When we created the PurposeBuilt100™, we wanted to challenge an assumption that still hangs over too many conversations about business and impact: that purpose is somehow a constraint on growth.
The inaugural rankings tell a much more interesting story.
We screened thousands of public and private companies, looking first for meaningful social or environmental impact. Only companies that cleared that hurdle could qualify. Then—and only then—we ranked the qualifying companies based on geometric revenue growth from 2021 through 2025.
The shorthand became: qualified by impact, ranked by growth.
What emerged is a remarkably diverse collection of businesses. They are tackling health, climate, housing, financial inclusion, education, workforce development and other challenges. Some are tiny compared with the public companies on the list. Others generate hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in annual revenue.
Rather than spend another few thousand words telling you what that looks like, I’d rather show you.
Here are the four rankings that, taken together, tell the PurposeBuilt100™ story.
Women Founder/CEO Top Ten
Among the 100 PurposeBuilt100™ winners, 24 companies are still led by women who were members of their companies’ founding teams. We ranked those 24 using the same geometric growth methodology as the overall PurposeBuilt100™.
That qualification matters. These aren’t executives recruited to run already-established enterprises. They are women who helped create the businesses and remain at the helm as those companies scale.
2026 Women Founder/CEO Top Ten
Strata Project Management Group — North Carolina
Tampon Tribe, Inc. — California
Aquacycl Inc. — California
Caladrius Therapy, PLLC — North Carolina
BabyQuip, Inc. — New Mexico
Momentum Coffee Holdings Inc — Illinois
Coje Consultants Inc — Florida
Mission Enrollment Strategy Solutions, LLC — California
Bamboo Services Inc — Georgia
29Bison - Public Benefit, LLC — Pennsylvania
The list is a useful reminder that the entrepreneurial journey doesn’t end with founding. Building an impact company that survives, grows and scales while its founder continues to lead may be an even greater accomplishment.
Environmental Solutions Top Ten
The Environmental Solutions Top Ten highlights PurposeBuilt100™ companies whose businesses directly address environmental challenges. These companies first qualified for the overall ranking and were then ranked within the environmental group using the same growth methodology.
The common thread is especially encouraging: these companies aren’t generally asking customers to sacrifice economics for sustainability. Their environmental solutions often create economic value.
No. 1 Azure Printed Homes provides a vivid example. The company uses 3D printing and recycled polymers to build structures faster and more affordably while diverting material from waste streams.
As co-founder and CEO Gene Eidelman put it, “For us, impact isn’t an added cost—it’s part of what makes the business scalable.”
2026 Environmental Solutions Top Ten
Azure Printed Homes — California
Tampon Tribe, Inc. — California
BIOLARGO, INC. — California
Airthium Inc. — Delaware
Aquacycl Inc. — California
Neighborhood Sun Benefit Corp — Maryland
National Energy Improvement Fund, LLC — Pennsylvania
Zeo Energy Corp — Florida
Hempitecture Inc. — Idaho
Sunrun Inc. (RUN) — California
That may be one of the most important lessons in the entire PurposeBuilt100™: some of the strongest impact models work precisely because the impact and economics reinforce one another.
The 2026 PurposeBuilt100™
And now, the list at the center of it all.
My Diabetes Tutor, based in Hanford, California, claimed the inaugural No. 1 ranking. Founded and led by Dr. Prem Sahasranam—known as Dr. Sahas—the company helps people manage diabetes through education. Company data show participants improving their A1C results by 1.6 points.
Dr. Sahas captured the connection between impact and expansion beautifully: “Growth matters because growth means we can help more people.”
That sentence could almost serve as the motto for the PurposeBuilt100™.
