75 Fastest Growing Startups In Denver [2024]

Updated: July 5th, 2022

75 Fastest Growing Startups In Denver [2024]

Denver is a great place to start a business because of its low cost of living, strong economy, and high quality of life.

Denver also boasts an incredible network of people who are passionate about entrepreneurship and supporting each other's dreams.

There are tons of startup incubators, accelerators, and mentorship programs that can help you get started with your business in no time at all.

In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the top 75 startups in Denver that are making an impact in 2022.

Here they are:

# Company Funding Revenue Employees
1 AgentSync $111M $362M 120
2 Motto Mortgage $2.5B $826M 367
3 Boom $241M $816M 257
4 Soona $53.5M $420M 159
5 RxRevu $36.2M $144M 90
6 CLMBR $18.2M $184M 63
7 SonderMind $183M $971M 455
8 DispatchHealth $403M $1.86B 744
9 Hotel Engine $81M $1.27B 329
10 Schwazze $110M $160M 61
11 Plume $747M $131M 78
12 Guest House $3M $106M 65
13 Strive Health $220M $520M 288
14 Crusoe $243M $314M 107
15 Spekit $60.6M $217M 129
16 CometChat $12.6M $57.6M 44
17 GrowGeneration $248M $2.05B 183
18 VieCure $25M $97.2M 62
19 Ibotta $92.9M $1.91B 857
20 SafeGraph $61M $241M 144
21 Red Canary $130M $1.25B 403
22 Flatfile $44.7M $102M 70
23 Voyager Space Holdings $5.1M $167M 63
24 StackHawk $14.6M $54M 41
25 Fluid Truck $64.7M $774M 183
26 Vorto $5.2M $410M 112
27 Icon Source $1.6M $58.8M 28
28 Granicus $10.3M $1.89B 758
29 Pepper $2.4M $93.6M 43
30 Carbon America $39.5M $73.2M 38
31 Redeam $7.7M $81.6M 56
32 Würk $23.6M $343M 106
33 Outrider $118M $292M 156
34 Pax8 $166M $2.25B 936
35 GoodBuy Gear $8.8M $96M 42
36 Choozle $22.8M $349M 91
37 CirrusMD $47.6M $176M 105
38 Crowheart Energy $17B $167M 63
39 GloveBox $3.9M $34.8M 26
40 Smartwyre $13.5M $50.4M 38
41 Remote Lock $17.8M $112M 71
42 Highwing $7.3M $44.4M 32
43 Choozle $22.8M $349M 91
44 BioIntelliSense $21.8M $984M 87
45 Whimsical $30M $34.8M 29
46 iLending Direct $47.4M $187M 120
47 Convercent $926M $539M 288
48 Engrain $4.7M $220M 131
49 Qwinix Technologies (66degrees) $350K $398M 208
50 Infinicept $23M $84M 62
51 Ablacon $63.5M $33.6M 36
52 OneReach AI $ $176M 105
53 NinjaTrader Group $ $331M 193
54 Gevo $572M $229M 91
55 Netstock $ $457M 125
56 Maxwell $79.4M $210M 121
57 FourPoint Energy $727M $790M 250
58 Bloom Healthcare $99M $204M 70
59 Snooze Eatery $5M $1.5B 561
60 MWH $100M $2.74B 629
61 Opopop $12M $93.6M 36
62 Avanti Residential $102M $184M 102
63 Sentral $ $553M 165
64 Sola Salon Studios $ $1.82B 475
65 SalesHive $ $683M 207
66 Velocity Global $500M $744M 745
67 BOA® Fit System $454M $1.37B 403
68 Brandfolder $11M $253M 140
69 Accept.inc $92.1M $127M 58
70 Gallus Detox Centers $ $93.6M 36
71 Omni Interactions $ $568M 250
72 iN2L $ $178M 106
73 ACI Learning $ $654M 300
74 Mariposa Health $ $275M 85
75 StarRez $ $314M 164

1. AgentSync

AgentSync automatically enforces state producer licensing and appointment regulatory requirements. Try our insurance compliance management software!

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $111M
  • Revenue: $362M/year
  • Number of employees: 120

2. Motto Mortgage

Motto Mortgage is an innovative mortgage brokerage franchise that offers clarity and personalized guidance to homebuyers who deserve an advocate looking out for them. It’s a pioneering concept that connects a real estate brokerage to a separate, franchised mortgage brokerage and provides the one-stop shop homebuyers want, giving them the choice they deserve.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $2.5B
  • Revenue: $826M/year
  • Number of employees: 367

3. Boom

Boom Supersonic is building a faster future. Our supersonic airliner will make the world dramatically more accessible—-at today's business-class fares.

