Meet the 2023 Mid-Atlantic honorees

[solidcore] is the largest and fastest-growing, company-owned strength training boutique fitness studio with 100 locations nationwide. [solidcore] is 50 minutes of low-impact strength training that creates a stronger version of yourself. Designed to break down muscles to failure, our high-intensity workouts help you build strength like you've never seen before, resulting in a transformed body and mind.

Aptive provides expertise in mission support, strategic engagement, health solutions and digital transformation. We support some of the most innovative and inspiring programs across the government, helping to improve performance, connect with people and navigate change. Led by CEO Rachele Cooper, a Navy veteran and aerospace engineer, Aptive is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Our hundreds of employees across the country are committed to shaping the future as we have for the last decade.

FiscalNote is the leading technology provider of global policy and market intelligence. By uniquely combining AI technology, actionable data, and expert and peer insights, FiscalNote empowers customers with mission-critical insights and the tools to turn them into action.

Established in 1921, Foster Fuels Inc. is a third generation, family-owned and operated, wholesale fuel business headquartered in Campbell County Virginia. Foster Fuels provide residential, commercial, agricultural, and transport fuel services to customers across the continental United States. They also operate a multi award-winning risk management and emergency fuel services division, Foster Mission Critical, specializing in business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for day to day needs and prevention. Prime contractor to the federal government, Foster Fuels has responded to many notable wide-scale disasters including Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, Superstorm Sandy, the record-breaking 2017 hurricane season with back-to-back activations for Harvey, Irma and Maria which devastated most of Puerto Rico, and most recently the Texas Ice Storms (2021) and Hurricane Ian (2022).

Owned and operated by conservationist and philanthropist Watt R. Foster, Jr., from residential propane delivery to renewable fuels for critical global infrastructure and charitable giving via the Watt Foster Family Foundation, Foster Fuels continues to go further for others each day under Watt's forward-thinking leadership.

Gardyn develops cutting-edge technologies to grow large quantities of nutritious and tasty produce at home. Gardyn reimagines the food production paradigm as a fully distributed farming system, with no impact on the environment by providing tasty, affordable, nutritious greens and fruits without sacrificing design, space, or resources.

JOYEBELLS shares its mouthwatering, southern, backwoods, country deliciousness through legacy recipes from Joye B. Moore's (aka Joyebell) 3rd great grandmother Susan Mae Howell and passed down 6 generations with love.

JOYEBELLS makes Joye and her family the 6th generation to make these family recipes, and the 1st generation to turn these traditions into a business.

JOYEBELLS manufactures desserts and CountrySides (Home Meal Solutions) for wholesale to large retail grocery chains. Currently retailing nationwide in 1,800 stores with Joyebells’ sweet potato and peach pies.

ShiftMed is a next-generation workforce management platform that connects hospitals, assisted living providers, and skilled nursing facilities to the highest quantity and quality of licensed nurses (CNAs, LPNs and RNs). As the #1 nursing jobs mobile app on the App Store with over 350,000 nursing professionals, ShiftMed serves more than 2000 enterprise healthcare partners across the country by offering software tools and direct access to labor for shift scheduling. The ShiftMed on-demand platform dramatically streamlines the delivery of care services and enables healthcare providers access to compliant, credentialed workers to fulfill their staffing needs faster than any other solution.

Stori develops technologies to offer seamless digital banking products to the 400 million underserved population in Latin America. Today Stori is the largest digital credit card provider to the underserved population in Mexico. Stori became a unicorn in 2022 and is about to serve two million customers.