Best start-up companies in Illinois

HighTower is a leading advisor-owned financial services company. HighTower Advisors are free of those conflicts typically found in traditional brokerage firms. They are totally independent, yet fully supported in both viewing the financial lives of our clients more completely and working with them more effectively.

Shiftgig is a technology company that helps staffing agencies transform the way people work. Our flagship digital staffing software, Deploy, helps staffing firms empower their workforce to browse and claim work that fit their skills and schedules. We also give agencies deep insights into their clients and workers, allowing you to focus on strategic growth and coaching by eliminating repetitive tasks of running day-to-day operations. To learn more, visit shiftgig.com.

XSELL Technologies is a cloud-based platform, maximizing performance and customer experience on emerging digital contact media such as web chat, SMS text, and social networks. Its service portfolio includes identifying new customers, engaging existing customers, increasing sales, increasing web traffic, and lowering cost of service. XSELL Technologies was launched in 2013 and is based in Chicago, I.L. IT was created by Matt Coughlin .

SMS is revolutionizing the facility services industry through its remarkable technology. Most large multi-location chains rely heavily on local subcontractors to provide their facility maintenance services, like electrical, plumbing, carpentry and mechanical repairs, floor & window cleaning, landscaping, snow removal, parking lot maintenance and dozens of other services. Management responsibility for these services is often delegated to the operating units, and as a result, significant opportunities to leverage technology, economies of scale and subject matter expertise are lost. As a national integrator with over 40,000 unique customer sites under contract, SMS Assist helps customers reduce spend on facilities services an average of 20 percent while maintaining or improving quality and providing radical transparency. We execute so you can manage.

Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. Hireology was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

The Obama Foundation is a start-up for citizenship and an ongoing project for people to shape, together, what it means to be a good citizen in the 21st century. The Obama Foundation builds programs to inspire everyone to become better citizens. The Obama Foundation is a tax-exempt, charitable organization under I.R.C. sec. 501(c)(3). The Obama Foundation uses social media to communicate and engage with future citizen leaders.

Lumere (previously Procured Health) is an organization comprised of clinicians, researchers, pharmacists and strategic thought leaders focused on helping health systems eliminate unwarranted clinical variation and cut unnecessary costs-specifically related to device and drug selection and utilization.

Decibel is a digital experience analytics solution, creator of the Digital Experience Score (DXS), that identifies poor user experiences to improve online conversions, engagement, and customer loyalty.

NowSecure is a mobile app security software company delivering fully automated mobile app security testing with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency necessary for Agile and DevSecOps environments. It can identify the broadest array of security threats, compliance gaps, and privacy issues in custom-developed, commercial, and business-critical mobile apps. These offerings are also provided as a managed service or independent 3rd party app verification. NowSecure was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Our team of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nursing assistants are available to each rehab, long-term care, and psychiatric care guest around-the-clock, from the moment of arrival, through discharge, and often beyond.

The Mom Project is the leading career destination for moms. With a community of over 275,000 talented professionals and more than 2,000 companies, The Mom Project is committed to building a better workplace for mothers and the businesses they support.

Parkway Bancorp delivers financial solutions and strategies tailored to your unique needs.

With the rising cost of medical care, wellness is here to stay. Wellness approaches may be disputed, but the principle of wellness is not. People who are well do not need as much medical care and are more productive employees. Whatever your wellness approach AgeGage can energize your program. Whether you are trying to raise awareness or trying to redistribute risk using performance-based incentives, the innovative AgeGage health platform can help. AgeGage makes wellness fun for participants by allowing them to calculate their physiological age and providing them with the interactive tools to help reduce it. AgeGage makes wellness easy for program administrators by providing configurable incentives, integrated biometrics, and flexible reporting.

