Boulder Businesses Dominate 'Colorado Companies To Watch' List

BOULDER, CO -- Each year, 50 companies across the Centennial State are chosen for the "Colorado Companies to Watch" list, a distinction offered to a select group of second-stage entrepreneurs who have made it past the start-up stage and are now focused on growth and expansion. In 2018, nine of those businesses were based in Boulder.

"Boulder has less than 2 percent of the state's population but we have 9 of the 50 companies," said city councilman Bob Yates at a meeting last month in a ceremony celebrating the local accomplishment. Council extended the honor by naming all of October "Businesses to Watch Month."

The companies selected for the list enjoy a full year of marketing support, events and networking, and valuable business opportunities through the prize, now in its tenth year.

Boulder winners for 2018 included Campminder, which offers web-based services that streamline summer camp operations; Creative Alignments, offers a time-based recruiting service that reduces costs and increases transparency for clients and candidates; Crunchsters, a salty, satisfying snack made of mung beans and full of plant protein and prebiotic fiber; zingfit, which brings digital organization and loyalty programs to boutique fitness brands; Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha, which brews a caffeine-free, low sugar, science-based kombucha with functional benefits; Comptek Technologies, developers of CityPole, a smart pole that that can quickly support changes in radio technologies; Techtonic, which hosts a software development mentorship program that focuses on women, veterans and minorities; Bitsbox, a monthly subscription box for kids that teaches coding; and Clear Comfort, which creates systems that can deliver water for pools and spas that lower the toxicity of chlorine.

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