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TOP WORKPLACES 2021
For a decade, The Denver Post has honored Colorado’s best places to work. As the state, the economy and employers start returning to their new normal, we celebrate first-time winners and those that are old hat at bringing home the annual workplace honor.
10 New winners
Many first-timers made the cut this year, and those employers are striving to make a difference in their communities. Page 3
Employees at Madison & Co. Properties, a perennial Top Workplace, celebrate their achievements in 2018. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
YEARS OF EXCELLENCE Working remotely
The pandemic forced many employees to start working from home. This has created a sea change in how offices function. Page 6
Who’s the best?
Read about the 150 winners that made The Denver Post’s list, which is broken down into three categories: Large, Midsize and Small. Pages 9-31
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Good leaders value employee feedback By Doug Claffey Energage
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e’ve learned through the pandemic that listening to employees is even more important in a time of great stress than in normal times. If you think you have a great workplace, or aspire to be a great workplace, then assessing how you are doing during a challenge is going to be more insightful than when things are going fine. So when is the best time to solicit employee feedback? Company leaders should ask themselves — and their leadership team — two questions: 1. Do you care what your employees think? 2. Does it matter what your employees think? The first is a heart question, and the second is a head question. How leaders answer these two critical questions will determine if and when to ask em-
ployees for feedback. Don’t do it if the leadership team isn’t ready to take on that feedback. Negative feedback is part of the human condition. Some entrenched negative folks are going to provide that feedback. They’re going to see any challenge as an opportunity to turn up the volume. Leaders need to parse through the employee feedback, particularly around unstructured comment feedback. Pick from that what is constructive negative feedback. Also, choose inspiring positive or constructive positive feedback. Then use it to make informed people decisions that factor into strategy. The negative feedback is always going to be there. Choose whether you ignore it or look at it in the proper context. How do you communicate around the feedback you receive? First, it is important to share the context. Share the areas
where your organization scores highest and also share where you have the greatest opportunities and challenges. Second, it’s really good practice to pick a representative positive comment (or two) that channel the positive energy in the organization and then share it verbatim. Offer one action you’re going to take as a result of that feedback. Choose an action that has companywide benefits. Here are some examples of mission-critical insights you can gain from employee feedback: • Uncovering technology challenges is an example of a relevant insight you can gain through employee feedback. Often, employees on the front line know where there are struggles, but the information doesn’t get up through normal channels. An employee survey uncovers things like this right away. • In a time of great challenge, pressures on new managers are
significant. Often, they don’t want to share that they’re struggling, but the people on the team are aware of it. An employee survey will bring it to light. • Veteran managers who work well in less-stressful times can crumble under the weight of pressure. Use a survey so management can take action before it turns into a truly difficult problem. Employee feedback gives you that early warning. Leaders should realize they will always get negative feedback. And in a time of great challenge, they will probably get more of it. But they also are likely to receive some really inspiring positive feedback. People will step up to great challenges as a team. Doug Claffey is founder and chief strategy officer at Energage, a Philadelphiabased employee survey firm. Energage is The Denver Post’s partner for Top Workplaces.
Employee survey determines The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces By Bob Helbig Energage
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s employers take extraordinary steps to meet the needs of workers and customers during the pandemic, the Colorado Top Workplaces awards are recognizing those efforts. Survey feedback from employees is the sole basis for determining the Top Workplaces. And that feedback serves as the ultimate test of how employers are responding in the age of COVID. “In times of great change, it is more important than ever to maintain a connection among employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “If COVID taught us anything, it’s that asking questions and listening to employees is critical to navigating this new world of work. More than ever, you need
to be more intentional about your culture.” This marks the 10th year The Denver Post has partnered with Philadelphia-based Energage to rank the Top Workplaces in Colorado. The foundation of the program is a scientific survey of employees who rate their workplace culture. The feedback also gives companies insights about what makes them unique. Surveying began in October, when The Post started running news articles and promotions to welcome nominations for Top Workplaces consideration. In all, 2,448 employers in the region were invited to have their employees take the survey. Any organization was eligible to participate, provided it had at least 50 employees in the state. Employers could be public, private, nonprofit or governmental. There is no cost to enter the Top Workplaces program.
Combined, the companies surveyed for the 2021 program employed 81,802 people in Colorado. Of employees who received questionnaires, 48,214 responded, either on paper or online. For 2021, 150 employers earned recognition as Top Workplaces. The employee engagement survey of 24 questions gathers responses regarding issues relating to workplace culture: • Alignment — where the company is headed, its values, cooperation, effective meetings • Coaching — managers care about concerns, are helpful, encourage employee development • Connection — employees feel appreciated, work is meaningful, working at full potential, feel informed • Engagement — productivity, retention, recruiting • Leadership — confidence in company leaders • Performance — execution,
open-mindedness, innovation, clued-in leadership • The Basics — pay, benefits, work/life flexibility, training, expectations Employers that score high enough are recognized as Top Workplaces. Employers are ranked within size groups to accurately compare results. Energage also determines special award winners based on standout scores on specific survey topics. Wonder why a particular company was not on the list? Perhaps it chose not to participate, or it did not score well enough in the survey. Energage sometimes disqualifies employers based on questionable results detected through statistical tests it runs to ensure organizations are accurately administering the survey. To nominate an organization for the 2022 program, go to denverpost.com/nominate.
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New employers on list strive to make a difference By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
The Denver Post’s annual Top Workplaces survey of 208 companies shows Colorado employees are happier with their benefits and find their work more satisfying than employees nationally. Bob Helbig, Energage media partnerships director, says the businesses on this year’s list welcomed the chance to show how they’ve worked to meet their employees’ and customers’ needs during the pandemic. The 2021 Top Workplaces list includes 34 businesses that ranked for the first time, including Aurora Organic Dairy, Connect for Health Colorado, AMP Robotics, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Hotel Engine. “While people do care about pay and benefits, they also want to believe in the direction of the organization and do a job that lets them do something meaningful,” Helbig says. EMPLOYERS » 4A
Aurora Organic Dairy team members. Provided by Aurora Organic
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Em Kintner, head of talent and culture at AMP Robotics, says employees come to AMP Robotics because they want to make a difference. The company applies artificial intelligence and robotics to increase recycling rates and recover recyclables reclaimed as raw materials for the global supply chain. “People want to be part of building something,” Kintner says. “They believe in where this company is going and want to be part of realizing that future.” John Robinson, senior vice president for communications and membership for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, says the association’s employees appreciate helping farmers and ranchers. “We know they work hard to care for their cattle and their natural resources, and that knowledge powers everything we do on their behalf,” he says. “Meaningful work is crucial for employees everywhere. We’re very fortunate that we get to make a difference for the hardworking men and women we represent.” Connect for Health Colorado employees work hard to provide affordable health insurance to Colorado residents, says Nyle Boyd, chief human resources and training officer. Aurora Organic Dairy employees focus on providing organic milk and dairy products to grocery stores across the United States, says Robin Kane, senior vice president of people. “Cow care and cow comfort are at the foundation of how we train our employees, and our products are certified for the highest standards of animal welfare. All employees learn how their role fits into our sustainability through classroom training and regular audits.”
Why participate in the Top Workplaces program
Some companies participate in the program to learn more from their employees. Others do it to show their employees their value. And others find participation helps boost their recruiting efforts. Dana McDonald, Hotel Engine human resources director, says the company decided to participate this year to show employees the company values their input. “We want to know where we’re
AMP Robotics team members on the job. Provided by AMP Robotics
Hotel Engine employees. Provided by Hotel Engine strong, where we need to improve, and where we can continue to invest so that Hotel Engine remains a top workplace in 2022 and beyond. And we’re not afraid to ask,” she says. The company, which provides business travelers services, added more than 100 employees in the past year. It’s also planning to move to a new office in downtown Denver later this year. Kane says Aurora Organic Dairy was interested in what employees think about their jobs, what they most appreciate about working for the company, and what they would like to improve. “Since this was our first time participating in the Top Workplaces program, we wanted to get a baseline measurement and learn how we compare to other companies and where we might invest to improve in the future.” After employees asked for more
opportunities for learning and career growth, the company is working to implement additional training, Kane says. Boyd says Connect for Health participated to show their employees how proud the company is of their hard work. “We are proud of our employees and the work they do on behalf of the residents of Colorado,” Boyd says. “Additionally, our culture does not belong to one person, it belongs to everyone, and as a team, we have assured that we focus on our culture and the importance of it with an equal focus on business outcomes and quality. As a result, being a Top Workplaces winner solidifies all of the hard work we have done within these focus areas.”
Recruiting the best employees
Colorado companies want to
recruit the best of the best, and being designated a Top Workplace helps them do so. Many employees pursue jobs with Connect for Health because of the company’s mission, Boyd says. Being named a Top Workplace helps Connect for Health promote that. Aurora Organic Dairy uses employee referrals and outreach in its communities to recruit employees. “Over the past year, turnover has decreased, which is partially due to the current labor market, but is also the result of our focus on employee retention through career ladders, job training and employee benefits, among other strategies,” Kane says. AMP Robotics recruits nationally for its open positions and routinely lures employees to Colorado from California, Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. “It’s not hard. Colorado is a tremendously enticing place to live,” says Carling Spelhaug, marketing and communications manager. Kintner adds the company is committed to making sure employees are successful. “We want this to be a career and not just a job,” she says. Hotel Engine continually works to develop new tools to attract top talent, McDonald says. “We also understand that recruiting is just the first step in an associate’s experience. That is why we are ramping up our efforts into our onboarding experience and career growth opportunities. We want to create Hotel Engine Champions, not just associates.”
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Realtors expect Colorado’s housing crunch to continue By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
Colorado’s red-hot real estate market may cool as it runs into the frigid winds of limited housing availability and skyrocketing prices. Only 1,921 homes and condos were for sale at the end of March in a metro area with more than 3.2 million people, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. The average closing price hit a record high of $674,990 in March, a 19.3% gain from March of last year. “Despite the brief slow down during initial lockdown orders, the real estate market shows no signs of slowing,” says John Skrabec, president of Live Urban Real Estate. “The only thing standing in the
way is a lack of inventory, which is causing frustration with both buyers and their agents. The pandemic has only exacerbated the shortage of homes to purchase.”
What’s causing the shortage?
Denver’s housing crunch isn’t new, but the pandemic boosted demand as more buyers wanted to move from apartments into houses or upgrade from their existing homes to bigger ones. “Home has become more important than ever before,” says Ryan Carter, president of 8z Real Estate. “It’s not only a place of comfort and stability but also frequently a classroom, gym and office.” Also, high lumber prices have driven up costs for builders and CRUNCH » 7A
A construction worker works on the roof of a spec home in February in the new Tail Wind Village subdivision in Poncha Springs. Affordable housing has become a problem in Chaffee County where the cost of homes is skyrocketing, but wages and seasonal work make it hard for people to afford to buy homes. Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
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Top Workplaces evolve to meet pandemic challenges By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
Colorado employers scrambled last year when the global pandemic hit to keep their employees safe. Some quickly shifted to having employees work at home. Others instituted new protocols at work, issued protective gear and configured work areas to maintain more distance between employees. Many expected those changes to be shortterm, but a year later, most remain in place. The most significant shift was moving workers home. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, just 20% of all employed people whose jobs could be done remotely worked at home all or most of the time. That number skyrocketed to 71% during the pandemic. Now that people are getting vaccinated and restrictions are relaxing, 54% of people with jobs that can be done remotely say they want to keep working at home once the pandemic ends. A study by the personal finance website WalletHub revealed Colorado has the highest share of the labor force working from home in the country.
