Russell 2000
427 companies
Instacart
Grocery Delivery / Gig Economy
Apoorva Mehta's 21st startup idea succeeded where his previous 20 failed because of germination timing, not a better idea. In 2012, environmental fact...
AAON, Inc.
HVAC Equipment Manufacturing
HVAC manufacturer thriving in a niche like desert-adapted species—specialized cooling and heating for commercial buildings, not homes. Focused special...
Aaron's
Retail
Allows organisms to access nesting materials before they can afford full ownership, tracking repayment through incremental exchanges over extended tim...
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Apparel Retail
Abercrombie & Fitch is an American lifestyle retailer founded in 1892, operating multiple brands including Abercrombie & Fitch, Abercrombie Kids, Holl...
Abiomed
Medical Devices
Implants mechanical circulatory assist pumps that mimic cardiac function, maintaining blood pressure and perfusion when native hearts fail to sustain...
Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc.
Sporting Goods Retail
Academy Sports and Outdoors is a leading full-line sporting goods and outdoor recreation retailer operating 301 stores across 21 states. Originally fo...
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.
Healthcare Services - Behavioral Health
Provides sheltered environments where behaviorally distressed organisms can recover neural homeostasis, processing trauma and reestablishing functiona...
Acadia Realty Trust
Real Estate Investment Trust - Retail
Acadia Realty Trust is an equity real estate investment trust focused on owning, acquiring, redeveloping and managing retail properties. The company's...
Accelerate Diagnostics
Medical Devices
Identifies bacterial threats within hours instead of days, detecting microbial signatures and resistance patterns before infections overwhelm host def...
Acceleron Pharma
Biotechnology
Modulates cellular growth pathways in rare disorders, targeting molecular signals that regulate blood cell production, bone formation, and muscle deve...
Accuray Incorporated
Medical Devices
Strikes cancer cells with the surgical precision of an archerfish jet, robotic targeting systems delivering lethal doses while healthy tissue escapes...
ACI Worldwide, Inc.
Financial Technology - Payment Processing
ACI Worldwide is a global software company that provides mission-critical real-time payment solutions to corporations. The company powers electronic p...
Acuity Brands
Industrial Technology
Orchestrates building illumination like firefly synchrony, sensor networks coordinate light pulses and environmental responses through distributed sig...
Acushnet Holdings Corp.
Sporting Goods Manufacturing - Golf
Engineers golf ball trajectories with the precision of archerfish water jets, Titleist spheres calculate drag and lift like predators computing strike...
Adaptimmune Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Engineers T-cells into precision hunters like training wolves to track cancer scent, receptor technology redirects immune predators toward tumor prey...
Addus HomeCare
Healthcare Services
Extends eldercare like elephant matriarchs tending their aging, home services mirror the prosocial grooming and food-sharing that sustains vulnerable...
ADT Inc.
Security Services
Security monitoring that spreads through authorized dealers like mycelium—the brand sits at the center, but thousands of local installers extend its r...
Adtalem Global Education
Education Services
Transmits professional knowledge like orca pods teaching hunting techniques, specialized institutions pass workforce skills across generations through...
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
Construction Materials - Water Management
Engineers corrugated pipe networks that channel storm runoff through buried arteries, mimicking watershed dynamics to prevent flooding and guide water...
AdvanSix
Chemicals
Transforms nitrogen and carbon feedstocks into nylon polymers and chemical intermediates, breaking down raw materials into building blocks that cascad...
Adverum Biotechnologies
Biotechnology
Develops gene therapies targeting ocular diseases by inserting therapeutic DNA into retinal cells, reprogramming tissues to produce missing proteins t...
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Aerospace & Defense
Forges rocket engines that convert chemical propellants into thrust, expelling exhaust at hypersonic speeds to lift payloads beyond Earth's gravitatio...
AeroVironment, Inc.
Aerospace & Defense - Unmanned Systems
Builds lightweight drones that loiter above battlefields for hours, streaming video back to ground operators, extending human perception across hostil...
Affirm
Financial Technology - BNPL
Affirm operates as a cleaner organism in the credit ecosystem, removing the parasitic elements (hidden fees, compound interest, late payment traps) th...
Agenus Inc.
Biotechnology
Engineers cancer vaccines and cell therapies that train immune systems to recognize tumor antigens, priming T cells to hunt malignant cells hiding in...
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Life Sciences Tools & Diagnostics
Manufactures mass spectrometers and gene sequencers that detect molecules at parts-per-billion sensitivity, revealing hidden chemical signatures in bl...
Air Transport Services Group
Transportation & Logistics
Operates freighter fleets that haul e-commerce packages and military cargo overnight, converting passenger aircraft into aerial supply chains serving...
Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.
Security Software & IoT
Alarm.com is a leading cloud-based platform for smart security and IoT devices. The company provides interactive security, video monitoring, intellige...
Albany International Corp.
Industrial Materials & Textiles
Weaves engineered fabrics for paper mills and aerospace composites, producing endless belts that convey pulp slurries and carbon-fiber preforms throug...
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
Real Estate Investment Trust - Retail
Alexander & Baldwin is Hawaii's premier commercial real estate company and the state's foremost owner of grocery-anchored retail centers. The company...
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated
Specialty Materials & Metal Fabrication
Allegheny forges titanium and nickel alloys that survive inside jet engines and nuclear reactors - materials for environments that would melt ordinary...
Allogene Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Allogene mass-produces cancer-fighting cells from healthy donors like aphids clone armies without sex - one genetically modified T-cell becomes thousa...
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor
Semiconductors
Alpha and Omega makes power semiconductors like mitochondria manage cellular energy - MOSFETs and power ICs control electron flow, converting and dist...
Altair Engineering Inc.
Software - Engineering & Simulation
Altair Engineering is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing, and artificial int...
AMAG Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Focuses on maternal health and anemia treatments like cleaner shrimp specializing in one service—iron deficiency therapy and women's health. Narrow fo...
Ambarella, Inc.
Semiconductors - AI & Video Processing
Ambarella develops advanced semiconductor solutions that enable high-definition video and artificial intelligence processing. The company's system-on-...
AMC Entertainment
Entertainment - Movie Theaters
AMC Entertainment is the largest movie theater chain in the world, surviving near-bankruptcy during the pandemic through retail investor support.
Amedisys Inc.
Healthcare Services
Amedisys brings healthcare to dying patients at home like elephants tend to their old - hospice care recognizes that sometimes the herd slows down for...
American Axle & Manufacturing
Auto Parts & Equipment
American Axle makes drivelines and axles for automakers like specialized organs serve the body - they don't build whole vehicles, just critical propul...
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
Apparel Retail
American Eagle Outfitters is a leading retailer of jeans, apparel, accessories, and personal care products operating globally through its American Eag...
American National Bankshares Inc.
Regional Banking
American National Bankshares is a financial holding company providing a full range of banking and related financial services. Through its subsidiary A...
American Outdoor Brands
Consumer Goods
American Outdoor Brands equips hunters like wolves have evolved teeth and claws - guns, knives, camping gear are prosthetic predation tools. The compa...
American Software
Software & Technology
American Software optimizes supply chains like organisms allocate scarce resources - deciding which tissues get glucose during famine. Their demand fo...
Americas Car-Mart
Automotive Retail
America's Car-Mart feeds on what prime lenders reject - subprime buyers with damaged credit get used vehicles at high interest rates. Like vultures ci...
Ameris Bancorp
Regional Banking
Ameris Bancorp is a bank holding company operating through its subsidiary Ameris Bank, offering a full range of banking services including consumer an...
AmeriServ Financial
Regional Banking
AmeriServ is a Pennsylvania regional bank, endemic to mid-Atlantic communities like island species to their archipelago. Small territory, local knowle...
Ames National Corporation
Regional Banking
Ames National Corporation is a multi-bank holding company providing traditional banking services through its community banks in Iowa. The company offe...
Amicus Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Amicus targets lysosomal storage disorders - ultra-rare genetic diseases affecting hundreds of patients globally. Like orchids evolved for specific po...
Amkor Technology
Semiconductors
Amkor packages semiconductor dies like turtle shells protect soft bodies - the chips inside are fragile silicon, packaging provides mechanical strengt...
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Amphastar makes emergency drugs like naloxone and epinephrine - molecules that trigger survival responses in crisis moments. Their generic injectables...
AmSurg Corp.
Healthcare Services - Ambulatory Surgery
AmSurg carves out surgical procedures from hospitals like specialist predators take only choice cuts. Outpatient surgery centers handle high-margin el...
Amtech Systems
Semiconductor Equipment
Amtech builds tools that build chips - semiconductor equipment is second-order tool use, machines creating the substrate for computation. Like beavers...
