Health Carousel Named As One Of Top Growing Companies For Seventh Year
The Health Carousel was cited as one of the top “Growing Companies” for the seventh consecutive year in the 2018 Inc. 5000 list. This ranking highlights businesses growing at least 7% annually and passes rigorous peer and industry analysis, with 1,000 selections from a pool of tens of thousands of listed companies throughout the U.S., Canada, and internationally.
Incubators have been instrumental in helping entrepreneurs launch their companies into success stories since getting funding without a track record is so hard. The Health Carousel’s co-founder and CEO, Dr. Bob Johnson, was also a co-founder of PatientFirst Technologies, which grew to be a $1.2 billion company in the healthcare IT sector. Dr. Johnson is also chairman and founder of GenomeXplorer, a life sciences and healthcare technology company that is addressing the accelerating world of personalized medical care by developing proprietary software that can identify genetic markers with high confidence, enabling physicians to reduce costs by identifying drugs most likely to work for you without need for invasive procedures like biopsies.
The Health Carousel is an innovation incubator in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a mission to succeed through innovation. The Health Carousel was founded by Bob Johnson and was initially launched under the name, HealthCarousel.com.
As a leading innovation incubator in Raleigh, NC, Health Carousel’s technology-enabled model accelerates the commercialization of cutting-edge healthcare company innovations and enables companies to increase at lower costs through early customer acquisition. The Health Carousel has assisted more than 200 companies in reaching profitability and other milestones. Over the last 12 years, more than 50% of its clients became publicly traded public companies on NASDAQ and other major exchanges.
It has won several awards. It was named one of the tops “Growing Companies” in the 2018 Inc. 5000 list. It received the North Carolina Governor’s Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and the North Carolina Secretary of State’s “Emerging Business” award. The company also was named among Forbes’ Top 100 Companies ranked by Median Growth Rate and one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care from 2010 to 2011. Health Carousel was named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurship Firms by Castle in 2012 (with Bob Johnson joining their ranks).