Best Mobile Companies in Colorado, United States
The 44 best Mobile companies in Colorado, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: OneRiot.
Our analysis of 77 Mobile companies
$13.3b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Colorado
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OneRiot Advertising network for Twitter Apps | $22M | 204 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Robert Reich Co-Founder | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Roximity Provider of an iBeacon-powered location advertising platform | $3M | 129 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | 2 patents Secure proximity beacon authentication for IoT and location-based services. | — |
| 3 | FeedMob Platform offering mobile ad analytics solution | $3M | 100 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressMySQLFroala Editor+25 | — | — |
| 4 | AppThis Mobile App Distribution and Advertising | $2M | 123 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 5 | SPYR Developer & publisher of social games for mobile gaming platform | $1M | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | James R Thompson CEO | 1988 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Airpush Mobile ad network with DSP and Ad exchange | $400K | 187 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2011 | — | 12 patents Mobile advertising platforms: dynamic ad formats, targeting, retargeting, and click‑fraud detection. | — |
| 7 | YaBeam Location-based marketing engine for publishers and content creators | $150K | 158 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jill Tomich Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Backflip Studios Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual games | $145K | 204 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | — | — | — |
Top 10 Mobile companies in Colorado
#1
Acqui-Hired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 1 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Roximity provides an iBeacon-powered location advertising platform. It is a location-based advertising platform offering technology which enables retailers, brands, and venues to interact with nearby consumers. Roximity offers innovative beacon hardware, a robust SDK, and a full suite of targeted mobile messaging and analytics tools. Clients include brands like Mondelez, Ford, and the Brooklyn Nets.
- Nov 2015Seed$250K
- Nov 2014Seed$450K
- Oct 2014Seed$105K
- Dec 2013Seed$1.5M
#2
Seed · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2015 · 26 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Platform offering mobile ad analytics solution. The platform offers mobile analytics and an anti-fraud solution that enables users to protect the campaign and analyzes the data in real-time. It visualizes the big data, maps attribution, and the optimization tools track conversions and assess multiple layered KPIs.
- Apr 2018Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2016Seed$292.9K
- Dec 2015Seed$35K
#3
Acqui-Hired · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2006 · 28 employees$22Mraised▾
OneRiot delivers socially-targeted mobile media campaigns for clients such as The Gap, Toyota and AT&T. With OneRiot, clients can target media to audiences with specific interests and demographics in defined geo-locations. The company analyzes masses of publicly-available mobile social media activity to determine audience characteristics. Clients can execute media campaigns directly with OneRiot across its own network of mobile apps, or leverage its targeting data for use across other sources of mobile inventory. OneRiot is a privately held company. Investors include Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.
- Aug 2009Series C$7M
- Jun 2007Series B$15M
#4
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 1988 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer & publisher of social games for the mobile gaming platform. The company engaged in mobile application and game publishing and development. Also, it develops and resells Apple ecosystem-compatible products with an emphasis on the growing multibillion-dollar IoT smart home and connected car markets.
- Nov 2017Conventional Debt$500K
- Sep 2017Conventional Debt$500K
#5
Series A · Denver, Colorado · founded 2014 · 38 employees$1.8Mraised▾
AppThis is a mobile app distribution and advertising platform to provide targeted advertising on mobile devices. Enables targeting of users through different ad formats including native/in-stream and targeted app walls. Provides a suite of publisher products for monetizing mobile traffic such as a Native Widget and other innovative advertiser objective formats such as direct response, click to call and video.
- May 2016Series A$1M
- Dec 2014Seed$800K
#6
Acqui-Hired · Denver, Colorado · founded 2011 · 153 employees$400Kraised▾
Airpush provides a mobile advertising network. The platform provides an in-application advertising network. The platform provides application monetizing solutions to publishers. The platform also includes application campaign management solution. The platform is used by companies like Walmart, Nissan, KFC, and Huawei.
- Jan 2011Seed$400K
#7
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012$150Kraised▾
Location-based marketing engine for publishers and content creators. This platform empowers publishers and content creators to market content to niche mobile consumers globally. It leverages location to engage mobile consumers at the perfect moment with text and multimedia. The platform offers tools to target content globally and provides data insights to understand mobile customers. It is designed for both publishers looking to market content and venues aiming to make relevant content available to their customers. This is a SaaS platform that helps in mobile marketing, content distribution, and targeted advertising. It is a B2B solution for publishers and venues.
- Jun 2013Seed$150K
#8
Acquired · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2009 · 22 employees$145Kraised▾
Backflip Studios is a Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual games. They gained popularity with their Mobile title Paper Toss - a casual mobile game initially launched on iOS and later ported to Android. The game has been reportedly downloaded 24 million times. Other popular titles from them include DragonVale and NinJump - both casual mobile games.
- Aug 2009Seed$145K
#9
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 2012 · 110 employees$10Kraised▾
Secure messaging platform. With this app, one can send short messages in a chat style, similar to SMS messaging. Provides end-to-end encryption for all text, shared files, and images along with a feature-rich interface. Its mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.
- Jul 2012PE—
#10
Deadpooled · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2011—raised▾
Snapjoy is an online platform that organizes users photo libraries using metadata. It deletes duplicates and organizes photos into categories. Photos can be imported into Snapjoy from any of the variety of online cloud photo storage platforms and uploaded photos on to the platform. Was acquired and subsequently shut down by Dropbox. Allows users to share photos with select users who can copy the same into their libraries.
- Jun 2011Seed—
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