Theo is building a fully integrated mobile Platform, bringing together residential real estate professionals and their clients, resulting in a 21st Century real estate transaction that is faster, more secure, more data and intelligence driven, and less maddening for all the parties involved. Deploying cloud, mobile, social and data analytic principles, the myTheo Platform finally makes the power of technology fully useful and accessible to professionals and their clients, from Search to Move-in. With its SaaS business model, Theo seeks to revolutionize the $1.2 Trillion Industry poised for a radical makeover in the face of rising consumer expectations for whole and wonderful experiences from their service providers, in a marketplace that they can trust, easily navigate. Theo-- Real Estate Made Personal

WatchTower provides the first fully-digital RFP platform purpose built for the employee benefits industry. By simplifying the RFP process WatchTower helps brokerage firms sell and retain more business without sacrificing revenue or control. For carries, WatchTower offers not only access to key brokerage markets but a custom built workflow that improves both efficiency and outcomes. We wrap it all together with hyper-local market analytics for both brokers and carrier. Our pursuit is to connect and empower the employee benefits industry

Innovation Specialists is a job shop that provides its customers with what they need, how they need it, and when they want it. They have served their customer base for over a quarter of a century, George F. Griffiths III is a third-generation industrialist in the wire industry. Some of the industries they serve are Tag, Nursery, Bag, Fuse, Resistor, Track Lighting, Hinge, Needle, Plating, Painting, Casting, Hobby, Spring, Fishing, Toy, Fencing, Aerospace, and Shipping Supply.

Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shopping decisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world's largest syndication network for Product Ads. A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers. Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.

KIK Custom Products, Inc. manufactures and distributes household cleaners, sanitizers, bleach, aerosol, pool and spa water treatment products and additives, personal care, and over-the-counter medicated and pharmaceutical products to marketers in the personal care, household, OTC pharmaceutical, automotive, and specialty food sectors in North America. In addition, it manufactures liquids, body creams, and lotions; and packages such as jars, tubes, bottles, and tottles. The company also provides contract manufacturing, packaging, and support services. The company was formerly known as CCL Custom Manufacturing, Inc. and changed its name to KIK Custom Products, Inc. in May, 2005. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Danville, Illinois. The company has facilities in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. KIK Custom Products, Inc. is a former subsidiary of KCP Income Fund.

Amount is an edge technology company dedicated to creating and enhancing the digital credit offerings of financial institutions. Built by lending industry veterans, Amount's multi-purpose lending products help partners go digital in months-not years-with a scalable suite of proven product modules for credit decisioning, fraud prevention, account verifications, servicing engines and CRM solutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting and analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million U.S. customers.

Raise.com is a gift card buyback company, based in Chicago, IL, and launched in 2013 by George Bousis.

Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want content to tell their stories. They're a true tech company, with an in-house built iOS app (for creators) and dashboard (for brands) that delivers direct communication, workflow tools & powerful statistics. Pop Pays is a Facebook Marketing Partner and their software is used to power the Pinterest Pin Collective community.

Grunt Style is an apparel & fashion company that provides military clothing and uniforms. The company specializes in the fields of E-commerce, fashion, lifestyle, and textiles. Grunt Style was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Illinois, United States.

Kin is a digital insurer company leveraging data to provides affordable coverage to homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions.

LanzaTech is a carbon recycling company focusing on gas fermentation, reactor design, machine learning and synthetic biology. The company makes fuels and chemicals sush as municipal solid waste, organic industrial waste and agricultural waste more sustainable.

Yello is the developer of an end-to-end talent acquisition platform built for enterprise and fast-growing recruiting teams to strengthen employer brand, drive hard cost savings and maximize ROI.

Interior Define (ID) is a pioneering digitally-native and vertically-integrated furniture brand, offering the most compelling and in-depth custom furniture experience in the middle of the market. ID makes customization easy: sofas may be tailored by size, fabric, configuration, leg style, and sit, providing an experience akin to high-end custom brands. Since every sofa (and now beds and dining) is made to order, inventory overhead is all but eliminated, allowing the brand to sell at accessible, middle market prices. This creates a unique customer experience further highlighted by complimentary white glove delivery, a standard 365-day return policy, and high-touch shopping process. Online, customers can view all pieces and custom options in 360 degrees, and order free fabric swatches to explore the product in home. Customers can also use ID's augmented reality (AR) app to view furniture and fabrics in their homes. Though a digitally-native brand, at ID's Guideshop locations, guests can experience firsthand the unique sit and style of each sofa and receive one-on-one consultations with expert team members. ID Guideshop locations can be visited in New York (Soho), Chicago (Lincoln Park), San Francisco (Hayes Valley), Los Angeles (Fairfax, La Brea), Boston (Back Bay), and Austin (Domaine Northside).

