Several Wilmington companies have grown enough in recent years to land on a national list.

The Port City companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list, released Tuesday, include software firm Vantaca, Vinedresser Lawn and Landscape, Clarity Counseling Center, MoveZen Property Management and Stonewall Structural Engineering.

The list ranks the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S.

Founded in 2017 by Dave Sweyer, Vantaca is a cloud-based community association management software company headquartered on Wrightsville Avenue. This year marks the fourth year in a row the firm (ranked this year at No. 1,619 with 321% growth) has made it on the Inc. 5000 list, released by business publication Inc. Magazine.

“Vantaca’s sustained growth is the result of our team’s focus and dedication to continuous innovation and to our customers’ success,” said CEO Ben Currin in an email Tuesday. “Recognition on the Inc. 5000 list reinforces the importance of this focus on delivering value to our customers and partnering with them to shape the future of community management.”

Vinedresser Lawn and Landscape (No. 1,879, 278% growth) was created by a stay-at-home dad who found himself doing a lot of organic gardening at his home, according to the company’s website. The company, founded in 2016, is led by Britt McCrimmon, according to the list.

Psychologist Karin Kassab founded Clarity Counseling Center (No. 2,249 with 231% growth) in 2015. The business was a Coastal Entrepreneur Award winner in 2022.

According to a Business Journal article in 2022, the launch of Clarity “was guided by a mission to address a pain point she had identified in the mental health industry: finding the right therapeutic fit for clients. To help make finding the right therapist for each client easier and more successful, Clarity hires and trains what Kassab calls ‘super specialists,’ who can be the best choice for a client.”

Stonewall Structural Engineering, a firm that specializes in commercial and residential design and inspection services, is headquartered in Raleigh and Wilmington. The company ranked No. 3,945 on the list with 116% growth.

Stonewall, which ranked No. 4748 on the Inc. 5000 list in 2023, opened an office last year at 2 N. Front St. in downtown Wilmington.

MoveZen Property Management “transformed from a local startup into a multi-state industry leader, self-funded through operational excellence. As a proactive response to historic change in the real estate industry, the company launched an innovative property management brokerage platform in 2024,” according to a MoveZen news release about the company’s Inc. 5000 ranking.

Founded in 2006, MoveZen Property Management ranked No. 4,445 with 93% growth. 

The company’s release also stated that its model “prioritizes unmatched personalized service and dedicated support from locally licensed housing experts, who understand the unique aspects of their communities and can leverage MoveZen's incredible resources to deliver crucial results for their clients.”

RE Hunter, CEO and founder of MoveZen, stated in the release, "The discipline required to excel as a bootstrapped startup uniquely prepared our team for the challenges that private companies and housing service providers faced in the post-2020 landscape, and that helped us to win this incredible honor from Inc. Magazine." 

According to Inc., companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list were ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 through 2023. 

“To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2023. (Since the period under review, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired),” the list’s website states.

The minimum revenue required was $100,000 for 2020 and $2 million for 2023.