What’s more, we earned the #29 spot overall across all industries, with an astonishing three-year revenue growth of 7,000%. The Inc. 5000 list provides a data-driven snapshot of the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneurial businesses.
This milestone wouldn’t have been achieved without three main factors: our incredible team that stands behind every success of Action1, the ambitious co-founders of the company, Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, who turned their idea into reality, and of course the trust each organization around the world placed in our platform.
“Team Action1 is thrilled to be recognized as the fastest-growing private software company in America,” said Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. “Modern organizations understand that proactive patch management is essential to staying ahead of today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape. Our continued hypergrowth reflects the increased demand for enterprise cybersecurity innovation. You can’t be just powerful and secure—you must also be simple to deploy and scale and cost-effective. This achievement reflects the dedication of Action1’s global team, who continue to execute against an ambitious vision: a world where cyberattacks exploiting vulnerabilities are entirely prevented across all types of devices, operating systems, and applications.”
The Vision Powering Our Hypergrowth
From day one, our goal has been to equip every company, regardless of their size or budget, with the solutions needed to effectively protect themselves from cyberattacks, reduce downtime, and keep their endpoints compliant and secure.
Action1 delivers exactly that. It automatically identifies and remediates software vulnerabilities across operating systems and third-party applications in minutes. The software allows you to generate audit-ready reports after each patch and update deployment and, most importantly, eliminates manual-intensive processes while reducing hardware and workforce expenses.
How Action1 Reinvents Patching to Protect Every Endpoint, Everywhere
The shift to remote work during the COVID-19 crisis made it necessary to replace on-premises patching systems, which cannot function outside corporate networks and leave your endpoints vulnerable to cyberattacks, with cloud-native platforms that successfully resolve these issues. Action1 ensures full coverage of every endpoint, regardless of location, without requiring VPN connections that slow down operations and create deployment headaches.
The platform’s success is being driven by solving the real-world problems businesses around the world face daily:
- Eliminating complexity: Uniform patching across operating systems and third-party applications.
- Advanced remote access: Always-on protection with no VPN required, regardless of endpoint location.
- Accelerating remediation: Real-time visibility into vulnerabilities that cuts response time from months to days.
- Seamless scalability: The cloud-native architecture of our software allows you to grow from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of endpoints instantly, at a gradually lowering per-endpoint cost.
- End-to-end automation: Autonomous endpoint management reduces manual workload, protects your endpoints, and accelerates compliance.
- Reducing downtime: Through intelligent, staged, risk-free, scheduled update deployments, downtime risks are reduced as much as possible.
- P2P patch distribution: Optimizes network traffic usage when software packages are deployed on the same network. Updates are pulled only once and then shared across your endpoints. This approach helps to deliver patches faster and avoid bandwidth issues without maintaining local appliances or cache servers.
- Effortless regulatory compliance: Action1 offers 100+ built-in reports on patching, vulnerabilities, software and hardware inventory, security configuration, and more. Moreover, you can customize these templates based on your or your client’s needs and requirements.
We Hear You: 200 Endpoints, Full Features, Forever Free – No Catch
Something we are deeply proud of is the decision to expand the free tier of Action1 to 200 endpoints. We are the first and only company that offers the opportunity to protect up to 200 devices with enterprise-grade security at no cost, forever, without functional limits.
“For SMBs and nonprofits, cybersecurity often feels unattainable due to limited budgets and expertise. That makes these organizations vulnerable to malicious actors,” said Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. “Our platform changes that by delivering enterprise-grade, autonomous endpoint management that’s easy to use and completely free for 200 devices forever and simple, affordable pricing beyond that. We’re equipping organizations of all sizes with the tools they need to thrive in today’s challenging cyber threat landscape.”
Action1’s platform delivers exactly what modern organizations need: a solution that can be configured in just five minutes and immediately begins providing value through autonomous patching and comprehensive endpoint management.
Final Words
Being ranked the #1 fastest-growing software company in the U.S. is definitely a milestone we will never forget, but it’s not the finish line. With the hypergrowth we are experiencing and being on track to reach $100 million ARR, we’re confident in our ability to execute our long-term vision of a world where cyberattacks exploiting vulnerabilities are entirely prevented across all types of devices, operating systems, and applications. We aim to reduce the MTTR to an absolute minimum, eliminating the advantage of threat actors.
So, you can expect us to continue delivering the innovations that business leaders and their IT teams desperately need by improving our automated patching, compliance reporting, and threat prevention capabilities. Our main goal is to help you stay ahead of cybercriminals, reduce IT overhead, and allow you to focus on your company’s growth rather than wasting time on manually patching your endpoints.
From everyone at Action1, thank you for trusting us with your endpoints. This achievement belongs not just to our team, but to every customer who shares our vision of a world where vulnerabilities are remediated before they can ever be exploited.
About Action1
Action1 is an autonomous endpoint management platform that is cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes-it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching – AEM’s foundational use case- through peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment without needing a VPN, it eliminates costly, time-consuming routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience. Trusted by thousands of enterprises managing millions of endpoints globally, Action1 is certified for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is founder-led by industry veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who founded Netwrix, which has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry-leading cybersecurity company.
