Boulder Is for Startups

a BOULDER mas .300 Population (2010) More than 97,385 days of sunshine per year Total number of businesses in Boulder Elevation above sea level 5,430 IS FOR STARTUPS 16,766 "America's Best Town for Startups" (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2011) is just one among countless superlatives used to describe the sunny city of Boulder, Colorado. It's also the skinniest, the bookbing healthiest, and the happiest. So it's no wonder startups are gravitating here in record numbers. 1,300+ 10 Live music events annually Microbreweries Master Sommeliers 93,000 Bicycles in Boulder PEARL STREET 1,200+ WALNUT STREET Meetup groups 35 31,143 Minutes to Number of dog parks in Boulder 4 nearest University of Colorado enrollment ski area MORE THAN 144 (Eldora) 680 Miles of hiking trails in Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Skiable acres at Eldora # 1 69% University of Boulder Colorado at rank in NASA research funding Percent population aged 25+ with bachelor's degree or higher (vs. national average of 30%) 1898 Year the Colorado ! Chatauqua was founded e 18.7 MINUTES ITI. Mean travel time to work Red Rocks Amphitheater 24 MI #1 Rank in the nation for number of scientists and engineers as Aspen 170 MI percent of workforce 2011 AWARDS 2012 AWARDS Top 10 Travel Destinations for 2012 (No. 7) Lonely Planet Skinniest City in America Vail 100 MI Galup TEDXBoulder 2011 Attendance Happiest City in America Gallup Top 10 Foodie Cities (No. 3) Livability.com Winter Park 68 MI 1,721 America's Best Adventure Towns National Geographic America's Healthiest Metros (No. 3) The Atlantic Cities Telluride 361 MI LELEFFE NOTABLE COMPANIES IN BOULDER West Pearl/Walnut East Pearl/Walnut Greater Boulder OZ Architecture RedZone Software 6Kлes Pronto Push.io Quick Left Card Gnome Ocipital Orbotix StatsMix Adeptive Software Alteryx Applied Broadband AppliedTrust Fleatrip FixMaster InspiringApps Lijit LinkSmart, Inc. Napkin Labs Connection Engine dojo4 fleetCreature Gnip Gorilla Logic Graphicly Kapost Lagrange Systems Mapleton Hill Media First Line Data, Inc. Foraker Google Imulua Independent Power Systems Indra's Net, Inc. LogRhythm Microsoft Pivotal Labs Rally Software Rezora RoundPegg Simple Energy Snapjoy Solidfire Standing Cloud Sterling-Rice Group Survey Gizmo Symplified The Trade Desk TimZon Amadeus Consulting Aqueous Solutions, Inc. Architectural Energy Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp BlipSnips BlogFrog RentMonitor Room 214 ShipCompliant Sparkfun Tech-X Tendril ReportGrid ScriptPad SendGrid Spot Influence Trada Vacation Rental Partner Verbita Victors & Spoils Viget Labs Whamcloud Terma Software Labs Wiland Direct eSource Mocavo BOULDER VENTURE CAPITAL FIRMS ACCELERATOR Boulder Ventures Foundry Group High Country Venture Infield Capital Lacuna Gap Capital Morgenthaler Roser Ventures Sequel Venture Partners Vista Ventures Techstars Find this infographic, and more, online at http://boulder.is Created By COLUMN Trademarks are property of their respective owners. This infographic is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See http://boulder.is/terms for details. FIVE AppliedTrust