Prosper Insights & Analytics Named on 2026 Inc. 5000 Prestigious Ranking of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

For the second year in a row Prosper was Recognized for Three-Year Revenue Growth, Earning a Place Among the Nation’s Most Successful Independent Businesses

WORTHINGTON, OH, UNITED STATES, August 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Prosper Insights & Analytics today announced it has been ranked on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list is the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs, and shaping the future of the economy. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Oracle, and Patagonia.

This marks the second consecutive year Prosper Insights & Analytics has earned a place on the Inc. 5000 and reflects the company’s continued evolution from consumer research into a forward-looking demand intelligence and predictive analytics business.

At the foundation of Prosper’s growth is a nearly 25-year longitudinal consumer data asset built through consistent, privacy-compliant collection of representative U.S. consumer data. Unlike transactional, market and government data that primarily describe what has already happened, Prosper captures the intentions, expectations, purchase plans, confidence, emotions and behavioral drivers that help reveal what consumers are likely to do next—and why.

Prosper’s Model Factory combines this proprietary demand-formation data with predictive models and AWS SageMaker-powered analytics and delivery capabilities to generate forecasts, indicators, audience models and other forward-looking signals for financial services, retail, technology, marketing and other industries. The result is an intelligence layer designed to help organizations identify changes in consumer demand before those changes become fully visible in transactions, company revenues or government economic reports.

“Being recognized by Inc. for the second consecutive year is especially meaningful because our growth reflects something larger happening in the marketplace,” said Gary Drenik, CEO of Prosper Insights & Analytics. “AI is dramatically expanding what organizations can do with data, but the quality and uniqueness of the underlying information still determine what those systems can see. For nearly 25 years, Prosper has been measuring how consumer demand forms before it becomes a transaction. We are now combining that longitudinal human intelligence with predictive analytics and AI infrastructure to help organizations move from analyzing what happened to anticipating what is likely to happen next.”

Prosper’s expanding capabilities include predictive economic and business forecasting, forward-looking consumer indicators, retail and company-level signals, syndicated audience models and the ability to develop new indexes and measures from thousands of consistently collected consumer variables. Its technology infrastructure is designed to make these capabilities increasingly accessible to analysts, investors, marketers, AI systems and enterprise decision-makers.

As AI models and analytical tools become more widely available, Prosper believes differentiated information will become an increasingly important source of competitive advantage. Its combination of long-term longitudinal history, representative human data, consistent collection cadence and forward-looking variables provides an intelligence layer that cannot be recreated from historical transactions, digital exhaust or synthetic data alone.

This year’s Inc. 5000 recognizes a new class of companies redefining what growth looks like. From AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, consumer products, and professional services, these businesses are expanding their impact, creating jobs and proving that entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years.

For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.

“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance–it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement.”

Inc. 5000 List Methodology
Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2025. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2025 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.

About Inc.
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About Prosper Insights & Analytics
Prosper Insights & Analytics helps organizations identify market change before it becomes visible in transactions, revenues, or economic reports. For more than 20 years, Prosper has measured the drivers of future consumer behavior—including intentions, expectations, confidence, emotions, and purchase plans—to generate predictive demand signals for financial services, retail, technology, and marketing organizations. www.ProsperInsights.com

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