2026 Corporate Report 100

1. benefitbay, 1st Year
Growth: 873.78%  
Average Annual Growth Rate: 291.26% 
Gross Revenue 2025: $8,493,494
Gross Revenue 2022: $872,215        
Full-time Employees: 100

Four years before its trek to be the fastest-growing company in the Kansas City region, benefitbay had roughly $300,000 in the bank, $400,000 in liabilities, and a board preparing to wind it down. It was 5 o’clock on a Friday when the directors handed Brandy Thompson, then the chief operating officer, their terms: Come back Monday with a survival plan—the bare minimum of people the company could run on—and take 30 days to raise rescue capital. The alternative was keeping just enough staff to offboard the customers and turn out the lights. The Omaha-launched startup had burned through $4 million in its first year, hiring 33 people in three months while chasing a huge vision. “Year one, I was pretty sure we were just going to run into the wall—full speed, a thousand miles an hour,” Thompson recalls. The board removed the founding CEO and turned to Thompson, a Kansas City finance executive whose résumé ran through Visit KC and NetStandard—and who had never raised a dime.  “I’ve never led sales, I’ve never raised capital, I don’t have wealthy friends and family,” she told them. Their answer, as she remembers it: We believe in you. You’re a great storyteller, and there’s nothing to lose. Let’s give it a try. She built a deck and pitched her head off for three weeks. On day 26 of 30, a bite: Scott Shane, a Case Western Reserve professor of economics and an entrepreneurship guru himself, whose fund was named, fittingly, Comeback Capital. The $500,000 lifeline came on bruising terms—a 10-to-1 stock split, and 90 days without pay for the executives, to prove they were all-in. Thompson took the CEO seat, stretched the money six months, then landed Invest Nebraska—whose $250,000 required her to match it with angel money in 60 days. What she was rescuing was a bet on ICHRA—the defined-contribution model that lets employers fund fixed health-care dollars while employees choose their own coverage. Benefitbay’s mission was building exclusively for brokers while competitors sold direct to employers at fatter margins. “Investors were saying, ‘She’s going the wrong way,’” Thompson says. But the math was leverage, not margin: “We find one agent, we have a champion. We find one agency, we have thousands of champions.” With only three salespeople until this year, broker-partners did the selling—starting with savvy Northeast agencies that rivals avoided. Those firms were acquired into national brokerages, seeding ICHRA expertise inside the giants. In March 2023, Thompson brought the company home to Kansas City, where remote job postings drew hundreds of applicants, Hub International lent office space the budget couldn’t cover, and KC Rise tracked the company for two years before investing ahead of its Series A. The reference ladder climbed from 20-life employers to 300, to 1,000, to enterprise accounts—with one executive telling peers that Thompson’s team had saved it $1.5 million. Revenue followed as did hiring. Only halfway through 2026, the company now has 100 employees.  The next hurdle? “Scale—the messy middle,” she says. But she isn’t shy about the ceiling: “benefitbay with a B—a billion. We’ll put it out there.”

2. Aspen Funds, 1st Year
Growth: 554.37%
Gross Revenue 2025: $5,194,605
Gross Revenue 2022: $793,828
Average Annual Growth Rate: 184.79%
Full-time Employees: 35

Alternative investments are having a moment, and Aspen Funds has positioned itself squarely in it. The Overland Park fund manager—now overseeing more than $800 million in assets across multiple asset classes—applies what it calls a macro-driven approach, identifying strategies positioned to perform across economic cycles for high-net-worth and institutional investors. The growth path wasn’t a straight line: revenue dipped in fiscal 2024 before more than doubling in 2025, and that year-over-year surge by itself was enough to propel the firm to the stratosphere of fast-growing companies in the region. The firm credits strong investment performance, concierge-level client service, key business-development hires and institutional back-office support that made the platform scalable—and points to alignment as its differentiator, investing in every offering on the same terms as its investor partners.

3. Propio Language Services, 14th Year
Growth: 497.92%
Gross Revenue 2025: $466,024,036
Gross Revenue 2022: $77,940,881
Average Annual Growth Rate: 165.97%
Full-time Employees: 680

This Corporate Report 100 fixture returns to the top tier—again–this time with nearly half a billion dollars in revenue. Propio Language Services, the Overland Park firm connecting clients to a network of more than 20,000 linguists across 300-plus languages, grew from $78 million to $466 million over the most recent measurement period, a run the company attributes to both acquisition and organic strength. Key deals—Akorbi, United Language Group and ASL Services—expanded its reach across health care, government, education, legal and financial sectors, while its remote interpretation business grew organically to become the second-largest in the world, company officials proudly declare. Industry research firm Nimdzi vaulted Propio to No. 10 on its Top 100 Language Service Providers ranking, citing the largest revenue increase among the 100 largest LSPs. CEO Marco Assis came on board in 2017 as CFO, acquired the company two years later, and has set out to build a juggernaut in a niche that’s vital to supporting global business transactions and communications.

4. Bison State Bank, 1st Year
Growth: 380.97%
Gross Revenue 2025: $11,803,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $2,454,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 126.99%
Full-time Employees: 44

Bison State Bank’s rise among the region’s fastest-growing companies reflects a strategy built less on chasing size than on serving businesses that increasingly find themselves overlooked by much larger competitors. Chairman Ryan Wiebe says industry consolidation has created opportunities for community banks willing to focus on the $1 million to $3 million commercial relationships that often fall below the threshold of super-regional lenders. “This is where banking and relationships happen,” he says, noting that those borrowers value local decision-making and bankers who know the people behind the balance sheet—not simply the numbers on it. Maintaining that relationship-first culture while steadily increasing the bank’s own scale has allowed Bison to grow without sacrificing its identity. Wiebe argues that success comes from finding the “happy medium”: large enough to assume calculated risks with strong capital and underwriting, yet small enough to preserve the flexibility and personal service that distinguish community banking. That formula helped fuel Bison’s exceptional growth since 2022.

5. Cable Dahmer Automotive Group, 9th Year
Growth: 358.78%
Gross Revenue 2025: $3,700,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $806,481,186
Average Annual Growth Rate: 119.59%
Full-time Employees: 1,000

When we say Cable Dahmer Automotive Group is a case study in fast growth, it’s not hyperbole: Last year, auto tech/consultancy Urban Science broke down the way the Kansas City vehicle behemoth was applying technology to its internal processes tied to customer satisfaction and defection rates, raising the former while cutting down on the latter. That embrace of technology covered the traditional business model. What really drove growth in recent years has been the aggressive move into fleet sales and a national vehicle-leasing element. Both added unprecedented scale to an operation that began when Ledezma secured full ownership of his first dealership back in 2002, five years after becoming a minority partner. The enterprise now has nine dealerships that straddle the state line, flying the flags of Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Kia. It recently opened its fleet and commercial-vehicle service center at 135th and Holmes, adding another aspect to its range of services.