Andersons
Agriculture
Andersons moves grain and fertilizer like dung beetles recycle nutrients - rail cars haul crops from farms, plant nutrients return to fields. The comp...
Angi Homeservices
Internet Services
Angi connects homeowners with contractors like fig trees host specialized wasps - the marketplace depends on both sides showing up. HomeAdvisor and Ha...
AngioDynamics
Medical Devices
AngioDynamics makes vascular devices that navigate blood vessels - catheters threading through arteries to deliver treatment. Their minimally invasive...
Anika Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Anika makes joint therapies for tissue healing - hyaluronic acid injections that cushion damaged cartilage. Their products are temporary scaffolding,...
Anixter International Inc.
Industrial Distribution
Anixter distributes cables, wires, and fasteners - the connective tissue of industrial facilities. Like capillaries delivering oxygen, they move compo...
Apogee Enterprises
Building Products
Apogee makes glass curtain walls for skyscrapers - architectural skin that lets light in while keeping weather out. Their building facades are selecti...
AppFolio
Software
AppFolio manages property portfolios through cloud software - rent collection, maintenance tracking, tenant screening automated. Their platform is res...
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.
Industrial Distribution
Applied Industrial distributes motion control and fluid power parts - bearings, pumps, valves flowing to manufacturers. Like capillaries delivering co...
Apria Healthcare
Healthcare Services
Apria delivers home medical equipment - oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines, wheelchairs to chronic patients. The company is distributed care infrastr...
Aptiv PLC
Automotive Technology & Components
Aptiv is a global technology company enabling the future of mobility through advanced safety, electrification, and vehicle connectivity solutions. The...
ArcBest Corporation
Transportation & Logistics
ArcBest hauls freight through networks of trucks and terminals - less-than-truckload shipping that consolidates small shipments. Their logistics is ef...
Archrock
Oil & Gas Equipment
Archrock compresses natural gas for transport - pumping stations that move methane through pipelines. Their equipment creates circulatory pressure, fo...
Arcosa, Inc.
Infrastructure & Construction Products
Arcosa builds infrastructure components - wind towers, utility poles, railcars, barges, aggregates. Their products are skeletal infrastructure, the bo...
Arcturus Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Arcturus develops mRNA medicines with lipid nanoparticle delivery - genetic instructions packaged in fatty bubbles that slip into cells. Their platfor...
Ardelyx Inc.
Biotechnology
Ardelyx makes drugs for kidney patients - treating hyperkalemia and phosphate management in chronic renal disease. Their therapies work in the gut, bi...
Argan
Construction & Engineering
Argan builds natural gas power plants - engineering, procurement, construction for energy infrastructure. Their projects are ecosystem construction, e...
Arhaus
Home Furnishings Retail
Arhaus sells premium home furniture with sustainability marketing - artisan-crafted pieces at high prices. The brand is costly signaling for homeowner...
Aris Water Solutions
Energy Services
Aris recycles produced water in Permian oil fields - treating and reusing wastewater from fracking. Their systems are closed-loop resource management,...
Arlo Technologies
Consumer Electronics
Arlo makes wireless security cameras - battery-powered surveillance watching homes remotely. Their products are distributed sensing, eyes monitoring p...
Armstrong Flooring
Building Products
Armstrong Flooring operates like bark on a tree—protective layers that shield what's beneath while adapting to wear. Their vinyl and hardwood products...
Arrow Financial Corporation
Regional Banking
Arrow Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Glens Falls, New York, serving northeastern New York. Through its subsidi...
Artesian Resources Corporation
Water Utilities
Like a tree's xylem vessels drawing groundwater upward through capillary action, Artesian pumps Delaware's aquifers to homes and businesses. They're t...
Artisan Partners
Asset Management
Artisan hunts like a specialist raptor—studying prey patterns, waiting for the perfect moment, then striking with precision. Their concentrated portfo...
AST SpaceMobile
Communication Services
Orbits overhead like artificial moons, beaming cellular signals down to earth, connecting remote territories where ground infrastructure cannot reach.
Astec Industries, Inc.
Construction & Road Building Equipment
Astec builds the machines that tear up and rebuild roads—asphalt plants, crushers, pavers. Like dung beetles processing waste into resource, their equ...
Astronics Corporation
Aerospace & Defense Electronics
Astronics builds the nervous system for aircraft—power distribution, lighting controls, connectivity. Like the electrical signals coordinating a squid...
Atara Biotherapeutics
Biotechnology
Atara engineers T-cells into off-the-shelf cancer killers—allogeneic warriors that attack tumors in any patient. Like bacteriophages reprogrammed to h...
Atkore International
Electrical Equipment
Atkore manufactures the protective conduits that shield electrical wiring—metal and plastic sheaths that prevent damage like bark protecting a tree's...
Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation
Regional Banking
Atlantic Union Bankshares is the holding company for Atlantic Union Bank, a regional bank serving Virginia and portions of Maryland and North Carolina...
Avanos Medical, Inc.
Medical Devices
Avanos creates medical devices for pain management and digestive health—products that interface with the body like prosthetic organs. Their feeding tu...
Avid Technology
Software & Technology
Avid builds tools for video and audio editors—software that manipulates media like a bower bird arranging its display. Their Pro Tools and Media Compo...
Avidity Biosciences
Biotechnology
Avidity engineers RNA therapeutics with targeting ligands—combining oligonucleotides with cell-specific delivery like guided missiles. Their AOCs bind...
Avient Corporation
Specialty Chemicals & Materials
Avient formulates specialized polymers—color concentrates, additives, compounds that modify plastic properties like enzymes catalyzing reactions. They...
Avista
Utilities
Avista delivers electricity and gas across the Pacific Northwest—mountain watersheds powering hydro turbines, pipelines threading through forests. The...
Axalta Coating
Chemicals
Axalta formulates protective coatings—paints and finishes that shield surfaces from corrosion, UV damage, abrasion. Like tree bark protecting cambium...
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.
Specialty Chemicals - Coatings
Axalta manufactures automotive and industrial coatings—chemical barriers that prevent rust and wear like the mucus layer protecting fish skin. Their f...
Axcelis Technologies
Semiconductor Equipment
Axcelis builds ion implantation tools that bombard silicon wafers with ions—doping semiconductors like radiation mutations create genetic variants. Th...
Axon Enterprise, Inc.
Law Enforcement Technology
Axon is a network of devices, apps, and people that helps police and public safety personnel become smarter and safer. The company is known for develo...
Axonics Inc.
Medical Devices
Axonics implants devices that electrically stimulate sacral nerves—controlling bladder and bowel function like pacemakers regulate heartbeats. Their n...
B&G Foods
Packaged Foods
B&G Foods owns a pantry of shelf-stable brands—pickles, spices, sauces that survive without refrigeration like tardigrades in dormancy. Their products...
Balchem
Specialty Chemicals
Balchem produces specialty ingredients—encapsulated nutrients, chelated minerals, animal feed additives. They engineer molecular delivery systems that...
Banc of California, Inc.
Regional Banking
Banc of California is a bank holding company operating through its subsidiary Banc of California, N.A., serving businesses and individuals throughout...
BancFirst Corporation
Regional Banking
BancFirst is an Oklahoma-based bank holding company providing a full range of commercial banking services through its subsidiary BancFirst. The compan...
Bank of Marin Bancorp
Regional Banking
Bank of Marin Bancorp is the holding company for Bank of Marin, a California-based community bank serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The company prov...
Bank OZK
Banking
Bank OZK specializes in real estate lending—construction loans, commercial property finance across the Sun Belt. They're habitat specialists, concentr...
Banner Corporation
Regional Banking
Banner survives as a regional bank by occupying thermal refugia - local markets where megabanks overheat from complexity costs.
Barnes Group Inc.
Industrial Manufacturing & Aerospace
Industrial manufacturer Barnes Group operates like wood frog in freeze-thaw cycles - protecting core aerospace revenue while peripheral divisions hibe...
Beacon Roofing
Building Materials Distribution
Roofing distributor consolidating fragmented market through roll-up acquisitions - like hermit crab upgrading shells, each purchase adds protective sc...
Beacon Roofing Supply
Building Materials Distribution
Supply distribution network operating as mycelial system - local branches sense demand, headquarters optimizes nutrient (inventory) flow to high-growt...
BellRing Brands
Packaged Foods & Beverages
Protein shake maker BellRing pumps out products like R-selected species - rapid SKU proliferation across retail channels, accepting high failure rates...
Beyond Meat
Food - Plant-Based
Beyond Meat creates plant-based meat substitutes designed to replicate taste and texture of animal meat.
