Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping food and agriculture in Denver. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
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24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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28 of 298 tracked companies have open roles.
57 of 298 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 82 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 45.5% of disclosed capital, while 80.9% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $15.39M | 12 | 5 |
| 2017 | $19.99M | 17 | 7 |
| 2018 | $79.08M | 17 | 9 |
| 2019 | $74.88M | 9 | 11 |
| 2020 | $43.51M | 9 | 3 |
| 2021 | $34.35M | 11 | 3 |
| 2022 | $8.93M | 6 | 7 |
| 2023 | $35.14M | 5 | 9 |
| 2024 | $10.43M | 0 | 6 |
| 2025 | $5.82M | 0 | 5 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
101 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in food and agriculture company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Stray Dog Capital and Rocana Ventures and others.
Backed by Louis Dreyfus Company and Unovis Asset Management and others.
Backed by NIPPN.
Backed by GHP and Gotham Green Partners and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Sunrise Strategic Partners.
Backed by New Crop Capital and Stray Dog Capital.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by New Crop Capital and Stray Dog Capital and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 3 reporting entities from 3 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Denver market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 3 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 3 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molson Coors ↗24545 | $13,040.3m | $-2,139.6m | -16.4% | — | — |
| The Simply Good Foods Company ↗1702744 | $1,450.9m | $103.6m | +7.1% | — | — |
| Intrepid Potash ↗1421461 | $298.3m | $11.2m | +3.7% | — | — |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
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Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the Denver companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
13 of these companies (4.4%) publish at least one Android app — 13 apps in all, carrying 459.1K installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teriyaki MadnessTeriyaki Madness | 267.7K | 4.8 | Food & Drink |
| Snooze A.M. Eatery Mobile AppSnooze | 163K | 4.7 | Food & Drink |
| Illegal Pete’s AppIllegal Petes | 7.5K | 4.2 | Food & Drink |
| Garbanzo RewardGarbanzo Mediterranean Fresh | 5.5K | 3.3 | Food & Drink |
| Mici ItalianMiciitalian | 4.5K | 4.4 | Food & Drink |
| Ice-O-MaticIce-O-Matic | 4.5K | 3.5 | Business |
| FelFel Mediterranean RewardsFelFel Mediterranean | 2.9K | 2.6 | Food & Drink |
| Brothers BBQBrothers BBQ | 1.2K | — | Food & Drink |
| Seattle Fish Co.Seattle Fish | 984 | — | Food & Drink |
| EP DistributionEP Distribution | 591 | — | Food & Drink |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
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The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Molson Coors Beverage Company has completed its acquisition of Atomic Brands Inc., the maker of Monaco Cocktails, formally adding the brand to its U.S. Beyond Beer portfolio and positioning itself among the top five suppliers in the ready-to-drink cocktail segment.
Ardent Mills to acquire specialty grain facility in North Dakota
Over the past few years, Greenlit has sold Plush to Nick Scali and Snooze to Larry Kestelman’s Queens Lane Capital.
Denver’s Station 26 Brewing (founded: 2013) was acquired by Wilding Brands, a holding company created by Stem Ciders founder Eric Foster.
Ignite sold Mac less than two years later for $8 million.
Great Divide Brewing, another of Colorado’s legacy companies, was acquired by the newly formed Lafayette-based parent company of both Denver Beer Co., Funkwerks, Howdy Beer, Cerveceria Colorado and Stem Ciders.
New Water previously held fresh foods provider Custom Made Meals, which it acquired in 2017 and sold in May 2021.
Koios, a Herzliya, Israel-based company which specializes in financial intelligence solutions, raised $5M in Seed funding.
Minie became CEO of women- and minority-owned wine brand Mom Juice.
The Simply Good Foods Company is to cut jobs as the US food and drinks group looks to reduce costs and speed-up decision making. In a statement yesterday (21 April), the Colorado-based company said it plans to cut around 15% of overall staffing levels compared with its “prior plans”.
Top 10 categories among 313 recorded events in the 24-month window.
22 tracked people moves
Resignation Previously Chief Communications and Corporate Affairs Officer at Molson Coors
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Departure Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment President of Sales in Canada
Departure
Appointment President and Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
3 recorded customer wins
Customer: Niraj Aryal and Rebecca MichaelRestaurant
Customer: Oil companies and water delivery companiesWater resources/Fracking
Customer: Fevertree DrinksBeverage
3 companies with reported reductions
15.0% rolescost reduction
200 rolesfinancial sustainability
Scale not stated rolescost reduction
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 57 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molson Coors→atomic brands | Completed | 2026-04-02 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Molson Coors→fever-tree | Completed | 2026-02-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Molson Coors→Fevertree Drinks | 2025-12-30 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Ardent Mills→specialty grain facility in North Dakota | Announced | 2025-12-26 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Larry Kestelman’s Queens Lane Capital→Snooze ↗ | 2025-11-26 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Ardent Mills→stone mill | Announced | 2025-09-10 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
608 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 989-posting snapshot covers 29 employers.
