Making the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies is hard. Making it six years in a row is a different animal entirely. That's not a hot streak. That's a business the market keeps voting for, over and over.
So, a big Branded Shoutout to PourMyBev, which just earned its place on the 2026 Inc. 5000 for the sixth consecutive year. Full disclosure, and a proud one: PourMyBev is a Branded portfolio company, so weigh my enthusiasm accordingly.
If you haven't seen their work, odds are you've poured a drink from it without realizing. PourMyBev is the global leader in self-pour technology, the tap walls, self-pour stations, and tap trailers that let guests pour their own beer, wine, and cocktails by the ounce, in everything from taprooms and hotels to stadiums, golf clubs, and universities.
Here's why it's more than a cool gadget, and why it's squarely a Branded kind of story. Self-pour is one of those rare moves that wins on every axis at once. It cuts labor (operators see roughly a 75% reduction), it kills the overpour and shrinkage that quietly bleed a bar, it lifts guest spend, and it frees your team from standing behind a tap so they can actually host. The receipts are real: PourMyBev has generated $329 million for operators across more than 400 million self-poured ounces. That's not a novelty. That's margin.
And the timing is the whole point. As CEO Josh Goodman put it: "Operators are fighting for every dollar right now, and self-pour is how the smart ones are winning. Six straight years on the Inc. 5000 tells me we are building something operators actually need. We added senior leaders and grew our teams this year because demand is not slowing down. It is accelerating."
That's the tell.
In a market where plenty of restaurant tech is quietly contracting, PourMyBev is hiring and growing, b/c it solves a problem operators feel on every single shift. Six years on the list isn't a trophy on the shelf. It's proof of demand that keeps compounding.
Congrats to Josh and the entire PourMyBev team. Here's to six, and to the next six.
Cheers.
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