2020 Dallas 100 Award Ceremony



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 SMU 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 SMU 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 CallBox Storage LLC. Dallas 22 Dialexa Dallas 23 Qentelli Solutions Dallas 24 Online Rewards Richardson 25 Pediatric Home Healthcare Dallas 26 TBX Plano 27 Apex Dental Partners Dallas 28 Vista Bank Dallas 29 Zimperium, Inc. Dallas 30 BBG Dallas 31 CommunityMed Urgent Care Systems LLC 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 Wildcat Lending 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 Nepris, Inc Frisco 60 Emler Swim School 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 Sendero Dallas 70 STRAIT Dallas 71 MarketScale Dallas 72 INK+ORO Dallas 73 Home Tax Solutions 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 Lone Star Analysis Addison 90 ISHIR Plano 91 Spotio, Inc. Dallas 92 Sunwest Communications, Inc. Dallas 93 MMC Group, LP 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