The 2026 PurposeBuilt100™
My Diabetes Tutor — California
Storyline Health Inc. — Utah
Azure Printed Homes — California
INNOVATIVE DESIGNS INC — Pennsylvania
KwikClick, Inc. — Utah
SUR Natural Health Brands LLC (d/b/a ZYN) — Wisconsin
Strata Project Management Group — North Carolina
Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions Inc. — Michigan
BIOTRICITY INC. — California
Tampon Tribe, Inc. — California
GUIDED THERAPEUTICS INC — Georgia
BIOLARGO, INC. — California
NETLIST INC — California
Airthium Inc. — Delaware
DYNARESOURCE, INC. — Texas
Aquacycl Inc. — California
Hylio, Inc. — Texas
SA Expeditions — Delaware
Lemonade, Inc. (LMND) — New York
Vireo Growth Inc. — Minnesota
Pivotal Health, Inc. — Wisconsin
Pulse For Good, LLC — Utah
Healthycell (Life Science Institute LLC) — South Carolina
Neighborhood Sun Benefit Corp — Maryland
Caladrius Therapy, PLLC — North Carolina
Revalue LLC — Michigan
BabyQuip, Inc. — New Mexico
National Energy Improvement Fund, LLC — Pennsylvania
LiquidPiston, Inc. — Connecticut
Momentum Coffee Holdings Inc — Illinois
Groundfloor Finance Inc. — Georgia
Gridless Power Corp — New Jersey
StartEngine — California
HEALTHY EXTRACTS INC. — Nevada
Coje Consultants Inc — Florida
Mission Enrollment Strategy Solutions, LLC — California
MARIMED INC. — Massachusetts
River Financial Corp — Alabama
Vaxart, Inc. — California
Peak State — Colorado
Chicago TREND — Illinois
Zeo Energy Corp — Florida
Guerrilla RF, Inc. — North Carolina
Bamboo Services Inc — Georgia
Kingscrowd Inc. — Delaware
NextGen Scientific LLC — Kansas
29Bison - Public Benefit, LLC — Pennsylvania
Cleartronic, Inc. — Florida
UWHARRIE CAPITAL CORP — North Carolina
Hempitecture Inc. — Idaho
Elemeno Health, Inc. — California
Green Thumb Industries Inc. — Illinois
MovingWorlds — Washington
Kuli Kuli, Inc — California
Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc — Florida
SWAN Impact Network — Texas
Poetry vs. Hip-Hop Productions, LLC — Georgia
ClearingBid, Inc. — California
Sweetgreen, Inc. (SG) — California
Feel The World, Inc. dba Xero Shoes — Colorado
Bio Essence Corp — California
Redwood Literacy — Tennessee
Sunrun Inc. (RUN) — California
First Pacific Financial, Inc. — Washington
Purebase Corp — California
ORIGINCLEAR, INC. — Florida
Omnitek Engineering Corp — California
Warby Parker Inc. (WRBY) — New York
Embassy Bancorp, Inc. — Pennsylvania
The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (COCO) — New York
Holidaily Brewing Company, LLC — Colorado
Butterfly Network, Inc. (BFLY) — Massachusetts
Whooshh Innovations, Inc. — Washington
FIGS, Inc. (FIGS) — California
J S D A Inc — California
SetApart Accountancy Corp — California
AnaOno LLC — Pennsylvania
Pajama Factory LLC — Pennsylvania
Transparent Health Group — Pennsylvania
WISE Advise + Assist Team LLC — Florida
CareView Communications Inc — Texas
Vector Global Logistics — Georgia
Health Care Originals, Inc. — New York
GGirls Closet LLC — Colorado
SOUTH DAKOTA SOYBEAN PROCESSORS LLC — South Dakota
Laird Superfood, Inc. (LSF) — Oregon
Jason Wiener|p.c. — Colorado
Instant Teams — North Carolina
GadellNet Consulting Service LLC — Missouri
ESCALON MEDICAL CORP — Pennsylvania
CREDITRISKMONITOR COM INC — New York
Nerdy, Inc. (NRDY) — Missouri
NOBILITY HOMES INC — Florida
Voro — Minnesota
Jiminy’s, Inc. — California
Cuentas Inc. — Florida
E-Legal, Inc. — Texas
The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST) — California
LUXTECH, LLC — Pennsylvania
TerraCycle — New Jersey
The breadth of that list is part of what makes it compelling. There is no single impact-business archetype here. Public companies sit alongside privately held businesses. Health companies appear beside manufacturers, financial firms, consumer brands, energy companies and professional services businesses.
Purpose can take a lot of forms.
Big Impact Players Top Ten
Finally, we asked a different question.
The overall PurposeBuilt100™ rewards geometric growth—how dramatically a business multiplied its revenue between 2021 and 2025. That naturally gives smaller companies an opportunity to rank highly when they grow extraordinarily fast.
The Big Impact Players ranking looks at the same pool of qualified companies through another lens: absolute revenue growth, calculated as 2025 revenue minus 2021 revenue.
These are businesses that didn’t merely grow rapidly enough to make the PurposeBuilt100™. They added enormous amounts of revenue while doing it.
2026 Big Impact Players Top Ten
Sunrun Inc. (RUN) — California
Green Thumb Industries Inc. — Illinois
Lemonade, Inc. (LMND) — New York
Sweetgreen, Inc. (SG) — California
Warby Parker Inc. (WRBY) — New York
The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (COCO) — New York
Vireo Growth Inc. — Minnesota
FIGS, Inc. (FIGS) — California
NETLIST INC — California
River Financial Corp — Alabama
What the First PurposeBuilt100™ Taught Me
The PurposeBuilt100™ was designed as a recognition program, but in its first year it also became something of an experiment.
We asked whether we could find businesses across America that combine meaningful impact with extraordinary growth.
The answer wasn’t subtle.
We found far more than 100.
That matters because the case for impact entrepreneurship becomes stronger when we stop treating purpose merely as something admirable and start recognizing it as something that can be built into scalable businesses.
My Diabetes Tutor is scaling health impact. Azure Printed Homes is scaling environmental solutions. Women founders are building and continuing to lead high-growth companies. Public companies with enormous revenue bases are demonstrating that impact businesses can operate at genuine scale.
None of these rankings proves that purpose automatically produces growth. Business is much harder than that.
But the PurposeBuilt100™ does demonstrate something worth celebrating: companies do not have to leave their purpose behind in order to grow.
In some of the most exciting companies we found, purpose may be part of the reason they can.
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