Top Workplaces 2022: The best small companies to work for in Colorado

No. 1

Crusoe Energy Systems

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 144
Locations: 4
Facts: Crusoe Energy is on a mission to eliminate routine flaring of natural gas and reduce the cost of cloud computing.

No. 2

Supreme Lending

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Dallas
Employees: 1,800, with 53 in Colorado
Facts: Supreme Lending is a mortgage originator that can underwrite, close, and fund loans that investors buy. The company provides consumers with low-interest rates and closing costs with quick turnarounds.

No. 3

Home Mortgage Alliance LLC

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 82
Locations: 6
Facts: Home Mortgage Alliance started as a joint venture between Stearns Home Loans and RE/MAX Alliance and has grown to be a top mortgage lender in the greater Denver area.

No. 4

Zenith Home Loans

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Greenwood Village
Employees: 50
Facts: ZenithHomeLoans.com is an online resource for personalized mortgage solutions, fast customized quotes, great rates, and service with integrity.

No. 5

Summit Pediatric Therapy

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Centennial
Employees: 50
Facts: Summit Pediatric Therapy provides speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy to children throughout the greater Denver area.

No. 6

Aztec Consultants Inc.

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1996
Headquarters: Littleton
Employees: 117
Facts: Aztec Consultants is a full-service, professional land surveying company.

No. 7

Colten Mortgage

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Greenwood Village
Employees: 141, with 50 in Colorado
Facts: Colten Mortgage is a top-rated mortgage lender that serves 25+ states across the country.

No. 8

Footers Catering

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 1981
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 50
Facts: Footers Catering is a second-generation family-owned business that caters to more than 600 full-service events and fees more than 75,000 guests each year. For more than 38 years, Footers has prepared all of its menus on-site to provide the highest quality possible.

No. 9

Bloom Healthcare

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 2002
Headquarters: Wheat Ridge
Employees: 130
Facts: Bloom Healthcare’s team of providers delivers coordinated, hands-on care in assisted living communities and private homes so they can help patients age in place. The company works to reduce the risk seniors will need emergency room or inpatient care.

No. 10

Cain Travel Group Inc.

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1975
Headquarters: Boulder
Employees: 52
Facts: Cain Travel is a full-service travel agency focused on corporate and group travel management. With a team that’s 80 percent women, Cain Travel is proud to be one of the largest woman-owned companies in Colorado.

No. 11

Homebot

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 102
Facts: Homebot empowers millions of consumers to build wealth through homeownership with an award-winning financial dashboard.

No. 12

Primary Residential Mortgage Inc.

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1998
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, Utah
Employees: 2,390, with 50 in Colorado
Facts: Primary Residential Mortgage works to simplify the home-buying process for both first-time and experienced homeowners. The company leverages its access to multiple loan programs and its in-house lending system to provide better loan rates.

No. 13

SambaSafety

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 1998
Headquarters: Greenwood Village
Employees: 230, with 76 in Colorado
Facts: SambaSafety is the industry leader in cloud-based driver risk management software. SambaSafety helps companies identify their high-risk driving populations to make roads safer for everyone.

No. 14

Physician’s Choice

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Wheat Ridge
Employees: 50
Facts: Physician’s Choice works to ensure everyone has access to safe, high-quality supplements.

No. 15

TallGrass Spa and Salon

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1995
Headquarters: Evergreen
Employees: 71
Facts: TallGrass Spa commits to fostering meaningful connections between team members and guests.

No. 16

Booyah Advertising

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 95
Facts: Booyah Advertising builds and optimizes ad campaigns for Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

No. 17

Digible

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Englewood
Employees: 51
Facts: Digible provides hyper-local digital marketing solutions for the apartment industry.

No. 18

Baseline Engineering Corporation

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1998
Headquarters: Golden
Employees: 66
Facts: Baseline Engineering is an employee-owned company that provides civil engineers and land surveying services.

No. 19

Planet Home Lending

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Meriden, Connecticut
Employees: 1,601, with 50 in Colorado
Facts: Planet Home Lending is a national mortgage lender and servicer that offers affordable home loans backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, VA, FHA, USDA and private funders. It serves customers in 47 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

No. 20

Choozle

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 80
Facts: Choozle provides a digital advertising software platform that powers advertising campaigns across display, video, mobile, and other mediums. Designed for advertising agencies and marketing departments, Choozle combines multiple digital advertising tools, a demand-side platform, a data management platform, and smart tag management into a single platform.