BioLife Solutions
Biotechnology
BioLife makes cell preservation media - enabling hibernation for shipped cells like wood frogs surviving frozen winters through specialized cryoprotec...
BioTechne
Life Sciences Tools
Biotech tools supplier operating as resource provisioner - sells equipment to research labs like trees providing structure for epiphyte ecosystems.
BJ's Restaurants
Restaurants
BJ's Restaurants occupies suburban retail centers—casual dining with brewhouse identity. They're habitat generalists, neither fast food nor fine dinin...
BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
Casual Dining Restaurants
BJ's Restaurant operates like chain coral—standardized units that replicate successful formats. Their brewhouse concept clones itself across suburbs,...
Black Box
IT Services
IT infrastructure firm Black Box maintains corporate networks like cleaner shrimp on coral - removes technical parasites, feeds on complexity wealthy...
Black Hills Corporation
Utilities
Regional energy utility Black Hills operates as territorial monopoly - controlled geography creates natural boundaries where competition remains costl...
Blackbaud
Software
Nonprofit software provider Blackbaud locks in customers like parasitic wasp - donor databases become so embedded that switching kills the host organi...
Bloomin' Brands, Inc.
Casual Dining Restaurants
Restaurant group Bloomin Brands operates portfolio like mixed-age forest - Outback mature and cash-flowing, newer concepts in growth phase, dead brand...
BlueLinx
Building Materials Distribution
Building products distributor BlueLinx operates as nutrient pipeline - transports materials from mills to contractors like xylem carrying water from r...
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.
Specialty Retail - Western Wear
Boot Barn is the nation's leading lifestyle retailer of western and work-related footwear, apparel, and accessories. The company operates over 380 sto...
Boyd Gaming Corporation
Gaming & Casinos
Regional casino operator Boyd Gaming defends local territories - neighborhood properties create home-field advantage against Strip competitors requiri...
Brady Corporation
Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial label maker Brady profits from compliance mandates - safety regulations create obligate demand like flowering plants depending on specific...
Bread Financial Holdings
Financial Services
Private label credit provider Bread Financial operates as commensal - attaches to retailer checkout flows, feeding on transaction volume without compe...
Bridge Bancorp, Inc.
Regional Banking
Bridge Bancorp is the parent company of BNB Bank, a community-oriented financial services company serving Long Island and the greater New York metropo...
Bridger Aerospace
Aerospace Services
Aerial firefighting company Bridger operates as emergency predator - lying dormant until fire outbreaks trigger contracts, like ambush hunters waiting...
Bridgewater Bancshares
Regional Banking
Regional bank Bridgewater grows through acquisition digestion - absorbs community banks like amoeba engulfing prey, integrating assets into larger org...
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
Child Care & Education Services
Corporate childcare provider Bright Horizons embeds in employers like endosymbiont - HR integration makes extraction costly, creating sticky B2B relat...
Bright Mountain Media
Digital Media
Podcast network operating as talent aggregator - coordinates independent creators like bee colony, extracting value from coordinated pollination acros...
Brookline Bancorp, Inc.
Regional Banking
Brookline Bancorp is a bank holding company serving customers throughout New England with a full range of banking services. Through its bank subsidiar...
Brooks Automation
Automation & Robotics
Automates semiconductor fabrication like leafcutter ants farming fungus—robotic systems cultivate wafer gardens in cleanroom conditions. Life sciences...
Brunswick Corporation
Marine Recreation Products
Marine and fitness conglomerate shifting between environments like an octopus—boat engines, bowling equipment, billiards, fitness gear. Each division...
Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation
Regional Banking
Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation is a bank holding company providing full-service retail and commercial banking, trust, wealth management, and insurance ser...
BWX Technologies, Inc.
Nuclear Technology & Services
BWX Technologies is a leading supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government and provides technical and management services to support...
C.H. Robinson Worldwide
Transportation & Logistics
Logistics broker mapping optimal freight paths like slime mold finding food—connecting shippers with carriers through algorithmic tendrils. Digital pl...
Calavo Growers
Food Distribution
Avocado grower cooperative pooling harvests from California, Mexico, Peru—sourcing across hemispheres to supply year-round. Seasonal migration mirrors...
Caleres, Inc.
Footwear Manufacturing & Retail
Caleres is a leading footwear company managing a portfolio of iconic brands including Famous Footwear, Sam Edelman, Naturalizer, Dr. Scholl's Shoes, a...
Calix
Telecommunications Equipment
Broadband equipment maker building internet infrastructure—fiber optics, cloud platforms enabling rural ISPs. Acts like coral skeleton: providing stru...
Callon Petroleum
Oil & Gas Exploration
Permian Basin driller extracting oil from Texas shale—horizontal wells sipping trapped hydrocarbons. Operates like wood-boring beetles: tunneling thro...
Camping World Holdings
Specialty Retail
RV retailer serving modern nomads—selling mobile hermit shells with plumbing, electricity, climate control. Superstores become tribal gathering points...
Capital City Bank Group, Inc.
Regional Banking
Capital City Bank Group is a financial holding company headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, providing a full range of banking and financial services...
Capital Southwest Corporation
Investment Management
Business development company funding small-cap enterprises—patient capital acting like seed dispersal, some investments germinating into profitable ex...
Cardtronics
Financial Services
ATM operator placing cash-dispensing waterholes where liquidity-seekers congregate—gas stations, convenience stores, bars. Each machine a mineral lick...
Career Education Corporation
Education Services
For-profit college teaching vocational skills—nursing, culinary, IT certifications targeting career-switchers. Acts like apprenticeship guilds: transm...
Carlisle Companies
Diversified Manufacturing
Industrial conglomerate making roofing, brakes, aerospace components—specialized divisions dominating narrow niches. Acquisition strategy mirrors tool...
Carpenter Technology Corporation
Specialty Materials & Metals
Specialty metals manufacturer engineering alloys surviving extreme conditions—jet engines, medical implants, oil drilling requiring heat resistance. M...
Cars.com
Internet Services
Auto marketplace connecting buyers with dealers—listings, reviews, financing tools aggregated. Revenue model mirrors bee pollination: dealers pay for...
Carter's, Inc.
Children's Apparel
Carter's dominates infant apparel like barnacles claiming prime tidal rock - first-mover on baby retail, deploying multiple brands (OshKosh, Skip Hop)...
Carvana
E-Commerce - Vehicles
Carvana demonstrates autophagy at corporate scale—the company nearly collapsed in 2022 under $7 billion debt, then consumed its own inefficiencies to...
Casa Systems
Telecommunications Equipment
Casa builds broadband infrastructure like mycelium threading through soil - invisible conduits moving data nutrients between telecom providers and mil...
Casella Waste Systems
Waste Management
Casella metabolizes Northeast waste like vultures cleaning carrion - converting refuse into methane energy and recycled materials, claiming exclusive...
Casey's General Stores, Inc.
Convenience Stores
Casey's colonizes small Midwest towns like ant colonies staking satellite nests - 2,600 self-sufficient stores making pizza from scratch, converting l...
Catalent, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing
Catalent incubates drugs for 7,000+ pharma partners like parasitoid wasps nurturing offspring - providing development cocoons and delivery tech where...
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology
Catalyst hunts rare neuromuscular diseases like archerfish targeting overlooked prey - small patient populations ignored by giants, where precision sh...
Cathay General Bancorp
Regional Banking
Cathay serves Chinese-American communities like oxpeckers cleaning specific hosts - bilingual expertise and cultural fluency creating mutualistic bond...
Cavco Industries, Inc.
Manufactured Housing
Cavco builds factory homes like termites constructing modular mounds - standardized components assembled into affordable dwellings, dominating the man...
CBIZ
Professional Services
Business services firm acting as corporate cleaner-shrimp—handling accounting, benefits, insurance while clients focus on core operations. Removes par...
CBRE Clarion
Asset Management
Real estate investment arm pooling capital across property types—office, retail, industrial diversification spreading risk. Functions like mycorrhizal...
CDW Corporation
IT Solutions & Services
IT solutions aggregator connecting enterprises with tech vendors—servers, software, cloud services delivered through single throat to choke. Acts as c...
Celanese Corporation
Specialty Chemicals
Celanese synthesizes acetyl chemicals and polymers like chemosynthetic bacteria at hydrothermal vents - converting raw molecules into engineered mater...
Celldex Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Celldex engineers antibody therapeutics like training predatory wasps to hunt specific prey - teaching proteins to recognize and bind cancer cells the...
Central Bancompany
Regional Banking
Central Bancompany roots across Missouri like prairie dog colonies - dispersed branches with deep local knowledge, surviving regional shocks through r...
