This article showcases our top picks for the best Colorado based Sporting Goods companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Sporting Goods 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
Top Colorado Sporting Goods Startups
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Stryd
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Stryd is a running tool to help run injury-free, train effectively, and race.
Guerrilla Gravity
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Guerrilla Gravity is a manufacturer of mountain bikes intended to make mountain biking safe.
Recoup Fitness
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Recoup provides innovative hot and cold therapy tools bridging the gap between professional training rooms and at home muscle recovery
Voormi
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VOORMI offers outdoor apparel using natural fibers and advanced technology.
Leomo, Inc.
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LEOMO (formerly Lemonade Labs) is a developer of innovative sports devices to help athletes elevate their performance.
Golfkicks
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Golfkicks produces traction kits that turn any pair of sneakers into golf shoes.
Rerouted
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Rerouted is an online platform solution that helps people and businesses buy, sell, or donate their used gear online.
Kokopelli Outdoor
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Kokopelli Outdoor is a manufacturer of rafts to make river travel and alpine lake fishing comfortable.
Christy Sports
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A Lakewood, Colo.-based retailer of ski and snowboard equipment and apparel in the Rocky Mountain region
The Athlete Empire
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The athlete Empire is a sports event management company. We recently teamed with AND1Live basketball from New York.
Airhead Sports Group
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Airhead offers premium watersports products that make it easy for families to get more out of the great outdoors.
Harrow Sports
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Harrow Sports markets, manufactures, and distributes sporting goods and uniforms for the institutional and team sports market.
Exxel Outdoors
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Exxel Outdoors is a sporting goods company providing outdoor recreational gear.
QuietKat
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QuietKat is a manufacturer of electronic bikes created to make cycling adventures and mountain ascents and descents easy and comfortable.
ZEAL Optics
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ZEAL Optics focuses on making eyewear to enhance outdoor adventures.
Glade Optics
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Glade Optics manufactures ski and snowboard goggles and helmets.
Ultimate Direction
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Ultimate Direction is an online shop that offers products designs for athletes.
Gearo
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Gearo digitizes outdoor retailer operations and brings in adventure-seekers as customers.
Swampfox Tactical Optics
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Swampfox is specializing in affordable, high performance tactical optics.
SCARPA North America Inc
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SCARPA builds performance footwear for a full range of mountain sports- hiking, skiing, rock climbing, mountaineering.
High Society Freeride Company
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High Society Freeride designs and manufactures skis, soft goods, headwear, snow bags, and snowboards for athletes.
VarVee
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VarVee works with coaches and state associations to help coaches, students, and media outlets collect, manage, and distribute information.
Mountainsmith
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Mountainsmith is a manufacturing of sporting and athletic online platform.
Buford Saddle & Horse Tack Supply, Inc.
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Buford Saddle and Horse Tack, Inc. is a manufacturer and retailer of horse saddles.
Dynafit
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The Dynafit brand is for people who live mountain sports and Dynafit is committed to serving all ambitious ski mountaineers.
Apex Ski Boots
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Apex Ski Boots is a designer and manufacturer of ski boots for the sports industry.
Matador
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Matador is an online and offline store that provides sporting goods and travel equipment.
mountainFLOW eco-wax
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mountainFLOW eco-wax provide a simple and eco-friendly way to improve the skiing experience
Outdoor Prolink
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Outdoor Prolink is an online shop for outdoor and adventure equipment.
Tenkara
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Tenkara is a supplier of tenkara rods, lines, flies, nets, and accessories.
SHRED DOG
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SHRED DOG is a direct-to-consumer outdoor apparel brand specifically for kids.
Niner Bikes
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Niner Bikes is a sporting goods manufacturing company.
MBS
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MBS is a dynamic firm that specializes in the designing and development of mountain-board products for riders.
ONX Sports
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ONX Sports engineers, designs and manufactures the world’s best combat equipment.
BackCountry Access
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Backcountry Access is a manufacturer of snow safety equipment, including Tracker avalanche transceivers, Float avalanche airbags etc.
Feedback Sports
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Feedback Sports specializes in the designing of products for discerning cyclists with an eye on precision, durability and quality.
The Allen Company
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Allen Company is a leading supplier of outdoor products, specializing in the hunting, shooting, archery and fishing industries.
Gibson Athletic
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Gibson has been providing inspiring equipment for gymnastics, dance and fitness studios around the world.
Red Fox
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Red Fox is an e-commerce company that manufactures and supplies technical outdoor equipment and clothing for men and women.
Jett Development Group Inc
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jett-group is known for its progressive, highly-functional designs and continuous stream of innovation in technical gear and apparel.
ROLL Recovery
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Roll Recovery was designed to keep you moving throughout the day.
Strafe Outerwear
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Strafe Outerwear manufactures and sells ski and snowboard apparel.
Meier Skis
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Meier Skis is a manufacturing company that offers custom skis, snowboards, boots, bindings, poles, headwear, gift, and accessories.
Gear & Grit
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The latest cycling news, tech, bikes and gear along with advice to inspire cyclists of all levels.
MI Sports
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MI Sports is a swimwear, screen printing, and embroidery company.
PoolDawg
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PoolDawg is a retailer of brands of pool cues, pool cue cases, and billiards accessories.
Moots
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Moots handcraft high-performance titanium bicycle frames and components in a small factory in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Kifaru International
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Kifaru International provides wholesale services of various types of sporting goods.
Outdoor Edge Corp
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Outdoor Edge is a company which offers knives, butcher kits, and accessories for all customers’ outdoor adventures.
BirdieBall
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BirdieBall manufactures indoor putting greens, strike pads, tees, turfs, practice balls, golf products, and accessories.
