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Deloitte Names 2025 Technology Fast 500 Winners
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Deloitte has announced the winners of its 2025 Technology Fast 500 program, celebrating North America's fastest-growing technology and life sciences companies. The rankings, based on fiscal year revenue growth from 2021 to 2024, showcase an impressive lineup of innovators across multiple sectors. This year marks the most competitive program in over two decades, with average three-year revenue growth reaching 2,623%.
Top 10 Winners Leading Innovation
Impiricus claimed the number one spot with an extraordinary 29,738% revenue growth rate. The Atlanta-based healthtech company, founded in 2020, has built an AI-powered healthcare professional (HCP) engagement platform that revolutionizes how pharmaceutical companies connect with physicians. The company's innovative platform utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver pharmaceutical resources to healthcare providers through real-time communication channels, addressing a critical gap where only 20% of doctors currently interact with the pharmaceutical industry. LPT Aperture Holdings secured second place with 29,462% growth. Based in Lake Mary, Florida, the company represents the parent organization behind LPT Realty, recognized as the fastest-growing real estate firm in the U.S., and Aperture Global Real Estate, a luxury brokerage launched in 2025. Under founder and CEO Robert Palmer's leadership, the company has expanded to all 50 U.S. states and multiple international markets within just three years, achieving over 15,000 agents and implementing an innovative cloud-based brokerage model. Horizon3.ai ranked third with 19,939% growth. Founded in 2019 by veterans from U.S. Special Operations and tech backgrounds, the San Francisco cybersecurity startup provides autonomous penetration testing through its NodeZero platform. The company recently raised a $100 million funding round at a valuation exceeding $750 million and obtained FedRAMP authorization, enabling sales to federal agencies. Horizon3.ai's technology enables organizations to continuously assess their attack surfaces by simulating real-world scenarios without requiring agents, code, or consultants. Red Rock Regeneration claimed fourth place with 12,166% growth. The Etobicoke, Ontario biotechnology and medical device company specializes in regenerative medicine, developing effective and affordable tissue and recombinant growth factor-based products for bone repair and regeneration. The company launched its Natural Matrix Protein (NMP) series of tissue-based products and represents a pioneer in the regenerative medicine field. Farther rounded out the top five with 11,968% growth. The New York-based fintech company has emerged as the fastest-growing financial services firm in America, recently ranking number one in financial services and number eight overall on Inc. Magazine's 5000 list. Founded by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, Farther combines cutting-edge technology with traditional wealth management expertise, offering a comprehensive platform that manages over $13 billion in recruited assets. The company has raised $118 million in funding, including a Series C round led by CapitalG (Google's growth fund), and employs over 400 people across New York, Dallas, and San Francisco. JobTread Software, ranked sixth with 11,944% growth, is a Dallas-based software and services company led by CEO Eric Fortenberry. Cyera, in seventh place with 11,823% growth, is a New York software company led by CEO Yotam Segev focusing on data security. Warmly, eighth with 10,460% growth, operates as an AI-powered sales platform from Denver under CEO Maximus Greenwald. Gierd, ninth with 9,651% growth, is a Sandpoint, Idaho software company helmed by CEO Jordan Sielaff. Parafin, completing the top ten with 9,594% growth, is a San Francisco fintech led by CEO Sahill Poddar that provides embedded financial services for platforms and marketplaces. The complete rankings include 500 companies spanning artificial intelligence, life sciences, fintech, energy technology, and software sectors across the United States and Canada.
This celebration of rapid-growth tech companies arrives during a period of significant turbulence for Deloitte itself. In November 2025, the consulting giant announced layoffs affecting its U.S. consulting and government advisory services divisions in response to federal government contract cuts. Deloitte experienced at least 129 contract terminations or cutbacks (more than double the impact on any other consulting firm) as part of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency crackdown on consulting spending. The federal government canceled approximately 1,700 consulting contracts in total, with Deloitte's government contracts having generated approximately $3.2 billion in revenue in 2024. The irony is stark: while Deloitte publicly celebrates explosive growth among emerging tech companies through its Fast 500 program, the firm simultaneously navigates its own contraction, conducting "modest personnel actions" due to "evolving needs of government clients." This juxtaposition highlights the broader consulting industry downturn affecting all Big Four firms following years of pandemic-driven expansion. The Fast 500 rankings thus serve as both a showcase of entrepreneurial success and an implicit reminder of the volatility facing even established players in the professional services sector.