Employees want flexibility
The change to working from home when possible will likely continue, says Christina N. Lacerenza, an assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. “First and foremost, employers are going to need to provide flexible work arrangements,” she says. “Employers also are going to need to be flexible about when employees need to get work done and not require them to be logged in for a specific eight-hour period.” The change can be a win-win for both employers and their workers. “Being flexible honestly makes for better outcomes and more innovative work,” Lacerenza says. To help employees work at home, employers provided laptops, extra monitors, and in some cases, came to homes to build workstations. Reid Wicoff, chief executive officer at Digible, says the company aggressively moved to an all-remote setup at the start of the pandemic. “We didn’t want anyone feeling the pressure to come into work or somehow contribute to spreading the virus.” To help employees feel connected, the company offered fun classes on topics like yoga and candle making. It also bought fitness trackers for employees to encourage them to remain active and offered online counseling and therapy sessions to boost mental health. Pinnacol Assurance quickly pivoted to having its employees work from home and
Courtney Ogren, director of operations at Creative Alignments, works at her computer in her home office in Broomfield as her dog Bernie sits in his bed on March 17. Matthew Jonas, Boulder Daily Camera
Barbara Brannen, vice president of employee services, estimates 99.5% of Pinnacol’s employees took advantage of that offer. The company has added chat rooms, resource groups, and mental health support to help employees feel connected. Liz Johnson, Pinnacol public relations director, says the company also offered new benefits like virtual tutoring services to help parents and their children meet the challenge of online school.
Improving the workplace
Some businesses didn’t have the option of sending workers home. Robin Kane, senior vice president of people for Aurora Organic Dairy, said the dairy’s frontline workers showed resilience as they adapted to new requirements like wearing face makes, getting daily temperature checks, and maintaining social distancing rules. And they made those changes while meeting an increased demand for organic dairy products with more families eating and cooking at home. To encourage employees to get vaccinated, Aurora Organic Dairy offered incentive payments and worked with Weld County to provide an on-site vaccine clinic at its Platteville plant. That led to 100 Colorado employees getting vaccines in the first weeks of eligibility. “We learned a lot about being innovative and working as a team to support each other and
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association team members participate in a video call. Provided by NCBA
our customers, lessons that will continue into the coming months and years,” Kane says. Most Custom Made Meals employees had to continue reporting to work to make the company’s oven-ready meals. To protect them, the company hired an on-site certified nursing assistant to check temperatures and ensure employees were healthy, says Katie Prekel, vice president for human resources. Custom Made Meals provided N95 masks for employees to wear at work, use at home, and share with family members. The company also expanded its break room, staggered break times, and used tents and tables with umbrellas outdoors to provide more break space for employees. PANDEMIC » 7A
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• Flex — When it’s safe to return to the office, most employees will spend one to three days per week in the office for team collaboration, customer meetings and presentations. • Fully remote — Employees who don’t live near an office or have roles that don’t require an office will work remotely full-time. • Office-based — Employees with roles that require them to be in the office will work there four or five days per week.
The company also encouraged employees to stay home if they felt sick. “We didn’t want them to worry about sacrificing their income, so we made sure they knew we’d pay them to stay home if they needed to do so,” says Sean Saunders, chief financial officer, and chief administrative officer.
Creating the workplace of the future
Lacerenza says looking forward; employers will need to continue being flexible. “We will realize that some work needs to be done at the office, but other work can be done from home.” While some employees don’t have the space to work effectively at home, others find being out of the office removes distractions and makes it easier to stay focused on their assignments. “It’s going to be about working with individual employees to figure out what is the best work environment for them, determining how they thrive at work,” she says. Gary Nafus, senior vice president, enterprise sales for Salesforce, a global leader in customer
Back to work Kenna Dickard, care coordinator at Mental Health Partners, works remotely at her home in Boulder on March 4. Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post
relationship management software, says companies will need to be agile and creative to be successful. “An immersive workspace is no longer limited to a desk in our Towers — the 9-to-5 workday is dead,” he says. “And the employee experience is about more than ping-pong tables and snacks. As employers, we have an opportunity to create an even better workplace — one that allows us to be more connected to each other, find more balance be-
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Helping customers
Despite the challenges, real estate agents are committed to helping their customers. During the past year, 8z Real Estate created programs to help both employees and customers. “We recognized that many who are part of the greater 8z community were struggling and directly affected by the pandemic — losing jobs, income, or navigating illness,” Carter says. “As a result, we launched the $100,000 8z4Life support fund, which provides housing-related grant relief, including mortgage forbearance, deferment and forgiveness support. We have since paid out 37 grants and almost $75,000 in mortgage assistance.” Real estate companies also quickly changed how they showed homes to protect both buyers and sellers during the pandemic. Some of those changes included virtual staging, interactive 3-D tours, limiting in-person home showings, and requiring agents and
tween work and home, and advance equality — ultimately leading to increased innovation and better business outcomes.” Salesforce is using employee feedback to guide its reopening strategy. “We learned that nearly half of our employees want to come in only a few times per month, but also that 80% of employees want to maintain a connection to a physical space.” The company plans to provide that flexibility by using three options:
potential buyers to wear masks and gloves during home tours. Buyers also have the option for remote closings. “The last year has seen tremendous change within the real estate industry, creating a modern market as we have never seen before,” Carter says. The agency offers its 8z Cash Buyer program to help potential buyers with an all-cash offer, which can be more attractive to sellers. The agency also offers its 8z Bridge program, which allows buyers to move into their new home before listing and selling their current one.
Managing demand
With high demand from buyers, many homes sell sight unseen for thousands over their list price. For houses that stay on the market, even briefly, scheduling a viewing appointment can be challenging. To make sure more buyers have the chance to see homes for sale, West + Main has changed how it sets up open houses. “We hold listings open all day on Saturday, and it’s first-come, first-serve,” Staub says. “By asking people to wait in line for a few minutes, we can make sure everyone who wants to see a home can do so.” The agency keeps one agent outside and one inside to limit access and sanitize
Meanwhile, some businesses can’t wait to get back to the office. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association quickly switched to remote work, but as Denver and Colorado started to reopen, many workers began to transition back to the office. “They did it both for the convenience, and because of the collaborative environment we have within the organization,” says John Robinson, senior vice president for communications and membership. “We believe that the in-person collaboration and exchange of ideas between employees work best when staff members can have the interactions that come with a physical office environment.”
between showings. Carter anticipates virtual showings will continue to be popular. “Many clients prefer that option,” he says.
Fixing the problem
Increasing the number of homes on the market isn’t likely to change any time soon, real estate experts say. “Unfortunately, I don’t see that changing in 2021,” Skrabec says. “It’s difficult to imagine a scenario where more housing inventory will become available soon. We’ll have the normal seasonal uptick in activity during the spring and summer, but as interest rates inch up, it could force some homebuyers to sit on the sidelines. All-in-all, the current market dynamics will remain.” The market may ease as some homeowners stop struggling to make their mortgage payments or end taking advantage of forbearance, Staub says. That shadow inventory of distressed properties may soon start showing up for sale and help ease the housing crunch. But the best solution to meeting demand may be building more houses, Skrabec says. “We are working with our brokers to explore and become experts in new construction, which is a great alternative for buyers who have flexible timelines.”
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Top large companies SPECIAL AWARDS
The Top 150 survey statement is divided into broad categories such as Training and Work/Life Balance. Energage calculates which company has the highest score in each category. Here are the large companies that won special awards and the statement each one scored highest on:
TRAINING
Edward Jones
I get the formal training I want for my career
WORK/LIFE FLEXIBILITY
Keysight Technologies
I have the flexibility I need to balance my work and personal life
VALUES
Salesforce
This company operates by strong values
MANAGERS
Panda Restaurant Group My manger helps me learn and grow My manager makes it easier to do my job well My manager cares about my concerns
LEADERSHIP
Kiara Kuenzler, Jefferson Center for Mental Health I have confidence in the leader of this company
The large company category is for employers with 500 or more employees in the region. The 27 winners were chosen from a field of 29 entries. 1. Pinnacol Assurance 2. Keysight Technologies 3. Salesforce 4. Panda Restaurant Group 5. Edward Jones 6. Encore Electric Inc. 7. RingCentral 8. Fidelity Investments 9. Ibotta Inc. 10. Charles Schwab & Co. 11. Breckenridge Grand Vacations 12. Rose Medical Center 13. American Financing 14. Jefferson Center for Mental Health
15. Greystar 16. DSST Public Schools 17. Swedish Medical Center 18. CACI International Inc. 19. Mental Health Center of Denver 20. City of Arvada 21. FirstBank 22. Aims Community College 23. Bright Horizons Family Solutions 24. UCHealth 25. Sturgeon Electric Company Inc. 26. Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services 27. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Nannette Fahrenbruch, financial adviser, works in her Lakewood office at Edward Jones on Feb. 25, 2019. AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post file
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Pinnacol Assurance puts its focus on employee health 1 | Pinnacol Assurance Years ranked: 5 Founded: 1915 Headquarters: Denver Employees: 656 Pinnacol Assurance provides workers compensation protection to 57,000 Colorado businesses and their employees
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
Pinnacol Assurance is devoted to keeping Colorado workers healthy, safe, and strong by providing workers’ compensation insurance to 57,000 employers. Pinnacol was quick to pivot as a health-focused company to keep its employees working from home when the global pandemic hit. Barbara Brannen, vice president of employee services, estimates 99.5 percent of Pinnacol’s employees work from home while less than 1 percent come to the office. To help employees feel connected, the company added new chat rooms and has offered more employee resource groups and mental health support. Liz Johnson, public relations director, says the company also offered augmented benefits like virtual tutoring services to help parents and their children meet the challenge of attending school online. “That came at the right time,” Johnson says. “My son was struggling with seventh-grade math. I was able to get him the help he needed to get over that struggle. It gave him confidence and a study buddy.” Pinnacol has also tried to keep work fun by sending employees small monthly gifts and holding virtual holiday events, Brannen says.
Looking forward
The company plans to be cautious about returning more employees to the office. “We’re surveying employees to let them help guide our plans,” Brannen says. “We want to create a safe environ-
Pinnacol Assurance’s workforce quickly pivoted to working from home during the pandemic. Team members, shown outside Union Station in 2020, got help with work tasks like chat rooms, but parents and children also got assistance from virtual tutoring services. Provided by Pinnacol Assurance ment to protect our employees.” As a workplace safety company, Pinnacol also advises other businesses about occupational safety and shares information about mitigating COVID-19 risks. Pinnacol plans to install new touchless doors and plastic barriers between desks to prepare for more workers returning to the office. “We want to determine what is the safest work environment,” Brannen says. She also notes that Pinnacol has found its workers can be more productive when working at home. And working from home has helped some employees improve their work-life balance, Johnson says. “People are discovering they have pockets of time that they didn’t have before because they don’t have to commute. They are using that time for things like
self-care or exercise.”
