2005 Fast 50

26: Ventera Corp.
Location: McLean, Va.
Annual growth rate: 91.30%
2004 Revenue: 5,164,921
2003 Revenue: 4,114,597
2002 Revenue: 2,356,713
2001 Revenue: 662,367
2000 Revenue: 385,692
Leadership: Robert Acosta, chairman, president and CEO
Number of employees: 90
Website: www.ventera.com
Lines of business: Application servers, reporting and decision support, database, programming languages and integration tools
Major customers: Agriculture Department, Labor Department, Health and Human Services Department and Navy
Major contracts/projects: Ventera is modernizing a core information system for the Agriculture Department''s Food and Nutrition Service under a $26 million contract awarded in May 2000.