Silicon Mountain (Denver)
Silicon Mountain, also known as the "Silicon Flatirons" is a nickname given to the tech hub in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area and Colorado Springs, Colorado metropolitan area. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the Rocky Mountains beyond the skyline. Denver startups raised $401 million in 2015, and Boulder startups raised $183 million in 2015. Startups * SolidFire *Zayo Group * Dot Hill Systems *AlchemyAPI Venture capital Incubators * The Founder Institute * Techstars * Innovation Pavilion Fortune 500 Companies * Ball Corporation * CH2M * DaVita * Dish Network * Envision Healthcare * Level 3 Communications * Newmont * Qurate Retail Group * Western Union See also *Denver Tech Center * Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation *List of companies with Denver area operations This is a list of notable companies based or having major operations in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. Headquarters in Denver area * American Medica ...
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Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ...
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