Celebrating Colorado living
Pinnacol’s employees appreciate the healthy lifestyle Colorado offers. “There are so many opportunities to spend time outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine,” Brannen says. Because Pinnacol serves Colorado businesses, being located here lets the company support volunteer, community, and philanthropic activities. “We encourage our employees to donate to local efforts that they value, and we match those funds,” Johnson says. Each employee gets 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually to help Colorado nonprofits. The Pinnacol Foundation created a scholarship program for the children of injured workers and has awarded $5.5 million in
scholarships to more than 550 students across Colorado since 2000.
Finding employees of the future
To help ensure the company continues to hire the best and brightest, Pinnacol started a multi-year apprenticeship program for high school students that lets them work with Pinnacol employees and hone skills needed for a career in the insurance industry. “We’re committed to a mission of revolution in caring,” Brannen says. “We know that people often contact us on the worst day. They are worried about their career, their finances, and how they will support their families. We want to make sure we meet their needs with a big heart, so they have the support they need.”
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Keysight Technologies helps fuel Colorado’s tech boom 2 | Keysight Technologies
Years ranked: 3 Founded: 1939 Headquarters: Santa Rosa, Calif. Employees: 13,500, with 941 in Colorado Keysight manufactures equipment and software to design, test, manufacture and optimize electronics technology. By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
This is the third year Keysight Technologies has earned a spot on The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces list. Keysight manufactures equipment and software to design, test, manufac-
ture and optimize electronics technology. The company is part of Colorado’s ongoing tech boom and was founded in 2014. Headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif., Keysight spans 30 countries and has more than 13,500 employees, with nearly 1,000 in Colorado.
Keysight Technologies engineer Blake Vermer, left, helps Elsa Whittaker, 12, a Turner Middle School sixthgrader, as she solders an LED ornament in 2016 at the Loveland Creator Space. Jenny Sparks, Loveland Reporter-Herald file
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Salesforce employees, shown with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, created Work.com, to let employees select their shift preferences for the week ahead which allows the customer relationship management software company to manage its floor capacities and avoid any bottlenecks during the pandemic. Provided by Salesforce,
Salesforce creates tools to reimagine the workplace 3 | Salesforce
Years ranked: 2 Founded: 1999 Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif. Employees: 50,000, with 717 in Colorado Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management software and creates digital products to help companies connect with their customers.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
At Salesforce, innovation is a core value, and it’s become more critical as the company worked to reimagine how businesses operate during a global pandemic. “Even during one of the most challenging times, our teams have managed to develop a tool that is helping guide the path toward reopening,” says Gary Nafus, senior vice president, enterprise sales for Salesforce, a global leader in customer relationship management software. “As customer zero of Work.com, we’re leveraging the tool to guide our return to the office. Through Work.com, employees are prompted to select their shift preferences for the week ahead. This allows us to manage floor capacities, avoid potential bottlenecks, and know who’s scheduled to be in the office
— and we can visualize all this in the Workplace Command Center.” Work.com also lets employees complete brief, daily wellness check-ins to ensure they are healthy before getting approval to enter the office. If an employee tests positive for COVID-19, the site provides contract tracing tools and pinpoints office areas that need to be cleaned and sanitized.
Continuing work from home
Looking ahead to the rest of the year and into 2022, the company plans to continue being flexible and allow most of its employees to work from home. To do that successfully, Salesforce has found new ways to help employees feel connected. “At Salesforce, we’re combining the strength of our values, our platform, and our people to reimagine the way we work for the better — whether in-person or in the cloud,” Nafus says. “Everyone has a role to play in driving our culture, and no lone leader or employee can succeed without the strength of our community behind them. We’re looking to our most valuable asset — our people — to help lead us into the future.”
Focus on Colorado
The California-based company plans to continue maintaining a strong presence in Colorado because Denver is home to a diverse slate of industries, including aviation, bioscience, and financial services. “We first set up shop in the region starting in
2013, supporting leading customers including the State of Colorado, the City and County of Denver, Ball Corporation, amongst other top organizations,” Nafus says. “Our expansion in Denver reflects the excitement here, and we’re looking forward to continuing to grow in the Mile High City!”
Commitment to giving
Despite the challenges of the past year, Salesforce plans to continue giving back to the community. Every employee gets seven days of paid time off to volunteer and can match charitable contributions up to $5,000 per year. Salesforce’s top 100 volunteers also get $10,000 grants to give to the nonprofit of their choice. Since the company was founded in 2009, its employees have donated more than 4 million volunteer time hours. “Our culture is about meaningful work, purpose, and belonging, which we cultivate through our giving back efforts,” Nafus says. This is the second year Salesforce has been named to the Top Workplaces list. “In addition to our culture, it’s our people that are the secret sauce that makes us a Top Workplace,” Nafus says. “Throughout this past year, Salesforce Colorado has grown tremendously and has risen to the challenge — our employees have shown up for our customers, our communities, and each other in incredible ways. We are living our values and looking for people who share our passion for doing good.”
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4 | Panda Restaurant Group
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1973 | Headquarters: Rosemead, Calif. | Employees: 40,632, with 602 in Colorado Panda Restaurant Group is the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San. The family-owned company has 2,200 locations worldwide.
5 | Edward Jones
Years ranked: 7, 5 consecutive | Founded: 2003 | Headquarters: Belmont, Calif. | Employees: 4,048, with 748 in Colorado RingCentral empowers employees to work better together from any location using its unified voice, video meetings, team messaging, digital customer engagement, and integrated contact center solutions.
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Years ranked: 5, 3 consecutive | Founded: 1946 | Headquarters: Boston | Employees: 47,000, with 1,000 in Colorado Fidelity offers financial and retirement planning services and is one of the first U.S. companies to provide student loan repayment assistance to employees. More than 330 Colorado employees have saved $1.3 million since the program started in 2016.
Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 1922 | Headquarters: St. Louis | Employees: 49,585, with 865 in Colorado Edward Jones has more than 18,000 financial advisers who work directly with more than 7 million clients and help them create personalized investment strategies.
6 | Encore Electric, Inc.
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Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 2003 | Headquarters: Lakewood | Employees: 850, with 842 in Colorado The award-winning team at Encore Electric excels at complex technical projects like hospitals, universities, data centers, office structures and museums.
9 | Ibotta Inc.
Years ranked: 5 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 562, with 523 in Colorado Ibotta has nearly 18 million downloads and rewards consumers with cash for everyday purchases made through its smartphone app.
10 | Charles Schwab & Co.
Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 1973 | Headquarters: Westlake, Texas | Employees: 21,500, with 4,207 in Colorado Charles Schwab offers a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisers.
11 | Breckenridge Grand Vacations Years ranked: 7, 2 consecutive | Founded: 1985 Headquarters: Breckenridge | Employees: 670 Breckenridge Grand Vacations is a familyowned company that builds, sells and manages fractional resorts in Breckenridge.
12 | Rose Medical Center
Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 1948 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 1,288 Rose Medical Center is a leader in comprehensive women’s health, surgical and endoscopy services, heart and vascular, orthopedics and spine surgery, total joint replacement, bariatrics, and sports, internal and aesthetic medicine. It was the first Denver hospital to allow Jewish, African-American and female physicians to practice medicine.
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13 | American Financing
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Years ranked: 4, 2 consecutive | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Aurora | Employees: 838 American Financing is a family-owned, minority-owned mortgage banker licensed in all 50 states specializing in residential mortgages and home refinancing.
14 | Jefferson Center
For Mental Health
Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 1958 | Headquarters: Wheat Ridge | Employees: 610 The Jefferson Center has served as a nonprofit, community-focused mental health care and substance use treatment provider for more than 60 years. The center is part of the statewide mental health crisis system.
15 | Greystar
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1993 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 14,800, with 1,020 in Colorado Greystar provides property management services for residential housing, apartment homes, furnished corporate housing, and mixed-use properties that incorporate retail space.
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16 | DSST Public Schools
Years ranked: 7, 5 consecutive | Founded: 2004 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 831 DSST, formerly known as the Denver School of Science and Technology, is a public charter STEM network of 16 schools on nine campuses. Operated in partnership with Denver Public Schools, DSST is one of the top 200 public high schools in the U.S.
17 | Swedish Medical Center
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1905 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 2,018, with 1,594 in Colorado
Swedish Medical Center, part of HCA’s HealthONE, is an acute care hospital with 408 licensed beds and cares for more than 200,000 patients annually. The hospital has been a proud member of the south metro Denver area for more than 110 years.
18 | CACI International Inc.
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1962 | Headquarters: Arlington, Va. | Employees: 23,000, with 1,307 in Colorado CACI International provides information technology services to many areas of the federal government, including defense, homeland security, intelligence, and health care.
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19 | Center Mental Health of Denver Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 1989 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 857 The Mental Health Center of Denver serves people with mental illness, trauma, and co-occurring substance abuse disorders. The center provides a walk-in clinic and respite care as part of a statewide mental health network with substance use and emotional crisis help.
20 | City of Arvada
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1870 | Headquarters: Arvada | Employees: 695 Arvada, a Denver suburb with more than 120,000 residents, became a home-rule municipal corporation in 1963. Arvada is the seventh-largest city in Colorado.
21 | FirstBank
Years ranked: 10 | Founded: 1963 | Headquarters: Lakewood | Employees: 2,739 in Colorado Colorado’s largest locally-owned bank offers retail banking and financing solutions to consumers and businesses.
Aims Community College serves students at campuses in Greeley, Windsor, Fort Lupton and Loveland. The community college offers more than 200 degree and certificate programs through day and night classes.
23 | Family Bright Horizons Solutions
Years ranked: 8 | Founded: 1986 | Headquarters: Watertown, Mass. | Employees: 32,388, with 623 in Colorado Bright Horizons operates more than 1,000 child care centers worldwide and partners with more than 1,100 leading employers across nearly every industry.
24 | UCHealth
Years ranked: 8 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Aurora | Employees: 25,723 The UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is a Level I trauma center and the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado School of Medicine. For the ninth year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the hospital as the top hospital in Colorado. It also ranked among the nation’s best in nine specialties, including being No. 2 in pulmonology and lung surgery.
22 | Aims Community College 25 | Sturgeon Electric Company Inc. Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1967 | Headquarters: Greeley | Employees: 1,114
Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 1912 | Headquarters:
Henderson | Employees: 2,477, with 1,402 in Colorado Sturgeon Electric Company provides commercial and industrial electrical construction services, telecommunication services, traffic signals, high voltage distribution, service and maintenance. Company founder, Dwight “D.D.” Sturgeon, put up the first outdoor Christmas light display to cheer up his sick son.
26 | Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services
Years ranked: 9, 6 consecutive | Founded: 1977 | Headquarters: Lafayette | Employees: 570, with 518 in Colorado Clinica plays a critical role in providing primary health care services to low-income and uninsured Colorado residents.
27 | Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1984 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 701 The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless operates 20 high-quality permanent and supportive housing and affordable housing properties and administers nearly 1,300 vouchers to support more than 3,300 households with housing options.
