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50 BEST PAYING COMPANIES IN Chicago
Vail Systems, Inc.
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
At Vail we develop innovative technology to enhance the way people communicate. Our mission is to create business value for our clients and growth opportunities for our employees by developing solutions that inspire people to interact freely and authentically.
193
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
BCG Digital Ventures
Angel or VC Firm + Co-Working Space or Incubator
About us
BCG Digital Ventures is the corporate innovation and digital business-building arm of Boston Consulting Group. Our mission is to invent, build, and scale industry-disrupting businesses with the world’s most influential companies.
Going beyond the scope of traditional consulting, we operate on the shoreline between pioneering and visionary tech,
8
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Matillion
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
Matillion makes the world’s data useful with an easy-to-use, cloud-native data integration platform.
Matillion delivers rapid returns on cloud investments for global enterprise customers, helping them wield data as their most strategic asset. Optimized for modern enterprise data teams, only Matillion is built on native integrations to cloud data
147
Local Employees
Founded
Braze
Marketing Tech + Mobile
About us
Braze is a leading comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Revantage, a Blackstone Company
Real Estate
About us
Revantage North America is a professional corporate services company that embraces ambition and innovation to serve Blackstone’s Real Estate portfolio companies.
Blackstone is one of the largest real estate private equity investment managers in the world, with a real estate portfolio that includes logistics, rental housing, office, hospitality
307
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
IMC Trading
Fintech + Software
About us
We're one of the world's leading market makers, trading on more than 80 exchanges around the world. Founded in Amsterdam in 1989, IMC was among the first to value the importance of technology and innovation in the evolution of trading. As we invested we grew, from 2 to over 950. Today we operate globally – across time zones and continents.
400
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
ZS
Consulting + Healthtech
About us
ZS is a global professional services firm that leverages deep industry expertise, leading-edge analytics, technology and strategy to create solutions for clients that work in the real world.
650
Local Employees
Founded
Evanston
Location
Wolverine Trading
Fintech
About us
The Wolverine companies comprise a number of diversified financial institutions specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. We are recognized as a market leader in derivatives valuation, trading, and value-added order execution across global equity, options, and futures markets.
355
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Vouch Insurance
Fintech + Insurance
About us
Business insurance is failing the modern founder. Brokers are selling the same old policies. At Vouch, we’re fixing insurance and risk solutions for startups and founders with tailored insurance designed for technology startups. With new and innovative ideas, we are delivering the right insurance and risk solutions for our customers.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
monday.com
Productivity + Software
About us
monday.com is a work operating system that transforms the way teams work together. We’ve created a solution that connects people to workplace processes promoting a culture of transparency & empowerment. We're obsessed with building an excellent product. Our goal is to create a work operating system that people will love to use—one that’s fast,
16
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Root
Insurance + Machine Learning
About us
At Root, we’re doing things differently. We’re reimagining the services people need so that they serve them better. And we’re doing it by using data, technology, and rapid innovation to create products and experiences that are fair, easy, personal, and affordable.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Chime
Fintech
About us
We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.
Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking
112
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Finix
Fintech + Payments
About us
Finix is on a mission to create the most accessible financial services ecosystem in history. To do so, we are building the global operating system for fintech, starting with payments.
Since 2015, we’ve been busy creating a payments management solution specifically for SaaS platforms—from startups to publicly traded companies—that want to earn
15
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Salesforce
Software
About us
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Our social and mobile cloud technologies—including our flagship sales and CRM applications—help companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways.
753
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
CardX
Fintech + Payments
About us
CardX provides solutions for businesses to accept credit cards at 0% cost, making payments more fair for everyone. We offer technology-enabled compliance with the card brand rules, allowing businesses to keep their payments acceptance simple while providing their customers the option to pay by card.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
DRW
Fintech
About us
A diversified trading firm that utilizes our own capital and trades at our own risk. We bring sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to solve complex problems in markets around the world and across many asset classes. We are motivated to compete at the highest level and commit to operate with respect, curiosity and an open mind.
605
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
DFIN
Fintech + Information Technology
About us
DFIN is a leading global risk and compliance solutions company. We provide domain expertise, software and data analytics for every stage of our clients’ business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter.
250
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
tastytrade
Fintech + News + Entertainment
About us
tastytrade is a Financial Services Company focusing on supporting self-directed investors and the active trader community. tastytrade produces free on-line video content that viewers use to bootstrap and inform their investment strategies. Its subsidiary, tastyworks, is a consumer-facing online brokerage that builds tools for the active trader.
135
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Carrum Health
Healthtech
About us
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive
18
Local Employees
Founded
Bringg
Cloud + Enterprise Web
About us
Bringg is the leading delivery orchestration platform, providing enterprises with the most efficient way to manage their complex delivery operations. Some of the world's best-known brands in more than 50 countries are using our powerful SaaS platform to achieve logistical excellence across their delivery ecosystem.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
C.A. Fortune
Marketing Tech + Professional Services
About us
We are committed to making brands better through passionate people and advancing technologies, inspiring healthier lifestyles for consumers and their families. As the nation's leading vertically integrated consumer brands agency, we seek to strengthen brands of all sizes from incubation to market leader, guided by the industry's thought leaders and
72
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
West Monroe
Consulting + Professional Services
About us
West Monroe is a digital consulting firm that was born in technology but built for business—partnering with companies in transformative industries to deliver real, measurable results.
