51˛čšÝ Cox Dallas 100™ Names Clavis Capital Partners Area’s Fastest Growing Entrepreneurial Business

The event marks the Caruth Institute’s 30th Dallas 100 awards ceremony. It was live-streamed this year because of COVID-19. The online presentation was facilitated by business-to-business media provider MarketScale, one of this year’s Dallas 100 honorees.

Cox News

February 18, 2021

Author: Anna Martinez

Dallas (51˛čšÝ) Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 – Clavis Capital Partners, a private investment firm with deep experience investing in, operating and growing U.S.-based industrial businesses, is the fastest-growing entrepreneurial company in the Dallas area, according to the 51˛čšÝ Cox School of Business’s Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship. The Institute’s annual Dallas 100, a celebration of the fastest-growing, privately-held businesses in the Dallas area, revealed the area’s top entrepreneurial companies in rank order from 100 to one in a virtual ceremony Thursday, Feb. 18. The event marks the Caruth Institute’s 30th Dallas 100 awards ceremony. It was live-streamed this year because of COVID-19. The online presentation was facilitated by business-to-business media provider MarketScale, one of this year’s Dallas 100 honorees.

The Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship ranks the area’s top 100 entrepreneurial companies based on percentage growth and absolute dollar growth over the previous three years, emphasizing their economic contributions to the Dallas area economy. In this year’s Dallas 100 ranking calculation, Clavis Capital Partners exceeded 1,000% growth over the last 3 years, well beyond the collective average growth of this year’s 100 companies, which totaled average growth of 106%. This year’s Dallas 100 companies basically doubled sales from 2017 to 2019, according to the Caruth Institute’s calculations. Factoring all 100 companies together, this year’s 100 companies generated over $6 billion in revenue over the past three years.

“Moreover, this year’s 100 companies created almost 6,000 jobs between them—about 600 jobs per company,” said Simon Mak, executive director of the Caruth Institute of Entrepreneurship. “Quite simply, these entrepreneurial companies are growth engines for DFW, creating thousands of jobs and pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into our economy year after year. That’s exactly why we started this annual event 30 years ago: to call attention to the critical impact the entrepreneurial spirit makes on the Dallas economy.”

The Caruth Institute, working with the accounting firm BKD, LLP examined sales from hundreds of companies for 2017 to 2019, the last year for which complete data is available. The winners represent Dallas and 14 surrounding cities. This year’s Dallas 100 program sponsors, in alphabetical order, are: BKD, LLP; Cushman & Wakefield; Dallas Business Journal; Executive Press; KRLD 1080 News Radio; Mass Mutual DFW; and Texas Capital Bank.

The Caruth Institute is planning to resume holding a traditional event to honor its 2021 Dallas 100 winners in November 2021, assuming COVID-19 protocols allow for a large-scale in-person gathering.

The top 10 fastest-growing DFW companies in 2020 were given special recognition at the event: No.1) Clavis Capital Partners, an investment firm that focuses on manufacturers of industrial products; No.2) Scout & Cellar, a direct-to-consumer producer of wine-based beverages; No.3) Provident General Contractors, a project management firm specializing in multifamily and commercial construction; No.4) Tek Leaders Inc, business intelligence solutions provider; No.5) The Crowther Group, general contractor in retail, healthcare and education; No.6) Cloud Ingenuity, providers of multi-cloud, cyber security network modernization; No.7) Lurin, real estate firm in the manufacturing sector; No.8) Compass Datacenters, providers of custom, move-in ready data centers; No.9) GridLiance, independent electricity transmission; and No.10) Improving, software development, technology management consulting and training services.

A complete list of all 51˛čšÝ Cox Dallas 100 companies for 2020, listed from one to 100, follows:

Rank

Company Name

City

1

Clavis Capital Partners

Dallas

2

Scout & Cellar

Farmers Branch

3

Provident General Contractors

Dallas

4

Tek Leaders Inc

Plano

5

The Crowther Group

Dallas

6

Cloud Ingenuity

Carrollton

7

Lurin

Dallas

8

Compass Datacenters

Dallas

9

GridLiance

Irving

10

Improving

Plano

11

CONTI Organization

Dallas

12

o9 Solutions, Inc.

Dallas

13

Critical Start

Plano

14

PICKUP Now, Inc.

Plano

15

Newline Interactive

Plano

16

TrendHR

Rockwall

17

Imaginuity

Dallas

18

OTR: On The Rocks Premium Cocktails

Dallas

19

Allata

Dallas

20

Highlands Residential Mortgage

Dallas

21

Dallas

22

Dialexa

Dallas

23

Dallas

24

Online Rewards

Richardson

25

Pediatric Home Healthcare

Dallas

26

TBX

Plano

27

Apex Dental Partners

Dallas

28

Dallas

29

Zimperium, Inc.

Dallas

30

BBG

Dallas

31

Addison

32

Sealink International Inc

Plano

33

BravoTECH

Dallas

34

5

Irving

35

HomeVestors of America, Inc.

Dallas

36

Service Fusion

Irving

37

iiPay

Dallas

38

PROLIM Global Corporation

Plano

39

ResMan LLC

Plano

40

Techstar Consulting Inc

Irving

41

Akorbi

Plano

42

Golden Tree Restaurants LLC

Richardson

43

Geoforce

Plano

44

Publishing Concepts, LP

Dallas

45

REV Robotics

Carrollton

46

Vesuvius Holdings, LLC

Frisco

47

Pharmaceutical Strategies Group (PSG)

Plano

48

Platt Cheema Richmond, PLLC

Dallas

49

Asset Panda

Frisco

50

ParkHub

Dallas

51

JP and Associates Realtors

Frisco

52

Plano

53

Pursuit Sales Solutions

Dallas

54

Anserteam Workforce Alliance

Dallas

55

Universal Display & Fixtures Company

Lewisville

56

Utility Concierge

Dallas

57

Legacy ER & Urgent Care

Plano

58

PREMIER LOGITECH, LLC

Coppell

59

Frisco

60

Dallas

61

Catalyst Health

Plano

62

Vinli, Inc

Dallas

63

Agency Partner Interactive

Addison

64

HealthMark Group

Dallas

65

M&H Property Tax Consultants, LLC

Dallas

66

TechGenies LLC

Richardson

67

PureWine Inc.

Grapevine

68

Elevate Brand Marketing

Dallas

69

Dallas

70

STRAIT

Dallas

71

Dallas

72

INK+ORO

Dallas

73

Dallas

74

Earthworks, Inc

Lillian

75

Elite Fulfillment Solutions

Dallas

76

Mr. Electric of Dallas

Dallas

77

Tolleson Wealth Management

Dallas

78

TRIPBAM, Inc.

Dallas

79

ProVision Brokerage, LLC

Dallas

80

The Pet Loss Center

Irving

81

Anders Group

Irving

82

Seven Tablets, Inc.

Addison

83

Altruas

Dallas

84

GuideIT

Dallas

85

Robokind

Dallas

86

MedCore Partners, LLC

Dallas

87

Velo ITG Holdings, LLC

Dallas

88

Aerospace Quality Research & Development

Addison

89

Addison

90

Plano

91

Spotio, Inc.

Dallas

92

Sunwest Communications, Inc.

Dallas

93

Irving

94

Nextgen Innovation Labs LLC

Frisco

95

Smart Business Concepts

Dallas

96

Appspace

Dallas

97

Emergicon LLC

Dallas

98

Signature Automation, LLC

Addison

99

Lifeblue

Plano

100

interRel Consulting Partners, LTD.

Arlington
February 18, 2021

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