Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Colorado based Food Processing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food Processing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Colorado Food Processing Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Meati
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Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone.
Opopop
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Opopop is a food company that manufactures and processes popcorn products.
Purely Elizabeth
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A Boulder, CO-based natural foods company.
Green Chef
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Green Chef delivers sustainably-sourced ingredients and chef-crafted recipes.
NextFoods
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NextFoods is a company offering foods and juices that are good for digestion.
Pilgrims Pride
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Produces healthy and high-quality food products.
Hope Foods
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Hope Foods specializes in producing organic food products intended to provide organic hummus and dips.
Good Day Chocolate
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Good Day Chocolate is a vitamins and supplements brand that makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults.
Sustainable Beverage Technologies
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Sustainable Beverage Technologies focuses on unlocking unprecedented efficiencies in brewing, distribution, and draft beer.
Roth Industries
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Roth Industries is a prepared foods company that specializes in prepared food products for the residential and commercial markets.
Armis Biopharma
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Armis Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company with a growing pipeline of non-systemic.
Love Grown Foods
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Love Grown Foods is a natural food company that manufactures a line of all natural breakfast foods.
Reharvest Provisions
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Reharvest Provisions is a maker of single-serve smoothies with different flavours.
Blue Moose of Boulder
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Blue Moose of Boulder is a food company that develops and manufactures innovative and fast-growing hummus, dips, and spreads products.
Nature to Culture
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Nature to Culture creates original food products from sustainable agricultural sources that are full of nutrition and taste.
Little Secrets
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Little Secrets, LLC produces dark and milk chocolate candies.
Cosecha del Sur Coffee Co.
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Cosecha del Sur Coffee Co. specializes in coffee import and roaster that connects people and cultures.
Farmhand Organics
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Farmhand Organics is a producer of crafted pickled, fermented, and preserved food products to offer healthy food to the people.
Dynamic Food Ingredients
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DFI is a biotechnology company that operates in electrochemistry research and development, intended to produce Erythritol and Xylitol.
915 Labs
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Microwave assisted thermal sterilization, or MATS, natural food processing and packaging systems.
Nepra Foods
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Nepra Foods is a food and ingredient company producing allergen-free flours intended to give food manufacturers access to nutritious food.
Infinite Harvest
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Infinite Harvest developed a hydroponic vegetable farm as a sustainable source of affordable natural food for people.
Wana Brands
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Wana Brands is an infused products company that offers delicious and consistent cannabis infused products.
The Honest Stand
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The Honest Stand is provides plant-based convenient comfort foods.
Manna Tree
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Manna Tree invests in the future of human health, powered by food.
Stem Ciders
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Stem Ciders is a craft cidery that produces ciders made with fresh-pressed full juice from whole, ripe fruits.
Züm XR
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Züm XR is the world’s only time release natural energy drink
Molson Coors
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Molson Coors is a beer company and distributor that brews the world’s favorite beer brands.
Konbit
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Konbit is a Climate Action public benefit corporation catalyzing food and energy sovereignty through setup of dual-purpose micro-farms.
JJ’s Sweets
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JJ’s Sweets is a candy company dedicated to offering blissful, innovative, and mindfully crafted treats.
Spring44 Distilling
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Spring44 Distilling produces Spring44 Vodka, Honey Vodka, Gin, Old Tom Gin, and Single Barrel Bourbon.
JBS USA
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JBS USA LLC is a large multinational company which processes beef, pork and lamb.
Jot
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Jot Ultra Coffee brings you the purest, most concentrated coffee available, delivered right to your house.
Colorado Hemp Works
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Colorado Hemp Works offers natural food companies hand-crafted industrial hemp seed processing.
Penford Corporation
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Penford Corporation is an Animal Feed company.
St. Vrain Cidery
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St. Vrain Cidery is a hard-cider taphouse that offers a variety of different flavors and styles of cider.
Zaza
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Zaza make amazing Paleo and Vegan Desserts: Ganache, Brownies, Cheezecakes
Elevation Charcuterie and Artisan Meats
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Elevation Meats produces charcuterie made with a respect to properly sourced ingredients, local influences, and traditional techniques.
Earthwise Global Inc.
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Earthwise offers environmentally friendly, chemical free, fully automated, nanobubble systems that make food and water safer and less costly
Noosa Yoghurt
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Noosa is an Aussie style yoghurt, uniquely sweet/tart tang and thick, velvety texture that’s so incredibly good
Farm Box Foods
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Farm Box Foods manufactures agricultural machinery and provides farming solutions to food production communities.
Where Food Comes From, Inc
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Where Food Comes From, Inc is the number one provider of certification and verification services to the food industry.
King Soopers
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King Soopers is a supermarket brand of Kroger in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.
Custom Made Meals
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Custom Made Meals is a manufacturer of fresh, oven-ready, value-added entrees and appetizers.
Western Sugar Cooperative
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Western Sugar Cooperative is a sugar products company.
Local Hive Honey
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Local Hive Honey one of the brands of honey in the United States.
Enstrom Candies
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Enstrom Candies is a toffee and chocolate company.
Halona Foundation
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Halona Foundation have a very strong exit strategy for the small investment that is needed.
Rush Bowls
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Rush Bowls is an all-in-one nutrition source that provides its users with a healthy, balanced meal-in-a-bowl.