6. Lead Bank, 8th Year
Growth: 355.46%
Gross Revenue 2025: $291,640,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $64,032,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 111.48%
Full-time Employees: 302

Nearly topping the list of banks that bashed their way into the 2026 CR100 is this Downtown bank that has evolved in ways most of its peers haven’t. While the bulk of institutions on the fast-growth list this year leveraged interest rates that began to soar in 2022—most banks do make their money by making loans—Lead Bank took another tack. Under the leadership of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Jackie Reses, who acquired the one-time community bank in 2022 for a reported $56 million, it has become a power player in the fintech space, powering other financial services nationwide. Reses, who’s been hailed as the most powerful woman in American finance, rose to prominence with her leadership role at Square, helped drive the bank’s implementation of an API-driven infrastructure for tech, crypto, and e-commerce companies. Today, the institution boasts a $1.5 billion valuation and handles embedded finance operations for giants like Affirm, Stripe, and Visa.

7. Third Avenue Events, 3rd Year
Growth: 355.30%
Gross Revenue 2025: $9,212,276
Gross Revenue 2022: $2,023,325
Average Annual Growth Rate: 111.76%
Full-time Employees: 14

The live-events business came roaring back from its pandemic near-death experience, and few in this market capitalized quite the way Annie Rector and Kristin Hems have done with Third Avenue Events, a success string that continues with a third straight Top 10 appearance. The Leawood firm continues to soar on the strength of full-service event planning and management: hotel sourcing, contract negotiation, transportation and attendee travel, audio-visual production, branding and theme development, staffing for large-scale programs. The formula, say Hems and Rector: first, it was capitalizing on the return of in-person gatherings as life returned to normal after the pandemic threw the global meeting-space sector a curve back in 2020, then working to deepen demand from existing clients and extend services to new ones—all while keeping the client focused on content and strategic messaging, and leaving flawless execution to a team of just 14.

8. Lula Smarter Property Maintenance, 2nd Year
Growth: 348.42%
Gross Revenue 2025: $40,063,938
Gross Revenue 2022: $8,934,393
Average Annual Growth Rate: 116.14%
Full-time Employees: 73

Property managers don’t want to chase plumbers; Lula built a marketplace so they don’t have to. The Overland Park company connects property-management firms with a vetted network of contractors and tradespeople across major U.S. markets, handling work-order dispatch, contractor management and payment across everything from handyman work and plumbing to painting and HVAC—earning its keep on a marketplace take rate. Growth came from expanding both the contractor network and the geographic footprint, with gross merchandise volume climbing on new property-management customers and rising work-order volume from existing ones. The launch of Foresight, a SaaS product for property managers, added a second revenue stream, and Series A backing from PeakSpan Capital and RET Ventures funded product, contractor onboarding and go-to-market muscle.

9. Brain Group, 2nd Year
Growth: 270.79%
Gross Revenue 2025: $35,647,120
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,613,754
Average Annual Growth Rate: 90.26%
Full-time Employees: 15

While institutional capital fled the office real-estate market in recent years, Andrew Brain and Chad Sneed took the opposite tack and ran straight toward it. The Kansas City firm’s strategy—identify and acquire underutilized properties, improve them, and create conditions where tenants, investors and the company all prosper—has been applied most aggressively in exactly the asset class others abandoned. The company says consistent leasing growth in the face of economic headwinds is what kept investors and partners confident enough to fund continued acquisitions. The revenue arc backs the contrarian thesis: after a dip in fiscal 2024, the dynamic duo and their team of 15 nearly tripled the top line in 2025, closing the period at $35.6 million. Neither of these two should be strangers to Ingram’s readers; both were first recognized as up-and-comers with our 20 in Their Twenties awards (Sneed in 2009 and Brain in 2017). 

10. Heritage Bank, 1st Year
Growth: 268.87%
Gross Revenue 2025: $14,161,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,839,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 89.96%
Full-time Employees: 28

The secret to revenue growth at Topeka’s Heritage Bank since 2022 isn’t much of a secret to anyone who has been following community-banking trends nationwide and regionally in recent years. The new small-bank paradigm is get big or risk it all. How? In the case of Tony Konrade and his team at Heritage, it’s come via expansion through strategic mergers and a commitment to local ownership. To overcome organic growth limits, the bank has aggressively scaled up while keeping decision-making in the Shawnee County community. In addition to capitalizing on a sharpened focus within commercial real estate, the bank finalized an acquisition of fellow Topeka institution Fidelity State Bank, a deal that doubled Heritage’s assets to approximately $300 million, grew the employee base, and expanded its local footprint to three branch locations. Konrade has also made a priority of preserving local relationships, keeping all branches open and retaining employees from both organizations.

11. Renovating KC Design + Remodel, 1st Year
Growth: 254.28%
Gross Revenue 2025: $10,892,688
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,074,624
Average Annual Growth Rate: 84.76%
Full-time Employees: 28

Brothers Steven and Ben Ross founded this brash startup in 2020—hardly an auspicious year to launch anything. Under their vision and leadership, this family-owned Lenexa design-build firm rode the remodeling wave to its Top 10 debut. Renovating KC integrates in-house design, project management and construction under one roof, guiding kitchen, bathroom, basement and whole-home renovations from 3D renderings and curated material selections through final construction. The growth story is deliberately unglamorous: standardized workflows, project-management systems and dedicated project teams that made timelines predictable—which drove client satisfaction, which in turn drove the referral engine of past clients, trade partners and real estate professionals that the company credits as its primary source of new business. Scaling the internal team without sacrificing craftsmanship, the duo’s crew of 28 more than tripled revenue over the period.

12. Southwind, 5th Year
Growth: 238.70%
Gross Revenue 2025: $364,505,103
Gross Revenue 2022: $107,618,854
Average Annual Growth Rate: 79.54%
Full-time Employees: 1,949

Home services is a fragmented business, and Southwind’s answer is a portfolio of them: multiple service brands scaled across North America under one operational playbook. The Mission company—now nearly 2,000 employees strong—credits expansion into new and existing markets, heavy investment in leadership development and talent, and data-driven decision-making paired with local market expertise for growth that carried revenue from $108 million to $364 million.

13. Flint Group, 3rd Year 
Growth: 235.57%
Gross Revenue 2025: $403,057,756
Gross Revenue 2022: $120,112,032
Average Annual Growth Rate: 78.52%
Full-time Employees: 1,127

One of the largest companies on this list, is nearly unique with its business model: Flint Group is a fast-growing residential home-services investor and holding company headquartered in Kansas City. Founded in 2019, it acquires and manages HVAC, plumbing, and electrical brands across the country, while maintaining local legacies.

14. Complete Legal, 1st Year
Growth: 231.17%
Gross Revenue 2025: $12,943,255
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,908,354
Average Annual Growth Rate: 77.06%
Full-time Employees: 5

Litigation has gone digital, and Complete Legal has turned that reality into a national business. The Mission-based eDiscovery and litigation-support firm integrated a merger that expanded its client base and capabilities, then pushed beyond Kansas City with operations in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, with eDiscovery, managed review, forensic collections and litigation support services.

15. Eskie + Associates, 2nd Year 
Growth: 213.79%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,568,950
Gross Revenue 2022: $500,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 71.26%
Full-time Employees: 7

Every major construction project needs someone in the owner’s corner, and that’s precisely the seat Eskie + Associates occupies. The Leawood firm—founded by veteran developer Dennis Eskie, with Erin Merrill as managing partner—serves as advocate, adviser and owner’s representative through planning, design and construction.