Century Aluminum
Metals & Mining
Century Aluminum smelts primary aluminum like extremophile bacteria processing heat - energy-intensive facilities in US and Iceland converting bauxite...
Century Casinos
Gaming & Leisure
Century Casinos operates gaming sites across continents like trapdoor spiders waiting - fixed facilities extracting revenue from entertainment-seeking...
Century Communities, Inc.
Homebuilding
Century Communities builds entry-level homes across 17 states like beavers damming streams - standardized construction creating affordable housing whe...
CEVA
Semiconductor IP
Contract logistics provider attaching to corporate supply chains—managing warehouses, transport, inventory for brands focused on products. Swims along...
ChargePoint
Clean Energy - EV Charging
ChargePoint operates one of the world's largest EV charging networks with over 200,000 charging points.
Chart Industries
Industrial Equipment
Chart manufactures cryogenic equipment like Arctic organisms storing energy - supercooled vessels containing LNG, hydrogen, and industrial gases at ex...
Chegg
Education Technology
Chegg provides student services like pilot fish following sharks - homework help, textbook rentals, tutoring riding alongside education institutions,...
Chemed Corporation
Healthcare Services & Home Services
Chemed combines hospice care (VITAS) and plumbing (Roto-Rooter) like organisms serving opposite life stages - comforting the dying while fixing homes...
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment
Real Estate Investment
Cherry Hill invests in mortgage securities like squirrels hoarding acorns - buying residential mortgage-backed securities and servicing rights, earnin...
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Natural Gas & Electric Utilities
Chesapeake Utilities distributes natural gas and electricity like vascular systems - transmission pipelines and distribution networks delivering energ...
Chewy
E-Commerce - Pet Products
Chewy is the largest online retailer of pet products in the United States, competing with Amazon in pet category.
Chico's FAS
Apparel Retail
Chico's operates three brands (Chico's, White House Black Market, Soma) like adaptive radiation - each targeting distinct women's fashion segments, po...
Children's Place
Retail
Children's Place sells kids apparel like organisms exploiting early life stages - focusing exclusively on children 0-10, capturing parents during high...
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
Fast Casual Restaurants
Chipotle positions fast-casual Mexican food like species claiming quality niche - fresh ingredients and higher prices differentiating from fast food,...
Choice Hotels International, Inc.
Hotel Franchising
Choice Hotels franchises brands (Comfort, Quality, Clarion) like coral spawning polyps - asset-light model licensing hotel identities to independent o...
Churchill Downs Incorporated
Gaming & Horse Racing
Churchill Downs owns Kentucky Derby and casinos - horse racing's most prestigious event creating annual status ritual, gaming properties extracting va...
Chuy's Holdings, Inc.
Casual Dining Restaurants - Mexican
Chuy's operates Mexican restaurants with unique local decor - each location decorated differently like decorator crabs, made-from-scratch food positio...
Ciena Corporation
Telecommunications Equipment
Ciena provides telecom infrastructure like root systems enabling forests - optical and packet networking equipment carriers depend on, invisible backb...
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Insurance
Cincinnati Financial underwrites property-casualty through independent agencies - pooling premiums across business lines, distributing through agent n...
Cinemark Holdings, Inc.
Movie Theaters
Cinemark operates 500+ theaters like territorial species claiming catchments - each location monopolizing movie exhibition in radius, collecting rent...
Cirrus Logic
Semiconductors
Cirrus Logic designs audio chips for smartphones - specialized semiconductors processing sound in iPhones and devices, narrow focus on signal processi...
Civitas Resources
Oil & Gas Exploration
Civitas extracts oil and gas from DJ Basin - Colorado drilling operations converting underground hydrocarbons into marketable energy, hydraulic fractu...
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
Alternative Energy
Clean Energy Fuels provides natural gas for vehicles - compressed and liquefied natural gas stations serving fleet operators, cleaner-burning fossil a...
Clean Harbors, Inc.
Environmental Services
Clean Harbors handles hazardous waste like decomposers processing toxins - industrial waste management and environmental cleanup services, treating an...
Clearwater Analytics
Financial Software
Clearwater provides investment accounting software - institutional asset managers outsourcing portfolio accounting and reporting, SaaS platform aggreg...
CNO Financial Group
Insurance - Health
Life insurance provider pooling mortality risk across policyholders—healthy subsidize sick, young subsidize old. Functions like prairie dog alarm call...
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
Coca-Cola Consolidated operates like ant colony distribution networks - centralized formula production, distributed bottling and delivery, territorial...
Cohen & Steers
Asset Management
Cohen & Steers hoards real assets - real estate securities, infrastructure, natural resources. Like squirrels caching acorns for winter, they stockpil...
Coherent
Industrial Technology
Coherent focuses photons into industrial cutting tools and scientific instruments - concentrated light energy that slices metal or excites molecules....
Coherent Corp (formerly II-VI)
Semiconductors
Coherent Corp makes photonic materials that enable light manipulation across wavelengths - the substrates that turn photons into signals. Like transpa...
Coherus BioSciences
Biotechnology
Coherus builds biosimilars - molecular mimics of expensive biologics that fool the immune system into equivalent responses. Like Batesian mimicry wher...
Columbia Banking System, Inc.
Regional Banking
Columbia Banking System is a bank holding company operating through its subsidiary Columbia Bank, serving the Pacific Northwest with community banking...
Columbia Sportswear
Apparel & Footwear
Columbia Sportswear diversified beyond its flagship brand into Sorel boots, Mountain Hardwear, and prAna - a portfolio strategy that hedges across pri...
Comerica Inc.
Regional Banking
Comerica focuses on middle-market businesses in Texas, California, and Michigan - regional concentration in high-growth markets. Like territorial fish...
Comfort Systems
Construction Services
Comfort Systems installs HVAC for commercial buildings - the circulatory and respiratory systems that make indoor environments habitable. Like termite...
CommScope Holding Company, Inc.
Telecommunications Infrastructure
CommScope manufactures the physical layer of communication networks - fiber optic cables, wireless antennas, and copper infrastructure that data trave...
Community Bank System, Inc.
Regional Banking
Community Bank System is a financial holding company providing banking and financial services through Community Bank, N.A. and other subsidiaries acro...
Compass Diversified
Private Equity
Compass Diversified owns industrial brands across unrelated sectors - gun safes, tactical apparel, ammunition - where cross-subsidies buffer cyclical...
Computer Programs and Systems
Healthcare IT
CPSI sells hospital software to rural and community hospitals - markets too small for Epic and Cerner to service profitably. Like species thriving in...
CompX International Inc.
Industrial Components Manufacturing
CompX manufactures security locks and ergonomic slides for office furniture - niche hardware disappearing into finished products. Like nitrogen-fixing...
Concentrix Corporation
Business Process Outsourcing
Concentrix operates call centers and back-office processes companies want off balance sheets - tedious customer service outsourced to lower-cost locat...
Concrete Pumping Holdings
Construction Services
Concrete Pumping deploys truck-mounted pumps moving wet concrete from mixers to sites through hydraulic pressure. Like xylem vessels transporting wate...
Conduent
Business Services
Conduent processes government transactions - toll collection, unemployment claims, Medicaid enrollment - bureaucratic plumbing states want privatized....
Conn's
Specialty Retail
Conn's sells furniture and appliances on credit to subprime customers who can't access traditional financing. Like remoras attached to sharks, Conn's...
Construction Partners
Construction & Engineering
Construction Partners paves roads across the Southeast - asphalt production and placement that creates hardened arteries for vehicle movement. Like le...
Continental Building Products
Building Materials
Continental Building Products cooks gypsum into wallboard - hydrated calcium sulfate sheets that become interior walls. Like coral polyps secreting ca...
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Tire Manufacturing
Cooper Tire molds rubber into pneumatic cushions that absorb road shock while maintaining traction - engineered interfaces between vehicles and asphal...
Cooper-Standard Holdings
Auto Parts & Equipment
Cooper Standard manufactures automotive seals - rubber gaskets that create boundaries between air, water, and sound. Like cell membranes with selectiv...
Copart
Commercial Services
Copart auctions wrecked and totaled vehicles to salvage buyers who harvest parts and scrap metal. Like hyenas cracking bones after lions finish, Copar...
CoreCard Corporation
Financial Technology
CoreCard builds white-label card processing engines that banks rebrand as their own - the substrate layer beneath consumer-facing payment apps. Like m...
CoreLogic
Data & Analytics
CoreLogic aggregates property records, tax assessments, and flood risk into datasets that real estate can't function without. Like honeybees that scou...
Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc.
