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Blissway

The tolling industry’s prime tech infrastructure

blissway.com
HQ: Denver, CO, USA
11-50
Government

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Blissway is a Denver-based deep-tech company building next-generation roadside tolling and traffic-safety infrastructure. Public descriptions say it upgrades roads into digital infrastructure using a wireless, solar-powered vision layer and deployable roadside tolling hardware for government agencies.

Primary product

Next-generation roadside tolling / traffic safety infrastructure (hardware + software vision layer)

Founded

2019

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado, United States

Team size

11-50 employees

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

Sub-industry

Roadside tolling infrastructure / traffic management hardware and software

Offices

Denver, Colorado, United States
Chile
Kenya
France

Business model

B2G
hardware + software
infrastructure deployment

Funding

Stage

venture-backed (pre-seed/seed/venture rounds reported)

Total raised

$3.3M

Latest round

Venture Round · May 2023

Venture Round

Aug 2020 · Y Combinator

$2.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Francisco Torrealba

CEO

Felipe Kettlun

CTO

David Bohl

Data Science Lead

Mikaela Bourret

Head of Talent Acquisition

Zachary Gillan

Operations Lead

Brian Lorenz

Data Analyst

Reid Barton

Roadside Team Lead

Ryan Quinlan

Software Engineer

Juan Rojas Espejo

Software Engineer

Vicente Reyes Cabello

Software Engineer

Investors

FinestLove VC
general undisclosed investors
Keiretsu Forum - San Francisco
Maniv Mobility
Measured Ventures
Open Opportunity Fund
Plug and Play Ventures
RedBlue
Sameer Ranjan Jaiswal
SB Opportunity Fund
The MBA Fund
Unpopular Ventures
VentureSouq
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public posts emphasize a lean, high-ownership, in-person build culture focused on real-world hardware, autonomy, transparency, and strong hiring standards. Leadership messaging suggests the company prefers physical-office collaboration over fully remote work.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

No company-wide compensation policy found. Public job posts signal salary transparency in some cases, including a relocation bonus and referral perks, but no standardized pay bands were found in primary sources.

Benefits

Denver-based team
relocation bonus mentioned in hiring posts
AirPods Pro / MacBook Pro referral incentives mentioned in LinkedIn referral post

Product & market

Pricing

Deployable at zero upfront cost to agencies; likely contract/project-based government infrastructure deployment.

Differentiators

  • —Zero upfront cost to agencies
  • —Deployable in weeks
  • —Wireless, solar-powered vision layer
  • —Lean team focused on hardware + AI/ML + infrastructure
  • —Targets legacy highway/tolling replacement with modern digital infrastructure

Technology

computer vision
solar-powered hardware
wireless systems
AI/ML
high-speed hardware
fintech
LinkedIn

Customers

Government agencies
Transportation / highway operators (implied)

Competitors

Legacy tolling infrastructure vendors
traffic enforcement / roadside infrastructure providers
smart roadway / ITS vendors

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$5M (third-party estimate; not company-confirmed)

Estimated monthly visits

4.4K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Latest news

Built In Colorado: Blissway leadership & management page

Built In Colorado · Jul 2026

Third-party profile summarizes leadership, strategy, and agency-facing deployment narrative.

Blissway referral post targeting Chilean engineers

LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Blissway said it was actively hiring machine learning, software, and electrical engineers for Denver-based roles and described benefits offered through its referral program.

Most people think computer vision means object detection. Draw a box around the car, call it done.

Blissway LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Blissway said it processes 11 million images a day and highlighted production use of semantic segmentation / pixel-level scene understanding in its computer-vision stack.

Blissway hires and spotlights engineering leadership, including Zachary Gillan

LinkedIn · Jun 2026

Post highlights operational leadership and ongoing hiring for engineering and operations roles.

We spend a lot of time heads-down building, troubleshooting, installing, and improving systems — so events like IBTTA Technology Summit are a great reminder of the bigger community behind the work.

Blissway LinkedIn · May 2026

Blissway said Francisco Torrealba presented EVE and described the company as having deployed the first roadside tolling system on California's Interstate 5.

Brian Lorenz LinkedInBuilt In company pageBuilt In offices pageCareers (Ashby)Chile hiring link mentioned by BlisswayDavid Bohl LinkedInFelipe Kettlun LinkedInFrancisco Torrealba LinkedInIBTTA directory entryLinkedIn company
SourcesBlissway LinkedIn company profile via ExaBlissway websiteFrancisco Torrealba LinkedIn profile via ExaFelipe Kettlun LinkedIn profile via ExaBuilt In Colorado Blissway leadership pageLA TechWatch article on Blissway fundingEmol interview mentioning Blissway foundersaVenture Blissway company page

Jobs and careers at Blissway

8 jobs at Blissway

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Software Engineer, Full Stack

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Embedded Systems Engineer, Recent Graduate

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Chile Based, Machine Learning Engineer

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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Design

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Denver, Colorado
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Chile Based, Software Engineer

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Engineering
Denver, Colorado
4mo ago
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Chile Based, Electrical Engineer

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Engineering
Denver, Colorado
4mo ago
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Electrical Engineer, Recent Graduate

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