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Top midsize companies SPECIAL AWARDS
The Top 150 survey statement is divided into broad categories such as Training and Work/Life Balance. Energage calculates which company has the highest score in each category. Here are the midsize companies that won special awards and the statement each one scored highest on:
CLUED IN SENIOR MANAGEMENT
Friday Health Plans
Senior managers understand what is really happening at this company
MEANINGFULNESS
Visiting Angels of Denver My job makes me feel like I am part of something meaningful
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Custom Made Meals I believe this company is going in the right direction
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Andre Durand, Ping Identity Corp. I have confidence in the leader of this company
Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand poses for a portrait in 2018. AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post file
The midsize company category is for employers with 150 to 499 employees in the region. The 55 winners were chosen from a field of 69 entries. 1. Custom Made Meals 2. West + Main Homes 3. Madison & Co. Properties 4. Visiting Angels of Denver 5. Friday Health Plans 6. 8z Real Estate 7. Galloway & Company Inc. 8. Renewal by Andersen 9. Physician Health Partners 10. Ping Identity Corp. 11. Progressive Insurance 12. Delta Dental of Colorado 13. PorchLight Real Estate Group 14. Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric 15. CableLabs 16. LONG Building Technologies 17. Connect for Health 18. Samuel Engineering Inc. 19. Slalom Consulting 20. Turner Construction Co. 21. EOG Resources 22. SpotX 23. Wiland 24. Ulteig 25. Lohmiller & Company (dba Carrier West) 26. Syncroness Inc. 27. Burns & McDonnell 28. Security Service Federal Credit Union 29. Echelon Property Group 30. Spyderco Inc. 31. Personal Capital 32. AllHealth Network 33. General Air Service & Supply 34. MTech Mechanical 35. Griffis Blessing Inc. 36. Adolfson & Peterson Construction 37. Hammersmith Management 38. Weifield Group Contracting 39. Aurora Organic Dairy 40. Uplight 41. First Western Financial 42. ICAT 43. Mission Rock Residential 44. CoreSite LLC 45. AFC Urgent Care Denver 46. LPR Construction Co. 47. AIR Communities 48. Tyler Technologies 49. Tallgrass Energy 50. Risas Dental Management LLC 51. Haselden Construction 52. Xactly Corporation 53. Coalfire Systems Inc. 54. Shaw Construction 55. SCI Funeral Services of Colorado
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Production associates process chicken at Custom Made Meals in 2019 in Denver. Joe Amon, Denver Post file
Custom Made Meals grows rapidly despite pandemic 1 | Custom Made Meals
Years ranked: 3 Founded: 2009 Headquarters: Denver Employees: 430 Custom Made Meals creates meals for 15,000 groceries in 48 states. By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
The return of the family dinner hour is one bright spot during the pandemic. And many of those families sit down to meals that started at the Custom Made Meals plant in Denver. The Colorado company, which has placed on the Top Workplaces list for the past three years, creates oven-ready meals for 15,000 groceries in 48 states. “It’s a beautiful thing. Families are now cooking at home and sitting around the table together,” says Dale Easdon, president and chief executive officer. The company’s business increased by 35% from 2018 to 2019 then increased by 35% in
2020. This year, it’s on pace to increase by an additional 40%, Easdon says. To meet that demand, the company has expanded its Denver plant, added more automation, and added a new test kitchen. The company also is making plans to build a second plant this year, likely in the southeastern U.S., he says. Custom Made Meals not only kept its employees during 2020, but it also gave them raises and hired more. “Our employees work hard, and they take a lot of pride in what we do,” says Katie Prekel, vice president for human resources.
ployees out of the main building and leased an office building to provide space for them to work safely. The company also made sure employees knew they should stay home if they felt unwell. “We didn’t want them to worry about sacrificing their income, so we made sure they knew we’d pay them to stay home if they needed to do so,” says Sean Saunders, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. The company also added nearly 100 employees during the year and often hired family members of current employees, Prekel says.
Protecting employees
Moving forward
To keep its employees safe during the pandemic, the company used an on-site certified nursing assistant to check temperatures and ensure employees were healthy, Prekel says. The company provided N95 masks for employees to wear at work and use at home and share with family members. Custom Made Meals also expanded its break room, staggered break times, and used tents and tables with umbrellas outdoors to provide more break space for employees. It also offered free vending machines. The company moved its administrative em-
Innovation will continue to be crucial for Custom Made Meals. The company plans to add more automation and focus on ergonomics to ensure its employees work in a safe environment, Easdon says. The company offers continuous improvement training and gives employees opportunities to grow in their careers. In the past year, 17 employees have been promoted to management positions. “We’re constantly looking for future leaders,” Prekel says. “We want to promote them and get them ready for leadership opportunities.”
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Team members at West + Main. Photos provided by West + Main
Years ranked: 3 Founded: 2017 Headquarters: Lakewood Employees: 170 West + Main is an independently owned and operated boutique real estate company that specializes in residential properties in Downtown Denver and Front Range communities. West + Main has innovative storefront locations in Applewood, RiNo, Littleton and Louisville.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
When COVID-19 shut down Colorado businesses in March 2020, Stacie Staub feared her company might never sell another house. But the founder and CEO of West + Main Homes didn’t need to worry. Instead, 2020 was the boutique real estate firm’s best year. “Every month was the best month throughout the year,” Staub says. “We didn’t think real estate would be pandemic-proof, but it was. We were so grateful for every person we were able to help.” Still, the pandemic forced the company to make changes. Although the West + Main operates six offices, agents aren’t assigned desks. “That made it pretty easy to set up work from home,” Staub says. “We consider ourselves lucky that we were ready.” But to ease the change of not regularly seeing co-workers, West + Main started offering all of its educational offerings online,
West + Main team members during a video call. created accountability teams, and added a mentor program for new agents that provided one-on-one training and support with a seasoned agent. “The enthusiasm of the new agents is contagious. The seasoned agents got reinvigorated,” Staub says.
Promoting safety
COVID-19 also created new regulations for showing properties, including strict times for showings and requiring agents and customers to wear masks and gloves. Colorado’s tight housing market also makes it challenging to help buyers find their dream homes. “We are trying to be very creative to make sure we know about the newest listings. We look for
coming-soon signs and monitor specific neighborhoods,” Staub says. West + Main also had to shift its marketing focus from community events such as homebuyer classes, First Friday art exhibit openings, and Pop Up Shops to more online promotions and its West + Main lifestyle magazine. Agents are encouraged to nominate their favorite nonprofit organization during the company’s weekly Feel Good Friday virtual event. A winner is drawn randomly from the nominees at the end of a meeting, and the company then donates in the agent’s name to the winning nonprofit. Recent winners include Culinary Care, Colorado Homeownership Coalition, Judi’s House and Doctors Care.
Looking forward
Despite the pandemic, West + Main added 60 new agents in 2020 and anticipates hiring more this year. The company is also excited about a new partnership with the Home Builders Foundation of Denver that will help raise money to make homes accessible for people returning home after staying at Craig Hospital. West + Main has been a top workplace since the company opened in 2017. “That’s one of the greatest honors we receive because it comes from our agents. It goes straight to my heart that they took the time to fill out the survey,” Staub says. “It shows they are happy to work here.”
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Madison & Co. Properties focuses on agent training, support 3 | Madison & Co. Properties
Years ranked: 8 Founded: 2008 Headquarters: Denver Employees: 189 Madison & Co. focuses on providing broker support and a collaborative team environment with an extensive mentoring program.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
Madison & Co. Properties has been named a Top Workplace for the past eight years. This is the second year the company ranks third for midsize businesses. In 2019 and 2018, it was the top-ranked midsize business. Madison & Company focuses on providing staff support and a collaborative team environment with an extensive mentoring program.
“We don’t just roll out ‘How to be a Realtor in a Box,’ ” Justin Knoll, president of the Colorado-based firm, said in a 2019 interview with The Denver Post. “They don’t have to fit into us; we have to fit into them. That helps them become a longer-term employee.” The company, named for the street where its founders, Todd Narlinger and Michael Turra, had their first investment property, has six offices in the Denver area.
Paul Isenbergh, from left, Larina McClain and Tom Lilly socialize during a happy hour in 2019 at Madison & Co. Properties. Daniel Brenner, Special to The Denver Post file
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4 | Visiting Angels of Denver
Years ranked: 8, 6 consecutive | Founded: 2008 | Headquarters: Wheat Ridge | Employees: 177 | Locations: 3 Visiting Angels of Denver provides supportive home care services for seniors and adults that allow them to stay in their homes safely and provide peace of mind to their families.
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Years ranked: 7, 4 consecutive | Founded: 2002 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 938, with 395 in Colorado Ping Identity provides cloud identity security solutions to more than 800 of the world’s largest companies, government organizations and cloud businesses. Ping Identity’s services allow more than 42 members of the Fortune 100 to secure the information of hundreds of millions of employees, customers and partners.
11 | Progressive Insurance
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2015 | Headquarters: Alamosa | Employees: 208 Friday Health Plans builds insurance plans for individuals and small businesses. The company offers affordable health plans that help members stay healthy and cover them if they get sick or hurt.
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1937 | Headquarters: Mayfield Village, Ohio | Employees: 42,914, with 415 in Colorado Progressive was the first auto insurance group to launch a website, the first publicly held company to report results monthly, and the first insurance company to offer pet injury coverage.
6 | 8z Real Estate
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Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 2009 | Headquarters: Boulder | Employees: 214 8z Real Estate has 12 offices and more than 150 agents throughout Colorado. The company provides in-house mortgage, title, rentals and insurance services.
7 | Galloway & Company Inc.
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1982 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 178, with 161 in Colorado Based in the Denver Tech Center, Galloway & Company provides planning, architecture and engineering services for projects that range from half-acre pad sites to masterplanned communities.
8 | Renewal by Andersen
Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 2011 | Headquarters: Smithfield, R.I. | Employees: 1,200, 204 in Colorado Renewal by Andersen serves more than 100 markets in the United States and has become one of the largest window replacement companies in the country since opening its first store in Minnesota in 1995.
9 | Physician Health Partners
Years ranked: 9, 5 consecutive | Founded: 1996 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 264 Physician Health Partners works with PHPprime and Colorado Community Health Alliance to provide health care to more than 500,000 Coloradans in Denver and Colorado Springs.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1968 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 211 Delta Dental of Colorado helps its customers create healthy smiles by providing dental care benefits to its 1.4 million customers.
13 | PorchLight Real Estate Group
Years ranked: 8 | Founded: 2005 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 183 PorchLight Real Estate Group offers concierge-style real estate services in the Denver area and Boulder. A 100% womenowned business, PorchLight has received numerous accolades. In addition to being named to The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces list for eight years in a row, it has been recognized as one of the Top Women-Owned Companies by both the Denver Business Journal and ColoradoBiz Magazine.
Applewood Plumbing 14 | Heating & Electric Years ranked: 8, 5 consecutive | Founded: 1973 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 168 Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric, known for its bright orange trucks, is one of Colorado’s only family-owned plumbing, heating, drain cleaning, cooling and electrical repair companies.
15 | CableLabs
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1988 | Headquarters: Louisville | Employees: 235 For more than 30 years, CableLabs has been at the forefront of innovation, trans-
forming how humans, communities and industries connect. CableLabs is the leading innovation and research and development lab for the cable industry.
LONG Building 16 | Technologies Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 1965 | Headquarters: Littleton | Employees: 436, with 242 in Colorado LONG Building uses building technology services to make commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities of all types and sizes automated, efficient, green and safe.
17 | Connect for Health
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2011 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 158 Connect for Health Colorado is the state’s health insurance marketplace and helps individuals, families and small employers purchase health insurance and get financial help to reduce costs.
18 | Samuel Engineering Inc.
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1996 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 170 Samuel Engineering is a woman-owned and minority-owned company that provides engineering, procurement and construction management services to the mining, oil and gas, power and building systems worldwide.