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Sandbox is a mobile society of trailblazers using technology and conversation to create a world of our design. #sandboxers

Hologram is a connectivity enablement toolkit that empowers makers, engineers, and creators of all types to connect their devices with wireless data as well as manage billings as they grow. Hologram provides a flexible platform with no minimums, instant connectivity, and robust scalability to help its users grow their businesses and projects from 1 to 1000 devices. Its goal is to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere. Hologram was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Clearcover is a digital car insurance provider offering better coverage for less money. The company's API-first approach enables customers to have great insurance at affordable rates. Founded in 2016, Clearcover is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Tock is a comprehensive platform built to fundamentally change the way restaurants think about and run their business. This includes a robust reservation, guest, and table management system for restaurants of all sizes across the globe.

Telnyx is a VoIP telecom service provider, providing a cloud-based platform that offers access to carrier grade voice services over the internet. It is focused on enabling a communication fabric for developers and platforms to integrate voice, messaging, and other forms of communication into their applications and to facilitate that communication universally. Telnyx accepts all outbound traffic profiles, including mission critical conversational traffic, short duration dialer traffic, and high CPS machine generated traffic. It gives its clients the complete control over their outbound termination. Telnyx was founded in 2009.

Home Chef brings people together around the dinner table. They help their customers save time while enjoying real home cooking and the joy that comes with it.

Arrive is a provider of branded and white-labeled last-mile mobility solutions and operator of a platform designed to make it easy for companies and brands to provide drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with scalable frictionless parking and other mobility-related services.

Sevan delivers data analytics, virtual tours, surveys, design, program management and construction services to organizations with multiple sites. Applying its technology solutions, Sevan optimizes new builds, rebuilds, remodels and renovations.

BGI, Inc is an accredited manufacturer involved in developing the methods and equipment primarily used for particulate air sampling. BGI's products are a natural fit with Mesa's line of Bios DryCal Environmental Instruments, which are used extensively in calibration of air samplers used in both industrial hygiene and environmental monitoring.

Petainer is a specialist engineering and technology business, an industry leader in the development, design and manufacture of PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) plastic containers. Petainer is leading the industry with their approach to sustainability, focusing on sustainable technologies and material efficiency to deliver ‘environmentally friendly' packaging. They have a passion for innovation and new ideas. Leading European food, drink and other brands call upon their strengths in design, innovation and manufacturing to create new packaging concepts and put them into production. Their purpose-built modern factories manufacture both preforms and fully-blown containers - including refillable and ‘one-way' PET bottles and containers.

NOCD provides online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), one of the most severe, prevalent, and misunderstood mental health conditions. Inside the NOCD telehealth platform, people with can do live, face-to-face video therapy sessions with licensed therapists that specialize in OCD, as well as get 24/7 support between sessions from self-help tools and peer communities.

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Vital Proteins helps people feel better and live fuller lives through sustainably-sourced nutrition products, promoting health, fitness, and natural beauty. Vital Proteins engages in providing natural, whole food proteins that support animal well-being and sustainable eco-friendly practices.

SpotHero is a consumer marketplace and mobility platform for off-street parking in North America. SpotHero is curbing the rise of urban congestion by changing the way millions of people park every day. Using SpotHero's portfolio of mobile apps and websites, drivers find, book, and access a parking facility near their destination, eliminating the need to circle the block in search of parking. SpotHero's platform enables mobility companies to build seamless parking experiences directly into their products.

