PhishMe Honored on the Inc. 5000 List for the Second Year in a Row

8/18/16

LEESBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PhishMe, Inc., the leading provider of human-phishing defense solutions, announced today that Inc. magazine has ranked PhishMe No. 700 on its 35th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment— its independent small businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000.

“Making the Inc. 5000 list two years in a row is a tremendous honor and a testament to all the hard work our team has been doing,” said Rohyt Belani, CEO and Co-Founder of PhishMe. “PhishMe has maintained our focus and executed cleanly over the past several years. Our strong business fundamentals have afforded us the platform for expansive growth while cybersecurity continues to be at the forefront of businesses in this digital age.”

PhishMe has recently achieved record cumulative growth of more than 560 percent over the last three years. In addition, the company has helped more than half of the Fortune 100 organizations to defend themselves against thousands of phishing attacks perpetrated by cybercriminals across the globe, helping PhishMe attain a 93 percent gross retention and negative net churn.

The 2016 Inc. 5000 is the most competitive crop in the list’s history. The average company on the list achieved a mind-boggling three-year growth of 433%. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue is $200 billion, and the companies on the list collectively generated 640,000 jobs over the past three years, or about 8% of all jobs created in the entire economy during that period. Complete results of the Inc. 5000 can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

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About PhishMe

PhishMe is the leading provider of human-focused phishing defense solutions for organizations concerned about their susceptibility to today’s top attack vector — spear phishing. PhishMe’s intelligence-driven platform turns employees into an active line of defense by enabling them to identify, report, and mitigate spear phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. Our open approach ensures that PhishMe integrates easily into the security technology stack, demonstrating measurable results to help inform an organization’s security decision making process. PhishMe’s customers include the defense industrial base, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing industries, as well as other Global 1000 entities that understand changing user security behavior will improve security, aid incident response, and reduce the risk of compromise.

More about the Inc. 5000

The 2016 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2012 to 2015. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2012. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2015. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2012 is $100,000; the minimum for 2015 is $2 million.

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