Building Products Manufacturing
Cornerstone makes vinyl siding, metal roofing, and trim - the commodity exterior that wraps tract housing and commercial boxes. Like earthworms that p...
Cornerstone OnDemand
Human Resources Technology
Cornerstone tracks employee skills, training compliance, and performance reviews - institutional memory for human capital management. Like chimpanzees...
Corsair Gaming
Consumer Electronics
Corsair sells RGB keyboards, high-DPI mice, and liquid cooling rigs to gamers who treat hardware as identity signaling. Like bowerbirds that decorate...
Covenant Logistics
Transportation & Logistics
Covenant hauls refrigerated freight across highways - optimizing routes where fuel, driver hours, and cargo value create complex constraints. Like wil...
Covetrus
Animal Health
Covetrus distributes pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and surgical supplies to veterinary clinics - the logistics layer beneath pet healthcare. Like clea...
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.
Casual Dining Restaurants & Retail
Cracker Barrel clusters locations along interstate highways where road-trip families need predictable meals - territorial restaurant strategy. Like sp...
Crawford & Company
Insurance Services
Crawford adjusts insurance claims - third-party verification where carriers won't trust policyholders to self-report damages. Like cleaner fish that i...
Credence Resource Management LLC
Business Process Outsourcing
Credence manages timber harvests, wildlife surveys, and habitat restoration for landowners navigating environmental regulations. Like beavers whose da...
Crocs
Apparel & Footwear
Crocs operates like a cuttlefish deploying adaptive camouflage—what started as utilitarian foam footwear ridiculed for aesthetics became cultural curr...
Cross Country Healthcare
Healthcare Staffing
Cross Country places travel nurses and temporary therapists where hospitals face staffing shortages - nomadic labor that fills gaps. Like cuckoos that...
Cryoport
Life Sciences Logistics
Like the alaskan wood frog freezing solid each winter, Cryoport suspends cellular time itself. Its cryogenic supply chain moves gene therapies at -150...
CSG Systems
Software
Billing software provider grooming telecom and cable companies—managing subscriber accounts, usage tracking, payment processing. Removes backend paras...
CubeSmart
Real Estate Investment Trust - Self Storage
CubeSmart is a leading self-storage real estate investment trust owning and operating self-storage properties across the United States. The company pr...
Cubic Corporation
Aerospace & Defense
Cubic builds defense training systems like the archerfish perfecting its hunting - iterative simulation creating muscle memory without live ammunition...
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Regional Banking
Cullen/Frost Bankers is a financial holding company and one of the 50 largest U.S. banks by asset size. Through its subsidiary Frost Bank, the company...
CURO Group
Consumer Finance
Payday lender extracting blood from paycheck-to-paycheck hosts—short-term loans at triple-digit APRs. Feeds on financial desperation like ticks detect...
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Aerospace & Defense - Components
Curtiss-Wright builds aerospace components with the redundancy of vital organs - backup systems for backup systems, because failure at altitude means...
Customers Bancorp
Banking
Customers Bancorp thrives in the cracks between giants, specializing in multi-family lending like remoras feeding where sharks won't bother. Its niche...
CVB Financial
Banking
California community bank serving Inland Empire businesses—commercial real estate, SBA loans, deposit accounts for local enterprises. Functions like p...
CyberArk Software Ltd.
Cybersecurity Software
CyberArk guards privileged access like tortoises withdrawing into shells. Its identity security systems detect credential anomalies through signature-...
Darden Restaurants
Restaurants
Darden operates restaurant chains like ant colonies farming aphids. Its Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse brands extract predictable revenue from f...
Dave & Buster's Entertainment
Entertainment & Dining
Dave & Buster's combines dining with arcades like flowers offering nectar to pollinators. Its business model cross-subsidizes: restaurant margins fund...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation
Footwear & Apparel
Deckers owns footwear brands like a herd maintaining territory. Its UGG, HOKA, and Teva lines target different niches - luxury comfort, performance ru...
Deluxe Corporation
Business Services
Deluxe prints checks as physical decay accelerates. Its legacy business processes paper payment instruments even as digital transfers render them obso...
Denny's Corporation
Restaurants
Denny's Corporation franchises and operates full-service restaurant chains across North America. Known for its 24-hour service model, the company oper...
Desktop Metal
Industrial Equipment
Desktop Metal prints metal parts through additive layers like coral polyps secreting calcium carbonate. Its 3D printers build components from metal po...
Diebold Nixdorf
Financial Technology
Diebold makes ATMs as cash usage declines. Its machines dispense physical currency even as digital payments grow - mechanical dinosaurs serving shrink...
Digital Turbine
Mobile Technology
Digital Turbine pre-installs apps on new Android phones like parasites colonizing hosts. Its software comes bundled with devices, manufacturers earnin...
DigitalOcean Holdings
Cloud Computing
DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider serving developers, startups, and small and medium-sized businesses. The company offers simple, afford...
Dillard's Inc.
Retail
Dillard's operates department stores as retail fossils. Its mall-based format persists in secondary markets where online competition remains weaker -...
Diodes Incorporated
Semiconductors
Diodes manufactures semiconductors like ribosomes synthesizing proteins. Its fab facilities etch silicon wafers into transistors, mass production of t...
Donaldson Company
Industrial Equipment
Donaldson filters contaminants from industrial fluids. Its products trap particles before they damage engines and turbines, membrane technologies sepa...
Donnelley Financial Solutions
Financial Software
Donnelley publishes regulatory filings for corporations. Its services translate financial results into SEC-compliant documents, XBRL tagging and distr...
Dorman Products
Auto Parts
Dorman Products is a supplier of automotive replacement parts, hardware, and fasteners to the automotive aftermarket. The company provides OEM-quality...
Douglas Dynamics
Industrial Equipment
Douglas Dynamics manufactures snowplows that clear northern roads. Its equipment attaches to trucks, hydraulic blades scraping asphalt clean after bli...
DraftKings
Gaming - Sports Betting
DraftKings operates as an invasive species exploiting newly opened ecological niches—state-by-state sports betting legalization since 2018. The compan...
Drake Software
Software & Technology
Hibernates through summer, then explodes into frenetic activity each tax season—bear-like hyperphagia concentrated in Q1, banking resources for the lo...
Driven Brands Holdings
Automotive Services
Fifteen franchise brands operate from one back-office colony—termite mound efficiency where shared infrastructure lets each service line focus purely...
Duck Creek Technologies
Insurance Software
Duck Creek Technologies provides software solutions for property and casualty insurance carriers and agencies. The company offers core systems, data a...
Duluth Holdings (Duluth Trading)
Apparel Retail
Engineer-tested garments built for punishment—arctic fox resilience in fabric form, premium pricing signals durability to contractors who calculate co...
Dunkin' Brands Group
Restaurants
Two brands share supply chains—Dunkin dominates mornings, Baskin-Robbins afternoons. Fig-tree strategy: multiple revenue streams from one operational...
Dutch Bros
Restaurants - Coffee
Dutch Bros demonstrates cultural transmission at commercial scale, operating 982 drive-through locations across 18 states that generated $1.3 billion...
DXC Technology
IT Services
DXC transforms legacy IT systems through controlled demolition and reconstruction. Its consultants dismantle old architectures while maintaining busin...
Dycom Industries
Construction & Engineering
Dycom Industries is a provider of specialty contracting services throughout the United States. The company designs, builds, and maintains telecommunic...
Dynavax Technologies
Biotechnology
Develops vaccines by engineering immune system responses—teaching the body to recognize threats like teaching birds alarm calls. Adjuvant technology a...
Dynex Capital
REIT
Mortgage REIT arbitraging the yield curve—capturing spread between short-term borrowing and long-term lending like intertidal organisms exploiting tid...
e.l.f. Beauty
Cosmetics
e.l.f. Beauty is a cosmetics brand offering affordable, high-quality makeup, skincare, and beauty tools. The company markets its products primarily th...
Eagle Bancorp
Regional Banking
Eagle Bancorp is the holding company for EagleBank, which provides commercial and consumer banking services in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area....
Eagle Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Hospital injectable drugs, focusing on acute care—rapid-acting compounds like venom chemistry, designed for immediate physiological response. Critical...
Eastern Bankshares
Regional Banking
Massachusetts regional bank with branch density—localized deposit gathering like root systems mining specific soil patches. Community banking model re...
EastGroup Properties
REIT - Industrial
Sunbelt industrial warehouses targeting high-growth metros—geographic concentration in warming regions like species migrating poleward with climate ch...
Ebix Inc.
Insurance Software
Ebix is an international supplier of on-demand infrastructure exchanges to the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. The company provides s...
