MYNT Lands on Inc. 5000 for Fourth Consecutive Year
Santa Cruz-based clean energy company MYNT has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies for the fourth time, ranking No. 2,317 on the 2026 list. The honor caps a stretch in which the company has grown 145% over the past three years.
For MYNT's founders, the recognition carries a full-circle weight. In the company's early days, they pored over Inc. magazine, studying the companies that had made the list and hoping to one day join them. Landing on it once was a milestone. Landing on it four times, as growth compounds and the bar for making the cut rises with it, is a different kind of achievement.
CEO Derek Hansen credited the company's team for the honor rather than claiming it for leadership.
"This list belongs to the people who show up every day and do the hard, unglamorous work of building clean energy infrastructure that actually works," Hansen said. "I've watched this team solve problems nobody warned them about, on timelines nobody thought were fair, because they believed the mission was worth it. The recognition is theirs. I just get to say thank you."
Founded in Santa Cruz, MYNT works in the distributed energy space, building infrastructure for battery energy storage systems (BESS) and virtual power plants (VPPs), technologies aimed at demand response and grid hardening. The company says its mission centers on helping both current and future customers gain more direct ownership over their power.
Alongside the Inc. 5000 announcement, MYNT also launched a redesigned website, myntsystems.com, which the company describes as both its new digital home and a resource for people trying to understand how distributed energy technology works.
"Clean energy is one of those spaces that there are a lot of questions, a lot of nuance, a lot of innovation, and a ton of attention," the company said in its email announcement. It pointed to clean energy's role in powering an expanding grid while keeping that grid financially viable and resilient.
With the new site, MYNT says it is ready to talk publicly about work it has been developing quietly for some time, much of it tied to the BESS and VPP technology now drawing broader industry attention.
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