Cliff W.'s Linkedin Analytics

Cliff and his wife founded Innovative Enterprises, Inc. out of the spare bedroom in their home in 1996 with $50 and a used fax machine, bootstrapping the company for more than two decades to what was one of the background screening industry's most head-turning exits in 2019. Along the way, Innovative earned a spot seven different years on the Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies (https://www.inc.com/profile/innovative_enterprises) and attracted the industry's most sought after talent - all while never taking a penny of outside capital. At the time of its acquisition by Appriss in 2019 (https://blog.apprissinsights.com/acquisition-of-innovative-advances-appriss-data-solutions-for-cra-and-enterprise-risk-markets) more than 90% of the millions of background screenings conducted annually in the United States were powered by one or more of Innovative's best-in-class intelligent data solutions.