Two Philly-based tech companies, namely software maker Azavea and digital marketing firm Seer Interactive, landed spots on the Inner City 100, a list of fast-growing organizations from inner cities.

The ranking, compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and published by Fortune, tracks the growth of organizations in “core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than their surrounding metropolitan statistical areas.”

Azavea, which is also a certified B-Corporation, came in at No. 61 on the ranking. The self-reported data says Azavea grew 167.92 percent over the past five years, and had 2017 revenues of $7.4 million. Just two spots below, NoLibs-based Seer said its five-year growth rate was 153.46 percent, and $17.3 million in last year’s revenues.

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