19 | Slalom Consulting
Years ranked: 10 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Seattle | Employees: 7,800, with 484 in Colorado Slalom is a business and technology consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. The company has strong partnerships with more than 200 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Tableau.
20 | Turner Construction Co.
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1902 | Headquarters: New York | Employees: 10,439, with 234 in Colorado Turner Construction Company has a staff of more than 10,000 employees and completes $15 billion of construction on 1,500 projects each year.
21 | EOG Resources
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1985 | Headquarters: Houston | Employees: 2,951, with 212 in Colorado EOG is one of the largest exploration and production companies in the United States with proved reserves in the United States,
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Trinidad and Canada. The company strives to maintain low operating costs while providing a continuing commitment to environmental, social and governance sustainability.
22 | SpotX
Years ranked: 7, 2 consecutive | Founded: 2007 | Headquarters: Broomfield | Employees: 487, with 276 in Colorado SpotX is a global video ad serving platform that provides digital media owners with the ability to monetize content with video advertising on desktop, mobile and connected devices.
25 | Lohmiller and Company
Years ranked: 7, 5 consecutive | Founded: 1990 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 179 Lohmiller and Company is an independently owned wholesale distributor of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment, parts and supplies. The company primarily distributes Carrier products in Colorado and Wyoming.
26 | Syncroness Inc.
23 | Wiland
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 2005 | Headquarters: Niwot | Employees: 242 Wiland is a leading marketing intelligence agency that provides data-driven marketing solutions to thousands of clients across the United States.
24 | Ulteig
provides its expertise in various infrastructure sectors, including power, renewables, transportation and communications.
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1944 | Headquarters: Fargo, N.D. | Employees: 662, with 204 in Colorado Ulteig has more than 70 years of experience in the engineering design industry and
Years ranked: 4, 3 consecutive | Founded: 1998 | Headquarters: Westminster | Employees: 161
Burns & McDonnell is a 100% employeeowned architecture, engineering and construction company made up of more than 7,600 engineers, architects, construction professionals, scientists, consultants and entrepreneurs with offices throughout the world.
Service 28 | Security Federal Credit Union Years ranked: 4, 2 consecutive | Founded: 1956 | Headquarters: San Antonio | Employees: 1,750, with 250 in Colorado Security Service Federal Credit Union is one of the nation’s top 10 credit unions. It has more than $9.5 billion in assets and 774,000 members in Texas, Colorado and Utah.
Syncroness is a full-service engineering company that provides technical product development and engineering work packages for companies and organizations in the United States and internationally.
29 | Echelon Property Group
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Echelon is a Colorado-centric multifamily property management company with years of experience that manages more than 12,000 units.
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1898 | Headquarters: Kansas City, Mo. | Employees: 7,600, with 251 in Colorado
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30 | Spyderco Inc. Years ranked: 8 | Founded: 1976 | Headquarters: Golden | Employees: 150 Spyderco started as a family-run business that operated from the back of a bread truck and has evolved to become a worldwide leader in the cutlery industry.
31 | Personal Capital Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 2009 | Headquarters: Redwood City, Calif. | Employees: 462, with 180 in Colorado Personal Capital is an industry-leading digital wealth management company that manages more than $16.5 billion in assets.
32 | AllHealth Network Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1955 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 450 AllHealth Network provides behavioral health care to more than 17,000 children, adults and older adults, families and couples. Its services include counseling, psychiatry, crisis services, substance abuse treatment, an adult acute treatment unit, services offered to the criminal justice system, vocational and social rehabilitation, school-based services and an on-site pharmacy.
General Air 33 | Service & Supply Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1969 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 178 in Colorado General Air Service & Supply is a thirdgeneration, family-owned business and the largest independent gas and welding supplier in Colorado.
34 | MTech Mechanical Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2002 | Headquarters: Westminster | Employees: 487 MTech Mechanical provides mechanical design, building and maintenance services to commercial and industrial clients across Colorado. The company offers full-service HVAC and plumbing services.
35 | Griffis Blessing Inc. Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1985 | Headquarters: Colorado Springs | Employees: 285 in Colorado Griffis Blessing specializes in multifamily communities and manages more than 7,000 apartment units in seven communities along the Front Range.
Adolfson & Peterson 36 | Construction Years ranked: 5, 4 consecutive | Founded: 1946 | Headquarters: Aurora | Employees: 733, with 344 in Colorado | Locations: 1 Adolfson & Peterson Construction is a
family-owned company that offers preconstruction and construction services to the commercial, education, health care, hospitality, industrial, multifamily, municipal, recreation and senior living industries.
Hammersmith 37 | Management Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1981 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 190 in Colorado Hammersmith specializes in full-service community association management. With expertise in high-rises, townhomes, condominiums, single-family homes, largescale communities, metro districts and developer projects, Hammersmith has the experience and expertise to foster an environment where our associations can thrive and prosper.
Group 38 | Weifield Contracting Years ranked: 10 | Founded: 2002 | Headquarters: Centennial | Employees: 562, with 457 in Colorado Weifield Group Contracting, a national leader in cutting-edge electrical construction, builds energy-efficient buildings in Colorado, Texas and Wyoming.
39 | Aurora Organic Dairy Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1976 | Headquarters: Boulder | Employees: 491 in Colorado Aurora Organic Dairy is a leading producer and processor of store-brand organic milk for U.S. retailers. The company operates certified-organic dairy farms in Colorado and Texas and organic dairy processing plants in Colorado and Missouri.
40 | Uplight Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 2019 | Headquarters: Boulder | Employees: 209 in Colorado Uplight, the technology partner of energy providers transitioning to clean energy, delivers personalized energy experiences for consumers worldwide. Uplight was formed in 2019 by uniting six industry leaders across different areas.
41 | First Western Financial Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2002 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 304 | Locations: 9 First Western Financial Inc., a financial services holding company, and its wholly owned subsidiary, First Western Trust, operates in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and California. First Western Trust provides a fully integrated suite of wealth management services on a private trust bank platform, including a comprehensive selection of deposit, loan, trust, wealth planning and investment management products and services.
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42 | ICAT Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 1998 | Headquarters: Broomfield | Employees: 216 ICAT provides catastrophe insurance coverage to business owners and homeowners located in hurricane- and earthquake-exposed areas of the United States.
43 | Mission Rock Residential Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 707, with 293 in Colorado Mission Rock Residential provides quality apartment homes in 13 states. Each community is situated on beautifully landscaped grounds and is outfitted with amenities ranging from fitness and business centers to swimming pools, year-round spas and outdoor living areas.
44 | CoreSite LLC Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 480, with 150 in Colorado CoreSite Realty Corporation delivers secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions to a growing customer ecosystem in major metropolitan areas, including Denver, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
45 | AFC Urgent Care Denver Years ranked: 3, 2 consecutive | Founded: 2013 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 153 in Colorado AFC Urgent Care offers fast and comprehensive medical care with short wait times and reasonable rates. The company provides quick and thorough health care services with an on-site laboratory and digital X-Ray machine to improve diagnosis and treatment of illnesses or injuries.
46 | LPR Construction Co. Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1979 | Headquarters: Loveland | Employees: 450, with 183 in Colorado LPR Construction has been a leading name in structural steel erection for more than 40 years. The company also is a leader in heavy industrial construction and plant services.
47 | AIR Communities Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 2020 (born from Aimco, which was founded in 1994) | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 873, with 317 in Colorado AIR Communities is a real estate investment trust headquartered in Denver that owns and operates of apartment properties in 15 states and the District of Columbia.
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48 | Tyler Technologies
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1966 | Headquarters: Plano, Texas | Employees: 5,600, with 155 in Colorado Tyler Technologies provides integrated software and technology services to the public sector. The company empowers local, state and federal government entities to operate more efficiently and has installed more than 27,000 systems across more than 11,000 sites in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and other countries.
49 | Tallgrass Energy
Years ranked: 6 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Leawood, Kan. | Employees: 804, with 375 in Colorado Tallgrass Energy transports crude oil and natural gas from the Rocky Mountains, Upper Midwest and Appalachian regions. The company owns and operates more than 8,300 miles of natural gas pipeline, more than 850 miles of crude pipeline and more than 300 miles of water pipeline across the United States.
Risas Dental 50 | Management LLC Years ranked: 4, 3 consecutive | Founded: 2011 | Headquarters: Phoenix | Employees: 726, with 181 in Colorado Risas Dental focuses on providing quality, affordable dental care and braces.
51 | Haselden Construction
Years ranked: 6 | Founded: 1973 | Headquarters: Centennial | Employees: 415, with 323 in Colorado Haselden Construction is a top general contractor on the Front Range. It provides exceptional, client-centric construction services in Colorado, Wyoming and the West. The company provides general contracting, construction management, design-build, turnkey development and preconstruction services.
52 | Xactly Corporation
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 2005 | Headquarters: San Jose, Calif. | Employees: 623, with 202 in Colorado Xactly delivers a scalable, cloud-based enterprise platform for sales organizations, including setting sales quotas, planning territories, managing incentive compensation and predictive analytics.
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53 | Coalfire Systems Inc.
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Westminster | Employees: 783, with 200 in Colorado Coalfire is a cybersecurity consulting firm that works with its clients to manage risk and avert cybersecurity threats.
54 | Shaw Construction
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1956 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 196, with 177 in Colorado Shaw Construction builds cutting-edge structures for resorts and hospitality, residential and multifamily, mountain builds, higher education, commercial and office space, and arts and cultural centers across the Rocky Mountain region.
SCI Funeral 55 | Services of Colorado Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1926 | Headquarters: Wheat Ridge | Employees: 24,082, with 215 in Colorado SCI Funeral Services of Colorado is the largest funeral and cemetery provider in the Denver area. The company owns eight funeral homes, seven cemeteries and one personal care center in the area.