Surfboards
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Surfboards is a sporting goods store that offers a wide range of surfboards, apparel, equipment, and accessories online of various brands.
Bicycle Retailer
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Bicycle Retailer is a magazine and news website for the bicycle industry and trade.
REVO BRANDS
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Revo Brands’ mission is to ignite growth in enthusiast and mission critical brands through superior innovation, design.
Renner Sports Surfaces
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Renner Sports Surfaces offer a full range of performance surfaces and amenities, including lighting, fencing, and supplies.
Elevated Tents
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Elevated Tents gives the ability to create the ultimate high-volume camping experience for large events.
Yukon Charlie’s
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Yukon Charlie’s is a snowshoe company that would fill the need for high-quality snowshoes at a reasonable cost.
Never Summer Industries
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Never Summer Industries produces, designs, and supplies a wide range of snowboards, split boards, jackets, sweatshirts, and accessories.
Let’s Go Aero
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Let’s Go Aero provides trailers, campers, and cargo carriers.
Friction Labs
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Friction Labs is a retail shop that offers sports goods, chalk product, accessories and gift cards.
Wiggy’s
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Wiggy’s is an e-store that delivers sleeping bags, clothing, footwear, shelters, ground pads, bike packaging, accessories, and pet products.
American Trail Running Association
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American Trail Running Association is a Colorado not-for-profit corporation that serves the trail and mountain running communities.
Zay Products
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Zay Products is a provider of Alpine ski boots for recreational and professional skiers.
BOA Fit System
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BOA Fit System is a manufacturer of outdoor and sporting goods.
Panache
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Panache specializes in cycling gear, including clothing and accessories.
Mountain State Sports Marketing
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MSSM Group is a manufacturers’ representative group focused on selling and servicing the shooting sports category.
Wearbands
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Wearbands is an online seller and manufacturer of patented sports products focusing on athletes’ fitness.
Red Bear Rentals
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Sharing economy rental marketplace for outdoor recreational gear together with vacation rental experiences
Alpacka Raft
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Alpacka Raft is a packraft manufacturing company.
Crested Butte Sports
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Crested Butte Sports is the full-service ski, snowboard shop that offers rental equipment for high mountain adventure.
BikeSource
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BikeSource is a bike shop that retails various types of bicycles, gears, and cycling goods along with offers repairing and fitting services.
Weston
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Weston builds bomber split boards, skis, snowboards and supports the cause, spreads backcountry education, and slaying pow.
Outdoors Geek
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Outdoors Geek is an online stop for rental camping equipment.
Derailleurhanger.com
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Derailleurhanger.com is a wholesaler that offers different types of derailleur hangers for bike users suitable for different purpose.
Gene Taylors Sporting Goods
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Gene Taylors Sporting Goods is a retail store that provides sporting goods services.
Fulsus USA
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Fulsus USA manufacturers sports clothing gears.
Allen
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Allen specializes in the supply of outdoor products, especially for hunting, shooting, archery and fishing.
Zipfit
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Zipfit is an E-commerce firm that provides custom fit ski boot liners.
Flatout Drift Trikes
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Flatout Drift Trikes provides hand-built downhill drift trikes from entry-level to fully upgraded competition trikes.
Push Industries
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Push Industries are manufacturer of shock absorber and suspension of high performance mountain bikes.
Eldorado Climbing Walls
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Eldorado creates the highest quality climbing walls through inspired design & construction to bring the spirit and passion of climbing.
Wheels Manufacturing
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Wheels Manufacturing is a supplier of bicycle derailleur hangers, small parts, repair parts, and tools.
Solstice Sports
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Solstice Sporting is an online store that purchases sports equipment such as snakeboards, drifters, skateboards, and related accessories.
Mountain Racing Products
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Mountain Racing Products manufactures and supplies bicycle components.
Epic Mountain Sports
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Epic Mountain Sports is a retail store that sells a wide range of ski and snowboard along with bike rental service.
Concrete Coast
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Concrete Coast is an online store for skateboards and guides skateboards.
Wilderness Sports
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Wilderness Sports is a backcountry ski and bike shop.
RMU Outdoors
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RMU Outdoors specializes in outdoor mountaineering pieces of equipment like skis, mountain bikes, apparel, packs, and gears.
Campus Cycles
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Campus Cycles, big enough to handle all of your bicycling needs yet small enough to remember your name.
Crossover Symmetry
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Crossover Symmetry is an outdoor & sporting goods company that provides physical therapy and rehabilitation training for athletes.
Mountain Side Gear Rental
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Mountain Side Gear Rental provides camping and backpacking gear rentals for any outdoor adventure.
Eisinger Smith
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Eisinger Smith provides golf accessories and tournament gift ideas.
BoardPusher
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BoardPusher is an online seller of custom skateboards and griptape.
Chromax
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Chromax is a producer and supplier of various types of golf balls.
The Bicycle Shack
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The Bicycle Shack engages in selling the new mountain and fitness bikes, accessories, and service all bikes.
D’Lance Golf
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D’Lance Golf provides solutions for custom golf clubs, driver fitting, custom golf club fitting, wood fitting, and hybrid fitting.
Sportsfood
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Sportsfood provides replacement sprays and strips for sports persons.
Fitness Depot Direct
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Premier Gym And Training Equipment For Your Home or Gym.
Summit Canyon Mountaineering
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Summit Canyon Mountaineering provides maps, books, activity gear, apparel and footwear for an outdoor adventure.
Knight Composites
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Knight Composites provides carbon bicycle wheels.
Victory Custom Athletics
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Victory Custom Athletics is a textile company that specializes in designing and producing customized athletics uniforms.