  • Founded in: 2014
  • Funding: $241M
  • Revenue: $816M/year
  • Number of employees: 257

4. Soona

Ecommerce product photography and a virtual photoshoot. Expert photographers for websites, Amazon, Shopify, email, social, and more. $39/photo & $93/video.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $53.5M
  • Revenue: $420M/year
  • Number of employees: 159

5. RxRevu

We've created healthcare's most accurate price transparency network, giving providers patient-specific cost and coverage information at the point of care.

  • Founded in: 2013
  • Funding: $36.2M
  • Revenue: $144M/year
  • Number of employees: 90

6. CLMBR

CLMBR offers an efficient, full-body, low-impact workout that burns up to 60% more calories than cycling, rowing, and running.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $18.2M
  • Revenue: $184M/year
  • Number of employees: 63

7. SonderMind

Let us help you find a licensed therapist who accepts your insurance and is available to see you either in-person or online. Match with a therapist today!

  • Founded in: 2014
  • Funding: $183M
  • Revenue: $971M/year
  • Number of employees: 455

8. DispatchHealth

DispatchHealth is redefining healthcare delivery through the most advanced on-demand, in-home healthcare model in the country.

  • Founded in: 2013
  • Funding: $403M
  • Revenue: $1.86B/year
  • Number of employees: 744

9. Hotel Engine

Exclusive members-only platform with business travel deals on hotels for business travelers and corporate travel services. Get your free account today!

  • Founded in: 2015
  • Funding: $81M
  • Revenue: $1.27B/year
  • Number of employees: 329

10. Schwazze

Schwazze provides consulting services for cannabis growing technologies and methodologies.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $110M
  • Revenue: $160M/year
  • Number of employees: 61

11. Plume

Plume offers quality, accessible, and convenient gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy for the transgender community.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $747M
  • Revenue: $131M/year
  • Number of employees: 78

12. Guest House

Guest House makes it easy to have a beautiful space. Our home staging delivers premium furnishings and real interior designers in as quick as a week.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $3M
  • Revenue: $106M/year
  • Number of employees: 65

13. Strive Health

Strive Health’s value-based kidney care delivery is designed for total care of CKD & ESRD patients. With payors & providers, we deliver better patient outcomes.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $220M
  • Revenue: $520M/year
  • Number of employees: 288

14. Crusoe

Crusoe provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $243M
  • Revenue: $314M/year
  • Number of employees: 107

15. Spekit

Spekit is the leading digital adoption platform and digital enablement tool. Streamline your sales enablement & onboarding with in-app training.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $60.6M
  • Revenue: $217M/year
  • Number of employees: 129

16. CometChat

Chat Widgets, Chat SDKs, UI Kits & Components to help you build & create real-time chat features & engagement quickly for all your apps & websites. Contact us now!

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $12.6M
  • Revenue: $57.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 44

17. GrowGeneration

GrowGeneration is the industry leader in commercial sales and large-scale grow design. We offer hydroponic supplies, including grow lights, accessories and more.

  • Founded in: 2008
  • Funding: $248M
  • Revenue: $2.05B/year
  • Number of employees: 183

18. VieCure

VieCure is an artificial intelligence platform and cancer knowledge base that empowers providers to personalize and manage patient care to make seemingly impossible outcomes possible and to make overcoming cancer a reality for patients while optimizing resources to yield better financial results.

​A reimagined neural operating system for cancer providers.

  • Founded in: 2015
  • Funding: $25M
  • Revenue: $97.2M/year
  • Number of employees: 62

19. Ibotta

Get cash back. Ibotta pays you real money on your everyday purchases. Download the free app to receive offers and earn real cash back in stores and online.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $92.9M
  • Revenue: $1.91B/year
  • Number of employees: 857

20. SafeGraph

SafeGraph's Points-of-Interest (POI) data, geofences, business listings, & foot-traffic data empowers firms to do better geolocation, marketing attribution, retail analytics, & location intelligence. Our mission is to power innovation through open access to geospatial datasets.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $61M
  • Revenue: $241M/year
  • Number of employees: 144

21. Red Canary

Red Canary pioneered managed detection and response (MDR) to secure your endpoints, cloud workloads, network, and whatever comes next.

