Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Colorado based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Colorado Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Meati
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Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone.
MycoTechnology
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MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products.
Opopop
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Opopop is a food company that manufactures and processes popcorn products.
Punch Bowl Social
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Punch Bowl Social is a food and drink restaurant, bar, bowling, and entertainment concept.
DMC Biotechnologies
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DMC Biotechnologies produces bio-based chemicals using fermentation.
Ball Corporation
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Ball Corporation is a provider of metal packaging of aerospace and other technologies and services
Arryved
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Arryved is a Point of Service software solution that empowers food and beverage establishments to create memorable guest experiences.
1906
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1906, one of the most innovative brands in cannabis edibles, creates groundbreaking functional formulations of cannabis and plant medicines.
Purely Elizabeth
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A Boulder, CO-based natural foods company.
Noodles & Company
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Noodles & Company is a Customer Service company.
FoodMaven
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FoodMaven helps restaurants and food service easily compare products and find the best deals on their ingredients.
Green Chef
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Green Chef delivers sustainably-sourced ingredients and chef-crafted recipes.
I and love and you
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I and love and you create raw food for pets before real, whole, and healthy pet food.
Wilde Brands
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Wilde Brands is a manufacturer and producer of meat-based protein snack bars and chips.
Bobo’s Oat Bars
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Bobo’s represents an evolution of the bar category, marrying a fresh-baked, handmade product with convenient
NextFoods
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NextFoods is a company offering foods and juices that are good for digestion.
FloWater
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FloWater inspires the way the world drinks water, while eliminating single-use bottle waste from our environment.
Choice Market
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Choice Market is a small format grocer and restaurant based in Denver, Colorado.
ToMarket
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ToMarket is an online platform for chefs and purveyors that connects ordering, marketing, and invoicing all in one place.
Dixie Brands
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Dixie is the trusted source for innovative, safe, effective and delicious cannabis products.
Quinn Snacks
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Quinn Snacks is a developer of an online food ordering platform used to give people the choice to snack mindfully.
Cappello’s
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Cappello’s is a Colorado-based gourmet food company specializing in high-end, gluten-free, grain-free products.
SYNQ3 Restaurant Solutions
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SYNQ3 Restaurant Solutions is the pioneer in order processing and guest relationships for the restaurant industry.
Hope Foods
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Hope Foods specializes in producing organic food products intended to provide organic hummus and dips.
New Age Beverages
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A Denver-based beverage company New Age Beverages.
Honey Stinger
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Honey Stinger produces convenient and nutritious honey-focused foods.
Good Day Chocolate
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Good Day Chocolate is a vitamins and supplements brand that makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults.
RASA
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RASA is a deliciously strong coffee replacement that combines adaptogens, mushrooms & prebiotics to provide nutritious, long-lasting energy.
Coda Signature
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Coda Signature is an award winning infused products company based in Colorado.
Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha
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Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha is a craft brewery
Sustainable Beverage Technologies
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Sustainable Beverage Technologies focuses on unlocking unprecedented efficiencies in brewing, distribution, and draft beer.
Good Karma Foods
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Good Karma Foods is a food products supplier.
Armis Biopharma
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Armis Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company with a growing pipeline of non-systemic.
Cusa Tea
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Cusa Tea is a food and beverage company made from organic tea with zero sugar preservatives or additives.
Love Grown Foods
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Love Grown Foods is a natural food company that manufactures a line of all natural breakfast foods.
Pinemelon.com
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Vertically integrated farmers’ market in the app + local-first online supermarket
Birch Benders
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Birch Benders is a food and beverage company that offers natural and organic, just-add-water pancake, and waffle mixes.
Makeena
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Makeena incentivizes consumers to buy better products, while providing brands activation tools and real-time shopper marketing insights.
Bhakti
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Bhakti Chai blends fresh and sustainably sourced with triple bottom line and B Corp business practices.
Reharvest Provisions
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Reharvest Provisions is a maker of single-serve smoothies with different flavours.
Laws Whiskey
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Laws Whiskey specializes in whiskey manufacturing by milling grains to create a complex sour mash.
Blue Moose of Boulder
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Blue Moose of Boulder is a food company that develops and manufactures innovative and fast-growing hummus, dips, and spreads products.
Crunchsters
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Crunchsters satisfy your salty snack cravings with savory sprouted plant protein and fiber goodness.
Nature to Culture
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Nature to Culture creates original food products from sustainable agricultural sources that are full of nutrition and taste.
Alpine Start Foods
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Alpine Start Foods is a premium brand of instant coffee for everyday adventures.
Seth Ellis Chocolatier
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Seth Ellis Chocolatier is a manufacturer of chocolates and other bakery products.
Simply Delicious
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Simply Delicious specialises is decadent cakes, delectable desserts, Bakery items.
Alfalfa’s Market
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Alfalfa’s Market is a food and beverages company specializing in coffee, juice, and organic salad bar.
Love The Wild
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Love The Wild creates exciting dinner solutions that are not only delicious, nutritious, and ecologically responsible.
