Nashville-based VendEngine, a cloud-based fintech company focused on the corrections industry, has been ranked 291 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500.
The ranking is of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America and is now in its 26th year.
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