  • Founded in: 2014
  • Funding: $130M
  • Revenue: $1.25B/year
  • Number of employees: 403

22. Flatfile

Never clean messy customer data or build yet another CSV importer again. Create delightful customer data import & data onboarding experiences with Flatfile.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $44.7M
  • Revenue: $102M/year
  • Number of employees: 70

23. Voyager Space Holdings

Voyager Space Holdings is a global leader in space exploration. Voyager seeks to increase vertical integration and mission capability to enable humanity's most ambitious projects.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $5.1M
  • Revenue: $167M/year
  • Number of employees: 63

24. StackHawk

Deploy secure applications with StackHawk. Find, triage, and fix application security bugs in CI/CD. Built for developers to own application and API security.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $14.6M
  • Revenue: $54M/year
  • Number of employees: 41

25. Fluid Truck

Fluid Truck is a peer-to-peer truck-sharing platform that offers 24/7 mobile access to various trucks, vans, and SUVs. Hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S. use Fluid Truck to flexibly and affordably build their fleet, manage employee scheduling on the go, and safely operate with GPS tracking and roadside assistance.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $64.7M
  • Revenue: $774M/year
  • Number of employees: 183

26. Vorto

The Vorto AI is a fully automated supply chain software that uses AI to automate demand, procurement, logistics, and operations.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $5.2M
  • Revenue: $410M/year
  • Number of employees: 112

27. Icon Source

Icon Source connects aspiring brands with iconic athletes in a trusted and secure marketplace for athletic endorsements, speaking engagements, and more.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $1.6M
  • Revenue: $58.8M/year
  • Number of employees: 28

28. Granicus

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 200 million people with over 4,500 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

  • Founded in: 1999
  • Funding: $10.3M
  • Revenue: $1.89B/year
  • Number of employees: 758

29. Pepper

Pepper® makes bras that finally fit small chested women. The Pepper All You Bra is the most flattering bra for size AA, A and B cups. FREE RETURNS.

  • Founded in: 2017
  • Funding: $2.4M
  • Revenue: $93.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 43

30. Carbon America

Carbon America delivers the entire CO₂ capture-transport-storage value chain from screening through development, construction, operation and project closure – with a commitment to finding the right solution for emitters, communities, and the environment.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $39.5M
  • Revenue: $73.2M/year
  • Number of employees: 38

31. Redeam

Redeam is NEUTRAL middleware technology for the Experiences industry, delivering by APIs, customizable connectivity solutions including a best-in-class Channel Manager. Our solutions enable the touchless and automated passing of product and booking data back and forth between Operators and Distributors. Our technology enables the sale of more tickets, a better check-in process for guests, elimination of operational strain caused by too many manual processes or fraud, and improves payment reconciliation timelines.

  • Founded in: 2015
  • Funding: $7.7M
  • Revenue: $81.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 56

32. Würk

Würk is the future of workforce management for cannabis software. Payroll, timekeeping, scheduling, 280E management, onboarding, HR consulting, and more.

  • Founded in: 2015
  • Funding: $23.6M
  • Revenue: $343M/year
  • Number of employees: 106

33. Outrider

Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $118M
  • Revenue: $292M/year
  • Number of employees: 156

34. Pax8

Pax8 is the leading value-added cloud distributor offering top cloud products and solutions to the IT channel.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $166M
  • Revenue: $2.25B/year
  • Number of employees: 936

35. GoodBuy Gear

The safest curated online marketplace to buy and sell baby & kid stuff. We keep quality second hand baby gear in circulation longer.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $8.8M
  • Revenue: $96M/year
  • Number of employees: 42

36. Choozle

Choozle is a digital advertising software available to all marketers and advertisers. We make digital advertising easy and simple. Learn more here!

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $22.8M
  • Revenue: $349M/year
  • Number of employees: 91

37. CirrusMD

On-demand, text-based virtual primary care solution designed for “deskless workers” in fields like retail, hospitality, education, construction, manufacturing, and heavy industry.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $47.6M
  • Revenue: $176M/year
  • Number of employees: 105

38. Crowheart Energy

Crowheart Energy is an upstream oil and gas company focused on the acquisition and development of operated assets in Wyoming's Wamsutter Field.

  • Founded in: 2017
  • Funding: $17B
  • Revenue: $167M/year
  • Number of employees: 63

39. GloveBox

A self-service platform for policyholders inside the independent insurance channel.