EchoStar Corporation
Telecommunications
EchoStar Corporation is a provider of satellite communication solutions for government and enterprise customers. The company designs, develops, and op...
El Pollo Loco Holdings
Restaurants
El Pollo Loco is a restaurant chain specializing in fire-grilled chicken prepared with authentic Mexican-inspired recipes. The company operates compan...
Element Solutions
Specialty Chemicals
Specialty chemicals for electronics and industrial coatings—niche formulations like enzymes catalyzing specific reactions. Circuit board plating, auto...
Ellington Financial
Financial Services
Mortgage REIT managed externally—leveraged bets on residential mortgages like parasites dependent on host health. Agency and non-agency MBS arbitrage.
Emergent BioSolutions
Biotechnology
Biodefense vaccines and therapeutics—anthrax vaccine monopoly and pandemic prep contracts. Government-dependent revenue like cleaner fish dependent on...
Employers Holdings
Insurance
Workers' compensation insurance for small businesses—risk pooling in niche markets like mutual defense in prey species. Regional focus avoids mega-car...
Enact Holdings
Insurance
Mortgage insurance spun from Genworth—backstopping lenders against borrower default like immune cells targeting pathogens. GSE-approved provider earni...
Enanta Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology
Antiviral drug discovery focused on hepatitis and respiratory infections—small molecule compounds targeting viral replication like predator toxins imm...
Encompass Health
Healthcare Services
Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals for post-acute care—specialized facilities between ICU and home like intermediate predators in food webs. Physical...
Encore Capital
Financial Services
Debt collection buying charged-off accounts at pennies on dollar—extracting value from defaulted loans like scavengers feeding on carcasses. Portfolio...
Endo International
Pharmaceuticals
Generic pharmaceutical company plagued by opioid litigation—business model undermined by legal liability like parasites killing hosts. Bankruptcy and...
Energy Services of America
Energy Services
Oil and gas well completion and intervention—specialized services for drilling operations like remora fish cleaning sharks. Fracking support and worko...
EnerSys
Industrial Equipment
Industrial battery systems for forklifts and backup power—energy storage for mission-critical applications like fat reserves sustaining hibernation. L...
Ennis Inc.
Printing Services
Commercial printing company producing forms and packaging—declining business as digital replaces paper like habitat loss threatening specialist specie...
Enova International
Financial Technology
Subprime online lending to financially stressed borrowers—high-interest loans to desperate customers like predators targeting weakest prey. Payday alt...
Enstar Group
Insurance
Insurance run-off specialist acquiring discontinued policies—profiting from legacy liabilities like vultures consuming carrion. Portfolio management e...
Enviri
Environmental Services
Industrial services and recycling formerly Clean Harbors—waste management and environmental remediation like decomposers breaking down toxins. Renamed...
Enviva Inc.
Renewable Energy
Wood pellet producer exporting to Europe—converting Southern US forests into biomass fuel like termites converting wood to energy. Controversial carbo...
Esquire Financial Holdings
Regional Banking
Esquire Financial Holdings is a bank holding company offering commercial banking and payment processing services primarily to the legal industry and s...
Etsy Inc.
E-commerce
Etsy operates a global online marketplace for unique and creative goods, connecting millions of buyers and sellers of handmade, vintage, and craft sup...
Evercore Partners
Investment Banking
Evercore is an independent investment banking advisory firm providing financial advisory and asset management services. The company offers strategic,...
EVERTEC
Financial Technology
Latin America payment processing—transaction infrastructure like capillary networks distributing resources. Regional monopoly on financial plumbing in...
Evoqua Water Technologies
Water Technology
Filters and treats contaminated water through membrane separation and microbial breakdown, paralleling kidney filtration systems that remove waste whi...
Exela Technologies
Business Services
Processes transaction documents at scale through automated scanning and data extraction, functioning like sensory organs that convert environmental st...
ExlService Holdings
Business Process Services
Coordinates multiple service delivery subsidiaries through centralized oversight, functioning like a colonial organism where specialized polyps handle...
Exponent
Engineering Consulting
Analyzes product failures and accidents through forensic reconstruction, tracing causation chains backward like predators reading tracks to understand...
Extended Stay America
Hospitality
Provides temporary housing for weeks to months, creating transitional habitats that bridge short-term travel and permanent residence like staging grou...
Extreme Networks
Networking Equipment
Extreme Networks is a provider of cloud-driven networking solutions. The company delivers wired and wireless network infrastructure, software, and ser...
F5 Networks
Network Technology
Balances web traffic across server clusters to prevent overload, distributing computational demand like heart muscles that adjust blood flow based on...
Fabrinet
Electronic Components
Contract manufacturer assembling optical components for telecom networks, routing photonic signals through precision-engineered pathways like xylem co...
Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO)
Financial Software
Fair Isaac Corporation provides analytics software and services for decision management, including the FICO credit scoring system. The company helps b...
Fastenal
Industrial Distribution
Industrial distributor stocking fasteners and supplies across thousands of on-site bins, caching inventory near consumption points like squirrels hidi...
Federated Hermes
Asset Management
Asset manager deploying capital across bond and equity funds, diversifying holdings to buffer volatility like mixed-species flocks reducing predation...
FGL Holdings
Insurance
Manages insurance portfolios by collecting premiums and paying claims, pooling risk across populations like herd immunity where individual exposure de...
First American Financial
Title Insurance
First American Financial Corporation provides title insurance and settlement services to the real estate industry. The company offers title insurance...
First Bancorp
Regional Banking
Puerto Rico banking corporation extending credit and deposit services across Caribbean territories. Branch network connects island communities through...
First Busey Corporation
Regional Banking
Illinois-based bank holding company serving communities through relationship banking. Loan officers assess local borrowers, building knowledge of regi...
First Business Financial Services
Commercial Banking
Wisconsin commercial bank specializing in business clients and medical professionals. Focused lending builds expertise in equipment financing and prac...
First Commonwealth Financial
Regional Banking
Pennsylvania bank corporation operating community branches across mid-Atlantic states. Regional focus maintains local decision-making while sharing ba...
First Financial Bancorp
Regional Banking
Ohio-based regional bank formed through serial acquisitions of smaller community banks. Integration teams merge core systems while preserving local br...
First Financial Bankshares
Regional Banking
First Financial Bankshares is a financial holding company operating through its subsidiary, First Financial Bank, in Texas. The company provides comme...
First Horizon
Regional Banking
Tennessee regional bank expanding from Memphis roots into southeastern markets. Wealth management and mortgage origination supplement commercial lendi...
First Merchants Corporation
Regional Banking
Indiana bank corporation serving communities through relationship-focused banking. Decentralized lending authority lets branch managers approve loans...
First Mid Bancshares
Regional Banking
Illinois-based bank holding company operating under regional brand names. Insurance and wealth management divisions cross-sell to core banking custome...
Five Below
Retail
Discount retailer selling trend-driven products at $5 price point to teen customers. Buyers source directly from manufacturers, eliminating middlemen...
Five9
Software
Cloud contact center software routing customer calls through algorithms that match inquiries to agent skills. Voice streams flow through data centers...
Flagstar Bancorp
Regional Banking
Michigan bank operating as wholesale mortgage lender and retail branch network. Correspondent lending buys loans from other originators, aggregating v...
Floor & Decor Holdings
Home Improvement Retail
Specialty retailer of hard surface flooring offering warehouse-style stores with extensive in-stock selection for contractors and homeowners.
Flotek Industries
Oil & Gas Services
Oilfield technology company developing chemistry solutions for drilling and completion operations, specializing in complex nano-fluid applications.
Fluor Corporation
Construction & Engineering
Engineering and construction firm delivering complex projects in energy, chemicals, mining, and infrastructure with global execution capabilities.
FNB Corporation
Regional Banking
Channels deposits into loans for regional businesses and homeowners, recycling capital through local economies like nutrient cycles that move resource...
Forward Air Corporation
Freight & Logistics
Forward Air is a provider of time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American expedited ground freight market...
Franklin Financial Network
Regional Banking
Franklin Financial Network is a bank holding company operating through Franklin Synergy Bank in Tennessee and surrounding markets. The company provide...
Freightos Limited
Freight & Logistics
Freightos operates a digital freight booking and payment platform connecting international shippers with freight forwarders and carriers. The company...
Frontier Group Holdings (Frontier Airlines)
Airlines
Frontier Group Holdings is the parent company of Frontier Airlines, an ultra-low-cost carrier serving destinations throughout the United States and in...
FTI Consulting
Consulting
Advises companies during financial crises and restructuring, diagnosing organizational dysfunction and prescribing corrections like stress responses t...
Fulton Financial Corporation
Regional Banking
Fulton Financial is a financial holding company operating through its banking subsidiaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Virgin...