16. I-Solutions, 2nd Year 
Growth: 206.16%  
Gross Revenue 2025: $63,065,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $20,599,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 68.72%
Full-time Employees: 20

Infrastructure Solutions (I-Solutions) is a heavy civil and design-build contractor based in Lenexa. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GBA Companies, it provides turnkey construction services across the Kansas City metro. The firm specializes in public infrastructure, roadway reconstruction, decorative concrete flatwork, and complex utility or sewer installations.

17. Henderson Building Solutions, 18th Year  
Growth: 203.38%
Gross Revenue 2025: $95,334,565
Gross Revenue 2022: $31,423,982
Average Annual Growth Rate: 67.79%
Full-time Employees: 90

“We make buildings work” is the pitch, and the metro’s construction supercycle has supplied plenty of buildings. The Lenexa firm—the construction-management and commissioning arm of the Henderson family of companies, alongside national building-systems designer Henderson Engineers—offers design, construction and maintenance and a broad range of services.

18. UMB Financial Corp., 3rd Year 
Growth: 191.15% 
Gross Revenue 2025: $3,957,982,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,359,440,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 63.72%
Full-time Employees: 4,234

The oldest name on this list made its biggest move ever during the measurement window. UMB closed its acquisition of Heartland Financial USA in January 2025—the largest deal in the Kansas City institution’s 112-year history—expanding its footprint from eight to 13 states, lifting assets past $68 billion and nearly doubling its retail deposit base.

19. KMG Hotels, 3rd Year 
Growth: 187.50%
Gross Revenue 2025: $230,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $80,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 62.50%
Full-time Employees: 500-plus

Kansas City’s post-pandemic event calendar has been kind to hoteliers, and few local operators are positioned across as many flags as KMG Hotels. Founded in 2000 and led by brothers Jay and Sanjay Koshiya, the North Kansas City company owns and operates 11 hotels representing Marriott, Hilton, IHG and Choice franchises—more than 1,600 rooms in all—with additional properties in development.

20. Mark One Electric, 2nd Year 
Growth: 181.20%
Gross Revenue 2025: $201,324,406
Gross Revenue 2022: $71,595,578
Average Annual Growth Rate: 60.40%
Full-time Employees: 550

Kansas City is hosting some of the largest construction projects in the country—the Panasonic battery plant, a wave of data centers—and Mark One Electric is wired into them. The woman-owned, family-led electrical contractor, which recently marked its 50th anniversary, has teamed with fellow contractors to handle the region’s project volume, proving local firms have the bandwidth for work at scale. Revenue nearly tripled, topping $201 million.

21. Arise Homes, 3rd Year 
Growth: 177.96%
Gross Revenue 2025: $34,900,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $12,555,541
Average Annual Growth Rate: 59.32%
Full-time Employees: 33

This mission-driven, residential homebuilder specializes in building durable, energy-efficient, ranch-style homes. They focus on low-maintenance living by using full brick-and-stone exteriors. By maintaining steady production and strict 1,350-point inspection checklists, Arise Homes delivers high-quality, long-lasting construction at accessible prices.

22. Cornerstone Bank, 3rd Year 
Growth: 175.77%
Gross Revenue 2025: $27,412,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,940,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 58.59%
Full-time Employees: 31

The rate cycle that squeezed borrowers was generous to lenders, and few rode it harder than Cornerstone Bank. The Overland Park institution—with $501 million in assets under holding company Cornerstone Bancshares—logged among the strongest gains among the community banks on this year’s list, planted squarely in Johnson County’s growth corridor.

23. Bank of Odessa, 3rd Year 
Growth: 172.05%
Gross Revenue 2025: $43,604,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $16,028,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 57.35%
Full-time Employees: 55

A century-old formula—gather deposits, lend locally—still compounds for Bank of Odessa, the $650 million-asset institution serving eastern Jackson and Lafayette counties. Its growth was driven as its loan book repriced through the rate cycle. Its 2.05 percent return on assets ranks among the strongest of any bank on this year’s list, in an industry where a single percentage point is considered good.

24. NvisionKC, 2nd Year 
Growth: 171.24%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,494,980
Gross Revenue 2022: $551,175
Average Annual Growth Rate: 57.08%
Full-time Employees: 6

Founded in a pandemic and forged in Microsoft’s stack, NvisionKC returns after last year’s Top 10 debut. Grace Ahn launched the minority- and woman-owned IT consultancy in 2020; today its team builds SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, automation and AI solutions for clients including Jackson County and the city of Leawood, and it was the KC Chamber’s 2023 Emerging Small Business of the Year.

25. Airshare, 3rd Year 
Growth: 165.71%
Gross Revenue 2025: $378,019,690
Gross Revenue 2022: $142,265,619
Average Annual Growth Rate: 55.24%
Full-time Employees: 499

Private aviation kept climbing long after the pandemic surge that launched it, and Overland Park-based Airshare rode the updraft. The fractional and managed private-jet provider led by Jon Owen has scored twin recognition, both here and as it has climbed Ingram’s 100 list of top private companies in tandem, moving from No. 85 to No. 72 in a year.

26. Sara Software Systems, 7th Year 
Growth: 162.68%
Gross Revenue 2025: $26,375,838
Gross Revenue 2022: $10,041,223
Average Annual Growth Rate: 54.23%
Full-time Employees: DD

Federal IT modernization is a marathon of credentials, and Olathe-based Sara Software Systems has collected the full set: SBA 8(a) status, CMMI Maturity Level 3 for both development and services, and a trio of ISO certifications. Founded in 2004 and woman- and minority-owned under CEO Maninder Kaur, the firm delivers application modernization, cybersecurity, cloud and agile transformation for federal agencies and commercial clients.

27. CJ Industries, 4th Year 
Growth: 152.41%
Gross Revenue 2025: $39,489,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $15,645,000
Average Annual Growth Rate:  50.80%
Full-time Employees: 105

After more than two decades in construction, Mindy Rocha founded CJ Industries in 2013; the region’s industrial building boom has since done its part. The Kansas City, Kan., firm—certified woman- and minority-owned in both Kansas and Missouri—self-performs mechanical, plumbing, millwright and general construction work for industrial and commercial clients.

28. Populous, 3rd Year 
Growth: 146.85%
Gross Revenue 2025: $552,400,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $223,780,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 48.95%
Full-time Employees: 1,328

A global stadium-building boom runs through Kansas City, and Populous—the KC-born design practice behind many of the world’s highest-profile sports and entertainment venues—has been flying high. World Cup preparations, arena renovations and an expanding live-entertainment portfolio have kept the pipeline full.

29. Electrical Corp. of America, 1st Year 
Growth: 141.22%
Gross Revenue 2025: $313,592,071
Gross Revenue 2022: $130,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 47.07%
Full-time Employees: 160

The same construction supercycle powering the metro’s electrical trades shows up emphatically in Raytown, where Electrical Corp. of America is supercharged by a lean force of 160 employees. Led by Jason King, ECA returns to Ingram’s 100 orbit after prior appearances in 2019 and 2022, this time with revenue per employee that would make most contractors blush.

