Nine Pet Companies that Made the 2026 Inc. 5000

One veterinary care network grew revenue by more than 2,000% over three years, and it isn't the only breakout on this year's list. At least nine pet-industry companies placed on the 2026 Inc. 5000, spanning veterinary care, pet insurance, telehealth, supplements, pet food, rental-housing tech, grooming, and franchise daycare.

Nine pet companies rank on the 2026 Inc. 5000

Inc. Magazine released its 2026 Inc. 5000 list this week, ranking the fastest-growing private companies in the US by three-year revenue growth. Inc.'s full list runs to 5,000 companies across every industry and isn't searchable by category, so this is a running count built from individual company announcements and confirmed against each company's own Inc. 5000 listing, not a complete canvass of every pet-adjacent business that qualified. More are likely on the list under classifications this pass didn't catch.

1. Dutch ranks No. 120 overall

Dutch, a veterinary telehealth platform founded in 2021, placed in the top 2.4% of the list and No. 16 in the Healthcare and Medical category. The company says it has facilitated more than 3.7 million telehealth veterinary visits and has doubled revenue in each of the past two years.

2. Petfolk ranks No. 160 overall

Petfolk, a veterinary care clinic network backed by Series A, B, and C funding including an investment led by Deerfield Management, posted 2,016% three-year growth, the fastest of any pet-industry company on this year's list by a wide margin. The company operates multi-market clinic locations across the country, including recent openings in the Houston and Kansas City metro areas.

3. Bundle x Joy ranks No. 170 overall

Bundle x Joy, a Phoenix-based gut-health pet nutrition brand founded in 2021 by Jess Berger, posted 1,942% three-year growth on Inc.'s own listing, close behind Petfolk for the fastest pace on this year's list. The company's own materials cite an even higher 2,300% figure for a 2022-to-2025 window, a different basis than Inc.'s official calculation. The eight-person team builds its food, treats, and meal toppers around digestive health and directs 3% of every purchase toward funding women entrepreneurs and community causes.

4. We Love Doodles ranks No. 837 overall

We Love Doodles, a grooming products and lifestyle brand built around doodle-breed dogs, posted 412% three-year growth. The company sells through its own site as well as Walmart and Amazon.

5. Native Pet ranks No. 890 overall

Native Pet, a clean-label pet supplement brand founded in 2017, posted 390.7% three-year growth. Its flagship supplement earned Clean Label Project certification in 2025, and the company says its products are now sold in more than 13,000 retail locations.

6. Wagmo ranks No. 930 overall

Wagmo, a pet insurance and wellness-plan provider, posted 371% three-year growth after expanding its coverage into New York, California, and Texas in recent years.

7. PetScreening ranks No. 1,378 overall

PetScreening, a pet-policy platform serving rental housing, made the list for the fifth consecutive year, a run that points to sustained rather than one-time growth. The company serves multifamily housing, single-family rentals, HOAs, and student housing operators screening tenants' pets.

8. Identity Pet Nutrition ranks No. 3,237 overall

Identity Pet Nutrition, a human-grade pet food company based in Windsor, Colorado, made its Inc. 5000 debut with 91% three-year growth, the slowest pace of the nine but still enough to qualify.

9. Central Bark ranks No. 4,425 overall

Central Bark, a dog daycare and boarding franchise, grew 16.1% year-over-year in 2025 and made its Inc. 5000 debut. The 45-location network offers boarding, daycare, training, and grooming under one franchise brand.

Where pet industry growth is concentrating right now

Line up the eight companies reporting three-year growth, and the range runs from Identity Pet Nutrition's 91% to Petfolk's 2,016%, with Bundle x Joy's 1,942% close behind, a spread wide enough to make almost any single number on this list look unremarkable next to the top two. A brick-and-mortar veterinary care network, not a software product, posted the fastest growth rate of any pet company on the entire list. Consolidated, multi-market veterinary care has been one of the most heavily funded categories in pet health for several years now, and Petfolk's number is the clearest evidence yet that the money is converting into real revenue growth, not just clinic count.

The rest of the group maps a familiar spread. Dutch and Wagmo sell directly to pet owners on convenience and coverage, telehealth and insurance. Native Pet, Bundle x Joy, and Identity Pet Nutrition compete on formulation and label trust in a crowded supplement and food aisle. We Love Doodles has built a business around a single, densely-online breed community rather than pets broadly. PetScreening and Central Bark sell into landlords and franchisees, not pet parents directly, proof that pet spending now shows up in categories that never touch a bag of food or a supplement bottle.

The growth-rate spread also tells operators something about where the ceiling still is. Petfolk, Bundle x Joy, and We Love Doodles are the kind of numbers that show up early in a category's life, when a small base makes triple- and quadruple-digit growth achievable. Central Bark's 16.1% is a mature, capital-light franchise number, still fast enough for a debut Inc. 5000 slot, but a fundamentally different growth profile. PetScreening's fifth consecutive appearance is arguably the most durable signal of the group: five straight years of qualifying growth is harder to sustain than one breakout year, and it suggests pet-policy software has found a repeatable sales motion rather than a single viral moment.

Whether these growth rates prove durable

Petfolk's 2,016% three-year growth rate is nearly always a small-base effect, and the real test is whether the network's growth rate compresses toward something sustainable as its clinic count and revenue base both get larger, the way most fast-scaling healthcare rollups eventually do.

PetScreening's five-year streak sets the bar for durability; a sixth consecutive appearance in 2027 would confirm rental-housing pet tech has staying power rather than riding a temporary compliance wave. Dutch's back-to-back revenue doubling raises a similar question in the other direction: doubling twice is hard to do a third time, and how close the company comes to a third doubling will say more about veterinary telehealth's ceiling than this year's ranking alone.

Identity Pet Nutrition's debut at the slower end of the group will look different once its Colorado manufacturing base has had a full year to scale, and Central Bark's next test is simply whether 45 locations becomes 50 without the growth rate slipping below what got it onto the list in the first place.

Source: Inc. Unveils the 2026 Inc. 5000 List via GlobeNewswire