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Top small companies SPECIAL AWARDS
The Top 150 survey statement is divided into broad categories such as Training and Work/Life Balance. Energage calculates which company has the highest score in each category. Here are the small companies that won special awards and the statement each one scored highest on:
BENEFITS
REcolorado
My benefits package is good compared to others in this industry
APPRECIATION
Home Mortgage Alliance LLC
I feel genuinely appreciated at this company
COMMUNICATION
MotoRefi
I feel well-informed about important decisions at this company
DOERS
Supreme Lending
At this company, we do things efficiently and well
NEW IDEAS
Digible
New ideas are encouraged at this company
LEADERSHIP
Vinh Chung, Vanguard Skin Specialists I have confidence in the leader of this company
Members of the Supreme Lending team. Provided by Supreme Lending
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The small company category is for employers with 149 or fewer local workers. The 68 winners were chosen from a field of 111 entries. 1. Digible 2. MotoRefi 3. Supreme Lending 4. CrossCountry Mortgage 5. Home Mortgage Alliance LLC 6. Vanguard Skin Specialists 7. Tensentric Inc. 8. Bloom Healthcare 9. Booyah Advertising 10. American Indian College Fund 11. National Valuation Consultants Inc. 12. Camden Property Trust 13. RBC Wealth Management LLC 14. Anderson Mason Dale Architects 15. IntelePeer 16. Liberty Media Corp. 17. Swinerton Builders 18. Credera 19. Larson Financial Inc. (dba Larson Tax Relief) 20. Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP 21. Done Plumbing & Heating 22. Live Urban Real Estate 23. Entravision Communications Corp. 24. Denver Scholarship Foundation 25. RevGen Partners 26. Pie Insurance Services Inc. 27. Bradsby Group 28. Muller Engineering Co. Inc. 29. RE/MAX Alliance 30. Professional Assist Corp. 31. NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc. 32. Atlas Real Estate 33. Pima Medical Institute 34. Choozle 35. SamabaSafety 36. Olsson 37. Lokal Homes LLC 38. Total Quality Logistics 39. Transwestern 40. Vander Vegt & Associates Inc. (dba Dutch’s
Masonry) 41. Cooper Heating and Cooling Inc. 42. Griffis Residential 43. AMP Robotics 44. Moye White LLP 45. John Elway Chevrolet 46. RMH Group 47. Greystone Technology Group Inc. 48. Carlton Electric 49. Brothers Plumbing, Heating and Electric 50. CyberGRX Inc. 51. REcolorado 52. Centro 53. BCER Engineering, Inc. 54. Donor Alliance Inc. 55. Cornerstone Apartment Services Inc. 56. Billtrust 57. Hotel Engine 58. Guarantee Electrical Company 59. Advanced Assembly 60. National Cattlemen’s Association 61. Kentwood Real Estate 62. Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors 63. JumpStart Autism Center 64. Travelers Haven 65. Thomas Cuisine at Eating Recovery Center 66. CORE Consultants 67. ENSCO Inc. 68. CBIZ
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Digible provides solutions to market apartments 1 | Digible
Years ranked: 1 Founded: 2017 Headquarters: Englewood Employees: 51 in Colorado Digible provides hyper-local digital marketing solutions for the apartment industry.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
Despite a global pandemic, Digible has grown and thrived in the past year by hiring 28 employees and adding more than 400 clients across the country. This is the first year the company, founded in 2017, has been on the Top Workplaces list. Digible’s employees credit the company’s
authenticity, balance, passion, vision, purpose, innovation, and leadership for making it a great place to work. “We don’t deliver across all of those categories every day, but we try, and our employees recognize that,” says Reid Wicoff, chief executive officer. “They know we prioritize their happiness above all else, which makes for a great culture. It may seem simple, and in a way it is, but keeping that value as your northern star is a fulltime commitment.” Digible provides hyper-local digital marketing solutions for the apartment industry. “We’re extremely fortunate that the pandemic has not heavily impacted our niche (digital marketing) within the multifamily industry,” Wicoff says. “We’ve had DIGIBLE » 26A
Digible employees connected via Zoom while most worked from home during the pandemic. The company offered classes, such as yoga, to keep employees connected and purchased fitness trackers for everyone to encourage exercise. Provided by Digible
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MotoRefi grows, opens second headquarters in Denver 2 | MotoRefi
Years ranked: 1 Founded: 2016 Headquarters: Arlington, Va. Employees: 113, with 54 in Colorado Facts: MotoRefi offers a simple, transparent process to help consumers refinance their auto loans and lower their monthly payments.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
MotoRefi, which opened its second headquarters office in Denver, tripled its team in 2020 while increasing monthly revenue, says Kevin Bennett, MotoRefi chief executive officer. “We were able to do that by leaning into a remote-first approach, over-indexing on communication, and being transparent with our teams,” Bennett says. The Virginia-based company, which helps consumers refinance auto loans to lower their monthly payments, ranks second on the Top Workplaces small business list. The company has frequent virtual all-hands meetings, happy hours and game nights. It also invested in providing counseling and mental health services for employees.
Looking forward
MotoRefi anticipates its growth will continue in 2021 and is busy hiring employees for sales, engineering and marketing positions. Working remotely in 2020 showed the company doesn’t need to require employees to work in a traditional office.
DIGIBLE «FROM 25A some customers scale back their marketing budget, but most apartments have sustained or increased their advertising efforts to counter the economic headwinds COVID has created.”
Keeping employees safe
The company aggressively moved to have all employees work remotely when the pandemic hit. “We didn’t want anyone feeling the pressure to come into work or somehow contribute to spreading the virus,” Wicoff says. The company launched various
MotoRefi Arlington Group. Leigh Ann Saperstone, Provided by MotoRefi “Having onboarded more than half of our team in a remote-only environment, we saw how successful it can be, and how many folks are interested in hybrid and satellite offices,” Bennett says. “We’re leaning into making our company location-agnostic and flexible for everyone.” For employees who want to work in an office, MotoRefi supports collaborative in-person work. “We’re building a community of amazing people on the team, and we’ll always do what we need to do to attract and hire the best talent because talent is the ball game,” Bennett says.
Why Colorado?
Denver was a natural choice for the company’s second headquarters, Bennett says.
virtual master classes, including candle making and yoga, to help employees stay connected. It also purchased fitness trackers for the entire company to encourage exercise and provided access to Talkspace, an online counseling and therapy service. Digible also launched DEX, the Digible Employee Experience program, which allows employees to pursue nonwork projects or goals on company time. The company started with two hours per week in February and plans to expand it in 2022 to a full day every week.
Looking forward
Wicoff describes Digible’s future as equally exhilarating and daunting to think about.
“Denver has a powerful combination of great talent and high quality of life that made it an easy choice for our HQ2,” he says. “Cities like New York and San Francisco are getting increasingly expensive and less livable for talent in the workforce, and many people are choosing to live in less expensive high quality of life cities like Denver, which has incredible amenities and an incredible environment. Denver also has strong talent across sales, engineering, product, and other disciplines; it is a no-brainer for a fast-growing startup like MotoRefi.” Colorado is a natural fit for a company that strives to be diverse and welcoming. “There’s not just one type of person at MotoRefi, and that’s what makes our team so strong (and fun to be around),” Bennett says.
“We are a rapidly growing company with huge aspirations. Our ultimate vision is to transform multifamily marketing through emerging technology and big data,” he says. To make that happen, the company plans to integrate and automate workflow and develop a Fair Housing advertising tool this year. The pandemic validated Digible’s strategy to create marketing technology and solutions capable of adjusting to any environment or circumstance, Wicoff says. “We believe tomorrow’s workplace is all about flexibility and happiness. Our employees are most engaged and productive when they feel balance in their lives. We believe more and more
employers are discovering that burning the midnight oil or shackling your workforce to old-school methodologies and hierarchies leads to employee burnout and stifles innovation,” Wicoff says. “We plan to actively explore new concepts and technology that empower and energize our employees to become the best versions of themselves.”
Why choose Colorado?
Wicoff chose to locate Digible in Colorado because it offers a large talent pool, is a thriving technology hub and is one of the country’s top living destinations. “Simply put, Colorado allows employers to eat their cake and have it, too,” Wicoff says.
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Supreme Lending helps make homeowners’ dreams come true 3 | Supreme Lending
Years ranked: 4 Founded: 1999 Headquarters: Dallas Employees: 1,800, with 50 in Colorado Facts: Supreme Lending offers customers a variety of loan products to help them achieve their dream of homeownership.
By Sara B. Hansen Special to The Denver Post
The biggest challenge facing Supreme Lending in 2021 is the lack of housing available for sale in Colorado. Despite a global pandemic, 2020 was an excellent year for Supreme Lending, which offers customers various loan products to buy homes. “We were able to keep our team unified and experienced little attrition internally,” says Dale Petrillo, Supreme Lending regional branch manager. But looking ahead in 2021, he’s worried the demand for houses outweighs the availability. “If we had more supply, we’d see the transaction count in Denver go up,” he says. “COVID has stifled available inventory. Many people are nervous about putting their houses on the market because they don’t want strangers in their houses. I think people are waiting to sell their houses until their comfort level increases.” The other challenge Petrillo sees is the rising home cost is pricing out the entry-level home buyer. But even with those challenges, he’s optimistic about 2021. “We will continue to be focused on the services we provide and make sure we offer best of class service to the public.”
Keeping employees safe
Before the pandemic, Petrillo and his staff worked full-time in the office and didn’t have any employees working from home. “We liked the dynamic of everyone being together,” Petrillo says. That quickly changed last year, and the company invested in technology and built workstations at their employees’ homes. “We
Colorado has been a good fit for Supreme Lending and its employees, shown at a Rockies game. “People come for the lifestyle, the mountains, the outdoors,” said Dale Petrillo, the company’s regional branch manager. Provided by Supreme Lending wanted them to have the tools to be productive. We knew they couldn’t do the job with just a laptop. They needed dual screens.” Now, as health restrictions ease, he plans to let employees decide what will work best. The office is set up with individual offices rather than cubicles, so some employees feel comfortable returning to the office. Others choose to continue working from home. “It’s not one size fits all. Some people don’t want to work from home. Others worry about their health. We don’t plan to dictate to anyone where they have to work.” Employees have been productive and have used online tools to stay connected.
Why Colorado?
Being in Colorado makes it easy to recruit and keep employees. “People come for the lifestyle, the mountains, the outdoors,”
Petrillo says. “Once they get here, they rarely move away.” Operations manager Jody Petrillo says the company’s loan officers get multiple recruiting calls, each week. “But those appeals fall on deaf ears,” she says. Supreme Lending works to keep its employees happy not only by paying them well and offering competitive benefits but also by offering flexible schedules and time to meet their goals. And it helps that the employees genuinely like each other. “You spend the majority of your waking hours with your co-workers, so you need to enjoy being with them,” Dale Petrillo says. “We’re always looking for ways to keep everybody connected. We make decisions as a group. We want to be like a family,” he says. “Our employees are passionate. They like what they do and where they do it.”
Creating the workplace of tomorrow
“Being flexible is a good move for our employees. It’s empowering,” Petrillo says. “I like to think our office is more a democracy than a dictatorship.” He anticipates the work from home trend will continue for some employees. “Some appreciate working from home, so they don’t have to fight the traffic. Others enjoy being there for their kids.” Once it’s safe to do so, the company will plan more in-person gatherings like cocktail hours, painting classes or ball games. “We want people to feel welcome. I believe people do their best work when they like the people they work with.”
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Editor’s note: The information contained in this list was taken from the Energage database — information provided by the businesses themselves.
4 | CrossCountry Mortgage
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2003 | Headquarters: Brecksville, Ohio | Employees: 2,500, with 107 in Colorado CrossCountry Mortgage is a nationwide full-service lender that has been named to the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies seven times since 2012 and was named a Top 10 Best Lender by ConsumersAdvocate.org in 2019.
5 | Home Mortgage Alliance LLC
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 2014 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 85, with 75 in Colorado Home Mortgage Alliance started as a joint venture between Stearns Home Loans and RE/MAX Alliance and has grown to be a top mortgage lender in the Greater Denver area.
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| Vanguard Skin Specialists
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2009 | Headquarters: Colorado Springs | Employees: 85 Vanguard Skin Specialists is southern Colorado’s premier dermatology and plastic surgery practice.
7 | Tensentric Inc.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2009 | Headquarters: Boulder | Employees: 83, with 80 in Colorado Tensentric has designed and developed more than 250 medical devices. It operates a 12,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Louisville.
8 | Bloom Healthcare
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2002 | Headquarters: Wheat Ridge | Employees: 82 in Colorado Bloom Healthcare’s team of providers delivers coordinated, hands-on care in assisted living communities and private homes so they can help patients age in place. The company works to reduce the risk seniors will need emergency room or inpatient care.
