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Marketing & Consulting: Fix the work behind the marketing
The Denver consultancy connects marketing, business intelligence, and system design. Its most useful idea is simple: look at what happens after the customer clicks.
Collage wants your files to leave the building.
The Denver startup puts distribution at the center of digital asset management. Its most useful trick may be making the next request for a file unnecessary.
Frontier sells the seat. Then the choices.
A low fare gets your attention. The real story is how Frontier prices everything around it - and why the airline is adding a little more comfort to its bargain.
The $4.9 billion house upgrade
Sekisui House U.S. bought a route into American neighborhoods. Now comes the harder job: making Japanese precision work at the scale of a national homebuilder.
Evolve sells the booking. You keep the keys.
A vacation home is two businesses: filling the calendar and taking care of the house. Evolve built a company around letting owners buy one without surrendering the other.
Choozle puts the buyer back in charge
Buying an ad is easy. Knowing what you bought is harder. Choozle has built its business around giving smaller agencies a clearer view of the machinery.
Engine makes room for the work.
A hotel-booking side project found a bigger problem hiding behind the front desk. Now Engine is turning the messy business of work travel into infrastructure other companies can use.
Booyah Advertising Knows When to Let Go
When tighter targeting stopped working, Booyah loosened its grip. Inside the Denver agency that turns campaign surprises into decisions clients can use.
Vorto wants to make waiting bad business
A truck can be expensive even when it goes nowhere. Vorto connects buying, dispatch, and payment to recover the hours that supply chains quietly throw away.
The 45-Minute Interview That Wants to Beat the Content Machine
The Expert Press has built a production line for turning one good conversation into earned authority. Its bet is that, in an internet flooded with instant copy, the scarce ingredient is still a person with something specific to say.
The Ad Agency That Put Naloxone on the Guest List
Amélie Company sells behavior change, not breakfast cereal. Its best campaigns begin where ordinary advertising gets uncomfortable - addiction, overdose, mental health - and end with something people can actually use.
The PR Firm That Put Community on the Balance Sheet
For 20 years, dovetail solutions has sold an unfashionably human idea: a reputation is built in rooms, neighborhoods and hard conversations long before anyone writes the press release.
Barefoot PR Built a Million-Dollar Business on Four Bullet Points
The Denver firm began with a tiny business plan and a serious partnership charter. Fifteen years later, its clearest product may be the discipline to turn good intentions into work people can actually use.
The Ghostwriters Who Would Rather You Never Mention Them
Executive Presence has built a multimillion-dollar business by making its own work disappear. One interview a month goes in; a CEO's public voice, a stream of market signals, and sometimes a very large deal come out.
uSERP Learned the Most Valuable Link Is the One You Can Measure
The Denver agency began with one client, a makeshift website and no outside capital. Its bet was simple: a backlink should behave less like a trophy and more like a line on the income statement.
The bicycle built for two people who need a little space
da Vinci Designs lets tandem riders coast independently. Inside a Denver bicycle business built around a small mechanical freedom with surprisingly human consequences.
The Man Who Built the Keg Empire, Then Built Its Rival
A brewer's cash gets trapped in steel that spends half its life empty. Chris Sapyta helped invent the fix at one company, then spent a decade out-flexing it at his own.
Lorena Cantarovici Landed in Denver With $300 and a Recipe Nobody Ordered
She bet a savory Argentine empanada could win a city that only knew the sweet kind. Fifteen years, five locations, and a $3.5 million check later, the bet looks smart.
The Denver Firm That Buys Companies Nobody Else Wants to Fix
It writes checks of $25 to $75 million for lower-middle-market companies most investors find too complicated, then spends its time on the operational grind others skip. Its own pitch: 'Profitability Not Required.'
The Denver crew that buys land nobody wants, drills it, and sells the whole thing for a billion
Founded in 2019, Avant runs one play over and over: aggregate the acreage bigger operators skip, turn it into producing wells, and monetize at the top of the cycle. Two exits and a billion-dollar fund later, the formula is holding.
