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No. 17 Red Ventures Charlotte, NC

	Year	2008
	Industry	Advertising & Marketing
	Founded	2000
	Growth	5,863.9%
	2004 Revenue	$1.7 million
	2007 Revenue	$103.7 million
	Employees	450
	Website	redventures.com

What it does:
Red Ventures is an Internet marketing company that acquires new customers for consumer and business-to-business verticals like DirecTV, ADT Security Services, and Sirius Satellite Radio. It supplies online marketing services, completes phone sales, and builds technology infrastructure throughout the US and Puerto Rico.

Why it's growing:
The firm has designed and built a scalable technology-enabled platform to generate leads, convert new customers, and track and optimize marketing campaigns. The platform adapts easily to new products, services, and verticals, allowing the company to launch businesses rapidly. This year alone the company is launching five new firms.

What's noteworthy:
In 2006, Red Ventures created a non-profit organization called Lives Linked, and provided both funding and Internet marketing expertise to the project. An Internet-based platform will be launched in 2008 to connect sponsors in developed countries with orphans in need around the world.