  • Founded in: 2020
  • Funding: $3.9M
  • Revenue: $34.8M/year
  • Number of employees: 26

40. Smartwyre

Smartwyre connects you with up-to-date product, price, and rebate program data from the crop protection and seed suppliers you know and trust. This means you can calculate earned and forecast rebates with greater accuracy, and remove uncertainty from your business outlook.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $13.5M
  • Revenue: $50.4M/year
  • Number of employees: 38

41. Remote Lock

The only connected smart lock system that gives you complete access and control of your doors in your business, home or rental property.

  • Founded in: 2004
  • Funding: $17.8M
  • Revenue: $112M/year
  • Number of employees: 71

42. Highwing

We provide insurance software for brokers and carriers so they can better connect and leverage data throughout every step of the customer lifecycle.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $7.3M
  • Revenue: $44.4M/year
  • Number of employees: 32

43. Choozle

Choozle is a digital advertising software available to all marketers and advertisers. We make digital advertising easy and simple. Learn more here!

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $22.8M
  • Revenue: $349M/year
  • Number of employees: 91

44. BioIntelliSense

BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company with medical-grade wearable devices and Data-as-a-Service.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $21.8M
  • Revenue: $984M/year
  • Number of employees: 87

45. Whimsical

Collaborative docs, flowcharts, wireframes, sticky notes, and mind maps.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $30M
  • Revenue: $34.8M/year
  • Number of employees: 29

46. iLending Direct

Car loan refinancing by iLending, the nations leader to refinance a car loan. Average savings $145/month* with iLending auto loan refinance.

  • Founded in: 2006
  • Funding: $47.4M
  • Revenue: $187M/year
  • Number of employees: 120

47. Convercent

Convercent is a global SaaS company recognized as a the premier provider of enterprise level GRC (governance, risk management and compliance) management software.

  • Founded in: 1994
  • Funding: $926M
  • Revenue: $539M/year
  • Number of employees: 288

48. Engrain

Map-based data visualization & touring technology that offers a better way to lease, sell & manage properties — Add to your real estate stack today!

  • Founded in: 2010
  • Funding: $4.7M
  • Revenue: $220M/year
  • Number of employees: 131

49. Qwinix Technologies (66degrees)

Qwinix Technologies Inc. provides cloud-based technology solutions. The Company offers cloud migration, optimization, consulting, and engineering.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $350K
  • Revenue: $398M/year
  • Number of employees: 208

50. Infinicept

Infinicept is a platform that provides all of the payments infrastructure and expert advisory services needed for payment facilitators to get up and running.

  • Founded in: 2014
  • Funding: $23M
  • Revenue: $84M/year
  • Number of employees: 62

51. Ablacon

EGF™ mapping with Ablamap® is a novel technique to create full temporospatial visualizations of organized action potential flow within the chaotic conduction of atrial fibrillation. Ablacon has built a premier machine intelligence system to quantitatively and qualitatively understand and treat atrial fibrillation.

  • Founded in: 2015
  • Funding: $63.5M
  • Revenue: $33.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 36

52. OneReach AI

The second generation of a conversational AI platform. The fastest way to create great conversational experiences in any channel, using any of the top AI engines.

  • Founded in: 2010
  • Revenue: $176M/year
  • Number of employees: 105

53. NinjaTrader Group

NinjaTrader's trading software & futures brokerage equips traders with an award-winning trading platform & low commissions for futures trading. Download software or open a futures account.

  • Founded in: 2003
  • Revenue: $331M/year
  • Number of employees: 193

54. Gevo

Gevo is the leading producer of energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons and renewable chemicals with net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions.

  • Founded in: 2005
  • Funding: $572M
  • Revenue: $229M/year
  • Number of employees: 91

55. Netstock

Netstock is the inventory optimization platform for the modern supply chain.

  • Founded in: 2009
  • Revenue: $457M/year
  • Number of employees: 125

56. Maxwell

Maxwell offers solutions for the entire mortgage process, from application to the secondary market. Our mission is to help America’s local lenders thrive.

  • Founded in: 2013
  • Funding: $79.4M
  • Revenue: $210M/year
  • Number of employees: 121

57. FourPoint Energy

FourPoint Energy is a private energy exploration and production company headquartered in Denver, Colorado and focusing on the Anadarko and Permian Basins.

  • Founded in: 2013
  • Funding: $727M
  • Revenue: $790M/year
  • Number of employees: 250

58. Bloom Healthcare

Bloom Healthcare provides primary and urgent care services through telehealth as well as home treatment.