Gulftech
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Gulftech is a diversified holding company with a core competence in developing and operating global.
CanSource
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CanSource is a food and beverages company that produces craft beverages and empowers the beverages industry.
Whole Fresh Foods
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Whole Fresh Foods is a maker and distributor of food products.
Horizon Organic Holding
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Horizon Organic Holding produces, processes, and markets certified organic fluid milk and refrigerated dairy products to its consumers.
Matrix Marketing Group
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A global consulting and professional service firm, that offers change management, digital transformation, and sales acceleration.
PHM Brands
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PHM Brands is a collection of companies and brands within North America that deliver products and services to a variety of industries.
Honey Smoked Fish Company
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Honey Smoked Fish Company produces hot and cold smoked salmon for applications in the retail grocery, foodservice, and hospitality sectors.
FreshPack Produce
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Freshpack Produce is a distributor and value added re-packager of conventional and organic fresh fruits and vegetables.
Ready Foods
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Ready Foods offers label packing and food services to healthcare, educational institutions and catering sectors.
Planterra Foods
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Planterra Foods is a food services firm that provides foods for different types industries.
Gold Kist farms
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Gold Kist farms produce variety of chicken products
Sage V Foods
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Sage V Foods is a manufacturing company that produces grains, rice flours, IQF and crisp rice along with private labels on bags and pouches.
Boulder Organic Foods
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Boulder Organic Foods makes gluten-free soup from organic ingredients.
Claremont Foods
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Claremont Foods is a family-owned food manufacturing company, provides food manufacturing and packaging services.
Strava Craft Coffee
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Sträva Craft Coffee is dedicated to providing customers with the best coffees.
Rapid Fired Pizza
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Rapid Fired Pizza offer delicious craft and custom pizzas in 180 seconds and fresh craft and custom salads.
All American Pet Proteins
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All American Pet Proteins is a manufacturer of fresh and frozen proteins.
Caliper Foods
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Caliper Foods is a consumer packaged goods company that provides hemp-derived soluble cannabinoids.
AmuseMints
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AmuseMints is a manufacturer to the souvenir, specialty retail and gifting industries.
Italco Food Products
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Italco Food Products is a family-owned and operated specialty food distributor located in Denver.
Red Bird Farms
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Red Bird Farms providing fresh and natural chicken to the people.
All American Seasonings
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All American Seasonings is a manufacturer of seasonings and food ingredients that provide wholesome products and accurate blends.
Brewing Science Institute
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Brewing Science Institute is a supplier of brewing yeast and brewing bacteria.
LoCo Food Distribution
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LoCo Food Distribution is a distributor of local food products and groceries to retail outlets as well as warehousing and logistics.
Heritage Health Products
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Heritage Health is expertise in developing health and wellness products.
Olomomo Nut Company
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Olomomo Nut Company is a food production company that produces and sells a variety of nut products and snacks.
High Desert Farms
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High Desert Farms, got its start in 2013 when it was selected as 1 of 4 winners of the Telluride Foundation’s Telluride Venture Accelerator.
CODI Manufacturing
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CODI Manufacturing provides beverage packaging solutions, counter pressure filling, canning line and ready to drink beverages.
P.S. Snacks
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P.S. Snacks is a unique ingredient approach to modernize nostalgic treats.
Altamira Specialty Foods Service
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Altamira Specialty Foods Service is a distributor of food products.
Famous Brands
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Famous Brands International is the parent company of two internationally known snack food brands.
Medically Correct
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Medically Correct is the producer of cannabis-infused edibles and extracts.
Crafthouse Cocktails
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Crafthouse Cocktails are all-natural cocktails that arrive in three eco-friendly sizes and are made with rich spices and genuine spirits.
Continental Sausage
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Continental Sausage is a provider of organic gourmet sausages.
American Sheep Industry Association
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ASI is the national organization representing the interests of 81,000 sheep producers located throughout the United States.
Einstein and Noah Corp.https://www.einsteinbros.com/
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Einstein and Noah Corp.is a food & beverage firm that deals in providing guests with bagel sandwiches & other foods.
Volio Imports
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Volio Vino is a Denver-based importer of fine wines. It supporting family-run estates from the various regions of the wine world.
Grass Run Farms
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Grass Run Farms is a agriculture food and beverage company located in Greeley.
Olde Man Granola
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Olde Man Granola is a manufacturer of handmade and natural granola.
Sweet Cow
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Sweet Cow produces and distributes handmade organic ice cream that is made using locally-sourced ingredients like milk, cream, and sugar.
Identity Pet Nutrition
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Identity Pet Nutrition develops and markets an assortment of alternative, small-batch, clean-label pet foods.
ECOPONEX
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Ecoponex develops it’s own renewable energy efficient farms.
Roaring Planet
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Roaring Planet is a coffee maker and wholesaler of organic gourmet quality coffee without the presence of plastic waste.
Bumbleroot
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Bumbleroot offers a collection of healthy hydration drinks featuring the African fruit, baobab.
Boulder Sausage
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Boulder Sausage is a manufacturer of sausage and bacon products.
Morning Fresh Farms
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Morning Fresh Farms has always been committed to offering customers a product where freshness and quality are never compromised.
Tbd Foods
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Tbd Foods is a catering company offers personal chef, catering, wedding, event planning and management company.
