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Tech Startup: BioIntelliSense
Where: Golden Website: www.biointellisense.com Founded: 2018 Initial Lightbulb: A cardiothoracic surgeon turned entrepreneur, Dr. James Mault got involved in medical technology startups that were acquired by Microsoft and Qualcomm in the last 15 years. [caption id="attachment_114159" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Dr. James M[...]
Strive Health named a Best Place to Work by Built In Colorado
Built In announced that Strive Health, the national leader in value-based kidney care, was honored with a 2022 Best Places to Work Award. Specifically, Strive earned a place on the Colorado Best Midsize Companies to Work For list. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, [...]
The 2021 CEO of the Year: Mario Ciabarra
[caption id="attachment_113565" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Photos by Jeff Nelson[/caption] When Mario Ciabarra sold his first startup, DevStream, in 2003, he traveled the globe with his wife and returned to his home in Monument with early retirement in mind. "There's a mental game with startups," says Ciabarra, now 44. "I was l[...]
This Boulder tech startup is the solution to a real life problem
Tangram Vision Where: Boulder Website: tangramvision.com Founded: 2020 Initial Lightbulb Co-founders Brandon Minor and Adam Rodnitzky worked together at Boulder-based Occipital–a provider of computer vision technology–before starting Tangram Vision. At Occipital, the pair recognized integration issues with users of the compa[...]
A tablet for playing board games
The Last Gameboard Where: Denver Website: lastgameboard.com Founded: January, 2019 Initial Lightbulb: Co-founder and CEO Shail Mehta says her lifetime love of gaming stems from her family immigrating to the U.S. from India in the 1990s. In her new home of Manhattan, Kansas, "No one looked like me, no one spoke like me.” Through b[...]
Timeri Tolnay’s online marketplace for educational programs
Timeri Tolnay | Founder and CEO, EdCuration | Golden An 18-year career as an educator showed Timeri Tolnay the pain points of curriculum adoption firsthand. She founded EdCuration in 2018 to solve the problem and launched an online marketplace for educational programs the next year. COVID-19 proved an unlikely catalyst for EdCurat[...]
Finalists announced for 2021 Colorado Companies to Watch Award
Colorado Companies to Watch (CCTW) today announced the finalists for its 2021 Colorado Companies to Watch Award. The CCTW Award honors 50 high-performing second-stage companies from across Colorado for their contributions to the state’s economy through job and revenue creation, innovative products and services, and philanthropic [...]
New data reports reveal Colorado’s market growth potential
Global SaaS company Ansarada is focusing its attention on Colorado, with two in-depth reports on private market trends and M&A predictions for the Centennial State. New data reports conducted by Ansarada with Pitchbook and Mergermarket, the Colorado market has shown impressive levels of corporate activity and innovation. Colorad[...]
Tech Startup: Wata Games
WATA GAMES Where: Denver Website: watagames.com Founded: 2018 Initial Lightbulb: Co-founder and President Deniz Kahn started playing video games when he was 3, then started collecting Nintendo games by the time he was in middle school. “By the time I was in high school, I was making money doing it,” he says. “I was selling ga[...]
Startups on the rise
[caption id="attachment_107929" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Photo courtesy of soona.[/caption] Colorado's entrepreneurial streak is hotter than ever, as the state's startups rethink everything from traffic signals to football helmets. These five innovative companies are making waves on both sides of the Continental Divide. BOUL[...]
Denver startup wages a battle against waste
We sit at a tipping point in the waste and climate crisis. Global waste is on pace to grow by 70 percent by 2050 and yet plastic production is still increasing, especially during a year-long pandemic where throwaway plastics in Colorado and beyond have become the norm. Policy moves slowly and it’s hard to see how our personal [...]
How the crypto boom will affect your business model
[caption id="attachment_107548" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Image Source: Pexels[/caption] With cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin growing in value and trading at more than $23,000, 2021 and beyond represents the perfect breeding grounds for crypto use and acceptance in all kinds of business models. In fact, the explosion of cryptoc[...]
Local entrepreneur plans major expansion in Western Colorado
The Grand Junction Economic Partnership (GJEP) is pleased to welcome Låda Cube back to Grand Junction. The building tech company, which is widely considered at the forefront of a construction industry revolution, is expanding its footprint and planning to add anywhere from 80-160 people in the next year. Låda Cube was founded [...]
Alexandra Gardner is a galvanizing voice in the tech community
Alexandra Gardner, 29 Senior Product Designer, Pinnacol Assurance | Denver Nothing has contributed more to Alexandra Gardner’s success than her failures. “Failure has given me grit, an undeniable knowing that no matter what, I will figure it out,” she says. “I am a dyslexic, ADHD, diabetic female working in tech. Everything [...]
Looking to expand your law firm? This is the place to go
Lawyers looking to expand their solo law firms into small law firms need to examine their location options, ensuring that their new market will provide ample work for them while still being affordable. Many attorneys will find that large metropolitan areas like New York and Los Angeles are too costly; however, there are a handful of[...]
How legal tech is shaking up Colorado’s legal industry
We’re all aware of the impact of technology on our daily lives. From smartphones to smart televisions, mobile banking to robot-assisted surgery, technology has infiltrated almost every industry—and the legal field is no exception. But to a certain extent, the legal industry has been left behind. Long held in the tradition of len[...]
Tech Startup: Hygge Power’s line of smart energy storage products for home
Where: Boulder Website: hyggepower.com Founded: 2017 Initial Lightbulb: CEO Caleb Scalf founded Hygge Power after working as a consultant in the energy industry. “I scoped multi-million- and multi-billion-dollar-scale projects,” he says. “I always recognized a need for energy storage, the way the market was going.” With renew[...]
Rethinking office space to address COVID-19 concerns
As an outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact that “working from home” isn’t the best option for many companies that need interaction and collaboration to succeed, creative office developers and designers are stepping-up their formula for productive and safe office space. This is especially true as more and more compani[...]
Tech Startup: BurstIQ tackles issues with health data
BurstIQ Where: Denver Founded: 2015 Initial Lightbulb: After working together at other data-centric companies, Frank Ricotta and Brian Jackson co-founded BurstIQ to tackle issues with health data. “We felt there was this whole new wave of information-sharing and a whole new access model that we were on the verge of entering into [...]
How Tortuga AgTech is using automation to help farmers
Tortuge AgTech WHERE: Denver FOUNDED: 2016 Initial Lightbulb: CEO Eric Adamson was working in consulting for “very large agribusinesses around the world” before co-founding Tortuga AgTech with colleague and automation engineer Tim Brackbill, now CTO. “We were both independently thinking about potentially starting businesses [...]
