2021 Best Tech Startups in Denver

August 20, 2020November 3, 2022 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Denver, Colorado. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

Revenue potential
Leadership team
Brand/product traction
Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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1. Guild Education

Founded: 2015

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“Guild is at the forefront of the Future of Work, partnering with Fortune 1000 companies and non-profit universities to offer education benefits to their employees, with a focus on frontline workers. We partner with America’s largest companies including Walmart, Disney, Discover, Taco Bell and Chipotle.”

2. DispatchHealth

Founded: 2013

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“Founded in 2013, DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile urgent care. Our goal is to create an integrated, convenient, high touch triage and care delivery solution that extends the capabilities of the patient’s care team and provides definitive, quality care in the home while decreasing costs. Our skilled providers arrive with the tools necessary to provide advanced medical care and are supported by our technological infrastructure to ensure quality and improve outcomes.”

3. Evolve Vacation Rental

Founded: 2010

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“Evolve Vacation Rental is a hospitality company with a mission to make renting a vacation home easy for both guests and owners. We help guests rest easy knowing our homes are verified, our support is 24/7, and if their stay doesn’t meet our standards, we’ll make it right. We also make vacation rental stress-free for homeowners, partnering with them to book more and keep more of what they earn thanks to our industry-low 10% management fee.

We support over 14,000 properties in over 700 markets across North America, thanks to some of the hardest-working teams around. We maintain a strong work ethic and an unapologetic passion for customer service. We focus on hitting measurable results, on time – all while having some fun along the way.”

4. CyberGRX

Founded: 2015

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“CyberGRX provides enterprises and their third parties with the most cost-effective and scalable approach to third-party cyber risk management today. Built on the market’s first third-party cyber risk Exchange, CyberGRX arms organizations with a dynamic stream of third party-data and advanced analytics so they can efficiently manage, monitor and mitigate risk in their partner ecosystems. Based in Denver, CO, CyberGRX was designed with partners including ADP, Aetna, Blackstone and Mass Mutual, and is backed by Allegis Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackstone, ClearSky, GV (formerly Google Ventures), MassMutual Ventures, Rally Ventures and TenEleven Ventures. For more information, visit www.cybergrx.com.”

5. Ibotta

Founded: 2011

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“Headquartered in Denver, CO, Ibotta (“I bought a…“) is a free app that’s transforming the shopping experience by making every purchase rewarding. The company partners with leading brands and retailers to offer real cash back on groceries, travel, electronics, clothing, gifts, home and office supplies, dining out, and much more. Ibotta is the ultimate starting point for savings, and having paid out more than $650 million in cash rewards to its Savers, it’s no surprise why Ibotta is one of the most downloaded shopping apps in the United States.”

6. GoSpotCheck

Founded: 2011

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“200+ enterprise brands in 70 countries across 6 continents power their mobile workforces with GoSpotCheck.

Our software helps teams perfect merchandising, increase sales, reduce labor and expenses, ensure safety and quality, and improve profitability from the field.

We do this with dynamic surveys, digital photo capture, machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, IoT and data integrations, and automated issue resolution with flexible workflows.”

7. Convercent

Founded: 2013

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“As the leading global provider of ethics and compliance cloud software, Convercent connects ethics to business performance by weaving ethics and values into everyday operations in over 600 of the world’s largest companies.

Its Ethics Cloud Platform provides a suite of applications: Convercent Insights, Convercent Helpline, Convercent Campaigns, Convercent Disclosures and Convercent Interactive Code of Conduct, that gives executives insights required to make proactive, informed decisions about their company’s ethical health.

Convercent customers include Microsoft, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Capgemini and Under Armour who care deeply about driving ethics to the center of their organizations.”

8. FullContact

Founded: 2010

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“FullContact is a privacy-safe Identity Resolution company building trust between people and brands. We deliver the capabilities needed to create tailored customer experiences by unifying data and applying insights at the moments that matter.”

9. Red Canary

Founded: 2014

“Red Canary was founded to make security better. We defend hundreds of organizations around the world, with customers ranging from global Fortune 100s to 100-endpoint organizations. Our cloud-based service levels the playing field for businesses of all sizes by empowering every defender to win against rapidly evolving adversaries.”

10. Cloud Elements

Founded: 2012

“Cloud Elements is an API integration platform. Our Elements – which are app connectors – connect you to the ecosystem of applications that your customers and partners rely on everyday. Our Finance Hub, for example, provides a uniform API that connects you with all of the leading accounting systems used by your customers and partners.

Underneath our catalog of more than 150 Elements, you’ll find an entire platform that you can embed into your product to go beyond just connecting, and instead truly integrate and synchronize data between applications.

Cloud Elements is headquartered in Denver, CO, but serves customers worldwide. More information can be found at www.cloud-elements.com.”

11. Stack Infrastructure

Founded: 2019

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“STACK provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. With a client-first approach, the Company delivers a comprehensive suite of wholesale build-to suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions in eight markets today: Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; New Albany, Ohio; Northern Virginia; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, Oregon; and Silicon Valley, California. Our unparalleled flexible expansion capacity in the leading availability zones provides the scale and geographic reach that hyperscalers need to support the latest technologies from public cloud to 5G to edge computing and more.”