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Silicon Mountain, also known as the "Silicon Flatirons" is a nickname given to the tech hub in the
Silicon Mountain, also known as the "Silicon Flatirons" is a nickname given to the tech hub in the 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 Unit ...
metropolitan area and Colorado Springs, Colorado metropolitan area. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Coun ...
, but refers to the Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico ...
beyond the skyline. Denver startups raised $401 million in 2015, and Boulder startups raised $183 million in 2015.
Startups
* SolidFire *Zayo Group
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., or Zayo Group, is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. with European headquarters in London, England. The company provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and band ...
* Dot Hill Systems
*AlchemyAPI
AlchemyAPI was a software company in the field of machine learning. Its technology employed deep learning for various applications in natural language processing, such as semantic text analysis and sentiment analysis, as well as computer vision ...
Venture capital
Incubators
* The Founder Institute * Techstars * Innovation PavilionFortune 500 Companies
*Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is an American company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. It is best known for its early production of glass jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Since its founding in Buffalo, New York, in 1880, when it w ...
* CH2M
* DaVita
* Dish Network
* Envision Healthcare
Envision Healthcare is an American healthcare company and national hospital-based physician group.
History
In December 2016, Envison and AMSURG merged, and shortly thereafter the company's stock replaced Legg Mason in the S&P 500 index.
In 2 ...
* Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications was an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. It ultimately became a part of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), where Level 3 President ...
* Newmont
Newmont Corporation is a gold mining company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States. It is the world's largest gold mining corporation. Incorporated in 1921, it owns gold mines in Nevada, Colorado, Ontario, Quebec, Mexico, the Domin ...
* Qurate Retail Group
Qurate Retail Group (commonly known as Qurate Retail, Inc.) is an American media conglomerate controlled by company chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares.
History 1998 launch by Liberty Media
Liberty Interactive wa ...
* Western Union
The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services company, headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company cha ...
See also
*Denver Tech Center Denver Technological Center, better known as The Denver Tech Center or DTC, is a business and economic trading center located in Colorado in the southeastern portion of the Denver Metropolitan Area, within portions of the cities of Denver, Colorado, ...
* 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 Medical Response - emergency services, corporate headquarters in Greenwood Village, Colorado
* A ...
* List of places with "Silicon" names
References
High-technology business districts in the United States Information technology places {{business-stub