30. Generator Studio, 7th Year 
Growth: 136.94%
Gross Revenue 2025: $12,436,856
Gross Revenue 2022: $5,248,894
Average Annual Growth Rate: 45.65%
Full-time Employees: 31

The global venue-building boom runs through the Crossroads, where Generator Studio—the Kansas City architecture and interiors firm founded in 2009, pairs hospitality-driven design with sports, workplace and residential work. Partners Tom Proebstle and Mike Kress have designed for sports franchises since the mid-1990s, creating AIA Kansas City’s 2022 Firm of the Year, and a four-time “Best Place to Work in Sports.”

31. Alexander Mechanical, 1st Year 
Growth: 136.36%
Gross Revenue 2025: $52,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $22,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 45.45%
Full-time Employees: 87

Bill Alexander spent 22 years as a union pipefitter before founding Alexander Mechanical in 1998; the family firm—daughter Tenle Bryant serves as CFO—has since grown into a full-service mechanical contractor working commercial, industrial, institutional and government projects across Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Tennessee. Roughly half its volume is design-build work.

32. RE/Max State Line + Elite Realtors, 4th Year   
Growth: 133.23%
Gross Revenue 2025: $14,905,179
Gross Revenue 2022: $6,390,825
Average Annual Growth Rate: 44.41%
Full-time Employees: 138 (agents)

Led by broker-owner David Nichols, this residential realty enterprise has produced unique momentum stems from combining seamless bi-state market coverage with hands-on agent coaching, advanced AI training, and a deep culture of agent accountability. Those have combined to produce one of the region’s biggest companies in that space.

33. HG Consult, 2nd Year 
Growth: 128.31%
Gross Revenue 2025: $25,000,178
Gross Revenue 2022: $10,950,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 42.77%
Full-time Employees: 33

Specializing in civil engineering and transportation planning, this Kansas City firm is led by President Earl Harrison Jr. It provides engineering, roadway and bridge design, water infrastructure, and construction inspection services for municipal and transportation clients. Its rapid growth is fueled by its certified DBE/MBE/SBE status, which positions it as a highly sought-after partner for major federal and state-funded infrastructure projects requiring diverse subconsultant participation.

34. Good Energy Solutions, 5th Year 
Growth: 125.52%
Gross Revenue 2025: $16,782,416
Gross Revenue 2022: $7,441,727
Average Annual Growth Rate: 41.84%
Full-time Employees: 64

A federal deadline made 2025 a land-rush year for residential solar: the elimination of the 30 percent tax credit sent home-owners racing to install before it expired, and Lawrence-based Good Energy Solutions nearly doubled revenue in response. The solar and electrical contractor also acquired Laven Electric of Leavenworth in 2024, expanding its commercial division.

35. Exceptional Waste Solutions, 3rd Year 
Growth: 120.36%
Gross Revenue 2025: $7,438,567
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,375,598
Average Annual Growth Rate: 40.12%
Full-time Employees: 5

Exceptional Waste Solutions is a premier waste-management consulting firm headquartered in Riverside, while serving the Kansas City metro and construction projects nationwide. The firm acts as a single point of contact for contractors, providing roll-off construction dumpsters, portable sanitation, and specialized LEED recycling reporting.

36. U.S. Engineering, 3rd Year 
Growth: 120.07%
Gross Revenue 2025: $784,675,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $356,562,796
Average Annual Growth Rate: 40.02%
Full-time Employees: 1,400

U.S. Engineering has been a fixture of Kansas City’s building trades since the 19th century, and the modern holding company is in a growth phase worthy of its history: revenue more than doubled over the period, from $357 million to $785 million, with 1,400 employees across its operations. It’s also been a steady climber on the Ingram’s 100 list of private companies with its fifth-generation leadership.

37. RK Contractors, 2nd Year 
Growth: 117.05%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,504,219
Gross Revenue 2022: $693,036
Average Annual Growth Rate: 39.02%
Full-time Employees: 15

Founded by Egyptian immigrant Reda Ibrahim, the firm specializes in residential and commercial roofing, affordable housing support, and custom renovations across historic metro neighborhoods. Its exceptional growth is driven by its unique social enterprise model. Certified as an MBE, DBE, and SLBE, it hires, provides English classes for, and empowers local refugees and immigrants with apprenticeships.

38. America’s Community Bank, 2nd Year  
Growth: 115.18%
Gross Revenue 2025: $3,871,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,799,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 38.39%
Full-time Employees: DD

The smallest bank on this year’s list posted growth most peers would envy: Blue Springs-based America’s Community Bank, with just $62 million in assets under Urich Bancorp, more than doubled revenue over the stretch—up 115 percent to $3.9 million—while earning a healthy 1.69 percent return on assets. Proof that in the 2022–2025 rate environment, scale was optional.

39. Kendall Bank, 3rd Year 
Growth: 108.88%
Gross Revenue 2025: $16,610,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $7,952,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 36.29%
Full-time Employees: 39

Johnson County’s deposit wars have a scrappy contender in Kendall Bank. The Overland Park institution under Northeast Kansas Bancshares—$213 million in assets, $190 million in deposits—more than doubled revenue over the stretch, with fee income contributing a larger share than at most community-bank peers as it built out its commercial relationships.

40. Alpha Energy & Electric, 1st Year
Growth: 105.13%
Gross Revenue 2025: $22,776,778
Gross Revenue 2022: $11,103,328
Average Annual Growth Rate: 35.04%
Full-time Employees: 95

The region’s marquee megaprojects run through Alpha Energy and Electric. The minority-owned engineering, procurement and construction firm helped deliver the $1.5 billion new KCI terminal, completed in 2023, then parlayed that visibility into a role on the $4 billion Panasonic battery plant in De Soto—the largest of its kind in North America. It’s certified as an SBE, HUBZone and MBE contractor.

41. Olathe Ford Lincoln, 3rd Year 
Growth: 103.82%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,600,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $785,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 34.61%
Full-time Employees: 312

The math of moving roughly 25,000 vehicles a year lands Olathe Ford Lincoln among the giants of this list. The dealership’s modern era began in 1973; longtime employee Marc McEver became sole owner in 2021, presiding over 300-plus employees and one of the country’s largest fleet operations, making it one of the nation’s biggest Ford dealers by volume.

42. OCCU-TEC INC, 6th Year 
Growth: 103.12%
Gross Revenue 2025: $10,388,037
Gross Revenue 2022: $5,114,122
Average Annual Growth Rate: 34.37%
Full-time Employees: 32

Four decades in, OCCU-TEC is proof that unglamorous work compounds. The North Kansas City firm—occupational safety, environmental services and critical fuel-systems management—doubled revenue over the period the old-fashioned way: existing clients kept expanding their engagements, and new customers kept signing on. No acquisitions, no pivots, no reinvention. Just a 32-person operation founded in 1983 that has made reliability in high-stakes compliance work its growth engine.

43. Great American Bank, 2nd Year 
Growth: 102.74%
Gross Revenue 2025: $36,005,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $17,759,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 34.25%
Full-time Employees: 55

Lawrence’s growth has been good to Great American Bank—and the bank has been exceptionally good at converting it. The $496 million-asset institution under First Financial Bancshares doubled revenue over the stretch to $36 million while posting a 2.56 percent return on assets, the best profitability of any community bank on this year’s list. Rate-cycle tailwinds helped; execution did the rest.

