Chef Alex Seidel is a James Beard Award winner, was awarded Food & Wine’s Best New Chef, and was featured in an episode of Top Chef Colorado.

​Ted created the Colorado Founder Experience to connect local Tech Founders through unique experiences. He is committed to strengthening relationships within the Colorado Technology Community. The Colorado Founder Experience facilitates network growth and connections for local entrepreneurs. Members are selected based on community contributions, growth potential, and industry involvement.

Thad’s vision for Ombud was to create information transparency in business relationships. Prior to founding Ombud, he was responsible for Business Development at Endeca in London. Thad was responsible for the EMEA business unit of Latitude, Endeca’s agile business intelligence offering.

Marc brings multiple decades of experience in private equity, venture capital and wealth management, including for JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley. He moved to Boulder in 2011 to join Crestone Capital, a wealth management firm that had a concentration of clients that were founders of Colorado companies.

Natty is deeply committed to the startup ecosystems between the coasts, especially Colorado. He is from Boulder, and was supported on his entrepreneurial journey by so many people in these communities (big thanks to the Techstars and Foundry leaders and all the mentors and founders he's been lucky to learn from). Natty believes it's his mission to continue helping it grow these ecosystems into the best places to start a company.

Brian is a Technology Entrepreneur with a software development background. Currently, he is focused on solving the technology issues that many companies face for login, registration, and user management. He and his team built FusionAuth: A modern customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform that comes with features not seen in the marketplace today. It allows companies to focus on their core product not the plumbing of identity and user management.

Brian is the Co-Founder of Frontera Health, a company developing AI/ML tools to improve access to pediatric behavioral therapies for families in rural communities. Before starting Frontera, Brian worked as a venture capitalist at General Catalyst, investing in technology and healthcare companies. Previously, he held a variety of operating and advisory roles contributing to Microsoft's strategy and the IP acquisition that would become Minecraft Education.

Jennifer Cyphers is the founder of Pynwheel Inc., a leading tour tech company in the multifamily industry. Jennifer has extensive experience in digital marketing, product development, and business strategy. Jennifer has been a presenter and moderator at various industry events and has worked with companies such as Engrain, ApartmentList, and Vast.com. Jennifer holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Psychology from Lewis & Clark College.

Andy brings over thirty years experience building and leading high growth technology businesses in enterprise software, security, and storage. His focus on delivering high-value products, enabling customer success and fostering strong company cultures has been a formula for success.

Hayfa is a growth startup operator turned investor who is deeply passionate about the growing tech ecosystem here in Colorado. She has aligned her passion for building and scaling startups by joining the investing team at Range Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding and supporting the best technology entrepreneurs in the greater Denver area.

Murad has previously worked as a research intern at AT&T, where they designed and built the first prototype setup of EdgePlex system. EdgePlex is a new edge router architecture following software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) principals. Murad has also worked as a research assistant at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where they provided performance evaluation of the reference implementation (RI) of Web Feature Service (WFS). In 2006, they started working as a support team manager at Trans-Sahara IT & Communication (1stNET).

Brett’s roots are in finance and real estate, but he found his passion when branching out into the worlds of climate and technology. Brett was most recently the founder and CEO of Notion, a home protection platform acquired by Comcast in 2020. He then spent time as a Climate Tech Fellow at OnDeck, setting the foundation for Net Energy. Brett also serves as a TechStars Mentor giving back to the startup community that’s supported him so graciously along his journey.

Darko founded Poly to break free from the limitations of low/no code platforms, custom IDEs, and DSLs that lock enterprises into subpar solutions. He was tired of expensive ‘experts’ draining resources and institutional disorder ruining the joy of software development.

Justin is an experienced technology leader with over two decades of diverse experience, specializing in software engineering, project management, product management, and operations. Throughout his career, he has developed a deep proficiency in leading and mentoring engineering teams to excel in complex projects. His approach is characterized by aligning engineering strategies with broader business objectives, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and committing to technological innovation and engineering excellence.

Current CEO and Co-founder of BoltWise helping industrial distributors transform their sales process with AI. Former Expert at McKinsey who has helped Fortune 500 organizations towards achieving best in class operations while driving over $2B in productivity improvements.

Ari is a career-long devotee to improving healthcare delivery and payment models. He has a deep track record of recruiting operationally excellent teams, building digital health products with clear value propositions and navigating the complexities of selling into the US healthcare system.

Chief Executive Officer, Orderly Health

Kevin Krauth is the Chief Executive Officer at Orderly Health. He is an entrepreneurial product and finance professional seeking to change the world. Right now, he is focused on reshaping healthcare in the US through Orderly Health.

Jake Rome is the Co-Founder and COO of Backflip. He previously worked at Ascentris as a Senior Vice President. Jake Rome attended the University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business.

Nick is the CEO of Nucla, a business intelligence platform that helps large enterprises unify their cross-functional relationship data, giving everyone complete access to the all the B2B relationships their company has. Responsible for ensuring high-level of execution across organization, driving enterprise platform adoption, overseeing all business operations, implementing strategy and process, building and managing an amazing team, and creating world-class software that scales.

PJ O'Neil is the Co-Founder and CEO at Nomad. PJ O'Neil studied at University of Colorado Boulder and Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Erik Mitisek is the Founder and President of Highwing focused on delivering digital solutions to improve insurance carrier and broker relationships. Erik is a seasoned business builder and innovator, having either served as the founder, CEO, or working directly for founders, building five companies from inception. Erik has led the development of the business, with a focus on product and growth, in almost all his companies working to connect market opportunities to new products and industries. Always following the trends in the market, he has created companies in the music, real estate, financial services and online travel industries. Insurance is next. 

A Mines 2012 Mechanical Engineering graduate, MacGregor is co-founder and CEO of Skratch Labs, a Boulder-based sports nutrition company that was on the Inc. 500 as the nation’s third fastest-growing food and beverage company and on Outside magazines’ lists of Best Places to Work.

Rich Weborg, is a founder at OneReach.ai with 30+ years of experience in conversational design, solution architecture, and technology implementations. He’s passionate about the potential of technology to foster meaningful relationships between humans, and between humans and machines.

David helps software companies innovate and grow. He's built and scaled SaaS technology as a founder, advisor, consultant, and fractional and full-time CTO.

Paige is a fixer of fixers, orchestrating a collection of highly adept tech and engineering all-stars. She founded Point Solutions Group to address the dire need for diversity in information technology, engineering, and professional services in government and commercial organizations. And the looks she gets when she walks into some meetings exemplifies that. She not only talks the talk, but her extensive background in the information security, healthcare IT, and Department of Defense industries gives her the cred to strut the strut. As well as to pirouette between highly classified government projects and the demands of an ever-changing commercial landscape.

Co-founders Ian Cairns & Eric Ryan first partnered together at Gnip, then later led product & engineering for Twitter’s developer platform after being acquired. Our founding engineers Brian Newsom & Chris Hogue built and scaled products that powered the nearly $400M Twitter enterprise data licensing business and served hundreds of thousands of developers via public APIs. We’ve seen what it looks like for a whole ecosystem of product companies to develop around a new platform, and we’re bringing that experience to help product teams succeed with LLMs.

Matt was Co-Founder of GoSpotCheck, which was acquired in 2020. He is currently Co-Founder & CEO of Cast. Cast helps early growth companies see into the future and make confident decisions now.