Mu Sigma offers data analytics services and develops decision support system tools and software for Fortune 500 organizations. It offers marketing analytics, such as marketing measurement, product/customer segmentation and profiling, prospecting, RFM analysis, purchase likelihood analysis, cross-sell/up-sell analysis, loyalty/customer lifetime modeling, churn analysis/retention modeling, brand/customer equity analysis, customer satisfaction analysis, marketing mix modeling and optimization, and others. Mu Sigma also provides risk analytics, such as predictive modeling of claims, credit scoring, fraud detection and prediction, foreclosure prediction, rating structures, loss ratio analysis, risk based pricing, statistical analysis for FDA trials, elasticity/sensitivity/scenario/what if analysis, collection and recovery analytics, extreme event modeling, and others. Moreover, it offers supply chain analytics, which include trend plotting, demand/manpower forecasting, location allocation decision making, inventory management, sourcing/capacity/materials/transport optimization, stock replenishment analysis, due date quoting, expediting optimization, logistics and distribution analysis, vendor managed inventory systems, and others. Mu Sigma serves companies operating in airline, hospitality and entertainment, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, BFSI, CPG, retail, technology, and telecom industries. Dhiraj C. Najaram founded it in 2004, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Insureon is the number one independent marketplace for online delivery of small business insurance. Insureon's online platform aggregates insurance options from over 50 carriers to allow small business owners options in purchasing commercial insurance, including cyber, E&O, workers' comp, general liability, and more. Insureon was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

PetCure Oncology is revolutionizing cancer care for pets by establishing a national network of cancer care centers that specialize in the delivery of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Already proven successful in human medicine, SRS is an advanced form ...

Journera is a technology company that provides a secure, real-time data exchange for creating more seamless travel journeys. Through its platform, Journera creates a complete view of the traveler's journey in real-time, enabling travel-related companies to create better travel experiences that drive increased loyalty and direct engagement with customers. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Ocient is a well-funded startup building a near-real time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets.

Level Ex is a developer of professional medical video games designed for physicians to capture the challenges of practicing medicine. The company uses state-of-the-art video game technology and cognitive neuroscience to capture the challenges of practicing medicine, allowing physicians to keep up-to-speed on rare and challenging cases, new medical devices and drug therapies.

Core Scientific is a leader in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence hosting, transaction processing and application development. In an increasingly distributed and connected world, we believe Blockchain and A.I. will fundamentally change the way information is processed, shared and stored across a range of industries. Core Scientific is pioneering new innovations and best practices in this nascent landscape, with demonstrated capabilities operating Blockchain and A.I. infrastructure at scale. Our platform is trusted by large-scale partners around the world to deliver reliable solutions that quickly adapt to dynamic market conditions.

higi (rhymes with “jiggy”) makes tracking your health simple, fun and rewarding. higi Stations provide free screenings of your blood pressure, weight, pulse and body mass index. higi Stations are located across the United States for your convenience. Find your nearest Station at higi.com/locator. higi's mission is to get consumers to take small but meaningful steps to create lasting health habits. Our innovative community-health and wellness platform gives consumers the power to collect and share their health and activity data with trusted partners or communities. These trusted partners can leverage this data from higi (after consumers' explicitly opt-in) and higi's tools to better engage with their customers on health and wellness in a simple, fun and rewarding manner. For more information, visit us at higi.com and follow us on Twitter @higi and Facebook.com/higiHQ. In addition, prospective partner developers can learn more about higi's API by visiting developer.higi.com.

True Spec Golf is the worldwide leader in custom club fitting and building. With over 25 studios around the world, True Spec services golfers of all abilities, from high handicap beginners to top professionals on every tour. As a brand-agnostic fitter,...