9 | Booyah Advertising
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 71, with 56 in Colorado Booyah Advertising builds and optimizes ad campaigns for Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
10 | American Indian College Fund Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1989 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 58 in Colorado The American Indian College Fund raises money and provides scholarships to help American Indians achieve their higher education and career objectives.
National Valuation 11 | Consultants Inc.
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1991 | Headquarters: Centennial | Employees: 91, with 63 in Colorado
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National Valuation Consultants Inc. is the largest privately-held commercial real estate valuation and advisory firm in the United States. The company has regional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, the New York metro area, San Francisco and South Florida.
12 | Camden Property Trust
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1982 | Headquarters: Houston | Employees: 1,776, with 76 in Colorado Camden Property Trust is a real estate investment trust that owns interests in 172 apartment communities across the United States. The company’s name is derived by combining the founders’ names Ric Campo and Keith Oden.
13 | RBC Wealth
Management LLC
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1909 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 5,000, with 132 in Colorado RBC Wealth Management is an RBC Capital Market division and has more than $250 billion in assets and nearly 2,000 financial advisers operating in 200 locations in 42 states.
Mason 14 | Anderson Dale Architects
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1978 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 60 in Colorado Award-winning Anderson Mason Dale Architects focuses on creating shared community spaces, including schools, colleges and public buildings.
15 | IntelePeer
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2003 | Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif. | Employees: 204, with 115 in Colorado IntelePeer is a Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider of voice, messaging, automation, applications, APIs, and analytics for enterprises. The company is backed by venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners, Kennet Partners, NorthCap Partners and EDF Ventures.
16 | Liberty Media Corp.
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1991 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 90, with 79 in Colorado Liberty Media Corporation owns interests in a broad range of media, communications and entertainment businesses. Those interests are attributed to three tracking stock groups: the Liberty SiriusXM Group, the Braves Group and the Formula One Group.
17 | Swinerton Builders
Years ranked: 7, 2 consecutive | Founded: 1888 Headquarters: Arvada | Employees: 1,817, with 128 in Colorado Swinerton Builders is an employee-owned general contractor. In the Denver metro area, the company built the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, One Lincoln Park, campus projects for AMG National Trust Bank and Terumo, and office environments for Fidelity Investments, UBS Finan-
cial, Google and Kaiser Permanente. Swinerton also built schools for Denver Public Schools and parking structures for RTD.
18 | Credera
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1999 | Headquarters: Addison, Texas | Employees: 586, with 60 in Colorado Credera is a full-service management consulting, user experience and technology solutions firm. The company’s clients range from Fortune 500 companies to emerging industry leaders.
19 | Larson Financial Inc.
Years ranked: 10 | Founded: 2005 | Headquarters: Westminster | Employees: 76, with 50 in Colorado Larson Financial is a family-owned and operated tax resolution firm. Established by brothers Jack and Ron Larson, the firm has helped more than 10,000 individuals and businesses in all 50 states resolve their tax liabilities.
20 | Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1999 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 56, with 53 in Colorado | Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher offers services across a diverse range of legal specialties, including appellate, bankruptcy, business, construction, employment, estate and tax planning, licensing, land use and real estate, and criminal defense.
21 | Done Plumbing & Heating
Years ranked: 8 | Founded: 1999 | Headquarters: Aurora | Employees: 60 in Colorado Done Plumbing and Heating provides plumbing, drain cleaning, heating and air conditioning services for residential and commercial properties in the metro area.
22 | Live Urban Real Estate
Years ranked: 9 | Founded: 2006 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 70 Live Urban Real Estate was founded by people who love Denver city living and firmly planted their roots in the city’s vibrant, urban neighborhoods. The company is ecologically-minded and virtually paperless. It also donates a portion of each sale to support local nonprofits chosen by its brokers.
23 | Communications Entravision Corp.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1995 | Headquarters: Santa Monica, Calif. | Employees: 1,194, with 50 in Colorado Entravision Communications Corporation is a leading global media company that reaches and engages U.S. Latinos and consumers in Mexico and other markets in Latin America. Entravision has 55 primary television stations and is the largest affiliate group of both the Univision and UniMás television networks. Entravision also owns and operates 49 primarily Spanish-language radio stations.
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Scholarship 24 | Denver Foundation
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 2006 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 63 Denver Scholarship Foundation provides the tools, knowledge, and financial resources to empower Denver Public Schools students to attend post-secondary institutions of higher education. The foundation partners with 31 colleges in Colorado, including technical and community colleges and traditional four-year colleges and universities. Since 2006, the foundation has awarded $38 million in scholarships.
25 | RevGen Partners
Years ranked: 5, 4 consecutive | Founded: 2008 Headquarters: Centennial | Employees: 111, with 86 in Colorado RevGen Partners is a business and technology consulting firm that helps clients by providing consulting services that span analytics and insights, customer experience and digital enablement. Twice a year, RevGenerosity petitions employees for nominations of nonprofit organizations that address issues related to education, poverty and disadvantaged, at-risk youth. In 2019, the company helped support the Colorado Chamber Orchestra Elementary Instrumental Music program, Dress for Success Denver , Girls on the Run of the Rockies, There with Care, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and the Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center.
26 | Pie Insurance Services Inc.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2017 | Headquarters: Washington, D.C. | Employees: 200, with 137 in Colorado Pie Insurance provides workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses in 34 states and the District of Columbia. The company also works with local, regional, and national insurance agencies to provide coverage to their clients.
27 | Bradsby Group
Years ranked: 8, 5 consecutive | Founded: 2004 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 106, with 83 in Colorado Bradsby Group is a premier recruiting firm servicing the accounting, health care, construction, engineering, energy, industrial, technology, legal, supply chain, and financial and cannabis markets. The employee-owned company’s name was inspired by the engraving on a Louisville Slugger baseball bat manufactured by a company named Hillerich and Bradsby.
designing of transportation facilities, water resources projects, stormwater and flood control management, and water and wastewater utilities.
29 | RE/MAX Alliance
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1984 | Headquarters: Arvada | Employees: 104 in Colorado RE/MAX Alliance is Colorado’s largest privately-owned real estate company. It has 20+ offices along the Front Range, including the entire Denver metro area. Its agents are committed to giving customers an excellent experience whether they are buying their first home, selling their house or working with a commercial property.
30 | Professional Assist Corp.
Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1987 | Headquarters: Golden | Employees: 55 Professional Assist Corporation is a suite of membership associations that serve more than 90,000 members working in spa, salon and wellness professions. In addition to liability insurance, PAC provides continuing education, practice-building guidance and legislative support.
Electric Power 31 | NEI Engineering Inc. Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1982 | Headquarters: Lakewood | Employees: 114 NEI Electric Power Engineering provides power system engineering services for all aspects of power systems engineering. NEI specializes in substation design, transmission and distribution line design and system commissioning.
32 | Atlas Real Estate
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2013 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 95, with 85 in Colorado With team members in Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, Atlas Real Estate serves the Front Range. What started as a humble fixand-flip company has grown into a brokerage, property management, and institutional acquisitions firm that has placed more than $1.2 billion of investor funds.
33 | Pima Medical Institute
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1972 | Headquarters: Tucson, Ariz. | Employees: 986, with 141 in Colorado Pima Medical Institute is a trusted provider of quality education in the western United States. The school’s students are employed at preferred hospitals, clinics and facilities.
28 | Muller Engineering Co. Inc. 34 | Choozle Years ranked: 5 | Founded: 1980 | Headquarters: Lakewood | Employees: 130 in Colorado An employee-owned civil engineering consulting firm, Muller Engineering Company, Inc., specializes in the planning and
Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 59 Choozle provides a digital advertising software platform that powers advertising campaigns across display, video, mobile, and
other mediums. Designed for advertising agencies and marketing departments, Choozle combines multiple digital advertising tools, a demand-side platform, a data management platform, and smart tag management into a single platform.
35 | SambaSafety
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1998 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 250, with 86 in Colorado SambaSafety is the industry leader in cloud-based driver risk management software. SambaSafety helps companies identify their high-risk driving populations to make roads safer for everyone.
36 | Olsson
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1956 | Headquarters: Lincoln, Neb. | Employees: 1,431, with 90 in Colorado Olsson is a nationally-recognized, employee-owned engineering and design firm that offers planning and design, engineering, environmental and technology services.
37 | Lokal Homes LLC
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2012 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 64 Lokal Homes builds in urban-suburban communities and takes pride in building structurally-sound homes backed by Three Peaks Warranty. The company focuses on providing the perfect mix of personalization without making building a home overwhelming.
38 | Total Quality Logistics
Years ranked: 3, 2 consecutive | Founded: 1997 Headquarters: Cincinnati | Employees: 5,500, with 90 in Colorado Total Quality Logistics is the second-largest freight brokerage firm in the nation, with 57 offices in 26 states. The company works with a network of more than 85,000 carriers to create greater supply-chain efficiencies for customers.
39 | Transwestern Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1978 | Headquarters: Houston | Employees: 2,400, with 70 in Colorado Transwestern is a privately-held real estate firm with 34 offices in the United States and more than 180 offices in 37 countries. It specializes in agency leasing, management tenant advisory, capital markets, research and sustainability services.
40 | Vander Vegt & Associates
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1985 | Headquarters: Sheridan | Employees: 120 Vander Vegt & Associates, DBA Dutch’s Masonry, offers more than a dozen services and is Denver’s full-service exterior cladding contractor.
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Heating 41 | Cooper and Cooling Inc.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2015 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 144 in Colorado CyberGRX operates the world’s largest cyber risk exchange platform, which gives its customers access to the cyber risk data of critical vendors, advanced analytics that prioritize mitigation efforts and fact-based insights. CyberGRX provides its clients with the tools they need to efficiently manage, monitor and mitigate risk.
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1978 | Headquarters: Broomfield | Employees: 147 in Colorado Cooper Heating and Cooling is a full-service HVAC company that offers installation, repair, maintenance, and replacement services. Cooper was the first company in Colorado to seal duct joints with a putty-like paste to prevent air leakage. The technique is now an industry standard.
42 | Griffis Residential Years ranked: 7, 5 consecutive | Founded: 1985 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 228, with 129 in Colorado
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Griffis Residential owns and manages high-quality apartment communities in premier locations, including Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas. The company was founded in 1985 by Ian Griffis when he was still in college.
cial transactions and disputes. The firm’s clients include startups and Fortune 100 enterprises, tax-exempt organizations and associations.
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43 | AMP Robotics
John Elway Chevrolet is Colorado’s top Chevy Dealer with the state’s largest Chevrolet inventory.
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Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1961 | Headquarters: Lakewood | Employees: 69 in Colorado The RMH Group is a mechanical, electrical and industrial process consulting engineering firm. The company’s core disciplines of HVAC, plumbing and
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Years ranked: 4, 2 consecutive | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 91, 83 in Colorado Greystone Technology Group provides information technology services including managed service, supplemental service, on-demand service, cybersecurity assessments, consulting and management, website and app development, and end-user training.
48 | Carlton Electric
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1993 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 94 Carlton Electric is a full-service electrical contractor that serves customers in Colorado and Wyoming.
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Years ranked: 4 | Founded: 1976 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 125, including 122 in Colorado Moye White is a full-service law firm offering strategic representation in complex commer-
47 | Greystone Technology Group Inc.