GameStop
Retail - Video Games
GameStop is a video game retailer that became the center of a historic short squeeze in 2021. The company has been transforming toward e-commerce and...
Gannett (GateHouse Media)
Media & Publishing
Gannett is a diversified media company operating local media organizations and digital marketing services across the United States. The company publis...
GitLab
Technology / Software
The all-remote software company that proves distributed work isn't about Zoom - it's about intentional topology. GitLab is the exemplar of distribute...
Glacier Bancorp
Regional Banking
Glacier Bancorp is a regional multi-bank holding company providing commercial banking services through its bank subsidiaries in the Western United Sta...
Global Payments Inc.
Payment Processing
Global Payments is a payment technology and software company delivering payment processing and software solutions to merchants, financial institutions...
GoodRx Holdings
Healthcare Technology
GoodRx is a consumer-focused digital healthcare platform that helps Americans find affordable and convenient healthcare. The company offers prescripti...
GoPro Inc.
Consumer Electronics
GoPro is a technology company known for its action cameras and mountable and wearable camera accessories. The company develops and markets devices, so...
H&R Block
Tax Services
H&R Block is a tax preparation company providing assisted and do-it-yourself tax services. The company helps clients complete income tax returns throu...
Hamilton Lane
Asset Management
Hamilton Lane is a private markets investment management firm providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors. The compan...
Hanger Inc.
Healthcare Services
Hanger is a provider of orthotic and prosthetic patient care services and distributes O&P devices and components. The company operates patient care cl...
HealthEquity Inc.
Healthcare Services
HealthEquity is a provider of health savings accounts and other consumer-directed benefits. The company administers HSAs, flexible spending accounts,...
HealthStream Inc.
Healthcare Technology
HealthStream is a provider of workforce and provider solutions for healthcare organizations. The company develops learning, clinical development, cred...
Herbalife Nutrition
Nutritional Products
Herbalife Nutrition is a global multi-level marketing company that develops and sells dietary supplements, weight management, sports nutrition, and pe...
Herc Holdings (Herc Rentals)
Equipment Rental
Herc Holdings is an equipment rental company providing solutions to customers through approximately 400 locations. The company rents aerial, earthmovi...
Home BancShares
Regional Banking
Home BancShares is a bank holding company operating Centennial Bank, which provides a range of commercial and retail banking services. The company ser...
HomeStreet Inc.
Regional Banking
HomeStreet is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Seattle serving the Pacific Northwest, California, and Hawaii. The company pro...
Horizon Bancorp
Regional Banking
Horizon Bancorp is a bank holding company operating Horizon Bank, which provides commercial and retail banking services in northern and central Indian...
Houlihan Lokey
Investment Banking
Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank providing merger and acquisition, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation advisory services...
i3 Verticals
Financial Services
i3 Verticals provides integrated payment and software solutions to small and medium-sized businesses and organizations in strategic vertical markets....
IDEXX Laboratories
Healthcare
IDEXX Laboratories is a global leader in veterinary diagnostics, software, and water testing solutions. The company provides diagnostic products and s...
iHeartMedia
Media & Entertainment
iHeartMedia's March 2018 bankruptcy collapsed America's largest radio broadcaster under $20 billion in debt from a 2008 LBO by Bain Capital and Thomas...
indie Semiconductor
Technology
indie Semiconductor designs and manufactures semiconductors and software solutions for advanced driver assistance systems and connected car applicatio...
Instil Bio
Biotechnology
Instil Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies for cancer treatment. The...
Intellia Therapeutics
Biotechnology
Intellia Therapeutics is a leading genome editing company focused on developing CRISPR/Cas9-based therapeutics. The company's platform enables precise...
Intercontinental Exchange
Financial Services
Intercontinental Exchange operates regulated exchanges, clearing houses, and data services for global financial and commodity markets. The company own...
International Bancshares Corporation
Financial Services
International Bancshares Corporation is a multibank financial holding company with operations in Texas and Oklahoma. The company provides commercial a...
Interpublic Group
Advertising
Interpublic Group is one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. The company operates through a...
Invesco
Financial Services
Invesco is an independent investment management firm delivering investment strategies and solutions to retail and institutional clients globally. The...
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology
Ionis Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. The company's antisense technolo...
Iron Mountain
Business Services
Iron Mountain provides storage and information management services for physical and digital records, data backup, and secure shredding. The company op...
Itron
Technology
Itron is a technology and services company offering solutions that measure, manage, and analyze energy and water resources. The company provides smart...
Janus Henderson Group
Financial Services
Janus Henderson Group is a global asset management company offering investment solutions including equities, fixed income, and multi-asset portfolios....
Jefferies Financial Group
Financial Services
Jefferies Financial Group is a diversified financial services company engaged in investment banking, capital markets, and asset management. The compan...
Jones Lang LaSalle
Real Estate
Jones Lang LaSalle is a leading professional services firm specializing in real estate and investment management. The company provides comprehensive r...
Kadant
Industrial Machinery
Industrial termite colonies - machinery that breaks down wood fiber into paper pulp, separates waste from recyclables, and extracts water like xylem v...
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
Aluminum
Mimics bird bone architecture - aluminum extruded into hollow tubes and rolled into sheets with strength-to-weight ratios that let jets fly and cars a...
Kaman Corporation
Aerospace & Defense
Dual circulatory systems - aerospace components flowing through defense contractors, industrial bearings distributed through maintenance supply chains...
Kayne Anderson Energy Infrastructure Fund
Asset Management
Capital stored in pipeline networks like camel humps holding fat - closed-end fund locks investor money into midstream infrastructure. Pipelines trans...
Kearny Financial Corp
Regional Banks
Regional bank rooted in New Jersey soil like oak trees - slow growth, deep roots in local communities. Deposits gathered from small businesses and ind...
Kelly Services
Staffing & Outsourcing
Labor broker like cleaner wrasse connecting clients and workers - matching temporary employees to short-term needs across industries. Absorbs unemploy...
Kemper Corporation
Insurance
Risk pooling like prairie dog colonies sharing sentinel duty - premiums collected from many policyholders, payouts distributed to unlucky few hit by a...
Kennametal
Industrial
Materials science mirrors evolution's experiments - ceramics, carbides, alloys each optimized for extreme conditions. Kennametal engineers wear-resist...
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings
Real Estate
Real estate investment mirrors territorial species claiming prime habitat patches. Kennedy-Wilson identifies undervalued properties in liquid markets,...
Key Energy Services
Energy Services
Oilfield services operate like cleanup crews in ecosystems - rig-based well servicing and coiled tubing maintenance keep extraction infrastructure fun...
Kforce
Staffing & Outsourcing
Matches specialized talent to temporary hosts, like cleaner fish pairing with larger species. Workers flow between client ecosystems, providing techni...
Kilroy Realty Corporation
Real Estate
Constructs and defends premium office territories in coastal markets, like beavers building dams that reshape entire valleys. Properties create stable...
Kimbell Royalty Partners
Energy
Collects resource flows without extraction effort, like oxpeckers feeding on ticks from host animals. Owns mineral rights beneath working lands, recei...
Kinder Morgan
Energy
Moves energy resources through continental pipeline networks, like xylem vessels transporting water from roots to canopy. Pressurized tubes carry gas...
Kinsale Capital Group
Insurance
Underwrites unusual risks by pooling premiums across diverse hazards, like meerkats sharing sentinel watch. Specialty lines spread unpredictable losse...
Kirkland's
Specialty Retail
Displays seasonal merchandise to attract buyers, like bowerbirds arranging colored objects. Store layouts change with holidays and trends, using visua...
Kite Realty Group Trust
Retail Real Estate
Anchors shopping ecosystems around grocery stores like keystone species that support diverse tenant populations. These necessity-based habitats create...
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings
Trucking
Orchestrates truck fleets like ant colonies coordinate foragers, with each driver acting as an independent agent while the collective optimizes routin...
Knowles Corporation
Electronic Components
Miniaturizes acoustic technologies like bats compress echolocation into skull-sized organs. Their micro-speakers and filters process sound frequencies...
Kontoor Brands
Apparel
Manages denim brands Wrangler and Lee through heritage cultivation similar to how oak trees grow from ancestral root systems. Each brand maintains its...
Koppers Holdings
Chemicals
Koppers Holdings is an integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals, and carbon compounds. The company serves the rai...
Kornit Digital
Industrial Machinery
Prints textiles on-demand through digital inkjet systems that apply dye like chromatophores change octopus skin. Their technology eliminates tradition...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Defense
Manufactures unmanned aerial systems and missile defense technologies that extend human combat capabilities like tools extended early human hunting ra...