No. 21

Greystone Technology

Years ranked: 5, 3 consecutive
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 96
Locations: 3
Facts: Greystone Technology Group provides information technology services including managed service, supplemental service, on-demand service, cybersecurity assessments, consulting and management, website and app development, and end-user training.

No. 22

Carlton Electric

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1993
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 94
Facts: Carlton Electric is a full-service electrical contractor that serves customers in Colorado and Wyoming.

No. 23

Bradsby Group

Years ranked: 9, 6 consecutive
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 93
Facts: Bradsby Group is a premier recruiting firm servicing the accounting, healthcare, construction, engineering, energy, industrial, technology, legal, supply chain, and financial and cannabis markets. The employee-owned company’s name was inspired by the engraving on a Louisville Slugger baseball bat manufactured by a company named Hillerich and Bradsby.

No. 24

The Garrett Companies

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Greenwood, Indiana
Employees: 170, 51 in Colorado
Facts: The Garrett Companies is a full service multifamily development, construction, and property management team that works to develop, build, and manage multifamily apartment projects across the country.

No. 25

Integrity Locums

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Englewood
Employees: 68
Facts: Integrity Locums, a firm that recruits and temporarily places physicians, was established in 2012. Founders Tim and Lacey Devereux started the agency after establishing Integrity Healthcare, a permanent physician recruitment firm.

No. 26

Basis Technologies

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Chicago
Employees: 846, with 85 in Colorado
Facts: Basis, a powerful and comprehensive automated digital media management platform, enables marketers to plan, buy, analyze and streamline campaigns for programmatic, direct, search and social.

No. 27

Milender White

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1997
Headquarters: Arvada
Employees: 195, with 143 in Colorado
Facts: Milender White is a full-service real estate company dedicated to delivering award-winning commercial and residential projects.

No. 28

National Valuation Consultants Inc.

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1991
Headquarters: Centennial
Employees: 91, with 66 in Colorado
Facts: National Valuation Consultants Inc. is the largest privately-held commercial real estate valuation and advisory firm in the United States. The company has regional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, the New York metro area, San Francisco and South Florida.

No. 29

Dignity Hospice of Colorado

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Thornton
Employees: 71
Facts: Dignity Hospice provides care that is designed to provide comfort and support to a patient and their family when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments.

No. 30

TalentReef

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 165
Facts: TalentReef offers an end-to-end talent management solution built for the hourly workforce to provide the best customer service expertise in partnership with the service industry.

No. 31

Project Canary PBC

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 50
Facts: Project Canary is a data analytics and environmental assessment company committed to accelerating the path to net-zero by focusing on methane emissions measurement and reduction, freshwater use, and community impacts for energy-intensive industries.

No. 32

JumpStart Autism Center

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Albuquerque, N.M.
Employees: 141, with 57 in Colorado
Facts: The JumpStart Autism Center is a nationally-recognized behavioral health provider specializing in early childhood evaluation, diagnosis, and therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorders. The center specializes in behavioral treatments for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

No. 33

Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 67
Facts: Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm that focuses on delivering innovative real estate solutions that are client-centric and relationship-focused.

No. 34

Travelers Haven

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 129
Facts: Travelers Haven is one of the four largest corporate housing companies in the United States. The company provides full-service temporary housing solutions.

No. 35

CirrusMD

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 100, with 89 in Colorado
Facts: CirrusMD’s integrated care is delivered via multi-specialty, board-certified doctors who can treat a broad range of conditions, from acute to chronic, and from primary care to specialty areas, including behavioral health. CirrusMD is available to nearly 10 million users across all 50 states. The service is offered exclusively through employers and health plans.

No. 36

American Indian College Fund

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1989
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 65
Locations: 2
Facts: The American Indian College Fund raises money and provides scholarships to help American Indians achieve their higher education and career objectives.

