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Winter 2025 Made in Colorado winners spotlight innovation
ColoradoBiz’s winter 2025 Made in Colorado winners highlight innovative manufacturers, artisans and startups driving growth across the state.
Made in Colorado: Yakoda Supply
Jason Faerman and Justin Fuller co-founded Yakoda Supply in 2017 after hitting it off during a fly-fishing trip to Wyoming.
Made in Colorado: Pizza Box Designs Bike Bags
Jon Rizzo fell in love with Colorado at first sight in the 1990s, and its bike trails were a big part of the attraction.
Made in Colorado: Howie Guitars
A longtime guitar player, Craig Howie worked as a teacher and professional endurance athlete before becoming a luthier at the suggestion of his wife, Jen, in 2015.
Made in Colorado: Denver Bone Broth
After 20 years in marketing for corporate food and beverage brands, Patrick Libonate co-founded Denver Bone Broth with his wife, Leanne Maciel, in 2021.
Made in Colorado: Roaring Fork Mill
Roaring Fork Mill founder Jacob Trumbull got interested in stone milling when he worked in sustainable agriculture and environmental education in Vermont.
Made in Colorado: Retuned Guitar String Jewelry
In 2016, the Laceys put their minds together and designed some earrings and bracelets they could make from broken strings and launched Retuned in the process.
Made in Colorado: Seam Of Life
It started as “an outlet to stay mentally busy while I was healing my physical body,” she said, then snowballed into a side hustle as Seam Of Life in 2020.
Made in Colorado: Hitch + Timber leather and canvas goods
Hitch + Timber was born in the mid-2010s when Michael Locke worked as a dolly grip for shows such as “House of Cards.”
2024 Made in Colorado Awards
Most Innovative Manufacturer WINNER Maybell Quantum Denver Founder and CEO Corban Tillemann-Dick says he was gobsmacked in his previous gig as a consultant by the world-changing potential of quantum computing. […]
Made in Colorado
Colorado is home to “the 50-yard line of the natural foods industry” in Boulder. It’s also the top state in the nation in terms of aerospace workers per capita and […]
Colorado brewers leave GABF with 41 medals
Colorado brewers showed what they — or rather their beers and ciders — were made of at of the Great American Beer Festival, as they took home 41 medals from […]
