Our human brains love a good list as a way to contextualize our world, or our local tech economy.

Inc. magazine knows this well, and this week dropped the regional version of its Inc. 5000 rankings of fastest-growing private companies. For the D.C. metro area, which includes D.C., Baltimore and Northern Virginia, we recognize a handful of tech companies high on the 250-entry list.

Notably, FiscalNote came in at #9, reporting 739% growth from 2017 to 2019. Early this year, the Penn Quarter-based political software and intelligence firm acquired FactSquared, the parent company of Factba.se, an AI-enabled transcription tool that makes Trump’s words across speeches and tweets searchable in real-time. That acquisition came just a few weeks after it raised $160 million in growth capital and debt financing.

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