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
316 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 989 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 81 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Molson Coors ↗ | 16,500 |
| SSA Group ↗ | 5,000 |
| Leprino Foods ↗ | 4,063 |
| Ardent Mills ↗ | 1,548 |
| Snooze ↗ | 619 |
| Intrepid Potash ↗ | 473 |
| Punch Bowl Social ↗ | 403 |
| The Simply Good Foods Company ↗ | 271 |
100 founders and chief executives across 72 companies.
Wicked Foods, BlueNalu, The LiveKindly Collective, Pitcairn Financial Group, Anark.
Premeir Nutrition, ex-Joint Juice. University at Buffalo 1987
Gastamo Group, ex-Denver Deluxe, Park Burger. College of Charleston BBA 2009, University of Denver - Daniels College of Business MBA 2
Ex-Centerline Partners, Calypso Search Group, BusinessEdge Solutions, Stride and Associates. University of Massachusetts Amherst BA 1997
Ed-University of Sydney MA 1995
ex-Danone, The WhiteWave Foods Company, Charter Communications, Newmont Mining Corporation. Penn State University BS 2007…
No Cow, ex-2x Consumer Products Growth Partners, ex-Norwest Equity Partners, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, 2015
Ex-Kristin Taylor Events, OneTen Creative. StoneBridge High School 2011, Tidewater Community College 2013.
Ex-Salesforce, Founder Sold Easily. Queen's University 2013
ex-University of Connecticut, University of Colorado Denver. The University of Connecticut BS
Ex-Owner Ronoh Contracting, LifeBox. Colorado Christian University 2016
Founder HeyHon, ex- HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Co-Founder Freedom Toy Company. University of Economics Prague, The University of Texas at Austin BBA 2013
0 profiles with education records.
1 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
4,991 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Denver · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 1,242 |
| 2021Q3 | 1,207 |
| 2021Q4 | 882 |
| 2022Q1 | 1,068 |
| 2022Q2 | 1,032 |
| 2022Q3 | 1,014 |
| 2022Q4 | 1,005 |
| 2023Q1 | 1,104 |
| 2023Q2 | 1,216 |
| 2023Q3 | 998 |
| 2023Q4 | 1,068 |
| 2024Q1 | 1,347 |
| 2024Q2 | 1,220 |
| 2024Q3 | 1,440 |
| 2024Q4 | 1,224 |
| 2025Q1 | 2,883 |
| 2025Q2 | 1,188 |
| 2025Q3 | 1,605 |
| 2025Q4 | 1,107 |
| 2026Q1 | 1,090 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
506 recorded company events across 24 companies; percentages use that event total.
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Denver · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
United States comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| shrimp aquaculture | 1,469 | 980 | 50% |
| land-frozen seafood | 1,378 | 790 | 74% |
| shrimp harvest | 1,132 | 643 | 76% |
| shrimp | 1,126 | 686 | 64% |
| college playoffs | 1,029 | 666 | 55% |
| ceo change | 1,029 | 690 | 49% |
| crab availability | 963 | 648 | 49% |
| fresh shellfish | 908 | 583 | 56% |
| tuna steak | 902 | 539 | 67% |
| flash-frozen seafood | 894 | 483 | 85% |
| f1 world championship | 1,972 | 3,224 | -39% |
| f1 championship | 1,863 | 2,930 | -36% |
| poultry health | 804 | 2,053 | -61% |
| wildlife disease monitoring | 377 | 1,952 | -81% |
| h5n1 avian influenza | 356 | 1,818 | -80% |
United States comparison coverage
food rescue donations, meal distribution funding, emergency food aid
34.1% critical · 38.3% positivefood rescue donations, meal distribution funding, hunger assistance programs
31.3% critical · 47.8% positivewhole-farm revenue policies, earnings report, stock performance
22.1% critical · 48.5% positiveFood and Agriculture coverage tagged Denver. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
652 papers in the recorded india scope.
Tone counts: 584 positive · 34 neutral · 34 negative.
Landmark: Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for?
Landmark: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
Landmark: Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis
Common problems researchers identify · 0134.4% of this theme group
Researchers highlight climate impacts on food security and the need for coordinated government policies.
Climate change (20) · Agriculture (43) · Food security (17) · Government (6)
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action
Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2087.7 |
| 2023 | 2154.4 |
| 2024 | 2121.1 |
| 2025 | 2354.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0229.6% of this theme group
Papers point to technical and adoption barriers when combining robotics, vision, and connectivity in farming.
Robotics (10) · Agriculture (32) · Robot (6) · Internet of Things (6)
Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1344.5 |
| 2023 | 1371.8 |
| 2024 | 1420.2 |
| 2025 | 1404.4 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0323.2% of this theme group
Studies discuss how growth patterns and public economics limit agricultural technology diffusion.
Agriculture (27) · Economic growth (3) · Agricultural economics (4) · Public economics (2)
Agricultural Technology in Africa
Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 819.3 |
| 2023 | 801.0 |
| 2024 | 650.4 |
| 2025 | 375.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0412.8% of this theme group
Research examines on‑farm practices that affect nutrient use efficiency and dairy productivity.
