February 15, 2013

Boulder Valley, Northern Colorado raise profiles in technology sector

Our regions seem to have it all: stunning natural beauty, fantastic quality of life, dynamic economies. It’s the latter description that would have been difficult to utter just a few years ago, when residential foreclosures and job losses were the norm at many major employers.

But “dynamic” is indeed an apt descriptor for the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado economies, and one sector that has remained strong even through the past downturn is technology.

Tech companies continue to grow, and innovation erupts not only from young startups but also from established Fortune 100 companies, the universities and federal laboratories. Colorado State University in Fort Collins and the University of Colorado in Boulder helped spawn our tech economy, and their importance grows by the day.

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We also benefit from accelerators such as the Boulder-based TechStars, and organizations that help take discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace, such as the Rocky Mountain Innosphere and the Innovation Center of the Rockies.

Rocky Mountain Tech, published by BizWest Media LLC — and our biweekly business journals, the Boulder County Business Report and the Northern Colorado Business Report — serves as an excellent resource for anyone interested in the rapidly changing tech sector of Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties.

This publication lists thousands of tech and manufacturing companies in those counties, along with articles focusing on the key sub-industries that make technology a major driver our the Front Range economy.

We would like to offer special thanks to our research director, Mariah Gant, for her hard work surveying companies for this publication. Thank you also to the many advertisers who want to reach the technology scene, and to the entire staff of BizWest Media for their efforts.

If you know of a tech company that we omitted — or would like to update your listing, please email mgant@bcbr.com.

Our regions seem to have it all: stunning natural beauty, fantastic quality of life, dynamic economies. It’s the latter description that would have been difficult to utter just a few years ago, when residential foreclosures and job losses were the norm at many major employers.

But “dynamic” is indeed an apt descriptor for the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado economies, and one sector that has remained strong even through the past downturn is technology.

Tech companies continue to grow, and innovation erupts not only from young startups but also from established Fortune 100 companies, the universities and federal laboratories. Colorado State University…

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