Applied AI Leader Phenom Secures 6th Straight Inc. 5000 Recognition

PHILADELPHIA, August 12, 2025 — For the sixth year in a row, applied AI company Phenom earned a spot on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America. Renowned for its ability to help organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer using scalable agentic AI and automation, the list provides a data-driven snapshot of the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment — independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle and Patagonia.

“Making the Inc. 5000 is always a remarkable achievement, but earning a spot this year speaks volumes about a company’s tenacity and clarity of vision,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “These businesses have thrived amid rising costs, shifting global dynamics, and constant change. They didn’t just weather the storm—they grew through it, and their stories are a powerful reminder that the entrepreneurial spirit is the engine of the U.S. economy.”

Building on its recent recognition as a Top 25 AI Company by the Software Report and Best Cloud HR/HRMS/Solution in The 2024/25 Cloud Awards program, Phenom continues to earn industry acclaim for its bold innovation that unifies rather than fragments the entire talent experience through an AI platform. The comprehensive solution solves critical HR challenges through advancements in data standardization, industry-specific agentic and generative AI, real-time personalization, compliance, and deep integrations with existing HR systems.

In 2025, Phenom introduced first-to-market AI Agents designed exclusively for HR teams that bridge the gap between business strategy and execution. These purpose-built agents streamline essential processes by adapting to both their organization’s and industry’s unique requirements — delivering tailored solutions from candidate sourcing to talent development while transforming unstructured enterprise data into actionable insights. From healthcare’s clinical expertise validation and retail’s high-volume screening, to financial services’ compliance-heavy fraud detection and manufacturing’s evolving skill requirements, each agent addresses context-specific hiring and retention complexities.

“Most companies are retrofitting AI features into their existing product and hoping businesses will see value. We’re building native AI solutions,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “As an AI company, we continue to create solutions like agents that address the specific challenges of HR and can execute efficiently and reliably within that domain. This native AI approach is why we’re seeing rapid adoption and sustained growth.”

With Phenom, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure.

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About Inc. 

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Methodology 

Companies on the 2025 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2021 to 2024. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2021. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2024. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2021 is $100,000; the minimum for 2024 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. For the full list, company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalized experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (4 consecutive years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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