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Heritage Bank Gross Revenue: 2022: $3,839,000 Growth: 268.87% Average Annual Growth Rate: 89.96% Full-time employees: 28 The secret to revenue growth at Topeka’s Heritage Bank since 2022 isn’t much of a secret to anyone who has been following community-banking trends nationwide and regionally in recent years. The new small-bank paradigm is get big or risk it all. How? In the case of Tony Konrade and his team at Heritage, it’s come via expansion through strategic mergers and a commitment to local ownership. To overcome organic growth limits, the bank has aggressively scaled up while keeping decision-making in the Shawnee County community. In addition to capitalizing on a sharpened focus within commercial real estate, the bank final ized an acquisition of fellow Topeka institution Fidelity State Bank, a deal that doubled Heritage’s assets to approximately $300 million, grew the employee base, and expanded its local footprint to three branch locations. Konrade has also made a priority of preserving local relationships, keeping all branches open and retaining employees from both organizations. While institutional capital fled the office real-estate market in recent years, Andrew Brain and Chad Sneed took the opposite tack and ran straight toward it. The Kansas City firm’s strategy— identify and acquire underutilized properties, improve them, and create conditions where tenants, investors and the company all prosper—has been applied most aggressively in exactly the asset class others abandoned. The company says consistent leasing growth in the face of economic headwinds is what kept investors and partners confident enough to fund continued acquisitions. The revenue arc backs the contrarian thesis: after a dip in fiscal 2024, the dynamic duo and their team of 15 nearly tripled the top line in 2025, closing the period at $35.6 million. Neither of these two should be strangers to Ingram’s readers; both were first recognized as up-and-comers with our 20 in Their Twenties awards (Sneed in 2009 and Brain in 2017). 2025: $14,161,000 Lula Smarter Property Maintenance 2 nd Year Gross Revenue: 2025: $40,063,938 2022: $8,934,393 Growth: 348.42% Average Annual Growth Rate: 116.14% Full-time employees: 73 Property managers don’t want to chase plumbers; Lula built a marketplace so they don’t have to. The Overland Park company connects property-management firms with a vetted network of contractors and tradespeople across major U.S. markets, handling work-order dispatch, contractor management and payment across everything from handyman work and plumbing to painting and HVAC—earning its keep on a marketplace take rate. Growth came from expanding both the contractor network and the geographic footprint, with gross merchandise volume climbing on new property management customers and rising work-order volume from existing ones. The launch of Foresight, a SaaS product for property managers, added a second revenue stream, and Series A backing from PeakSpan Capital and RET Ventures funded product, contractor onboarding and go-to-market muscle. Brain Group Gross Revenue: 2 nd Year 2025: $35,647,120 2022: $9,613,754 Growth: 270.79% Average Annual Growth Rate: 90.26% Full-time employees: 15 1 st Year

(l-r): Bo Lais, CEO and Founder; Lance Burton, Chief Service Officer; Will Parrish, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer; Marcos Brakenridge, Director of Service Operations; Ana Benitez, Service Operations Manager; Rebecca Sapp, Development Manager; Sarah Sampson, Chief Experience Officer; Cameron Murray, Chief Financial Officer.

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(l-r): Andrew Brain and Chad Sneed, Co-Principals.

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Tony Konarade, President & CEO.

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