  • Founded in: 2019
  • Funding: $99M
  • Revenue: $204M/year
  • Number of employees: 70

59. Snooze Eatery

Snooze A.M. Eatery turns the breakfast & brunch restaurant experience into a party, serving the best craveable food. It's breakfast but different!

  • Founded in: 2006
  • Funding: $5M
  • Revenue: $1.5B/year
  • Number of employees: 561

60. MWH

MWH is a leading global project delivery company with a focus on our world’s most precious resource: water.

  • Founded in: 1993
  • Funding: $100M
  • Revenue: $2.74B/year
  • Number of employees: 629

61. Opopop

We’re the creators of Flavor Wrapped™ Popcorn Kernels and we're on a mission to liberate you from boring popcorn. Welcome to the popcorn revolution.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $12M
  • Revenue: $93.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 36

62. Avanti Residential

Choose an apartment in an outstanding location in Denver, Colorado Springs, Kansas City, South Florida, Salt Lake City, or Phoenix. Contact an Avanti Residential community today.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Funding: $102M
  • Revenue: $184M/year
  • Number of employees: 102

63. Sentral

Looking to relocate? Try Sentral, we offer flexible living stays with optional unfurnished or designer furnished apartments, in the greatest cities in the US.

  • Founded in: 2021
  • Revenue: $553M/year
  • Number of employees: 165

64. Sola Salon Studios

Beautiful studios, exclusive perks. At Sola, you simply get more! Lease a salon studio to join our community and experience the freedom and benefits of salon ownership.Beautiful studios, exclusive perks. At Sola, you simply get more! Lease a salon studio to join our community and experience the freedom and benefits of salon ownership.

  • Founded in: 2003
  • Revenue: $1.82B/year
  • Number of employees: 475

65. SalesHive

We hire remote sales development reps to book qualified sales meetings for your sales team. Learn more about SalesHive's lead generation services!

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Revenue: $683M/year
  • Number of employees: 207

66. Velocity Global

Velocity Global changes the way companies do business overseas. We help mitigate risk, reduce costs, speed time-to-hire, and increase flexibility so you can focus on what matters - your business. Visit us today to learn more.

  • Founded in: 2014
  • Funding: $500M
  • Revenue: $744M/year
  • Number of employees: 745

67. BOA® Fit System

Creators of the revolutionary, award- winning BOA® Fit System, delivers closure and adjustment solutions purpose-built for performance. Learn More.

  • Founded in: 2001
  • Funding: $454M
  • Revenue: $1.37B/year
  • Number of employees: 403

68. Brandfolder

Manage, distribute, and analyze your digital assets in one place with Brandfolder, the world's most powerfully simple brand asset management software.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Funding: $11M
  • Revenue: $253M/year
  • Number of employees: 140

69. Accept.inc

Accept.inc, the first iLender, empowering cash offers on homes at no additional cost for buyers that qualify for a mortgage.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Funding: $92.1M
  • Revenue: $127M/year
  • Number of employees: 58

70. Gallus Detox Centers

Gallus Detox centers offer state of the art medical detox for drugs & alcohol addiction in our upscale facilities across the country.

  • Founded in: 2018
  • Revenue: $93.6M/year
  • Number of employees: 36

71. Omni Interactions

Omni has 25,000 talented customer experience specialists available on demand. Highly scalable customer support on an outsourced basis.

  • Founded in: 2016
  • Revenue: $568M/year
  • Number of employees: 250

72. iN2L

iN2L brings people together, connecting and enabling seniors to share conversations, experiences, learning, and fun with each other, caregivers, and family.

  • Founded in: 1999
  • Revenue: $178M/year
  • Number of employees: 106

73. ACI Learning

ACI Learning trains the leaders in Audit, Cybersecurity, and Information Technology. We work behind the scenes to help prepare the everyday heroes among us.

  • Founded in: 1978
  • Revenue: $654M/year
  • Number of employees: 300

74. Mariposa Health

The Mariposa Center in Denver, Colorado provides creative arts-based therapeutic and educational services to young children, families, and systems of care.

  • Founded in: 2012
  • Revenue: $275M/year
  • Number of employees: 85

75. StarRez

StarRez resident and property management platform is the perfect tool to help your community thrive.

  • Founded in: 1992
  • Revenue: $314M/year
  • Number of employees: 164

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