Cosecha del Sur Coffee Co.
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Cosecha del Sur Coffee Co. specializes in coffee import and roaster that connects people and cultures.
Farmhand Organics
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Farmhand Organics is a producer of crafted pickled, fermented, and preserved food products to offer healthy food to the people.
Dynamic Food Ingredients
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DFI is a biotechnology company that operates in electrochemistry research and development, intended to produce Erythritol and Xylitol.
Dano’s Tequila
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Dano’s Tequila infuses agave tequila with pineapple and jalapeno to create a smooth and easy-to-drink tequila.
915 Labs
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Microwave assisted thermal sterilization, or MATS, natural food processing and packaging systems.
Harvest Today
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Harvest Today provides growing equipment to urban and rural farmers, commercial growers, and the hospitality and institutional industry.
SYNEK Beer
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Synek beer aims to spread a little happiness by making high-quality beer and wine more accessible to beer and wine fans at home.
atōst
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atōst is a winery that crafts a flavor-forward line of American Aperitivos.
Don’t Go Nuts
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Don’t Go Nuts makes safe nut-free foods using organic to make life healthy.
DiningTek
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DiningTek helps you to grow your restaurant sales online by Take-Out Ordering, Mobile App, and Precision Marketing at the affordable price.
Dry Land Distillers
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Dry Land Distillers is a craft distillery that produces spirits.
Pressery
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Pressery specializes in offering cold-pressed juice, drinking vinegar, and bone broths.
Nepra Foods
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Nepra Foods is a food and ingredient company producing allergen-free flours intended to give food manufacturers access to nutritious food.
reBLEND
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reBLEND is an on-the-go smoothie company taking an innovative approach to combating food waste.
Wana Brands
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Wana Brands is an infused products company that offers delicious and consistent cannabis infused products.
The Honest Stand
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The Honest Stand is provides plant-based convenient comfort foods.
Manna Tree
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Manna Tree invests in the future of human health, powered by food.
B Entertainment
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B Entertainment provides hospitality and entertainment services to serve clients globally.
Stem Ciders
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Stem Ciders is a craft cidery that produces ciders made with fresh-pressed full juice from whole, ripe fruits.
Mile High Organics
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Mile High Organics is an online retailer delivering organic, non-genetically modified products.
SCB Global Java Holdings
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SCB Global Java Holdings is a company formed for acquiring and making non-control investments.
Molson Coors
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Molson Coors is a beer company and distributor that brews the world’s favorite beer brands.
The Bear & The Rat
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The Bear & The Rat makes frozen yogurt dog treats that supports digestion, immunity, and doggie breath.
Ridgeline Ventures
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Ridgeline Ventures is a venture investment firm in natural foods and active lifestyle companies.
Teakoe
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Teakoe is a tea manufacturer of sustainably-sourced whole leaf, fresh-brewed and ready-to-drink teas.
Suerte Tequila
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Suerte Tequila offers Blue Agave all-natural, artisan-crafted tequila.
ebbu
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Ebbu is generating clinically-proven cannabinoid formulations for medicine.
Locke + Co. Distillery
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Locke + Co. Distillery provides wine and spirits.
JJ’s Sweets
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JJ’s Sweets is a candy company dedicated to offering blissful, innovative, and mindfully crafted treats.
Panhandler’s Pizza
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Panhandler’s Pizza serves unique pan-style pizza, by-the-pie or by-the-slice.
Telluride Brewing
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Telluride Brewing is a craft brewery that produces artisan brews.
JBS USA
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JBS USA LLC is a large multinational company which processes beef, pork and lamb.
Jot
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Jot Ultra Coffee brings you the purest, most concentrated coffee available, delivered right to your house.
Colorado Hemp Works
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Colorado Hemp Works offers natural food companies hand-crafted industrial hemp seed processing.
Halo + Cleaver
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Halo + Cleaver produces high-quality low-sugar sauces and condiments.
Ozuké
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Ozuké is a provider of fermented food products used to offer raw, cultured vegetables and beverages.
Einstein Noah Restaurant Group
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As the nation’s largest operator of bagel bakeries and the leader in the quick casual segment of the restaurant industry
Snooze
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Snooze offers different twists on breakfast classics and innovative new dishes using responsibly sourced ingredients.
CP BURGER
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CP BURGER offers different types of foods & beverage along with ice-skating and mini-golf.
Spring Cafe` Aspen
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Spring Cafe` Aspen is a cafe that aims to serve 100% organic and nourishing vegetarian food and juice.
Wibby Brewing
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Wibby Brewing crafts German-style lagers with an American craft beer twist.
Justin’s
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Justin’s produces the most delicious nut butters, nut butter snacks and organic peanut butter cups.
SROriginals
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SROriginals is a food production company specializing in cakes, pastries, brownies, and dessert bars.
Taste Guru
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Taste Guru provides individuals with a box of various gluten-free food products every month for a subscription fee.
Hoplark
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Hoplark is an e-commerce platform that offers brew tea like craft beer.