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2011 | Headquarters: Englewood | Employees: 100 in Colorado
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2014 | Headquarters: Louisville | Employees: 100, including 90 in Colorado AMP Robotics is modernizing the world’s recycling infrastructure by applying AI and robotics to increase recycling rates and recover recyclables reclaimed as raw materials for the global supply chain.
power are complemented by specialties in lighting design, building controls and central utilities.
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Heating and Electric
Years ranked: 5 | Founded: 1980 | Headquarters: Thornton | Employees: 80 The plumbers, HVAC technicians and electricians at Brothers Plumbing, Heating and Electric have provided service for more than 30 years. The company provides services from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily and doesn’t charge overtime fees.
51 | REcolorado
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 1984 | Headquarters: Greenwood Village | Employees: 55 in Colorado REcolorado’s home search site provides up-to-date information about homes for sale in Colorado. Get information about a neighborhood’s popularity, walk and pet friendliness, travel times to work and play, mountain views, utility estimates, housing market statistics, and more.
52 | Centro
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Chicago | Employees: 644, with 69 in Colorado Centro provides software for digital advertisers through Basis, the industry’s most powerful and comprehensive automated digital media management platform. Basis enables marketers to plan, buy, analyze and streamline campaigns for programmatic, direct, search and social.
BCER Engineering, 53 | Inc. Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 1994 | Headquarters: Arvada | Employees: 90, with 70 in Colorado BCER provides engineering design services to architects, contractors and building owners. The company’s notable projects include the Denver International Airport Westin Hotel, the new campus for UC Health at Fitzsimons, the Wellington Webb Office Building, Denver Botanic Gardens Science Pyramid, U.S. Olympic Museum and the CU Williams Village Housing Campus.
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54 | Donor Alliance Inc.
Years ranked: 7, 6 consecutive | Founded: 1985 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 152, with 139 in Colorado Donor Alliance is the organ and tissue procurement agency for Colorado and most of Wyoming. The not-for-profit organization serves nearly a million residents and more than 110 hospitals.
55 | Apartment Cornerstone
Services Inc .
Years ranked: 5 | Founded: 1998 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 100 Cornerstone is a third-party property management company that serves both the owners of the buildings it manages and the residents who live there. The company works to make the buildings more energy-efficient and ensure residents feel safe in their homes.
56 | Billtrust
Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2001 | Headquarters: Lawrenceville, N.J. | Employees: 550, with 133 in Colorado As the leading provider of order-to-cash solutions, Billtrust has always focused on making it easier for companies to get paid. The company’s cloud-based platform lets businesses automate their accounts receivable operations.
57 | Hotel Engine Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2015 | Headquarters: Glendale | Employees: 130, 127 in Colorado Hotel Engine is a high-growth travel tech company that makes lodging management easier for businesses. The company serves industries such as construction, transportation and logistics, oil and gas, retail, healthcare, and more.
58 | Guarantee Electrical Company
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1902 | Headquarters: St. Louis | Employees: 576, with 137 in Colorado Guarantee Electrical offers more than a century of expertise in electrical engineering, electrical preconstruction, designbuild/design-assist, communications, data, security and life-safe-
ty systems, and 24/7 emergency/ maintenance quick response.
59 | Assembly Advanced Years ranked: 2 | Founded: 2004 | Headquarters: Aurora | Employees: 113 Advanced Assembly offers quick turn printed circuit board assembly service. The company has assembled more than 40,000 designs in the past decade.
National 60 | Cattlemen’s Association
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1898 | Headquarters: Centennial | Employees: 140, 133 in Colorado The association is the marketing organization and trade association for America’s one million cattle farmers and ranchers.
Kentwood 61 | Real Estate Years ranked: 7 | Founded: 1980 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 284, 54 in Colorado Kentwood Real Estate is the market leader in Denver luxury real estate home sales.
Employees: 83 Travelers Haven is one of the four largest corporate housing companies in the United States. The company provides full-service temporary housing solutions.
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| Thomas Cuisine at Eating Recovery Center
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1986 | Headquarters: Meridian, Idaho | Employees: 2,00, with 80 in Colorado Thomas Cuisine is an awardwinning, privately-held contract food service company. Its culinary team prepares fresh, scratch-made meals daily at partner sites across the country.
66 | CORE Consultants Years ranked: 3 | Founded: 2014 | Headquarters: Englewood| Employees: 67 in Colorado CORE Consultants offers civil engineering, natural resources, land surveying, and development services in the land development, energy and public sectors throughout Colorado and
the West. CORE is passionate about supporting the community through organizations like Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado , STEMblazers, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver and ElevateHER .
67 | ENSCO Inc.
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1969 | Headquarters: Springfield, Va. | Employees: 630, with 83 in Colorado ENSCO and its wholly-owned subsidiaries represent a $140 million global technology enterprise, headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area. For more than 50 years, the ENSCO group of companies has been providing engineering, science and advanced technology solutions in the aerospace, avionics, national security, rail and cybersecurity sectors.
68 | CBIZ
Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 1996 | Headquarters: Cleveland | Employees: 4,807, with 118 in Colorado CBIZ is one of the nation’s top providers of accounting, tax and advisory services.
Pinnacle Real 62 | Estate Advisors
Years ranked: 4, 3 consecutive | Founded: 2006 | Headquarters: Denver | Employees: 61, 53 in Colorado Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm that focuses on delivering innovative real estate solutions that are clientcentric and relationship-focused.
JumpStart 63 | Autism Center Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2008 | Headquarters: Albuquerque, N.M. | Employees: 117, 50 in Colorado The JumpStart Autism Center is a nationally-recognized behavioral health provider specializing in early childhood evaluation, diagnosis, and therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorders. The center specializes in behavioral treatments for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
64 | Travelers Haven Years ranked: 1 | Founded: 2008 | Headquarters: Denver |
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10 years The winners of champs Large Company Winners
2021
Large: Pinnacol Assurance Midsize: Custom Made Meals Small: Digible
2020
Large: Salesforce Midsize: RE/MAX Professionals Small: Booyah Advertising
2019
Large: East West Partners Midsize: Madison and Co. Properties Small: Choozle
2018
Large: Breckenridge Grand Vacations Midsize: Madison and Co. Properties Small: Zoom Video Communications
2017
Large: USAA Midsize: 8z Real Estate Small: GoSpotCheck
2016
Large: Alliance Data Midsize: PorchLight Real Estate Group Small: Supreme Lending
2015
Large: USAA Midsize: Physician Health Partners Small: Live Urban Real Estate
2014
Large: Edward Jones Midsize: The Container Store Small: Visiting Angels of Littleton
2013
Large: Anadarko Petroleum Corp./Denver Midsize: The Container Store Small: Restaurant Solutions
2012
Large: Anadarko Petroleum Corp./Denver Midsize: Rally Software Small: Restaurant Solutions And businesses that have been recognized all 10 years in The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces competition: Large: FirstBank Large: Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services* Midsize: Physician Health Partners* Midsize: Slalom Midsize: Weifield Group Contracting Small: Larson Financial Inc. (dba Larson Tax Relief) Small: Bradsby Group* *Not ranked in some years but still met the national standard.
1. Pinnacol Assurance 2. Keysight Technologies 3. Salesforce 4. Panda Restaurant Group 5. Edward Jones 6. Encore Electric, Inc. 7. RingCentral 8. Fidelity Investments 9. Ibotta Inc. 10. Charles Schwab & Co. 11. Breckenridge Grand Vacations 12. Rose Medical Center 13. American Financing 14. Jefferson Center for Mental Health 15. Greystar 16. DSST Public Schools 17. Swedish Medical Center 18. CACI International Inc. 19. Mental Health Center of Denver 20. City of Arvada 21. FirstBank 22. Aims Community College 23. Bright Horizons Family Solutions 24. UCHealth 25. Sturgeon Electric Company Inc. 26. Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services 27. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Midsize Company Winners 1. Custom Made Meals 2. West + Main Homes 3. madison & Co. Properties 4. Visiting Angels of Denver 5. Friday Health Plans 6. 8z Real Estate 7. Galloway & Company Inc. 8. Renewal by Andersen of Colorado 9. Physician Health Partners 10. Ping Identity Corp. 11. Progressive Insurance 12. Delta Dental of Colorado 13. PorchLight Real Estate Group 14. Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric 15. CableLabs 16. LONG Building Technologies 17. Connect for Health Colorado 18. Samuel Engineering Inc. 19. Slalom Consulting 20. Turner Construction Co. 21. EOG Resources 22. SpotX 23. Wiland Inc. 24. Ulteig 25. Lohmiller and Company. (dba Carrier West) 26. Syncroness Inc. 27. Burns & McDonnell 28. Security Service Federal Credit Union 29. Echelon Property Group 30. Spyderco Inc. 31. Personal Capital 32. AllHealth Network 33. General Air Service & Supply 34. MTech Mechanical 35. Griffis Blessing Inc. 36. Adolfson & Peterson Construction 37. Hammersmith Management 38. Weifield Group Contracting 39. Aurora Organic Dairy 40. Uplight 41. First Western Financial 42. ICAT 43. Mission Rock Residential 44. CoreSite LLC 45. AFC Urgent Care Denver 46. LPR Construction Co.
47. Aimco 48. Tyler Technologies 49. Tallgrass Energy 50. Risas Dental Management LLC 51. Haselden Construction 52. Xactly Corporation 53. Coalfire Systems Inc. 54. Shaw Construction 55. SCI Funeral Services of Colorado
Small Company Winners 1. Digible 2. MotoRefi 3. Supreme Lending 4. CrossCountry Mortgage 5. Home Mortgage Alliance LLC 6. Vanguard Skin Specialists 7. Tensentric Inc. 8. Bloom Healthcare 9. Booyah Advertising 10. American Indian College Fund 11. National Valuation Consultants Inc. 12. Camden Property Trust 13. RBC Wealth Management LLC 14. Anderson Mason Dale Architects 15. IntelePeer 16. Liberty Media Corp. 17. Swinerton Builders 18. Credera 19. Larson Financial Inc. (dba Larson Tax Relief) 20. Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP 21. Done Plumbing & Heating 22. Live Urban Real Estate 23. Entravision Communications Corp. 24. Denver Scholarship Foundation 25. RevGen Partners 26. Pie Insurance Services Inc. 27. Bradsby Group 28. Muller Engineering Co. Inc. 29. RE/MAX Alliance 30. Professional Assist Corp. 31. NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc. 32. Atlas Real Estate 33. Pima Medical Institute 34. Choozle 35. SamabaSafety 36. Olsson 37. Lokal Homes LLC 38. Total Quality Logistics 39. Transwestern 40. Vander Vegt & Associates Inc. (dba Dutch’s Masonry) 41. Cooper Heating and Cooling Inc. 42. Griffis Residential 43. AMP Robotics 44. Moye White LLP 45. John Elway Chevrolet 46. RMH Group 47. Greystone Technology Group, Inc. 48. Carlton Electric 49. Brothers Plumbing, Heating and Electric 50. CyberGRX Inc. 51. REcolorado 52. Centro 53. BCER Engineering, Inc. 54. Donor Alliance Inc. 55. Cornerstone Apartment Services Inc. 56. Billtrust 57. Hotel Engine 58. Guarantee Electrical Co. 59. Advanced Assembly 60. National Cattlemen’s Association 61. Kentwood Real Estate 62. Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors 63. JumpStart Autism Center 64. Travelers Haven 65. Thomas Cuisine at Eating Recovery Center 66. CORE Consultants 67. ENSCO Inc. 68. CBIZ