Agricultural science (4) · Nutrient management (2) · Nutrient (2) · Agronomy (2)
Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics
An overview of organic, grassfed dairy farm management and factors related to higher milk production
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 389.6 |
| 2023 | 372.3 |
| 2024 | 270.2 |
| 2025 | 197.4 |
Cautions · 0136.4% of this theme group
Authors caution that climate‑smart approaches may not guarantee long‑term sustainability or lower emissions.
Climate change (8) · Agriculture (13) · Sustainability (3) · Greenhouse gas (3)
A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debat
Climate smart agriculture and global food-crop production
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2330.1 |
| 2023 | 2430.6 |
| 2024 | 2427.5 |
| 2025 | 2687.8 |
Cautions · 0231.8% of this theme group
Evidence shows mixed results for technology uptake and the role of information among smallholders.
Agriculture (11) · Agricultural economics (4) · Diversification (2) · Developing country (2)
An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 392.7 |
| 2023 | 376.2 |
| 2024 | 353.1 |
| 2025 | 221.7 |
Cautions · 0318.2% of this theme group
Works raise concerns about ruminal health and zoonotic disease exposure linked to farm practices.
Relationship between farm management strategies, reticuloruminal pH variations, and risks of subacute ruminal acidosis
Farm management practices associated with influenza A virus contamination of people working in Midwestern United States swine farms
Cautions · 0413.6% of this theme group
Studies reveal that management choices, not soil microbes, often drive nutrient loss and resilience outcomes.
Ecology (2) · Food security (2) · Agriculture (3)
Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda
Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1722.6 |
| 2023 | 1724.9 |
| 2024 | 1524.1 |
| 2025 | 1119.1 |
Opportunities · 0130.4% of this theme group
Research explores low‑power AI and sensor systems that enable real‑time field decision making.
Agriculture (53) · Precision agriculture (16) · Intrusion detection system (5) · Archaeology (5)
Smart Agriculture Revolution: Edge AI for Precision Farming on Low-Power Embedded Systems
Smart Agriculture System for Soil Analysis and Crop Suggestion using AI Techniques
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 369.9 |
| 2023 | 372.1 |
| 2024 | 472.5 |
| 2025 | 393.8 |
Opportunities · 0217.6% of this theme group
Papers identify agroforestry and tillage practices as pathways to mitigate climate impacts on crops.
Climate change (18) · Agriculture (46) · Agroforestry (13) · Tillage (7)
Adapting agriculture to climate change: institutional determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Ken
Climate-smart agriculture: Greenhouse gas mitigation in climate-smart villages of Ghana
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2223.0 |
| 2023 | 2259.9 |
| 2024 | 2327.9 |
| 2025 | 2386.7 |
Opportunities · 0317.6% of this theme group
Works present navigation and multi‑task robots designed to operate safely among crops.
Robot (36) · Mobile robot (7) · Robotics (8) · Agriculture (25)
Vision‐based Obstacle Detection and Navigation for an Agricultural Robot
Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 827.0 |
| 2023 | 847.9 |
| 2024 | 840.1 |
| 2025 | 849.0 |
Opportunities · 0416.3% of this theme group
Studies demonstrate cloud‑linked sensor networks that improve crop monitoring and resource efficiency.
Internet of Things (27) · Agriculture (35) · Cloud computing (10) · Wireless (6)
Smart Agriculture Based on IoT and Cloud Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Machine Learning Models for Efficient Monitoring of Smart Agriculture
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1136.6 |
| 2023 | 1111.1 |
| 2024 | 1090.0 |
| 2025 | 1158.5 |
Opportunities · 059.3% of this theme group
Research quantifies poverty reduction and welfare gains from improved machinery and storage solutions.
Agricultural economics (8) · Agriculture (23) · Welfare (3) · Agricultural machinery (3)
Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania
Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Improved Grain Storage Bags in Uganda
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 399.5 |
| 2023 | 382.4 |
| 2024 | 359.2 |
| 2025 | 243.2 |
Opportunities · 068.7% of this theme group
Papers investigate how farm practices influence pathogen risk and pollinator health.
Herd (3) · Flock (3) · Biosecurity (3) · Pollinator (3)
Farm Management, Environment, and Weather Factors Jointly Affect the Probability of Spinach Contamination by Generic Escherichia coli at the
Using farm management practices to predict Campylobacter prevalence in pastured poultry farms
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.3 |
| 2023 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 12.9 |
| 2025 | 14.8 |
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Promising | 35.9% | 37.3% |
| Problem-identifying | 19.8% | 9.6% |
| Descriptive | 16.9% | 17.5% |
| Breakthrough | 15.8% | 26.2% |
| Cautionary | 7.2% | 4.5% |
| Comparative | 2.9% | 4.0% |
| Critical | 1.5% | 1.0% |
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceThe State and Future of Smart Agriculture: Insights from mining social media | 6 | 1.01% | 2 (33.3%) | 1.19% |
| Labour & data workThe Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology | 5 | 0.84% | 2 (40.0%) | 0.21% |
| Energy & datacenter footprint | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.12% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chain | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Bias & fairness | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
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Company ecosystem snapshot: 4 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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