44. Rising Construction Services, 4th Year   
Growth: 92.07%
Gross Revenue 2025: $5,983,265
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,115,210
Average Annual Growth Rate: 30.69%
Full-time Employees: 27

When the Kansas City Streetcar extended south, Rising Construction Services rode along. The Grain Valley union sub-contractor—traffic control, erosion control and site restoration—landed a major contract on the streetcar project that expanded its operational capacity, while continued flagging partnerships with Northern Pipeline kept regional revenue flowing. Founded in 2018 by Kristen Rising, the 27-person firm nearly doubled its top line across the measurement period.

45. Lambie Custom Homes, 4th Year 
Growth: 90.09%
Gross Revenue 2025: $41,819,737
Gross Revenue 2022: $22,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 30.03%
Full-time Employees: DD

Few names are more embedded in Johnson County homebuilding than Jim Lambie’s—the luxury builder has put roofs over Kansas City families since 1978. The growth stretch closed with a milestone: Atlanta-based Grand Oak Builders acquired the Overland Park firm in 2025 as its first-ever purchase, retaining Lambie at the helm and the Lambie Homes name on the sign, with plans to expand both variety and volume across the metro.

46. JLS Craftsmen, 2nd Year 
Growth: 89.45%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,616,970
Gross Revenue 2022: $853,513
Average Annual Growth Rate: 29.82%
Full-time Employees: 6

JLS Craftsmen is a premier construction-services company specializing in custom fences, premium decks, and outdoor living structures. The company, which cracked the CR100 Top 10 last year, fuels its rapid expansion by prioritizing top-tier materials and an unrelenting focus on assembling reliable, dedicated personnel who take ownership of client satisfaction.

47. Brush Creek Partners, 1st Year 
Growth: 89.14%
Gross Revenue 2025: $2,300,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,216,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 29.71%
Full-time Employees: 8

This Kansas City-based insurance and risk management firm specializes in commercial insurance, technology risk management, and due diligence. It acts as a strategic partner to high-growth industries, serving clients ranging from early-stage technology startups to large, established corporations, with growth that made it a part of BRP Group back in 2021.

48. Weichert, Realtors Welch & Co., 6th Year   
Growth: 88.65%
Gross Revenue 2025: $26,503,493
Gross Revenue 2022: $14,049,017
Average Annual Growth Rate: 29.55%
Full-time Employees: DD

Based in Overland Park, Weichert, Realtors Welch & Co. is a leading, full-service real estate brokerage that handles residential, commercial, new-build, and custom home sales, alongside land development and property management. In recent years it has skyrocketed to one of the area’s top-performing firms, with nearly $755 million in local sales.

49. Apollo Insurance Group, 10th Year 
Growth: 87.59%
Gross Revenue 2025: $21,200,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $11,301,118
Average Annual Growth Rate: 29.20%
Full-time Employees: 39

After a decade-long run here, Apollo Insurance Group’s growth is no one-cycle wonder. The Lee’s Summit brokerage founded in 2014 under president Scott Eckley specializes in individual, group, life and Medicare coverage, with clients across the country and a stated mission to “positively impact people’s lives.” Over this stretch, revenue nearly doubled to $21.2 million.

50. Master’s Transportation, 4th Year 
Growth: 87.23%
Gross Revenue 2025: $236,819,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $126,485,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 29.08%
Full-time Employees: 357

“Moving People Forward” is the motto, and the market obliged. Master’s Transportation customizes vans, Sprinter and shuttle buses—and leases, rents and sells them to healthcare systems, universities, churches, cities and states. The company says new product development in the shuttle and van space, plus a deliberate focus on both customer and employee experience, drove growth.

51. International Builders & Consultants, 6th Year 
Growth: 84.87%
Gross Revenue 2025: $36,016,796
Gross Revenue 2022: $19,481,911
Average Annual Growth Rate: 28.29%
Full-time Employees: 125

Diversification within a niche is still diversification. IBC’s commercial construction business—interior finish trim carpentry, general trades, traffic equipment rental and pavement marking—grew by stacking new applications onto existing lines: expanded pavement-marking work for IBC Traffic, and a move into supplying materials for IBC Carpentry projects. Under CEO Brandy McCombs, the 125-employee firm pushed revenue from $19.5 million to $36 million over the period.

52. Blue Ridge Bank & Trust Co., 2nd Year 
Growth: 83.29%
Gross Revenue 2025: $51,284,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $27,980,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.76%
Full-time Employees: 118  

Independence’s hometown bank has quietly become one of the metro’s larger independents, which made it a recent pickup for Omaha’s FNBO, joining Country Club bank in that fold. It makes its last appearance here on the basis of $883 million in assets, $740 million in deposits and a healthy 1.22 percent return on assets. Eastern Jackson County’s steady growth helped drive growth.

53. Silver Lake Bank, 2nd Year 
Growth: 82.64%
Gross Revenue 2025: $31,835,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $17,430,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.55%
Full-time Employees: 61

Topeka-based Silver Lake Bank rode the stretch to an 83 percent revenue gain—$17.4 million to $31.8 million—while keeping returns comfortably above peer norms at 1.43 percent on assets. The $494 million-asset institution under Gideon Management has served Shawnee County and northeast Kansas through multiple rate cycles; this one happened to be the kind that rewards patient, deposit-funded lending.

54. Mid-America Bank, 1st Year 
Growth: 81.25%
Gross Revenue 2025: $35,515,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $19,595,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.08%
Full-time Employees: 64

Baldwin City punches far above its weight in this year’s rankings—two of its banks made the list. The larger is Mid-America Bank, a $549 million-asset institution under Mid-America Bankshares, racking up a 1.57 percent return on assets. It serves Douglas County and eastern Kansas communities well beyond what its hometown address might suggest.

55. Walz Tetrick Advertising, 5th Year 
Growth: 80.96%
Gross Revenue 2025: $160,913,898
Gross Revenue 2022: $88,920,463
Average Annual Growth Rate: 26.99%
Full-time Employees: 136

Now nearing its 60th year, WTA has been anything but static. The independent Mission agency acquired InQuest Marketing in 2023 (healthcare marketing, CRM, data analytics), content shop Outrider in 2025, launched Fuel Labs—AI-powered business-intelligence division—and staked out regional leadership in the NIL space of college athletics. Charlie Tetrick and his team punch way above their weight class.

56. Integrated Psychiatric Consultants, 5th Year 
Growth: 80.43%
Gross Revenue 2025: $17,300,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,588,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 26.81%
Full-time Employees: 47

This Overland Park-based behavioral health management and staffing group. Founded in 2002, it partners board-certified psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and clinical therapists with hospitals, community centers, and telehealth programs across the United States. The latter of those, telehealth services, provided a key growth driver in recent years, among other factors.

57. TriCentury Bank, 4th Year 
Growth: 79.77%
Gross Revenue 2025: $12,579,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $6,997,362
Average Annual Growth Rate: 26.59%
Full-time Employees: 18

No community on this list has been transformed like TriCentury Bank’s hometown: De Soto, where Panasonic’s $4 billion battery plant—the largest project in Kansas history—has rewritten the local economy. The $196 million-asset bank under Astra Financial Corp. grew revenue 80 percent over the stretch to $12.6 million, with a 1.62 percent return on assets, positioned at the center of the boom TriCentury is more than a community bank—it’s expertise in development and construction make them an optimum bank for construction lending.

