Eleven 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 eleven 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.

Eleven 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, posting 2,395% three-year revenue growth, the fastest of any pet-industry company on this year's list. The company says it has facilitated more than 3.7 million telehealth veterinary visits; its own materials also describe revenue doubling in each of the past two years, a different window than Inc.'s three-year calculation.

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 second-fastest of any pet-industry company on this year's list, behind only Dutch. 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. Brutus Broth ranks No. 1,648 overall

Brutus Broth, a Sunderland, Maryland-based bone broth company for dogs founded in 2017 by sisters Sue Delegan and Kim Hehir, posted 211% three-year growth. The woman-owned, WBENC-certified business returns to the Inc. 5000 after a two-year gap: it debuted at No. 373 in 2023, didn't qualify in 2024 or 2025, and came back this year at a lower rank, still fast enough to clear the bar but well off its debut pace.

9. Vital Pet Life ranks No. 3,170 overall

Vital Pet Life, a Los Angeles-based pet wellness brand founded in 2017, posted 95% three-year growth, its sixth consecutive appearance on the Inc. 5000. The woman-owned company builds its salmon-oil and supplement line around a stack of sustainability certifications, including an NASC quality seal, ORIVO origin certification, and both ASC and MSC sustainable-sourcing marks, a positioning bet in a supplement aisle where Native Pet and Bundle x Joy are also competing on formulation and label trust rather than price.

10. 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 group but still enough to qualify.

11. 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 eleven companies reporting three-year growth, and the range runs from Identity Pet Nutrition's 91% to Dutch's 2,395%, with Petfolk's 2,016% and 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 three. A telehealth platform, not a brick-and-mortar network, posted the fastest growth rate of any pet company on the entire list, with Petfolk's clinic-based model close behind. 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 still clear evidence that the money is converting into real revenue growth, not just clinic count, even if it's no longer the single fastest grower in the group.

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, Brutus Broth, Vital Pet Life, 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. Dutch, 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 and Vital Pet Life's sixth are the group's most durable signals: multiple straight years of qualifying growth is harder to sustain than one breakout year, and both suggest their categories, rental-housing pet tech and pet supplements, have found a repeatable sales motion rather than a single viral moment. Brutus Broth is the group's clearest counter-signal: growth fast enough to qualify once doesn't guarantee it happens on schedule every year after.

Whether these growth rates prove durable

Dutch's 2,395% and Petfolk's 2,016% three-year growth rates are nearly always small-base effects, and the real test for both is whether growth compresses toward something sustainable as the underlying base -- visit volume for Dutch, clinic count and revenue for Petfolk -- gets larger, the way most fast-scaling healthcare businesses eventually do.

PetScreening's five-year streak is a durability marker in its own right; a sixth consecutive appearance in 2027 would put it on par with Vital Pet Life's run and confirm rental-housing pet tech has staying power rather than riding a temporary compliance wave. Dutch's 2,395% raises a similar question in the other direction: a rate that fast is hard to repeat, and how close the company comes to matching it next year will say more about veterinary telehealth's ceiling than this year's ranking alone.

Vital Pet Life's sixth consecutive Inc. 5000 appearance is the longest active streak on this list, one year ahead of PetScreening's five. But the more interesting number sits inside that streak: the brand ranked No. 348 in 2021, then No. 1,514, No. 2,109, No. 2,992, No. 2,375, and now No. 3,170, a slide of roughly ninefold even as it keeps qualifying every year. Six straight years of growth fast enough to clear Inc.'s bar is durability by one measure. A rank sliding ninefold since 2021 is deceleration by another, and both are true of the same company at once. The more honest read: revenue keeps growing, just not fast enough anymore to keep pace with a list that gets more competitive every year.

Brutus Broth's path back to this list is the group's tale on durability. The company debuted at No. 373 in 2023, a growth rate strong enough to land in the list's top decile, then missed the cut entirely in 2024 and 2025 before requalifying this year at No. 1,648 on 211% three-year growth, a real number, just a smaller one than whatever pace it was tracking at its debut. Two missed years followed by a comeback is a different shape than either Dutch-style hypergrowth or the steady, uninterrupted streaks Vital Pet Life and PetScreening are running: it reads like demand that surged, cooled enough to fall off the list twice, and picked back up, a more volatile pattern than anything else on this year's ranking.

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