloud file sharing, asset and patch management, data protection and on-site escalation support services.
23. SoftwareONE North America
Location: Waukesha, Wis.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 111.36 percent
Top Executive: Ashley Gaare, President, North America
SoftwareONE is a Switzerland-based global provider of end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions that, combined with its own intellectual property and technology-driven services portfolio, help businesses develop and implement their commercial, technology and digital transformation strategies. SoftwareONE’s offerings are integrated with PyraCloud, the company’s proprietary digital platform, to give its approximately 65,000 business customers data-driven, actionable intelligence. SoftwareONE has about 7,700 employees bringing sales and service delivery capabilities to 90 countries.
22. Mvation
Location: Glen Cove, N.Y.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 111.76 percent
Top Executive: Guy Gupta, Director
Mvation is a minority-owned small business helping business and government customers with a wide range of hardware, software and IT services. Among its offerings is a complete suite of services related to mobile device software development, including helping customers develop their strategy, interact with social media, develop responsive websites and content management systems, develop digital advertising campaigns, develop mobile applications across multiple platforms, and use analytics to understand how customers are engaging with their applications.
21. Infused Innovations
Location: Kingstown, R.I.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 123.15 percent
Top Executive: Jeff Wilhelm, Founder, CEO
Infused Innovations is a Gold-level Microsoft partner with services in DevOps, data analytics, data platform, cloud platform, cloud productivity, small and midmarket cloud solutions, and Windows and devices. The solution provider is also a Microsoft Silver partner in the enterprise mobility management and security areas. The company, which also partners with Amazon Web Services, VMware, and Redpoint Global, uses its strong Microsoft relationship to provide a wide range of intelligent cloud solutions based on Azure and Microsoft Cognitive Services, modern workplace solutions around Office 365 and related offerings, and enterprise-class security with Azure Sentinel.
20. Intuitive Technology Partners
Location: Edison, N.J.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 138.10 percent
Top Executive: Jay Modh, Founder, CEO
Intuitive Technology Partners supports global enterprise clients across private and public sector verticals with a focus on solving complex business challenges around IT and digital transformation. The solution provider brings customers expertise in VMware Cloud on AWS, software-defined data centers, cloud and containerization management and automation, software-defined WAN, Scrum and Agile project management, storage and data protection, and managed IT services.
19. CloudHesive
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 140.48 percent
Top Executive: James Walker, CEO, Managing Partner
CloudHesive is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner focused on the migration, securing and managing of mission-critical workloads in AWS, including solutions built on top of Amazon Connect, Amazon Workspaces and its own managed services offering. CloudHesive in June closed a growth round of funding aimed at accelerating its pace of innovation and bringing in resources to expand operations and sales teams, better support public sector and commercial customers, and expand geographically. The company in June also entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS.
18. Mission Cloud Services
Location: El Segundo, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 141.24 percent
Top Executive: Simon Anderson, Founder, Chairman, CEO
Mission Cloud Services is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and a managed cloud service provider with expertise in launching and leveraging the power of the cloud to help businesses digitally transform. The company earlier this year launched a data, analytics and machine learning practice for businesses on AWS. And in June it launched Mission Cloud Elevate, a new service aimed at flexibly and cost-effectively scaling customers’ engineering resources through a designated pod of highly collaborative and hands-on AWS experts that adapt to evolving cloud requirements and initiatives.
17. Denali Advanced Integration
Location: Redmond, Wash.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 141.38 percent
Top Executive: Majdi Daher, Founder, CEO
Denali, founded in 1992, remains a family-owned business despite its global scale. Ranked No. 48 in the CRN Solution Provider 500 listing, Denali offers a wide range of solutions around enterprise-class data centers, networking and wireless technology, security, mobility, cloud, collaboration, distributed workforce, Internet of Things, and contact center services. The company provides managed services, managed mobile services, converged mobility and enterprise application development to customers.