58. West Village Realty, 1st Year 
Growth: 77.25%
Gross Revenue 2025: $2,956,868
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,668,152
Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.75%
Full-time Employees: DD

This family-owned, boutique residential real estate in Prairie Village was founded in 2021 by Wendy Foil, working with her daughters, Sarah Harnett and Hannah Shireman. Their recent rapid growth and reputation in the Kansas City market are largely driven by boutique personalization, with a focus on high-touch, tailored client experiences rather than high-volume, transactional sales.

59. City Lifestyle, 10th Year 
Growth: 76.66%
Gross Revenue 2025: $81,954,678
Gross Revenue 2022: $46,390,888
Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.55%
Full-time Employees: 96

Print is dead? Nobody told City Lifestyle. The Kansas City franchisor publishes more than 220 local luxury magazines across the U.S., pairing entrepreneur-franchisees with the systems, training and support to produce high-quality publications tailored to their communities. Growth came from both directions— expansion into new markets and strengthening existing franchisees.

60. Bank of Weston, 2nd Year 
Growth: 76.62%
Gross Revenue 2025: $13,990,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $7,921,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.54%
Full-time Employees: 35

Platte County’s historic river town keeps a bank to match its longevity. Bank of Weston, a $230 million-asset institution under Wilson Bancshares, grew revenue 77 percent over the stretch to $14 million as the rate cycle lifted interest income across the community-bank cohort—steady, deposit-funded and thoroughly local, with $202 million in deposits anchoring the balance sheet.

61. Spencer Fane, 6th Year 
Growth: 76.39%
Gross Revenue 2025: $404,002,073
Gross Revenue 2022: $229,034,658
Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.46%
Full-time Employees: 1,315

A repeat CR100 honoree among a field it mostly advises: Spencer Fane, the Kansas City-based business-law firm, grew revenue 76 percent over the period, from $229 million to $404 million. The firm has climbed Ingram’s 100 list steadily—No. 99 in 2019 to No. 76 this year—reflecting a deliberate national expansion strategy that has taken its platform well beyond its home market.

62. Community Bank, 2nd Year 
Growth: 73.45%
Gross Revenue 2025: $12,150,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $7,005,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 24.48%
Full-time Employees: 22

The plainest name on this year’s list belongs to one of its most efficient performers. Topeka-based Community Bank—$188 million in assets under Community Financial Corp.—grew revenue 73 percent over the stretch to $12.2 million while posting a 2.26 percent return on assets, among the strongest of any bank honored this year. Sometimes the generic name hides the standout operator.

63. Exchange Bank, 1st Year 
Growth: 71.21%
Gross Revenue 2025: $34,723,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $20,281,000
Average Annual Growth Rate:  23.74%
Full-time Employees: 61

From Atchison, Exchange Bank & Trust has built a northeast Kansas franchise of real scale: $631 million in assets, $543 million in deposits under Exchange Bankshares Corp. of Kansas. Revenue grew 71 percent over the stretch to $34.7 million with a 1.57 percent return on assets—the rate cycle’s gift to banks that spent decades gathering the low-cost deposits that fund it.

64. Kansas State Bank, 1st Year 
Growth: 71.11%
Gross Revenue 2025: $9,445,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $5,520,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 23.70%
Full-time Employees: 33

Independence—the corporate kind—distinguishes Kansas State Bank: the Ottawa institution operates without a holding company, a rarity on this list. The $212 million-asset, $192 million-deposit bank grew revenue 71 percent over the stretch to $9.4 million, its conservative, deposit-heavy balance sheet built for exactly the kind of rate environment 2022 through 2025 delivered.

65. Community Bank Pleasant Hill, 1st Year 
Growth: 70.32%
Gross Revenue 2025: $8,073,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $4,740,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 23.44%
Full-time Employees: 19

Cass County’s growth spillover reaches Pleasant Hill, and its community bank has captured the moment. The $143 million-asset institution under Arcadia Financial Corp. grew revenue 70 percent over the stretch to $8.1 million, with fee income contributing an unusually large share for a bank its size—a diversification note that sets it apart within this year’s community-bank cohort.

66. Bartlett & West, 7th Year 
Growth: 68.09%
Gross Revenue 2025: $122,667,547
Gross Revenue 2022: $72,975,861
Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.70%
Full-time Employees: 444

The employee-owners of Bartlett & West—nearly 100 added in 2023, and again in 2024—drive a genuine growth run. The Topeka engineering, architecture and technology firm rode major transportation work, including the $246 million I-55 corridor design-build south of St. Louis, acquired Lenexa-based Krudwig Structural Engineers in 2024 and expanded to Tampa in 2025.

67. Kansas City Mechanical, 1st Year 
Growth: 67.96%
Gross Revenue 2025: $17,544,979
Gross Revenue 2022: $10,445,840
Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.65%
Full-time Employees: 23

This full-service mechanical contracting firm headquartered in Kansas City, Kan., was established in 1983, and it specializes in heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, process piping, and complex equipment fabrication for industrial, institutional, and commercial facilities. The firm’s rapid growth is driven in large part by its certified Women Business Enterprise status.

68. First State Bank & Trust, 1st Year 
Growth: 66.35%
Gross Revenue 2025: $30,027,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $18,050,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.12%
Full-time Employees: 83

Tonganoxie sits in the path of Leavenworth County’s growth, and First State Bank & Trust has grown with it. The $481 million-asset institution under Tonganoxie Bankshares used its expanded revenue 66 to fund a loan book that repriced steadily upward through the rate cycle—community banking’s version of being in the right place at the right time.

69. Shamrock Roofing, 4th Year 
Growth: 65.39%
Gross Revenue 2025: $52,641,696
Gross Revenue 2022: $31,828,605
Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.80%
Full-time Employees: 57

In 2022, Shamrock’s roofing revenue was concentrated in Kansas; by 2025 it was operating in 16 markets across seven states, from Denver to St. Louis to Oklahoma City. Completed projects surged from roughly 1,900 a year to 3,643 in 2024—a record—behind 85 project managers, 26 branch managers, and a CRM-driven pipeline converting at 75 percent. 

70. Security Benefit, 7th Year 
Growth: 64.46%
Gross Revenue 2025: $11,767,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $7,155,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.49%
Full-time Employees: 571

The largest company on this year’s CR100 isn’t a construction giant or a hospital system—it’s a Topeka retirement-savings powerhouse. Security Benefit grew revenue from $7.2 billion to $11.8 billion over the period, a 64 percent gain that lands a perennial top-five member of Ingram’s 100 on the fast-growth list as well. Doug Wolff leads a firm of 571 employees, about 330 of them at their headquarters in Topeka.

71. First Option Bank, 2nd Year 
Growth: 64.00%
Gross Revenue 2025: $44,141,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $26,915,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.33%
Full-time Employees: 119

One of the largest community banks on this year’s list operates from one of its smaller towns: Osawatomie’s First Option Bank holds $816 million in assets and $735 million in deposits under The Osawatomie Agency. Revenue grew 64 percent over the stretch as its eastern Kansas footprint—Miami County and beyond—kept gathering the deposits that powered the gain.