VERANO HOLDINGS aspires to be the most influential cannabis brand, and to command brand loyalty of the discerning cannabis consumer. Inspiring their customers drives their mission to capture people's imaginations, satisfy deep and important life needs, and offer unparalleled innovative products underpinning their economic success and cultural influence in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

FourKites is the real-time supply chain visibility platform that Fortune 500 companies and 3PLs trust to track shipment location and temperature and proactively manage exceptions. Using a proprietary predictive algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower their operating costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen their end-customer relationships. Using FourKites, blue-chip shippers and 3PLs share the same, real-time shipping location and status information from more than four million GPS/ELD devices. FourKites tracks and consolidates data across modes - including ocean, rail, parcel, and over-the-road, with both truckload and less-than-truckload - into a unified platform built for global enterprise companies. The platform is optimized for mobile and equipped with market-leading end-to-end security. To learn more, visit www.fourkites.com. FourKites was founded by Mathew Elenjickal in 2014.

Uptake Technologies develops a predictive analytics platform. Its platform analyzes data to predict and prevent failures, uncover hidden profits, and discover new opportunities to healthcare, insurance, locomotives, construction, manufacturing, and other industries. Uptake Technologies offers a platform for equipment monitoring, diagnostic troubleshooting, event and condition prediction, and task management to improve uptime, streamline operations, and spot growth opportunities. Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky founded Uptake Technologies in July 2014, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

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Moneythink is an American ed-tech non-profit organization tackling America's 1.6 trillion dollar student debt problem, harnessing the power of people and technology to bring transparency to college costs. The organization ensures all students are equipped to invest in their futures, keeping students on track by minimizing financial complexity and risk while maximizing potential and minimizing stress. As a leader in youth-focused financial wellness, Moneythink has served over 32,000 students since 2008. Moneythink is creating a public-facing, no-cost Award Comparison Tool that helps low-income and 1st-gen students to plan for, cover, and manages all of their college costs through a healthy mix of aid, savings, loans, and work.

Founded in 2013, Maestro Health is an American employee benefits company that provides integrated one-stop shopping experiences, along with private-labeled exchange solutions. It also offers employee health and benefits management solutions for brokers, small employers, and Fortune 1000 organizations. It combines private exchange, benefits administration, enrollment, self-insurance, healthcare savings account administration, and components on its integrated mobile and web platform, maestroEDGE. The company owns and operates a proprietary private exchange and medical TPA, which allows the streamlined integration of care management to drive down costs for employers.

Automatic APM for Dynamic Applications Specifically designed for the cloud native stack, Instana automatically monitors your infrastructure and application performance with zero configuration effort. Instana ensures that your application delivery organization has the data, visibility and information they need to manage the performance of critical business applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Built to handle the dynamic nature of containerized, microservice architectures, Instana automates infrastructure and application monitoring helping you to ensure the performance and quality of custom applications and accelerate your CI/CD cycle.

Complete provides an online buying process that protects and enhances dealers' profit centers and customer satisfaction.

Simple MIlls is a portfolio brand transforming the center store with delicious baking mixes, frostings, cookies, and crackers. Our products are made with only simple, nutritious ingredients that work harder for your body and nothing artificial, ever. And best of all, they taste great so there's no compromise!

Citizen's Rx, LLC provides pharmacy benefit management services to public and private companies, and health plans in the United States. It offers administrative operations services, such as claims processing, formulary management, and Rx network management; and clinical and consulting services, including predictive modeling, medical/pharmacy data integration, trend analysis and reporting, member and physician outreach programs, prior authorization and utilization management, value-based benefit design, preferred drug list, and rebate management. The company also provides service support solutions, which include implementation, client service teams, call center, and consulting services;

40% of US farmland is rented creating a $32 billion/year market. However, very little data on pricing and relative performance exists leading to a very inefficient market and to price distortion on both ends of the spectrum. Tillable was created to introduce data transparency to this market and make it more efficient to the benefit of all parties. The Tillable marketplace will provide price discovery, unprecedented access to new land, and information management to all parties, in one easy to use platform.

Apervita is the trusted collaboration platform for value-based healthcare. We empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality and administer value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights in various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in five hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for our clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

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Planet Forward is a global group of specialty consulting and staffing companies operating under different brand names and providing specialized offerings across multiple disciplines including Technology, Energy, Engineering and Environmental.

Convergence Technologies, Inc. is primarily engaged in furnishing business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and auctioneering services, on a commission or fee basis.