Bowling, Brunch, and a Second Life
Punch Bowl Social built a business on the idea that grown-ups still want to play. Then a pandemic closed all 19 rooms - and the comeback got stranger than the concept.
GOLFTEC
The company turned a country-club basement experiment into 250-plus training centers and a database of 14 million golf swings. Its bet: that the fastest way to fix your slice is to measure it.
Apryse
The company formerly known as PDFTron sells the invisible machinery behind millions of documents - SDKs that let any app create, view, edit, sign, and mine PDFs without ever touching Adobe.
Shinesty
Shinesty is a Boulder-born, Denver-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand built around one idea: make the world take itself less seriously. Best known for its cheekily named Ball Hammock pouch underwear and Boob Hammock bralettes, the company pairs proprietary soft fabrics and a supportive pouch design with an irreverent brand voice and outrageous themed party clothing. Founded in 2014 by University of Colorado Boulder friends, Shinesty has sold more than 12 million pairs of underwear, runs a monthly underwear subscription, and landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies.
TRUEWERK
Truewerk is a Denver-based, direct-to-consumer performance workwear brand that borrows fabric technology and construction from the outdoor and military apparel industries and applies it to clothing for skilled trade professionals. Founded in 2015 by former homebuilder Brian Ciciora, the company is best known for its temperature-graded WerkPant system (T1, T2, T3) built from 4-way-stretch, water-resistant, abrasion-resistant synthetic blends that outlast and outperform traditional cotton work pants. Sold primarily through its own e-commerce site alongside a growing uniform-services offering, Truewerk has raised roughly $35M and pitches itself as workwear engineered for comfort, mobility, and durability on the jobsite.
Gallus Detox and Recovery Services
Gallus Detox and Recovery Services is a physician-founded medical detoxification and addiction-recovery company that treats withdrawal from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines and other drugs in upscale, hotel-like inpatient suites staffed 24/7. Built on the proprietary 'Gallus Method' developed by ER physician Dr. Patrick Gallus in 2011, the company uses IV and injectable medications and cardiac telemetry to make detox safer and more comfortable, and reports that roughly 87% of its patients step directly into aftercare - far above the industry norm. Now led by Chairman and CEO Warren Olsen after a 2019 acquisition by SCB Global Healthcare, Gallus operates inpatient centers in Colorado, Arizona and Texas plus outpatient (IOP) services.
Registria
Registria runs the quiet half of consumer products: what happens after the box is opened. Its Ownership Experience Management (OXM) platform - anchored by Photoregister and Concierge - helps manufacturers like Whirlpool, Sony, LG, Bosch, and Cuisinart turn one-time buyers into identified, engaged, monetizable owners.
Project Canary
Project Canary is a Denver-based climate-tech public-benefit corporation that turns methane and emissions data into operational intelligence for energy companies. It pairs high-fidelity continuous monitoring hardware (the EPA-approved Canary X sensor) with a cloud platform (SENSE) and independent well-level ESG ratings (TrustWell), helping oil & gas producers and natural gas utilities detect leaks, cut emissions, meet regulations, and prove the climate attributes of their gas.
Virta Health
Virta Health is a digital health company on a mission to reverse type 2 diabetes and obesity in 100 million people. Founded in 2014 by Sami Inkinen, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and Dr. Jeff Volek, Virta pairs a nutrition-first, low-carbohydrate clinical protocol with a Continuous Remote Care platform - a mobile app, dedicated physicians and health coaches, and AI-driven personalization - to lower blood sugar, cut medications, and produce durable weight loss without relying on costly drugs or surgery. Sold to employers and health plans on a value-based, outcomes-guaranteed model, Virta has treated over 100,000 members and surpassed $160M in annualized revenue.
KoreLock
KoreLock is a Denver-based IoT smart lock technology company that gives lock manufacturers and access control providers a turnkey, patented platform - embedded firmware, custom PCBAs, mobile and web apps, and cloud APIs - to turn ordinary offline locks into Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected devices. Rather than competing with lock makers or software companies, KoreLock positions itself as the interoperability bridge between hardware and access control software, with technology already embedded in tens of thousands of devices across 65+ countries.