UltraViolet Cyber named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 for the second consecutive year

For the second year in a row, UltraViolet Cyber has been named to the Inc. 5000, the annual ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies. It's a nice milestone on its own. More importantly, it means more security leaders are recognizing the value of a partner with real depth and breadth across offense and defense, and the practitioner talent to actually operate it.

Growth like this comes from a team that earns customer trust one renewal, one incident, and one hard decision at a time. This recognition belongs to the customers who depended on us to keep their business secure.

A full suite built around one closed loop

We didn't get here by adding services for the sake of a longer menu. Every capability we've built or acquired closes a specific gap between what gets tested and what actually gets detected.

Last September, we acquired Black Duck's Application Security Testing services business, adding penetration testing, red teaming, threat modeling, and secure development consulting from a provider with seven consecutive years in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing. We brought UltraViolet Solstice, our proprietary AI-augmented penetration testing platform, to market to keep testing coverage moving at the same speed as AI-generated code entering production, and we're extending that same approach to the agents, copilots, and models customers are now putting into production. Built on 30,000+ prior UltraViolet engagements, Solstice runs alongside our senior practitioners, proposing test plans while our experts decide what runs and what gets documented. And we kept building UV Lens, the platform that connects offensive findings directly to defensive detection instead of leaving them in a report nobody actions.

We call this the Power of Purple: offense informs defense, and defense sharpens offense. A red team finding becomes a SOC detection rule. A purple team exercise proves that detection holds up under real pressure. Distinct functions, distinct practitioners, one shared picture of how your defenses actually perform.

The list, briefly

Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked by revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. Among this year's honorees, the median three-year growth rate came in at 130 percent, and those companies added more than 627,000 U.S. jobs over that span. Past honorees include Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Oracle, and Patagonia — good company to keep.

“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” said 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.”

Inc. will celebrate this year's honorees at the 2026 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, October 14–16 in Dallas. The full list and searchable database are at inc.com/inc5000.

Where we go from here

Two consecutive years on this list is a growth story and a trust story at once. A connected offense-and-defense model compounds only if customers trust it enough to keep leaning on it, and this year, more of them did. As AI keeps changing what attackers and defenders can do, we plan on being the partner that keeps pace with it, this year and in the years ahead.

If your security program still treats testing and detection as two separate purchases from two separate vendors, get in touch. We'd love to talk about what it looks like to run both as one, with a partner who earns the trust to do it.

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