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Denver & Boulder Startups We Cover 2026: Feedplan Plus Honest Colorado Gaps
As of July 2026 we profile one Colorado HQ company—Feedplan (Denver, a16z TxO). Climate and fintech Front Range names are mostly coverage gaps. Here is what we cover and how founders still get a shortlist job done.
Short answer (as of July 2026): Among startups we cover, one company maps to Denver/Boulder/Colorado by HQ field: Feedplan (Denver) — prepaid restaurant meal plans, pre-seed, private, investors include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z TxO Fall 2024). We searched the startup directory for Colorado/Denver/Boulder; climate-tech and fintech companies we track are not Colorado-HQ in our data. This hub still earns the click: it tells founders and scouts exactly what we cover, what we are missing, and how to shortlist capital from /directory.
Sister page: Denver & Boulder VC firms 2026.
Primary JTBD
| Audience | Job this page finishes |
|---|---|
| Founder (Colorado) | “Which Front Range companies do you actually profile — and which national funds show up on them?” |
| Investor / scout | “Is there a Colorado cluster in this directory, or should I treat coverage as thin?” |
| Operator / researcher | “Give me facts: HQ, stage, investors — and do not pad with fake local unicorns.” |
Primary audience: Colorado founders deciding whether our directory helps a raise this month. Secondary: scouts who need an honest coverage map.
Startups we cover (Colorado HQ)
| Startup | One-liner | Stage / status | Profile | Notable investors (directory) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedplan | Restaurant meal-plan marketplace: diners prepay for discounted multi-meal bundles; restaurants get repeat revenue without 30% delivery take rates | Pre-seed / private (founded 2022) | /startup/feedplan | Andreessen Horowitz |
Why Feedplan is interesting (from our profile, not adjectives): It attacks restaurant unit economics with prepaid subscriptions instead of marketplace delivery fees; a16z TxO Fall 2024 is the institutional signal we track. Public sources we reviewed through 2026-07-24 did not disclose additional institutional co-investors on the profile.
No other hq values in src/data/startups/individual/ contain Denver, Boulder, or Colorado as of 2026-07-25.
Climate and fintech: what we checked
Colorado’s public narrative is heavy on climate/energy (NREL adjacency, grid, outdoor sustainability) and a thinner but real fintech conversation. Inside our startup corpus:
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Full-text Denver / Boulder / Colorado across startup JSON | Feedplan only |
| Climate-tech industry tags with Colorado HQ | None |
| Fintech industry tags with Colorado HQ | None |
| National climate/fintech companies we do cover | Many — but HQ is elsewhere or missing; we do not re-home them to Boulder for SEO |
So if you landed here for “Colorado climate startups we cover” or “Denver fintech startups directory,” the honest answer is: not yet as geo-tagged profiles. Use national /startup/ pages for category comps, and treat Front Range names as gaps below.
Coverage gaps (required honesty)
Each gap needs a reason — not a fake /startup/ URL.
| Name (not in directory as CO HQ) | Why it matters | Priority |
|---|---|---|
| NREL-adjacent climate / grid / storage companies | Core Front Range thesis; founders search “Colorado climate startups” constantly | High |
| Boulder enterprise SaaS / developer tools | Long-running Boulder corridor; talent density for B2B | High |
| Colorado fintech / payments / wealth tools | Regional founder demand; currently zero CO HQ fintech profiles | High |
| Outdoor / consumer brands with venture rounds | Denver consumer identity; adjacent to marketplace plays like Feedplan | Medium |
| Aerospace / dual-use Front Range spinouts | Colorado defense & space employment base | Medium |
| Historic category leaders founded or scaled in CO (e.g. names scouts already know) | Needed for “is this cluster real?” — only if we can ship facts + whyInteresting | Medium |
Thin-page rule: we will not publish stub /startup/ routes that are only a scraped blurb. Gaps stay on this list until whyInteresting, stage/status, and investor links are real.
How Colorado founders still get value today
Even with one local profile, the product job is shortlisting capital and comps:
- Read Feedplan if you are marketplace/consumer — see how we encode stage, investors, and FAQs.
- Open Andreessen Horowitz as the only evidenced national fund on a Colorado HQ company we cover.
- Do not assume Founders Fund or Lux Capital appear on Colorado deals in our graph — they do not, as of this page. Use those fund pages only for national thesis shortlists (deep-tech, defense, frontier science).
- Sector shortlist from /directory: climate → Khosla Ventures; proptech/built-world → Fifth Wall; generalist multi-stage → General Catalyst / Sequoia. Detail and caveats live on the VC firms sister article.
- Browse /startups for category comps (national climate-tech and fintech) when you need product analogs, not geo false positives.
- Local process stays local: Denver Startup Week, CU Boulder, and Rockies investor networks are still where many warm intros happen — outside this directory until we add verified entities.
Investor / scout take
| Question | Answer from our data |
|---|---|
| Is there a dense Denver/Boulder cluster in VCT? | No — one full-coverage Colorado HQ company |
| Any climate/fintech Colorado density? | Not in HQ fields — do not pitch LPs a fake Front Range book from this site |
| Best next click for capital mapping | Denver & Boulder VC firms 2026 + /directory |
| Best next click for the one company | Feedplan |
Related reading on this site
| Piece | Why open it |
|---|---|
| Denver & Boulder VC firms 2026 | National fund shortlist + local fund gaps |
| a16z hot portfolio companies 2026 | Broader a16z context (Feedplan is TxO-scale, not a mega-round) |
| NYC Series A VC firms 2026 | Contrast with a geo where our fund coverage is deep |
| /directory | Live fund shortlist by stage/sector |
What we are not claiming
- We are not ranking “top 10 Denver startups.”
- We are not assigning Boulder HQ to companies without
hqevidence. - We are not listing Founders Fund or Lux as Feedplan (or other CO) investors.
- We are not inventing AUM, ARR, or round sizes for Feedplan beyond what the profile states.
Sources
- Startup JSON HQ scan across
src/data/startups/individual/(2026-07-25): only Feedplan matches Denver/Boulder/Colorado. - Feedplan profile fields: HQ, stage, investors, highlights, FAQs (
lastUpdated2026-07-24). - Fund links used only when present in directory whitelist / Feedplan
investors[]: Andreessen Horowitz. - Sister editorial: Denver & Boulder VC firms 2026.
- Ecosystem context for gap priorities (external): NREL / Colorado energy transition coverage, Built In Colorado, Denver Startup Week — used to name gaps, not to fabricate
/startup/pages.