16. Elevate Technology Group
Location: Portland, Ore.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 153.93 percent
Top Executive: Geoff Turner, CEO
Elevate Technology Group is a managed service provider with a full range of services, around-the-clock help desk support, remote support and remote security. The company also has a custom development team for projects ranging from database integration to creating dashboards with statistics, as well as an IT consulting and engineering team to help design and deploy VPN, firewall, routers, servers and other devices, plus secure remote access to those devices.
15. Computacenter United States
Location: Westwood, Mass.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 166.11 percent
Top Executive: Kevin Shank, President, Computacenter North America
Computacenter United States, ranked no. 27 on the CRN 2021 Solution Provider 500, is the U.S.-based office of U.K.-based Computacenter, which has offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South Africa, helping global customers with setting IT strategies, implementing solutions and managing customers’ infrastructures. The company provides consulting as well as the implementation and operation of networks and data center infrastructures on or off customers’ premises and in the cloud.
14. Converge Technology Solutions
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Two-Year Growth Rate: 182.38 percent
Top Executive: Shaun Maine, CEO
Converge Technology Solutions was founded in 2018 with a goal of bringing together multiple smaller solution providers into a single organization with the ability to share geographic locations and technical expertise. It has grown into a billion-dollar public company via the acquisitions of 21 solution providers—and counting—across the U.S. and Canada, including IBM mainframe solution provider Vicom Infinity and IBM mainframe software solution provider Infinity Systems Software in late June.
13. CPP Associates
Location: Whitehouse Station, N.J.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 187.15 percent
Top Executive: Patrick O’Dell, Managing Partner
CPP Associates is an MSP focused on implementing transformational IT solutions to help customers grow revenue, significantly cut costs, or both. The company uses an approach it calls “Infrastructure Anywhere Assessment,” which looks at the world with a cloud-first view. This includes assessing various ways of deploying cloud-like infrastructures, including private and public cloud options, to help customers maximize IT agility and increase utilization while meeting business requirements. Assessments typically take two to three weeks.
12. Ntiva
Location: McLean, Va.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 189.44 percent
Top Executive: Steven Freidkin, CEO
Ntiva provides IT services and support, IT consulting, cybersecurity solutions, cloud services and business telephone systems to commercial businesses and nonprofit organizations. Founded in 2004, Ntiva has grown organically and through acquisitions, expanding its reach across the country into legal, finance, education, health-care and government industries. Ntiva has a strong focus on building a team of tech talent, using state-of-the-art technology platforms, and automating routine services to enhance customer productivity.
11. DVBE Technology Group
Location: Sacramento, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 226.34 percent
Top Executive: Richard McKinnon, CEO
DVBE Technology Group specializes in delivering professional IT consulting and staffing services for both the public and private sectors. The company’s services and capabilities extend to cloud technologies, DevOps, security, storage, telecommunications, integration and project management. Founder and CEO Richard McKinnon is a U.S. Navy veteran with more than 20 years of experience providing technical support services to public sector organizations, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies.
10. nClouds
Location: San Francisco
Two-Year Growth Rate: 235.27 percent
Top Executive: JT Giri, Co-Founder, CEO
nClouds is a provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services that works with companies of all sizes, in all industries, including startups and growth companies in Silicon Valley. nClouds services include AWS consulting, cloud migration, data and analytics, and site reliability engineering. The company’s diverse team includes engineers, architects, developers, project managers and marketing professionals.
9. ImageNet Consulting
Location: Oklahoma City, Okla.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 241.77 percent
Top Executive: Juan Fernandez, VP, Managed IT Services
ImageNet Consulting started as Southwest Typewriter Company in 1956 but moved away from the typewriter business in 1979 when it joined the imaging wave. In 1994 it began providing its customers with devices that could both print and copy with fax and color capabilities, which quickly moved to scanning capabilities in the early 2000s. It soon expanded to hardware and software to overall manage and archive electronic documents. Today it offers digital displays, managed services and 3-D printers for education, finance, government, health-care, manufacturing and nonprofit industries.
