2022 Best Tech Startups in Denver

August 19, 2021 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. 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.”

2. DispatchHealth

Founded: 2013

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“DispatchHealth is redefining healthcare delivery through the most advanced on-demand, in-home healthcare model in the country. Our board-certified medical teams can treat common to complex injuries and illnesses in the comfort of your home.”

3. 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.”

4. Strive Health

Founded: 2018

“Strive Health is a built-for-purpose, value-based kidney care solution for innovative healthcare payors and providers. Through a unique combination of high-touch care teams, advanced technology, seamless integration with local providers, and next-generation dialysis services, Strive develops integrated kidney care systems that support the entire patient journey from chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end stage renal disease (ESRD).

Strive partners with commercial and Medicare Advantage payors, Medicare, health systems, and physicians through flexible value-based payment arrangements, including assumption of total cost-of-care risk. Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Ascension Ventures, Strive brings differentiated capital, technology, and expertise to transform kidney care for the better.”

5. SonderMind

Founded: 2014

“SonderMind makes it easier for people who are searching for a mental health professional to find licensed therapists who are available for in-person or video sessions. If you’re trying to find that perfect therapist, visit www.sondermind.com.

SonderMind also connects mental health providers to networks of new patients, helps with payor credentialing, manages the billings and claims processes, and guarantees instant payment on claims. If you are a licensed therapist and would like to grow a practice with the type of clients and caseload you’ve always wanted visit www.sondermind.com/why-sondermind/therapists.”

6. Red Canary

Founded: 2014

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“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.”

7. Velocity Global

Founded: 2014

“Velocity Global accelerates the future of work beyond borders. Its global work platform simplifies the employer and employee experience through cloud-based workforce management technology, personalized expertise, and unmatched scale. As the largest global Employer of Record (also known as International PEO) in 185 countries and all 50 United States, more than 1,000 brands rely on Velocity Global to build global teams without the cost or complexity of setting up foreign legal entities or state registrations. The company offers additional services including Independent Contractor Compliance to assess a workforce, and Agent of Record (AoR) to streamline payments to contractors. Velocity Global was named a “Leader” in Global Employer of Record services by prominent analyst firm NelsonHall. Founded in 2014, the company has hundreds of employees in 27 countries. For more information visit velocityglobal.com.”

8. 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.”

9. 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.”

10. Accept.inc

Founded: 2016

“Accept.inc, the first iLender, is technology-enabled lender that empowers buyers who qualify for a mortgage to submit all-cash offers on homes at no additional cost. Accept.inc’s mission is to empower a cash offer on every home, leveling the playing field. Accept.inc sets itself apart with a frictionless customer experience and an innovative platform available to any agent and mortgage-qualifying buyer, with zero added costs or fees. The company ensures that buyers, sellers, and their agents benefit from the transaction, all in the service of accelerating access to homeownership. Founded in 2016 by Y Combinator alumni Adam Pollack, Nick Friedman, and Ian Perrex, Accept.inc is headquartered in Denver, CO, where it started transacting under its current model in mid-2019.”