Across the Denver metro area, there are start-up businesses adding another page in the history of our region’s success.
The Chamber’s annual Business Awards luncheon presented by Colorado Business Bank recognizes organizations in our community that make our region a great place to live and do business.
Get to know our Start-Up Business of the Year finalists from their own voice, sponsored by Denver Metro Small Business Development Center.
Established: 2013
What we do: Brainspire is a custom software development firm. We help clients drive their business by building and enhancing the software they need to be successful, such as new websites and intranets, databases and reporting solutions to help clients make decisions, mobile applications and B2B software.
If my business had a super power it would be: Vision to see which companies in Denver are planning new software projects.
Favorite Colorado spot: Coors Field on a warm summer night.
Established: 2013
What we do: DispatchHealth, a local Denver company, is bringing back the house call with a modern technology twist by providing patients ways to access convenient, high-quality acute care in the comfort of their home or location of need. DispatchHealth is redefining the Denver health care landscape as an extension of a patient’s care team and offering services from the common flu to minor fractures to suturing to advanced blood laboratory testing and much more. Just call, click or tap the app and you’ll be on your way to feeling better, faster.
Favorite quote: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
We love doing business in Colorado because:
- Colorado is home to us and our families!
- As a health care technology and delivery company, Colorado is building and embracing a digital health ecosystem that can compete with any other community in the nation with the support of government and private entities. It provides entrepreneurs with an amazing culture to work on and solve big problems to benefit our communities at large.
The PB Love Company
Established: 2015
What we do: We make stone-ground, artisan nut butters.
Favorite quote: “Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it.” – Harlow H. Curtice
Did You Know:
- Mario Esparza, head nut, is an expert clarinet player.
- Andy Mason, co co nut, raps in a Denver rap group.
- Mario & Andy met working in the kitchen at Snooze.
Please join us on Friday, April 29, to see the winners announced live at the 2016 Business Awards.
Maggie McEntee is the digital communications and brand manager for the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.