Constrafor named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, ranking No. 287 among America's fastest-growing private companies
Recognized for sustained growth as the financial and AI operating system for the construction industry.
NEW YORK — Friday, August 21st, 2026 — Constrafor today announced it has been named No. 287 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
The recognition places Constrafor among a small group of companies proving that construction, one of the slowest sectors to adopt software, is now moving fast enough to show up on the industry's most competitive growth list.
In addition to its national ranking, Constrafor placed strongly across two other cuts of the list:
- No. 287 overall on the 2026 Inc. 5000
- No. 12 among construction companies nationally
- No. 29 in New York
What the Inc. 5000 actually measures
The Inc. 5000 ranks companies strictly by three-year revenue growth, calculated from verified financials. To qualify, a company has to be privately held, U.S.-based, operating independently, and already generating real revenue years before the growth window closes. The methodology is unusually blunt: hit the growth number or you don't make the list.
Past honorees include Microsoft, Oracle, and Facebook. Procore made the list at No. 1,501 in 2012, nine years before it went public.
"This ranking is really a reflection of how much of the industry has been waiting for someone to fix the parts everyone else skipped. We built Constrafor to sit where contractors actually get paid and where subcontractors actually run out of cash, and that's where the growth is coming from. We're just getting started."
— Anwar Ghauche, Founder & CEO, Constrafor
Why this matters to Constrafor
Constrafor is the financial and AI operating system for the construction industry. It sits where the industry gets qualified, insured, contracted, and paid, the part construction software has mostly overlooked. That gap costs subcontractors dearly: they often float 60 to 90 days of cash plus retainage, run their back office on lean teams, and roughly 7% of them fail every year due to poor financial visibility.
Constrafor covers all key layers of the ecosystem:
- General contractors run compliance, contracts, and payments on the platform.
- Subcontractors use Early Pay to advance cash against approved invoices in about two days.
- Cru, the first AI-native ERP for construction subcontractors, automates the bookkeeping, compliance, and cash forecasting work that normally eats their back office alive.
The network now reaches 70,000+ subcontractors, with more than $2 billion in invoices facilitated through Early Pay.
The bigger pattern behind the list
Zoom out, and the Inc. 5000 tends to be a leading indicator. Fast-growing companies cluster around real shifts in how an industry operates. Construction has historically lagged nearly every other sector in software adoption, and it's now in the middle of one of those inflection points. Finance and back-office workflows are one of the first places it's showing up, and Constrafor's placement on this year's list tracks that shift directly.
About Constrafor
Constrafor is the financial and AI operating system for the commercial construction supply chain, connecting general contractors and subcontractors across compliance, contracts, payments, and cash flow. Its Early Pay program advances cash against approved invoices in about two days, and Cru, its AI-native ERP for construction subcontractors, automates bookkeeping, compliance, and cash forecasting. The Constrafor network reaches 70,000+ subcontractors, with more than $2 billion in invoices facilitated through Early Pay. Learn more at constrafor.com and cru.ai.
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TL;DR
- Constrafor has been named No. 287 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, Inc. Magazine's ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
- Constrafor also ranked No. 12 among construction companies nationally and No. 29 in New York.
- The Inc. 5000 ranks companies purely on three-year revenue growth, verified against real financials, not nominations or reputation.
- Constrafor's growth tracks its platform expansion: 70,000+ subcontractors and $2 billion+ in invoices facilitated through Early Pay.
- The recognition reflects a broader shift toward purpose-built, connected software in an industry that has historically lagged on tech adoption.
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