However, it was interesting to note that Number 1 on the list was ReachLocal , the Woodland Hills-based provider of local search advertising services — topping the list with 146,050% growth over 5 years. Aside from ReachLocal, I see The Search Agency (SEO services, #83), Hydra (Internet ads, 87), Gorilla Nation at 243, and Oversee.net at 326. Semiconductors Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America , based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed.

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent. Other local companies ranking highly on the list included The firm said it had 2008 revenues of $146.69M. revenues); Carlsbad-based Genoptix , at number 15 (15,814 percent growth and $116.1M

San Diego $278.1 San Diego $172.5 ReachLocal San Diego $111.4 One of the interesting things about Inc. Magazine’s “Inc 500″ list is it helps to identify all of those big, private companies — who, in another world, might have been public. It’s interesting to note the large number of Southern California firms with very big revenue numbers who are private