MATTIO COMMUNICATIONS
2,931 % Two-year growth rate
New York City
Rosie Mattio, founder and CEO Northeast ranking: No. 5
Rosie Mattio knows what sells. She was living in Seattle doing publicity for a cannabis cookbook in 2013, just after Washington became the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. She founded Mattio Communications to specialize in PR for pot companies, and since then, 35 other states have legalized marijuana use in some form. Business boomed. But running the company