Kronos Worldwide
Specialty Chemicals
Produces titanium dioxide pigment that scatters light like butterfly wing scales create structural color. This white pigment achieves opacity through...
Krystal Biotech
Biotechnology
Delivers gene therapies through engineered viruses that insert corrective DNA like retroviruses integrate into host genomes. Their HSV-1 based treatme...
Kulicke & Soffa Industries
Semiconductor Equipment
Builds semiconductor assembly equipment that bonds microscopic wires to chips with precision matching spider silk attachment points. Their wire bonder...
La-Z-Boy Incorporated
Consumer Goods
La-Z-Boy Incorporated is one of the world's leading residential furniture producers, marketing furniture for every room of the home. The company manuf...
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
Healthcare
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings is a leading global life sciences company providing comprehensive clinical laboratory and end-to-end drug d...
Ladder Capital Corp
Financial Services
Ladder Capital Corp is a commercial real estate finance company that originates, services, and manages a diverse portfolio of commercial real estate d...
Lazard
Financial Services
Lazard is a leading financial advisory and asset management firm operating from offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin Ameri...
LCI Industries
Auto Parts
Supplies recreational vehicle components through diverse product lines that integrate like organ systems serve organism functions. Their windows, door...
Legacy Housing Corporation
Manufacturing
Legacy Housing Corporation builds, sells, and finances manufactured homes and tiny houses distributed through a network of independent retailers and c...
Leggett & Platt
Manufacturing
Leggett & Platt is a diversified manufacturer that designs and produces engineered components and products found in homes, offices, and automobiles. T...
LexinFintech Holdings
Financial Services
LexinFintech Holdings is a leading online consumer finance platform in China providing financing options to young adults for online direct sales and i...
LGI Homes
Homebuilding
Builds entry-level housing through standardized designs that reduce construction variability like honeybees build uniform hexagonal cells. Their produ...
Liberty Media Corporation
Media & Entertainment
Liberty Media Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of media, communications, and entertainment businesses. The company's subsidiar...
Live Nation Entertainment
Media & Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company comprising global market leaders in live music promotion, ticketing throug...
LogMeIn
Technology
LogMeIn provides cloud-based remote connectivity, collaboration, and customer engagement solutions for businesses and IT service providers. The compan...
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Manufacturing
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation manufactures and distributes building products primarily for use in new home construction, repair and remodeling, and ou...
Lowe's Companies
Home Improvement Retail
The asymmetry defines the rivalry: Home Depot commands 47% market share with $163 billion revenue and 2,350+ stores, while Lowe's holds 28% share with...
LPL Financial Holdings
Financial Services
LPL Financial Holdings is the nation's largest independent broker-dealer providing an integrated platform of proprietary technology, clearing, complia...
LSB Industries
Chemicals
Manufactures industrial chemicals and fertilizers through processes that fix atmospheric nitrogen like legume root nodules harbor bacteria. Their ammo...
Manhattan Associates
Technology
Manhattan Associates develops, sells, deploys, and maintains software solutions designed to manage supply chains, inventory, and omnichannel operation...
Manning & Napier
Financial Services
Manning & Napier is an independent investment management firm providing investment strategies and solutions for institutional and private wealth clien...
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Energy
America's largest refining system metabolizes 3 million barrels per day of crude oil across 13 refineries, converting hydrocarbons into transportation...
MarketAxess Holdings
Financial Technology
MarketAxess operates an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities providing market transparency and improved efficiency in the corporate...
Marriott International
Hospitality
Marriott International is the world's largest hotel company with more than 30 brands and 8,000 properties across 139 countries. The company operates a...
Medicine Man Technologies
Cannabis
Medicine Man Technologies is a cannabis consulting and products company providing operational and technical consulting services to cannabis cultivator...
Merchants Bancorp
Financial Services
Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company offering multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing, mortgage warehouse financing,...
MGIC Investment Corporation
Insurance
MGIC Investment Corporation is the holding company for Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation, the nation's leading provider of private mortgage insu...
monday.com
Software - Collaboration
Monday.com functions as a genetic toolkit enabling organizations to construct custom workflow organisms—the company's Work OS platform reached $1 bill...
Opendoor
Real Estate - iBuyer
Opendoor sold 13,593 homes in 2024 generating $5.2 billion revenue, down 26% year-over-year as higher mortgage rates froze the U.S. housing market. Th...
Oscar Health
Health Insurance
Technology-focused health insurance company using data science and telemedicine to improve member experience. Offers individual and small group health...
Patrick Industries
Building Products
Major manufacturer and distributor of building products and materials for the RV, marine, and manufactured housing industries. Provides components inc...
PaySign
Payment Processing
Prepaid card and payment processing platform provider serving diverse markets including healthcare, pharmaceutical, and corporate. Enables electronic...
Peloton
Fitness - Connected Equipment
Peloton revolutionized home fitness with connected exercise equipment featuring streaming classes.
Perella Weinberg Partners
Investment Banking
Independent advisory firm providing strategic and financial advice to clients on mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings. Offers asset management se...
Planet Fitness
Fitness - Gym Franchises
Planet Fitness is a fitness club franchisor with over 2,400 locations as the Judgement Free Zone.
Plug Power
Clean Energy - Hydrogen
Plug Power is a leading provider of hydrogen fuel cell systems. The company is building hydrogen production and distribution network.
Social Media
Reddit functions as a colonial organism comprising over 100,000 subreddits, each a semi-autonomous polyp with specialized function, collectively achie...
Riot Platforms
Cryptocurrency Mining
Bitcoin mining company operating large-scale mining facilities focused on building the lowest cost production. Develops and operates infrastructure fo...
Rivian
Automotive - Electric Vehicles
Rivian is an electric vehicle manufacturer focused on adventure trucks and SUVs, with Amazon as largest shareholder.
Seacoast Banking Corporation
Regional Banking
Community bank holding company providing integrated financial services through Seacoast Bank. Serves individuals and businesses in Florida with tradit...
SelectQuote
Insurance Distribution
Direct-to-consumer distribution platform for insurance products helping consumers comparison shop for coverage. Specializes in senior health, life, an...
ServisFirst Bank
Commercial Banking
Commercial banking institution providing business banking services primarily in the southeastern United States. Focuses on relationship banking with c...
Shake Shack
Fast-casual Restaurant
Shake Shack discovered the ultimate competitive advantage isn't better burgers—it's lower operating costs at scale. Under CEO Rob Lynch (May 2024), th...
Southside Bancshares
Regional Banking
Bank holding company providing financial services through Southside Bank primarily in Texas. Offers commercial and consumer banking, mortgage lending,...
Stellar Bancorp
Regional Banking
Bank holding company providing commercial banking services to businesses and individuals primarily in Texas and nearby states. Offers lending, deposit...
Stock Yards Bancorp
Regional Banking
Bank holding company providing commercial and consumer banking services through Stock Yards Bank & Trust. Serves individuals and businesses in Kentuck...
StoneCo
Payment Processing
Brazilian fintech company providing financial technology and software solutions to merchants and integrated partners. Offers payment processing, banki...
Sweetgreen
Fast-casual Restaurant
Sweetgreen cracked what kills most restaurant chains: profitable unit economics without sacrificing speed. The company's Infinite Kitchen automation r...
Teladoc Health
Healthcare/Telehealth
American telehealth company founded in 2002 addressing fragmented, expensive, and inconvenient U.S. healthcare access. Pioneered on-demand video/phone...
The Aaron's Company, Inc.
Retail - Lease-to-Own
The Aaron's Company is a leading omnichannel provider of lease-to-own and retail purchase solutions. The company offers furniture, electronics, applia...
The Bancorp, Inc.
Banking Technology & Services
The Bancorp is a financial holding company providing banking and technology solutions to non-bank financial services companies and middle market busin...
ThermoGenesis Holdings
Medical Devices
ThermoGenesis Holdings is a market leader in automated cell processing tools and services for the cell and gene therapy industry. The company provides...
Unity Software
Software - Game Development
Unity Software demonstrates how keystone species can trigger trophic cascades through policy changes. The company's September 2023 announcement of run...
Warby Parker
Retail/Eyewear
Warby Parker cracked the code that killed Casper: DTC retail achieves sustainable unit economics only when digital efficiency combines with physical p...
Zillow Group
Real Estate - Marketplace
Zillow operates as a remora attached to the multi-trillion-dollar housing market, extracting value through information aggregation without owning inve...
Zions Bancorporation
Regional Banking
Western U.S. regional bank with strong presence in Utah and surrounding states, specializing in commercial banking, small business lending, and treasu...