SurveyMonkey Partners with Inc. for Leadership Insights

In the US, SurveyMonkey has teamed up with publisher Inc. to launch Growth Signals, a new initiative to capture the perspectives of entrepreneurs and business leaders and bring them into Inc.'s editorial reporting.

Inc.'s publications focus on entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders, and aims to inform, educate and elevate the profile of its community. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with sister publication Fast Company.

With the launch of Growth Signals, Inc. will use SurveyMonkey to regularly poll its audience on current issues facing privately held businesses, giving it a direct view into the priorities, challenges and perspectives of its audience, while helping surface emerging trends across industries and segments of the business community to inform its coverage.

The new initiative will make its debut at the 2026 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, starting tomorrow (14th October), in Dallas. This will include founder and exec interviews with Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, Reed Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix; Inc. editor-in-chief Mike Hofman; Natalie Holloway, co-founder and CEO of Bala; Suneera Madhani, founder of Worth AI and Stax Payments; Janet Napolitano, former US secretary of Homeland Security; RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of Rivian; and Joanna Strober, co-founder and CEO of Midi Health.

Hofman comments: 'By tapping into Inc.'s longstanding relationship with founders of fast-growing companies, we can gain actionable insights and crucial business intelligence not just for this cohort, but for all business leaders who want to know where the economy stands today - and create more informed reporting about what comes next.' Katie Miserany (pictured), Chief Communications Officer and Global Head of Marketing at SurveyMonkey, adds: 'Founders have a lot of opinions about the economy, and they're worth hearing. SurveyMonkey makes it easy to keep asking, and Growth Signals puts it to work. We're proud Inc. chose us to power it.'

The firms are online at www.surveymonkey.com and www.inc.com .