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William Giuliani and the Architecture of More Time
Across banking, cycling, parenting and the skilled trades, William Giuliani has kept returning to one deceptively simple engineering problem: how can software give ordinary people some of their day back?
From Snowshoes to Strategy: Ryan Swearingen’s Career in the Work Between Teams
Before he was coordinating marketing strategy at Twilio, Ryan Swearingen was leading an outdoor-recreation club through a Yosemite winter. His career since has followed the same practical pattern: organize the expedition, equip the team, and make the complicated route navigable.
The $5.35 Billion Bet on the Software Underneath Insurance
Vertafore began with punch cards and became a software utility for insurance distribution. Now it has to prove that half a century of embedded workflows can become an AI advantage - without asking customers to rip out the systems that run their businesses.
Freddie Peyerl Put a Screen on a Chairlift - Then Built a Business Around Better Timing
A scientist-turned-founder saw a captive audience on the ride to Winter Park. The more interesting idea was not the screen - it was learning where information becomes useful.
Melanie Fellay Put the Training Manual Where Work Actually Happens
A broken Salesforce rollout gave the operator in Melanie Fellay a question worth chasing. An elevator pitch, an octopus and eight years of company-building later, she is still trying to make workplace knowledge arrive at the exact moment it matters.
Niji Sabharwal Turned Insurance’s Licensing Maze Into Infrastructure
A compliance crisis taught Niji Sabharwal where insurance software breaks. He and Jenn Knight spent seven years turning that lesson into AgentSync - then he chose to hand the CEO job to a different kind of operator.
Cate Lochead Is Turning Engineering Precision Into a Story People Can Use
After a career marketing databases, cybersecurity, cloud directories, and enterprise AI, Cate Lochead has arrived at infrastructure software with a clear brief: make complex engineering matter to the people who depend on it.
Ibotta
The Denver app that pays you to scan grocery receipts quietly became the plumbing behind the coupons at Walmart, Instacart and DoorDash - and rang the bell on Colorado's biggest tech IPO.
Casey Bleeker
Casey Bleeker is the co-founder and CEO of SurePath AI, a Denver-based startup that helps enterprises adopt generative AI without leaking their secrets to it. He built the company in 2023 around a simple bet: companies will not choose between banning AI and losing control of their data, so SurePath sits at the network edge, governing what employees send to public models and redacting what they should not. Before founding SurePath, Casey ran CDW's $2B+ Cloud and Cloud Native business and held senior roles at Cisco in AI/ML, IoT, and developer advocacy. He is a computational-biology major turned go-to-market operator who codes his own prototypes, and online he is better known as 'geekbleek.'
TextUs
TextUs is a Denver-based business texting platform that gives revenue and recruiting teams real, two-way SMS conversations at scale. It pairs each team with dedicated business phone numbers, a shared inbox, automated campaigns, keywords, and analytics, and plugs directly into CRMs and applicant tracking systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, Bullhorn, Greenhouse and Workday. The pitch is simple: text messages get read and answered while email and voicemail get ignored, so teams that text close, hire, and retain faster.
Michael Beaudoin
Michael Beaudoin is the CEO of Housecall Pro, the Denver-based vertical SaaS platform that helps plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, cleaners and other home-service pros run their businesses from a phone. He joined the company as a board member in 2015 and stepped into the chief executive role in 2020, bringing two decades of experience leading and investing in consumer and home-services companies including HomeAdvisor, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Waldo Photos, which he co-founded. Under his leadership Housecall Pro has scaled to serve tens of thousands of service businesses and roughly 1,400 employees, raising a $116.5M total war chest including a $65M Series D.