No. 37

CCIG

Years ranked: 6
Founded: 1985
Headquarters: Englewood
Employees: 96
Facts: CCIG is recognized as one of Colorado’s leading insurance brokerages and provides property, casualty and life insurance to clients throughout the region. The company also provides benefits and risk management services for businesses.

No. 38

Avid 4 Adventure

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Louisville
Employees: 800, with 100 in Colorado
Facts: Avid4 Adventure summer day and overnight camps teach pre-K–12th graders of all levels to climb, paddle, bike, hike and thrive in the outdoors.

No. 39

Vanguard Skin Specialists

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Colorado Springs
Employees: 100, with 90 in Colorado
Locations: 4
Facts: Vanguard Skin Specialists is southern Colorado’s premier dermatology and plastic surgery practice.

No. 40

Swinerton Builders

Years ranked: 8, 3 consecutive
Founded: 1888
Headquarters: Arvada
Employees: 4,534, with 138 in Colorado
Locations: 2
Facts: Swinerton Builders is an employee-owned general contractor. In the Denver metro area, the company built the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, One Lincoln Park, campus projects for AMG National Trust Bank and Terumo, and office environments for Fidelity Investments, UBS Financial, Google and Kaiser Permanente. Swinerton also built schools for Denver Public Schools and parking structures for RTD.

No. 41

Camden Property Trust

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1982
Headquarters: Houston
Employees: 1,776, with 65 in Colorado
Locations: 9
Facts: Camden Property Trust is a real estate investment trust that owns interests in 172 apartment communities across the United States. The company’s name is derived by combining the founders’ names Ric Campo and Keith Oden.

No. 42

Donor Alliance Inc.

Years ranked: 8, 7 consecutive
Founded: 1985
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 152, with 145 in Colorado
Locations: 4
Facts: Donor Alliance is the organ and tissue procurement agency for Colorado and most of Wyoming. The not-for-profit organization serves nearly a million residents and more than 110 hospitals.

No. 43

CrossCountry Mortgage LLC

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Brecksville, Ohio
Employees: 2,500, with 141 in Colorado
Facts: CrossCountry Mortgage is a nationwide full-service lender that has been named to the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies eight times since 2012 and won the Smart Culture Award from Smart Business in 2022.

No. 44

Credera

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Addison, Texas
Employees: 586, with 108 in Colorado
Locations: 8
Facts: Credera is a full-service management consulting, user experience and technology solutions firm. The company’s clients range from Fortune 500 companies to emerging industry leaders.

No. 45

Atlas Real Estate

Years ranked: 2
Founded: 2013
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 165, with 130 in Colorado
Facts: Atlas Real Estate is a full-service real estate company specializing in investment services, property management and institutional acquisitions. Atlas is also a Zillow Offers Partner Agent. With offices in eight markets nationwide, Atlas transacts over $1 billion in real estate annually and manages more than 4,500 residential units.

No. 46

Professional Assist Corporation

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1987
Headquarters: Golden
Employees: 55
Facts: Professional Assist Corporation is a suite of membership associations that serve more than 90,000 members working in spa, salon and wellness professions. In addition to liability insurance, PAC provides continuing education, practice-building guidance and legislative support.

No. 47

CAP Logistics

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1982
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 124, with 76 in Colorado
Facts: CAP Logistics specializes in providing freight solutions to industries that cannot afford expensive downtime.

No. 48

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 58
Facts: Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher offers services across a diverse range of legal specialties, including appellate, bankruptcy, business, construction, employment, estate and tax planning, licensing, land use and real estate, and criminal defense.

No. 49

Stryker

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1941
Headquarters: Kalamazoo, Mich.
Employees: 40,000, with 75 in Colorado
Facts: Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and offers innovative products and services that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.

No. 50

Maxwell

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 92, with 56 in Denver
Facts: With input from over 1,000 mortgage professionals, Maxwell built a point-of-sale solution that closes more loans per officer, gets borrowers into their new homes faster, and adds basis points to a homeowner’s bottom line.

No. 51

Dividend Restaurant Group

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 2,200, with 58 in Colorado
Facts: Dividend Restaurant Group, the owner of Macaroni Grill and Sullivan’s Steakhouse, brings together some of the country’s best-known brands, leveraging an industry-leading platform with a clear vision for continued growth.

