PINCH lands No. 455 on Inc. 5000 after 759% growth

PINCH, a Charleston-based cleaning-services platform, ranked No. 455 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 after posting 759% three-year revenue growth. The result underscores demand for technology that helps multifamily and commercial operators centralize fragmented cleaning work across large property portfolios.

Why it matters: - PINCH’s growth shows how a fragmented cleaning-services market is moving toward centralized, technology-enabled vendor management. - The company says its model can deliver about 10% to 20% in total savings for customers through lower costs, operational efficiencies and tighter control over service upcharges. - The ranking also puts a spotlight on a leadership team that has already scaled and sold a technology company before.

What happened: - PINCH ranked No. 455 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 after 759% revenue growth over three years. - The company is based in Charleston, South Carolina, and was founded in 2021. - CEO Dennis Hamilton, Chief Revenue Officer Greg Sack and Chief Technology Officer Federico Lara previously worked together at Bongo International, which made the Inc. 5000 for three straight years from 2012 to 2014 before FedEx acquired it in 2014. - Hamilton, Sack and Lara are joined by Chief Operating Officer Neal McCarty and Founding Partner Chris Rampey.

The details: - PINCH started in the multifamily market and later expanded into student housing, single-family rental, build-to-rent and commercial janitorial markets. - The company now works with more than 600 multifamily communities representing more than 130,000 apartment units nationwide. - PINCH also works with major single-family rental and build-to-rent operators whose broader portfolios collectively exceed 250,000 homes. - The company has built a nationwide network of more than 161,000 cleaning teams, ranging from independent operators to larger janitorial companies. - PINCH’s platform manages cleaning services, verification, invoicing, communication and vendor oversight through a centralized model. - The company combines centralized technology and vendor management with local cleaning capacity so multi-location operators can consolidate cleaning services without giving up local service delivery. - For property management organizations with dozens, hundreds or thousands of locations, PINCH is designed to reduce the complexity of multiple vendors, pricing structures, invoicing processes and quality standards.

Between the lines: - The Bongo International connection suggests PINCH’s leadership is applying a repeatable playbook from e-commerce infrastructure to another operationally messy category. - The company’s emphasis on regional and national relationships points to a shift away from one-off local vendor coordination and toward portfolio-wide service management. - Hamilton framed the Inc. 5000 ranking as validation, but also as evidence that the bigger opportunity remains in modernizing a very large industry. - Read the full PINCH story here.

What's next: - PINCH appears positioned to keep expanding with larger regional and national operators as more portfolios seek centralized control over cleaning. - The company’s next stage will likely depend on whether it can keep scaling its network while preserving local service quality and cost savings. - Hamilton said the goal is to build infrastructure that gives organizations the same technology, transparency, consistency and scale they expect from other critical services.

The bottom line: - PINCH is turning cleaning services into a software-and-network business, and the Inc. 5000 ranking signals that approach is gaining traction.