8. BayInfoTech
Location: Dublin, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 247.97 percent
Top Executive: Maulik Shyani, CEO
BayInfoTech provides cloud enablement, network solutions and integration and automation services. As a Cisco partner, BayInfoTech offers a variety of solutions based on Cisco technologies such as secure SD-WAN, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Workload Optimization Management (CWOM). The MSP has a strong focus on giving back to the community through local nonprofits such as Love Never Fails, an organization that helps underserved individuals with job training and life skills.
7. Nordicom Technologies
Location: Novi, Mich.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 263.68 percent
Top Executive: Miles Olson, CEO
Nordicom Technologies offers a variety of services including internet and networking solutions, business voice solutions, cybersecurity, enterprise mobility solutions, Internet of Things and cloud solutions. As an AT&T Platinum Elite solution provider, Nordicom Technologies focuses on multisite engagements with AT&T’s portfolio of products, services and technologies. Other vendor partners include Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and VMware, among others that help service the hospitality, medical, industrial, finance and public sector industries.
6. MIS3 US
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Two-Year Growth Rate: 300.00 percent
Top Executive: Neil Mistry, Founder, CEO
MIS3 (Managing Information Systems 3 US) specializes in business transformation through IT modernization. With a focus on helping customers reduce their technology footprint, MIS3 provides a 360-degree view of IT with an application-centric philosophy. Through partners such as NetApp, AWS, Rubrik and CrowdStrike, MIS3 strives to understand their customers’ businesses to better execute services and put forth a defined digital transformation strategy with an emphasis on its four core pillars: customer engagement, employee empowerment, optimizing operations and automation, and brand transformation.
5. Network to Code
Location: New York
Two-Year Growth Rate: 319.30 percent
Top Executive: John Marchese, CEO
Network to Code is a leader in the network automation field, offering a variety of professional and consulting services and training for network automation, DevOps for networking, and on how the network can be operated with an infrastructure-as-code mindset. Founded in 2014, Network to Code helps customers eliminate manual inefficiencies and operating costs, which helps IT personnel deliver services faster resulting in a quicker time to market, faster recognition of revenue and increased customer satisfaction.
4. Omada Technologies
Location: Portsmouth, N.H.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 372.42 percent
Top Executive: Richard Stover, Co-Founder; Director, Finance, Operations
Omada Technologies was launched in 2017 to help customers leverage software-defined, hyper-converged and cloud technologies through partnerships with Nutanix, Netscout, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk and many others. Omada sells solutions around next-generation networking, information security, data protection and storage—all wrapped in consultation, implementation, vendor/contract and assessment/audit services.
3. AHEAD
Location: Chicago
Two-Year Growth Rate: 535.21 percent
Top Executive: Daniel Adamany, Founder, CEO
AHEAD, founded in 2007, originally focused on the data center and has expanded into strategic consulting and managed services in cloud, security and automation. The company merged with Data Blue and Sovereign Systems in 2019 and acquired RoundTower Technologies in 2020. Through its platforms AHEAD offers education and strategy development, complex system deployments, design planning and ongoing operational management through partnerships with AWS, Azure, VMware, Cisco, Dell and others.
2. Valeo Networks
Location: Rockledge, Fla.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 560.71 percent
Top Executive: Travis Mack, CEO
Valeo Networks works to enhance cloud migration, security and server virtualization through vendor partners such as Cisco, Dell, Datto, HP and VMware. Its services help businesses looking to outsource more IT infrastructure and application management, in turn reducing total cost. With more than 20 years in business, Valeo offers 24/7 monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, cloud solutions and vendor management services, and serves small and midsize businesses; state, county and municipal governments; and nonprofit organizations.
1. Clutch Solutions
Location: Gilbert, Ariz.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 744.11 percent
Top Executive: Garrette Backie, President
Clutch Solutions has more than 20 years of experience as a solution providers and offers expertise in security, networking, analytics, cloud solutions and mobility. The company partners with a multitude of companies such as Microsoft, Nutanix, Dell, Cisco and VMware and more than 1,000 OEMs. Clutch Solutions’ goal is to bring a selective combination of partners, products and forward-thinking technology to create success for business and government customers in a turn-key solution.