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"1871 is a not-for-profit community endeavor and an entrepreneurial hub for digital startups. It is a collaborative space that helps digital designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs build their startups, share ideas, and change the world. 1817 is organizing the Sports Technology Symposium in the Fall of 2018. Application is live until July 20th: , https://www.f6s.com/1871sportstechsymposium Located in the famed Merchandise Mart, the 50,000-square-foot facility provides Chicago startups with programming, access to mentors, educational resources, potential investors, and a community of like-minded entrepreneurs that help them on their path to building successful businesses. 1871 is the flagship project of the CEC."

Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded 1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene. Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers. Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

ThinkCERCA's personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing. With students and teachers using its platform in all 50 states and 130 countries, the company has partnered with prominent leaders in education, including Follett Corporation, and has been featured by The Atlantic and EdSurge. A 2016 SIAA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution and Best Reading/English/Language Arts Instructional Solution categories, ThinkCERCA has also been named one of the best tools in ed tech by Common Sense's Graphite. In July 2013, ThinkCERCA was the recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Courseware Challenge grant, and in December 2012, graduated from the inaugural class of Impact Engine's social impact accelerator. To learn more, please visit ThinkCERCA.com

VMock, Inc. designs and develops online platform that help in talent short-listing and executive learning and development (ELD). VMock, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners around the globe. A recognized expert in learner success, BenchPrep partners with organizations that administer certification, credentialing, test prep, and continuing education programs to deliver customized enterprise SaaS solutions. Many of the world's largest assessment companies use BenchPrep's platform to provide a personalized, omni-channel learning experience to their own users within a single ecosystem. By leveraging the power of technology, data, UX expertise, and innovative instructional design, BenchPrep has helped to make learning more effective, efficient, and enjoyable for more than 3 million learners worldwide.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Fooda is a startup built around food. We're powered by technology and are changing the way people think about corporate lunch. We're a tight knit group of people with a vision to bring great food from local restaurants to employees while at work. We're well funded and growing quickly.

Spring-Fill Industries protects packages with a pop of happiness by creating a versatile, eco-friendly product in vivid colors and crinkles. We're Spring-Fill Industries and we've been in the business of giving you more since 1990. We offer our industry's most remarkable collection of decorative shreds. We don't stop there, though. We exceed your expectations for quality, custom-matching colors and turning orders around quickly in crunch times. Having outstanding decorative shreds at competitive prices is one part of who we are. The other part is the reputation we have earned through many years of providing superior customer service.

Splend is a simple and intuitive way to share the cost of life's necessities and luxuries in a few simple steps. They were formed on the premise that paying the final bill among your roommates, friends and colleagues has too often turned enjoyable moments together into uncomfortable ones. Their platform allows you and your friends to pay together instead of paying back.

RIVS is web software for digital written, voice, and video interviews; as well as scheduling tools for live interviews. Companies that are using us are trying to eliminate low value activities like coordinating interview schedules and wasting time interviewing the wrong people.

HubTran Vision is creating an efficiency revolution across the global transportation ecosystem and ending back-office delays and errors. They are doing it with enterprise-grade software that's smart, easy, and affordable.

& Analytics ROI for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. We have a talented team of PhD Data Scientists and seasoned Big Data veterans helping F500 enterprises extract critical value from their data and monetize those insights quickly. We provide cutting-edge predictive analytic platforms and forecasting models to deliver real-time insights for actionable business outcomes. Acer Innovation was founded in 2015 with $800K seed capital. Expertise: Actionable Insights, Advanced Analytics, Alteryx, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, API's, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Azure Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Forecasting, Google Analytics, Google Cloud Platform, H20.ai, Hadoop, IBM Watson, Innovation, Machine Learning, Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy, Monetization, Pivotal, Predictive Analytics, Python, Qlik, R, Salesforce, SAS, Sisense, Splunk, SPSS, SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, SugarCRM, Tableau, Tableau Server, TIBCO Spotfire, Trifacta Data Wrangler. U.S. Offices: 222 W. Merchandise Mart., Suite #1225, Chicago, IL 10 N. Martingale Rd., Suite #400, Schaumburg, IL 2435 N. Central Expy., Suite #1200, Dallas, TX 1 Market St., Suite #3600, San Francisco, CA 245 Park Ave., Suite #3900, New York, NY Offshore Delivery Centers: Bangalore, India Gurgaon, India Pune, India Website & Social Media: www.acerinnovation.com www.acerinnovation.com/clients www.acerinnovation.com/leadership www.acerinnovation.com/board-of-advisors www.acerinnovation.com/usa-office-locations www.crunchbase.com/organization/acer-innovation www.linkedin.com/company/acer-innovation www.clutch.co/profile/acer-innovation www.facebook.com/acerinnovation www.twitter.com/acerinnovation www.pinterest.com/acerinnovation www.instagram.com/acerinnovation