No. 52

Centennial Resource Development

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 149, with 84 in Colorado
Facts: Centennial Resource Development is an independent oil producer with assets in the core of the southern Delaware Basin, a sub-basin of the Permian Basin in West Texas.

No. 53

OZ Architecture

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 1964
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 161, with 139 in Colorado
Facts: OZ Architecture works to create beautiful places with lasting value for the communities it serves.

No. 54

Voice Media Group

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 278, with 53 in Colorado
Facts: Voice Media Group publishes four metropolitan newsweeklies and six websites in major American markets. VMG’s digital and print publications embrace long-form investigative reporting, magazine-style feature writing, and sophisticated coverage of music, food, film, arts and local events.

No. 55

Transwestern

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 1978
Headquarters: Houston
Employees: 2,500, with 58 in Colorado
Facts: Transwestern is a privately-held real estate firm with 34 offices in the United States and more than 180 offices in 37 countries. It specializes in agency leasing, management tenant advisory, capital markets, research and sustainability services.

No. 56

TriSalus Life Sciences

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: Westminster
Employees: 66, with 54 in Colorado
Facts: TriSalus is a biotech company developing therapeutic approaches to treat liver and pancreatic cancer.

No. 57

RE/MAX Alliance

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1984
Headquarters: Arvada
Employees: 97
Facts: RE/MAX Alliance is Colorado’s largest privately-owned real estate company. It has 20+ offices along the Front Range, including the entire Denver metro area. Its agents are committed to giving customers an excellent experience whether they are buying their first home, selling their house or working with a commercial property.

No. 58

NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc.

Years ranked: 3
Founded: 1982
Headquarters: Lakewood
Employees: 176, with 135 in Colorado
Facts: NEI Electric Power Engineering provides power system engineering services for all aspects of power systems engineering. NEI specializes in substation design, transmission and distribution line design and system commissioning.

No. 59

Denver Academy

Years ranked: 7
Founded: 1972
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 119
Locations: Denver Academy is an independent co-ed day school for students in grades 1-12. The academy is among the top schools in the nation that specialize in supporting diverse learners, including those with dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and executive functioning disorder.

No. 60

Done Plumbing & Heating

Years ranked: 9
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Aurora
Employees: 57
Facts: Done Plumbing and Heating provides plumbing, drain cleaning, heating and air conditioning services for residential and commercial properties in the Denver metro area.

No. 61

RevGen Partners

Years ranked: 6, 5 consecutive
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Centennial
Employees: 120
Facts: RevGen Partners is a business and technology consulting firm that helps clients by providing consulting services that span analytics and insights, customer experience and digital enablement. Twice a year, RevGenerosity petitions employees for nominations of nonprofit organizations that address issues related to education, poverty and disadvantaged, at-risk youth.

No. 62

SEH

Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1927
Headquarters: St. Paul, Minnesota
Employees: 770, with 82 in Colorado
Facts: SEH is an employee-owned engineering, architectural, environmental, and planning company that helps government, industrial and commercial clients find answers to complex challenges.

No. 63

Matrix Design Group Inc.

Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Colorado Springs
Employees: 157, with 111 in Colorado
Facts: Matrix Design Group is an award-winning, employee-owned firm providing innovative solutions across multiple and varied industries. Matrix Design Group delivers excellence by design at the federal, state, and municipal levels throughout the nation and Guam.

No. 64

BCER Engineering Inc.

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1994
Headquarters: Arvada
Employees: 90, with 76 in Colorado
Locations: 2
Facts: BCER provides engineering design services to architects, contractors and building owners. The company’s notable projects include the Denver International Airport Westin Hotel, the new campus for UC Health at Fitzsimons, the Wellington Webb Office Building, Denver Botanic Gardens Science Pyramid, U.S. Olympic Museum and the CU Williams Village Housing Campus.

No. 65

Fransen Pittman General Contractors

Years ranked: 4
Founded: 1994
Headquarters: Englewood
Employees: 147
Facts: Fransen Pittman is a premier Colorado-based construction company that specializes in buildings that transform communities and the lives of the people working, learning and living in them. The company participates in the Environmental Leadership Program for Colorado and was the only construction company to receive the Silver Environment Leader award.

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