72. Universal Construction, 6th Year 
Growth: 63.92%
Gross Revenue 2025: $57,034,494
Gross Revenue 2022: $34,793,374
Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.31%
Full-time Employees: 30

The oldest construction lineage on this list traces to 1887, when Archie Smith founded a masonry outfit in Kansas City; Universal Construction Company took its present form in 1931 when Smith partnered with his son. Now in its fifth generation of family ownership—and woman-owned—the KCK general contractor and construction manager has completed work in 22 states.

73. Pro Metals, 2nd Year 
Growth: 63.24%
Gross Revenue 2025: $22,200,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $13,600,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.08%
Full-time Employees: 55

This commercial HVAC contractor and custom metal fabrication firm specializes in design-build preconstruction, custom ductwork fabrication, mechanical insulation, and advanced BIM/CAD engineering. Its rapid growth is fueled by its certified MBE/DBE status across Kansas and Missouri, making it a highly competitive partner for major public and private infrastructure contracts.

74. Inspired Homes, 5th Year 
Growth: 62.62%
Gross Revenue 2025: $72,778,986
Gross Revenue 2022: $44,753,396
Average Annual Growth Rate: 20.87%
Full-time Employees: DD

Attainability is the pitch at Inspired Homes, the Kansas City builder-developer founded by local family businesses whose leadership has delivered more than 5,000 homes across various U.S. markets. Building on both sides of the state line—Lee’s Summit to Platte City, Olathe to Lenexa—the firm leans on technology and standardized systems to keep the buying process seamless and prices within reach.

75. Ashlar Homes, 3rd Year 
Growth: 62.24%
Gross Revenue 2025: $51,310,814
Gross Revenue 2022: $31,625,700
Average Annual Growth Rate: 20.75%
Full-time Employees: 25

While luxury builders chase the top of the market, Ashlar Homes has staked out the part most buyers can actually afford. The Blue Springs firm founded by Shawn Woods—building metro communities for more than 14 years—keeps development, construction and sales under one roof to hold starting prices roughly between $275,000 and $359,000, and ranks itself among the metro’s top builders by permit volume.

76. First Federal S&L Bank, 1st Year 
Growth: 59.93%
Gross Revenue 2025: $9,260,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $5,790,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.98%
Full-time Employees: 6

The thrift model isn’t dead—in Olathe, it’s outperforming. First Federal Savings and Loan, a $109 million-asset institution under First Fed of Olathe Bancorp, saw its revenues surge while posting a remarkable 3.40 percent return on assets, the highest of any bank on this year’s list. This enterprise is small, focused and ferociously profitable.

77. Bank of Prairie Village, 2nd Year 
Growth: 59.45%
Gross Revenue 2025: $8,880,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $5,569,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.52%
Full-time Employees: 10

Its holding company is Blue Lion Bancshares, and the ambition fits the name. Bank of Prairie Village—$150 million in assets serving its namesake Johnson County community—grew revenue 59 percent over the stretch while racking up a 1.58 percent return on assets, building a neighborhood-banking franchise in one of the metro’s most established first-ring suburbs.

78. Bank of Labor, 2nd Year 
Growth: 59.40%
Gross Revenue 2025: $54,802,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $34,381,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.80%
Full-time Employees: 132

A century after the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers chartered Brotherhood State Bank in 1924, its successor is thriving in a niche nearly every peer abandoned: Bank of Labor is among the last surviving labor banks in America. It serves the North American labor movement—unions, their affiliates and working families—from its home market to a Washington, D.C., office.

79. Baldwin State Bank, 1st Year 
Growth: 58.23%
Gross Revenue 2025: $5,269,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,330,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.41%
Full-time Employees: 16

Another Baldwin City honoree proves the town’s banking depth. Baldwin State Bank—$106 million in assets, independent of any holding company—grew revenue 58 percent over the stretch to $5.3 million, serving Douglas County the way small-town banks have for generations: deposit-funded, relationship-driven and steady enough to ride a rate cycle to a list like this one.

80. Hoefer Welker Architects, 10th Year 
Growth: 57.72%
Gross Revenue 2025: $64,133,792
Gross Revenue 2022: $40,662,170
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.24%
Full-time Employees: 189

After three essentially flat years, Hoefer Welker’s 2025 broke the pattern. The full-service design firm (architecture, interiors, MEP engineering, medical equipment planning and technology consulting) expanded into Texas and Florida, delivered award-winning work across multiple sectors, and drew national recognition from ENR and Building Design + Construction.

81. Garney, 11th Year 
Growth: 57.60%
Gross Revenue 2025: $2,296,853,671
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,457,410,480
Average Annual Growth Rate: 19.20%
Full-time Employees: 2,770

Water is a growth business. Employee-owned Garney, the national leader in water and wastewater infrastructure, self-performs pipeline, treatment facility, pump station and storage tank construction from 19 offices nationwide. Population growth, aging systems and thirsty new industrial facilities—data centers among them—drove sustained demand that pushed revenues higher.

82. Conexon, 7th Year 
Growth: 56.10%
Gross Revenue 2025: $271,310,623
Gross Revenue 2022: $173,803,260
Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.70%
Full-time Employees: 833

After an unprecedented seven-year CR100 Top 10 run, Conexon settles into a new phase. The Kansas City builder and operator of rural fiber broadband networks now posts revenues that reflect a maturing giant, not a stalled one. Its Conexon Connect ISP subsidiary, launched in 2021, now serves rural communities in nine states, propelled by grants and subsidies targeting unserved and underserved locations.

83. State Bank of Missouri, 2nd Year 
Growth: 55.92%
Gross Revenue 2025: $7,562,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $4,850,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.64%
Full-time Employees: 24

Concordia’s State Bank of Missouri carries one of the more sweeping names in Missouri banking on one of its more compact balance sheets: $138 million in assets under CS Bancshares. Revenue grew 56 percent since 2022, yielding an impressive 1.21 percent return on assets as the bank leveraged the I-70 corridor’s agricultural and small-business economy.

84. Strongbox Wealth LLC, 1st Year 
Growth: 54.63%
Gross Revenue 2025: $4,127,294
Gross Revenue 2022: $2,669,168
Average Annual Growth Rate: 18.21%
Full-time Employees: 8

The wealth-management industry’s dirty secret is that assets walk out the door when clients die. StrongBox Wealth built its growth on reversing that: the Lee’s Summit RIA runs family meetings, next-generation education and coordinated tax and estate planning that retain assets across generational transitions—and pull in heirs’ own portfolios besides. The eight-person firm even grew revenue 6 percent in 2022, while both stock and bond markets fell.

85. Academy Bank, 4th Year 
Growth: 53.94%
Gross Revenue 2025: $220,483,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $143,229,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.98%
Full-time Employees: 514

The metro-scale entry among this year’s bank honorees, Academy Bank operates $3.3 billion in assets and $2.8 billion in deposits from downtown Kansas City under the Dickinson Financial family of companies. Revenue grew 54 percent over the stretch to $220 million, with substantial fee income—$45.6 million—diversifying a franchise whose retail reach extends well beyond its home market.

86. Polsinelli, PC, 5th Year 
Growth: 51.93%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,210,048,058
Gross Revenue 2022: $796,429,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.31%
Full-time Employees: 1,986

Crossing the billion-dollar line is rare air for any professional-services firm; Polsinelli did it during this measurement window. The Kansas City-founded law firm grew from $796 million to $1.21 billion—52 percent—with nearly 2,000 employees nationwide and roughly 500 in its home market. A fixture in the mid-40s of Ingram’s 100 for years, the firm’s national footprint keeps compounding on a Kansas City foundation.