Eved offers sourcing, marketing and e-commerce solutions for the meeting and event industry.

ConceptDrop Inc. uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises find freelancers and build internal teams.

Hapara builds tools that amplify the best practices of teachers in Google Suite and Microsoft Office/365. Their Teacher Dashboard provides real time views of student activity across an array of tools, from one central location.in Drive, Gmail, Blogger, Sites, and Google Plus. Additionally, a number of knowledge management structures including file pushing and retrieval mechanisms, make the Dashboard invaluable to schools that are using Google or O365 for student efforts. Their Highlights Remote Control tool gives teachers a real time view of student browser activity in Chrome, while Hapara Workspace gives teachers a collaborative space to build differentiated assignments and projects.. Hapara Analytics enables education leaders to assess the impact of their school or district's digital learning strategy by providing powerful data visualizations of learning experiences.. Hapara is used by more than 1.6 millions paying users in over 44 countries around the world.

Acera Hosting is a worldwide leader in game server hosting, TeamSpeak server hosting, and network service solutions.

G2 is a peer-to-peer review site headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It was known as G2 Labs, Inc. until 2013. The company was launched in May 2012 by former BigMachines employees, with a focus on aggregating user reviews for business software.

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Aclaimant offers a risk reduction platform designed to save time and money on workplace incidents and insurance. It engages the employee, employer, and insurance carrier in making workplace incidents everyone's responsibility. The Aclaimant system comes with three great tools that are easy to use in reporting and resolving workplace incidents. The company was founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois.

Machinio.com is a search engine for buying and selling used industrial equipment and machinery. We've created the most comprehensive marketplace of its kind-covering metalworking, construction and agricultural machinery. We currently deliver more than 1.25 million listings via our unique platform, making us the most comprehensive resource for used machinery. Machinio helps hundreds of thousands of buyers every month find the equipment they need at the price point they can afford. We do this by connecting them with thousands of sellers from around the world. From the U.S. to Russia to Singapore, we make it easy to locate and purchase everything from lathes to bulldozers to tractors and everything in between.

Kapow connects companies with venues to book unique client events online in real-time. Their curated marketplace offers a more efficient way for companies to book events designed to acquire, engage and retain clients. Their suite of online tools cover events from start to finish at no additional cost. Venues fill their space during non-peak hours and drive corporate business while companies focus on building relationships with clients and measuring event success.

Paragon Biosciences is a global healthcare company committed to accelerating biomedical research.

A network of in-store kiosks that drive trial and awareness for the world's biggest brands. Scan your in-store rewards card when shopping to discover new favorites every week. Freeosk Marketing, Inc is an affiliate company of Blue Sky Chicago, experts at executing in-store marketing events since 2003.

LEAP Innovations fosters the use of personalized learning and technology to accelerate education for every student. Think of us as the R&D hub for education innovation, bringing the best technology here to pilot, research and scale. What's really exciting is that They are making Chicago the destination for this work by attracting innovations from across the globe - and what works here will be relevant across the entire country.

TimeDoc Health is a Chicago-based company focused on helping primary care practices establish new Chronic Care Management payment programs.

Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. Powered by artificial intelligence, our technology automatically turns data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge.

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