Colorado's tech ecosystem is more robust than you think — introducing the Colorado Tech Directory.
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Newsletter — Issue 21 — June 24, 2026
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This newsletter has been published by Engage Colorado.
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The Colorado Tech Directory
Colorado's Tech Ecosystem Is More Robust Than You Think
This Engage
Colorado Newsletter reflects the personal opinions of Dan Caruso, written with the support of the Caruso Ventures team. The Ensuring Colorado's Innovation Future
Coalition did not review and has not endorsed this Engage Colorado Newsletter.
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When a kick-ass entrepreneur moves from the Bay Area to Colorado, they often lament that there isn't much of a tech ecosystem here.
I get it. We're not Silicon Valley. You can sit in a Pearl Street coffee shop in Boulder and not overhear anyone talking about their pre-money valuation. Most
chatter in a Denver microbrewery is on your PB in a triathlon, or how many 14ers you climbed last year.
But the Colorado ecosystem is far more robust than is quick to appreciate. In many important verticals, we are well ahead of our friends on the coasts.
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Introducing the Colorado Tech Directory
That's what inspired Caruso Ventures to extend the directory — adding the Colorado Tech Directory as a new tab alongside the existing Colorado Investor Directory.
Both are published at Engage Colorado and also available at Caruso Ventures.
The Tech Directory catalogs Colorado technology companies building, scaling, and shipping product across the state — from early-stage startups to public industry
leaders.
What you can do with it:
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• Filter by stage, industry,
and region
• Sort by founding year, last funding
date, employee count, or stage
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This is the answer I want to be able to hand to every Bay Area founder, every East Coast investor, and every Coloradan who hasn't yet seen what's been built. The
companies are here. The capital is increasingly here. The directory makes both visible.
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Part of a Bigger Mission
This work sits inside the broader mission of the Innovation Vision for Colorado:
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Colorado becomes the most attractive innovation ecosystem in the world — and every Coloradan shares in the economic and cultural prosperity that leadership
creates.
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Colorado has built tremendous momentum across the past several decades — but our political leaders are creating headwinds with policies and rhetoric that are
slowing that momentum. We need them to fix this — to partner with the broader business and tech community rather than treat us as adversaries. That is the case made in the
Ensuring Colorado's
Innovation Future open letter — addressed to Governor Polis, Senator Bennet, Senator Hickenlooper, and other Colorado political leaders, and signed by 437 Colorado
business and civic leaders.
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