87. Wachter, Inc., 2nd Year 
Growth: 51.65%
Gross Revenue 2025: $505,600,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $333,400,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.22%
Full-time Employees: 1,768

The digital economy still needs physical wiring, and Lenexa-based Wachter has been supplying it for generations. The electrical and technology-infrastructure contractor grew revenue from $333 million to $506 million over the period—52 percent—with nearly 1,800 employees deployed nationally and about 170 in the metro. A steady presence in the 60s of Ingram’s 100 list, Wachter has climbed that ranking every year since 2019.

88. McCownGordon Construction, 1st Year 
Growth: 51.29%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,016,335,638
Gross Revenue 2022: $671,771,488
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.10%
Full-time Employees: 503

After breaking into the stratosphere as one of the region’s newest members of the billion-dollar club, what’s next for this full-service Kansas City general contracting firm? A continued stronghold on new projects in its home base, and successful expansions into markets like Texas and across Kansas, have CEO Ramin Cherafat’s team on a roll.

89. Garcia Architecture, 7th Year 
Growth: 51.12%
Gross Revenue 2025: $14,923,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,874,655
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.04%
Full-time Employees: 32

This full-service design and urban planning practice in Kansas City was founded in 1986 as Rafael Architects, and specializes in urban redevelopment, master campus planning, and commercial space design. The company’s fast growth stems from its long-standing dual MBE certifications in Kansas and Missouri combined with its 2018 expansion into Garcia Construction Management.

90. Structsure Projects, 2nd Year 
Growth: 51.02%
Gross Revenue 2025: $132,660,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $87,840,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 17.01%
Full-time Employees: 69

Half again bigger in four years: StructSure Projects grew from $88 million to $133 million over the measurement period, a 51 percent gain that earns the Kansas City firm led by Kevin Rogers a spot on this year’s list. The company appears on Ingram’s engineering-sourced rolls, with a story—and a client roster—that merits a fuller telling than the numbers alone provide.

91. Culligan KC, 3rd Year 
Growth: 50.74%
Gross Revenue 2025: $19,100,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $12,670,748
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.91%
Full-time Employees: 65

This Olathe-based water treatment and purification company, serving the metro area since 1951, specializes in residential, commercial, and industrial solutions, including water softeners, whole-home filtration systems, reverse-osmosis drinking water, and multi-state bulk water and salt delivery. Its status as a certified Women Business Enterprise helps land high-volume municipal and commercial infrastructure contracts.

92. Centric, 7th Year 
Growth: 50.40%
Gross Revenue 2025: $233,215,639
Gross Revenue 2022: $155,063,946
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.80%
Full-time Employees: 161

Centric has made quick work of Ingram’s rankings: the Kansas City builder debuted on the Ingram’s 100 at No. 111 in 2022 and stands at No. 91 today, while revenue grew from $155 million to $233 million over the CR100 window—50 percent—on a team of 161. Co-led by Richard Wetzel and Steve Swanson, the firm’s rise tracks the metro’s broader construction supercycle.

93. Lockton Companies, 21st Year 
Growth: 50.00%
Gross Revenue 2025: $4,080,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $2,719,983,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.77%
Full-time Employees: 10,750

This global insurance brokerage and benefits consultancy can make a claim no other Kansas City firm we know of can make: Lockton has grown revenue every year since its 1966 founding, and this window kept the streak intact. The world’s largest privately held, independent insurance brokerage continues climbing Ingram’s 100 as well, from No. 22 to No. 17 in three years.

94. HNTB, 6th Year 
Growth: 49.92%
Gross Revenue 2025: $2,334,080,901
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,556,919,718
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.64%
Full-time Employees: 6,272

America is rebuilding its infrastructure, and a century-old Kansas City firm is designing much of it. HNTB grew revenue from $1.56 billion to $2.33 billion over the period—50 percent—with more than 6,200 employees nationwide and roughly 680 in its home market. The engineering and architecture firm behind highways, bridges, transit systems and stadiums has held steady in the mid-20s of Ingram’s 100 for years.

95. Hoss & Brown Engineers, 2nd Year 
Growth: 49.88%
Gross Revenue 2025: $14,627,966
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,760,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.63%
Full-time Employees: 54

This Shawnee company is a full-service mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering firm founded in 1951, specializing in commercial building design, system analysis, sustainable LEED engineering, and advanced 3D laser scanning site assessments. Growth stems from its unique cross-training model, which delivers highly integrated, cohesive, and cost-effective building plans.

96. Evergreen Flooring, 1st Year 
Growth: 49.60%
Gross Revenue 2025: $5,983,963
Gross Revenue 2022: $4,000,000
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.53%
Full-time Employees: 17

A family-owned commercial, multifamily, and residential flooring company, Evergreen was founded in 2007 by the Guizar brothers with just a $1,000 credit card, the firm specializes in bulk wholesale sourcing, design consulting, and nationwide turnkey installation of carpet, luxury vinyl, hardwood, and tile, driven by its certified Minority Business Enterprise status.

97. Terracon, 6th Year 
Growth: 49.31%
Gross Revenue 2025: $1,516,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $1,015,342,822
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.44%
Full-time Employees: 7,223

Every building project starts with the ground beneath it, which keeps Terracon busy. The Olathe-headquartered, employee-owned consulting firm—geotechnical, environmental, materials and facilities engineering—is led by Gayle Packer, who has steered into the upper half of the Ingram’s 100 list of the region’s biggest private companies since 2019.

98. BARR Advisory, 5th Year 
Growth: 49.28%
Gross Revenue 2025: $13,947,299
Gross Revenue 2022: $9,343,246
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.43%
Full-time Employees: 47

Compliance is a growth business when the frameworks keep multiplying. Fairway-based BARR Advisory, a cybersecurity and compliance firm serving cloud-based organizations in regulated industries, is among a handful of U.S. auditors accredited across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, PCI DSS and CMMC—adding C3PAO authorization for defense contractors this past year.

99. HeartLand, LLC, 5th Year 
Growth: 48.13%
Gross Revenue 2025: $643,000,000
Gross Revenue 2022: $434,091,985
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.04%
Full-time Employees: 4,778 

Grass grows, and so does the business of maintaining it at scale. HeartLand, the Kansas City-based commercial landscaping platform led by Eddie Schatz, grew revenue from $434 million to $643 million over the period—48 percent—with a workforce approaching 4,800. Its climb up the Ingram’s 100 tells the same story, where at No. 56 this year, it’s one of the list’s most consistent risers.

100. e2E, 8th Year 
Growth: 48.02%
Gross Revenue 2025: $5,735,562
Gross Revenue 2022: $3,874,959
Average Annual Growth Rate: 16.01%
Full-time Employees: 52

Nearly every new client has come by referral—a claim most firms make and few can support with a 90-percent-plus retention rate. Founder Nancy McCullough’s e2E provides outsourced strategic finance, accounting, HR, payroll and tax services to startups, small businesses and nonprofits not yet ready to hire those functions in-house. Goodwill banked during the pandemic—free PPP help, ERC filing assistance—keeps compounding into new business today.

PUBLISHED JULY 2026