CEOs of Dallas Area's Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies Celebrate Entrepreneurship

The SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship kicked off its annual celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit Thursday night with a networking reception at the Cox School of Business Collins Executive Center on the SMU campus. The alphabetical list of the 2022 Dallas 100 winning companies was released.

(Left to Right) Andy Webster, Regional VP, AppleOne/ActOne Group, sponsor of the Dallas 100 CEO Reception; Keynote speaker John Merris, Solo Brands CEO; Shelby Benton, Vice President, Dallas Business Journal, Dallas 100 co-sponsor; Simon Mak, Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship Executive Director.

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October 07, 2022

Author: Anna Martinez

SMU Cox Caruth Institute Releases Annual Dallas 100 Alpha List

Dallas, TX (SMU) Oct. 7, 2022 — The SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship kicked off its annual celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit Thursday night with a networking reception at the Cox School of Business Collins Executive Center on the SMU campus. The event begins the countdown to the annual Dallas 100 Awards Gala, which will be on Nov. 2 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. Every year, the Caruth Institute honors the Dallas area’s 100 fastest-growing privately held businesses. The Oct. 6 event was a pre-gala, invitation-only networking opportunity, especially for this year’s Dallas 100 company founders. In conjunction with the CEO Reception, the Caruth Institute released—alphabetically—its coveted Dallas 100 list. The rank order of these 100 companies will be announced at the November event. To qualify for the competition, these companies must have revenue earnings of $500,000 to $100 million dollars.

“None of these companies would have made it into the Dallas 100 had it not been for the determination, dedication, and commitment they maintained—through the pandemic no less--to take their companies to the next level,” said Simon Mak, director of the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship. “This Dallas 100 pre-gala CEO Reception and our Nov. 2 Awards Gala offer these entrepreneurs the opportunity to celebrate their own hard work and take inspiration from their fellow entrepreneurs.”

The Oct. 6 reception also featured advice from keynote speaker and Dallas entrepreneur John Merris, the CEO of Solo Brands (NYSE: DTC). The company was ranked No. 41 on the Dallas 100 list in 2019 and No.5 in 2021. It grew from 25 employees and $10 million in yearly revenue in 2018 to $482 million in revenue last year. Solo Brands went IPO on October 28th, 2021. “That kind of growth came with a lot of growing pains,” Merris said, but he offered encouragement to fellow CEOs. “It’s not always pretty . . . nobody sees what it takes to win in life and in business, but you all have done that during an unprecedented, difficult time,” he said. “Congratulations to all of you on your successes.”

At the Dallas 100 Awards Gala in November, the rank order announcement of each company, beginning with No. 100, will culminate with the big reveal at the end of the evening: this year’s No. 1 fastest-growing privately held Dallas area company. The Dallas 100 competition annually gauges the ascension of privately held companies in Dallas and surrounding cities based on three years of continuous revenue growth.

The Caruth Institute, working with the accounting firm FORVIS, LLP examined sales from hundreds of companies for 2019 to 2021, the last year for which complete data is available. The winners represent Dallas and 16 surrounding cities. This year’s Dallas 100 program sponsors, in alphabetical order, are: The ActOne Group; FORVIS, LLP; Bluecrest Financial Alliances; Dallas Business Journal; Executive Press; JLL; KRLD NewsRadio 1080; MarketScale; Texas Capital Bank; Thompson Coburn, LLP; and USI.

The alphabetical list of the 2022 Dallas 100 winning companies follows:

COMPANY NAME	CITY
Accelerate	Plano
	Dallas
	Dallas
	Plano
Alwood	Richardson
AM RE Syndicate, Inc.	Dallas
AmeriPac, Inc.	Grapevine
Anders Group, LLC	Irving
Apex Dental Partners	Dallas
Appspace	Dallas
	Dallas
BBG	Dallas
	Dallas
	Irving
Blueprint to Practice	Celina
	Frisco
	Richardson
Cherry Coatings	Carrollton
Chorbie	Frisco
	Dallas
CityVet, Inc.	Dallas
Cloudmellow	Frisco
	Plano
Critical Start	Plano
	Dallas
Dialexa	Dallas
Direct Orthopedic Care	Addison
	Richardson
	Grand Prairie
Embark	Dallas
	Dallas
Eyeful Media	Dallas
First Place Foods, LLC	Garland
	Dallas
Fortress Building Products	Garland
Glorious, LLC	Dallas
	Carrollton
HealthMark Group	Dallas
	Grapevine
iiPay	Dallas
	Dallas
Legacy ER & Urgent Care	Plano
	Dallas
Linear Roofing and General Contractors LLC	Addison
LiquidAgents Healthcare	Plano
Lone Star Analysis	Addison
MangoChango	Dallas
	Irving
MapRight, LCC	Dallas
	Dallas
Med Couture	Farmers Branch
Mstone & Tile	Dallas
Newline Interactive	Allen
NGV Global Group	Dallas
o9 Solutions, Inc.	Dallas
Octed LLC DBA Programmers.io	Dallas
Online Rewards	Richardson
pawTree, LLC	Southlake
	Grapevine
PICKUP	Plano
	Farmers Branch
	Coppell
Publishing Concepts, LP	Dallas
	Southlake
Qentelli, LLC	Dallas
	Dallas
Red River Logistics, LLC	Haltom City
Repairify, Inc.	Plano
Rogers Healy and Associates	Dallas
Rudick Construction Group	Dallas
Scout & Cellar	Farmers Branch
	Dallas
	Irving
SignaPay	Irving
	Southlake
Sirius Building Company	Addison
SMC Squared, LLC	Plano
	Plano
Summit Endeavors, LLC	Addison
Sunnyland	Dallas
	Dallas
	Richardson
SYNERGEN Health, LLC	Dallas
Take Command	Dallas
Taylor Counseling Group	Dallas
Tolleson Wealth Management	Dallas
Town Square Mortgage & Investments, LLC	Dallas
	Argyle
United Protective Services	Dallas
	Farmers Branch
	Dallas
Vandelay Hospitality Group	Dallas
Veryable, Inc.	Dallas
Vista Bank	Dallas
Warrior Logistics, Inc.	Coppell
Wheeler Staffing Partners	Plano
WRA Architects	Dallas
Zalat Pizza	Dallas
	Dallas
Zimperium	Dallas

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Contact: Anna Martinez
annam@smu.edu, 214-768-4474

October 07, 2022

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