We believe that digital is a mindset—not a project, a team, or a destination—and it’s something companies become, not something they do. That’s why we work in
960
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Beyond
Cloud + Machine Learning
About us
Beyond is a revenue management solution for short-term rental managers and owners to get, grow, and keep revenue. We have supported more than 340,000 listings in over 7,500 cities and have employees in several countries around the world. We are results-oriented, innovators, values-driven, and people-first. Our five core values provide structure for
18
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Clearcover
Fintech + Insurance
About us
We’re an affordable car insurance company that’s smarter, faster and puts your needs above all else, helping you make informed decisions every step of the way. Our API-first approach offers the industry’s fastest claims, easy payments, and convenient policy management through an award-winning mobile app. Our powerful technology, coupled with our
174
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Tandem
Agency + Information Technology
About us
Tandem is a trusted strategy, design, and technology partner. We deliver custom software that inspires people and drives business forward. Our unique process brings every voice to the table. We engage with customers, researchers, engineers, and designers in order to approach every problem with a broad set of perspectives.
Founded
Chicago
Location
PEAK6
Fintech
About us
Headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade, PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While options trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through utilizing technology, simplifying processes, improving performance, and creating new wealth.
At our
334
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Fetch
Big Data + eCommerce
About us
Fetch is a mobile app that connects and rewards everyday shoppers for buying the brands they love. Fetch gives users the easiest way to save on their purchases by simply scanning any grocery receipt, from any store. For our brand partners, Fetch helps them build long-term loyalty, and understand a true 360 degree view of purchase behavior.
215
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
TackleAI
Artificial Intelligence + Fintech
About us
We are a team of computing innovators and AI visionaries fighting for the reality of a paperless world - a world beyond the simple digital scanning and storage of documents. Our collaborative and boundary-pushing team builds powerful machine learning software integrations to turn unstructured documents into intelligible and immediately accessible
24
Local Employees
Founded
Schaumburg
Location
PatientIQ
Healthtech + Software
About us
PatientIQ is a fast growing health tech company empowering healthcare providers, industry, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes.
PatientIQ is headquartered in Chicago and backed by top-tier west coast venture capital, major hospital investors, and others.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Deliverr
eCommerce + Logistics
About us
Deliverr provides modern logistics and fast fulfillment to help companies of all sizes achieve 1- and 2-day delivery, and simplify their operations. With a vast network of more than 50 warehouses and best-in-class logistics technology, Deliverr helps you meet customer expectations with fast 1- and 2-day fulfillment. We are directly integrated with your eCommerce marketplaces and channels, and manage the entire fulfillment process across all your eCommerce channels for maximum visibility.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Persado
Marketing Tech + Software
About us
Persado is a pure-play AI company that’s changing the way Fortune 500 companies communicate with their customers by unlocking the power words and transforming the way ideas are born. Among others, we work with GAP, Dell, Verizon, Humana and 8 of the top 10 U.S. credit card companies, including JP Morgan Chase and American Express.
Founded
Chicago
Location
project44
Logistics + Software
About us
project44 is the world’s leading advanced visibility platform for shippers and logistics service providers as defined by number of carriers, number of customers, ARR, net retention, shipments per day, growth rate and gross margin. project44 connects, automates, and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and
186
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Camelot Illinois
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
Camelot Illinois operates the Illinois Lottery, a modern enterprise that truly benefits the people of Illinois. We place consumers and social responsibility at our core, providing funding for schools, capital projects, and special causes.
98
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Box
Cloud + Software
About us
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the Content Cloud, a single platform empowering organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box is trusted by 69% of the Fortune 500 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. Visit box.com to learn more.
21
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Capital One
Fintech
About us
At Capital One, we think and work like a tech company, using our digital fluency to transform everything about the customer experience. We’re bending data to our will, and turning a stodgy industry on its head. That’s reflected in our ranking as the number one business technology innovator in the U.S. in the 2016 InformationWeek Elite 100.
2 000
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Caterpillar
Cloud + Internet of Things
About us
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., responsible for bringing digital capabilities to our world-famous yellow iron. With over one million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.
200
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Belvedere Trading
Fintech + Information Technology
About us
Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm that specializes in equity index and commodity derivatives. Our technology and trading experts collaborate to develop and enhance Belvedere’s high-performance, low-latency proprietary technology. We are always looking for the best and brightest talent to help us in our continued success.
In
240
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Braviant Holdings
Fintech
About us
Braviant Holdings is a digital lending platform that combines breakthrough technology and cutting-edge machine learning to empower consumers with better credit solutions. This next-generation approach to lending is reducing credit barriers and creating a Path to Prime to help millions of underbanked consumers.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Pangea Money Transfer
Fintech + Mobile
About us
Pangea offers a smarter way for people to move money around the world to friends and family. Founded in 2012, Pangea started with a mission to revolutionize the remittance industry by providing customers a powerful, easy-to-use mobile application to send money internationally. Since then, we have grown to offer additional products and services to
24
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Hyatt
Other + Travel
About us
Hyatt, headquartered in Chicago, is a leading global hospitality company offering 20 premier brands. As of March 31, 2021, Hyatt's portfolio included more than 1,000 hotel, all-inclusive, and wellness resort properties in 68 countries across six continents. Hyatt's purpose to care for people so they can be their best informs its business decisions
Founded
Chicago
Location
SPINS LLC
Big Data + Cloud
About us
SPINS is a wellness-focused data company and advocate for the Natural Products Industry. Over the past two decades, SPINS’ investments have led to a common language used across the industry as well as laid the foundation for the next generation of innovation, while providing dynamic data, actionable insights, and digital activation solutions that
300
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
relayr
Artificial Intelligence + Cloud
About us
Relayr is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) powerhouse delivering the most complete solution for risk-free digital transformations. We unleash data insights from existing equipment, machines and production lines to improve our customers’ business outcomes.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
ServiceNow
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
At ServiceNow, we make the world of work, work better for people. We deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity.
With ~6,900 customers, we serve ~80% of the Fortune 500. And we are #1 on FORTUNE® Future 50 2020 list. This is the future of work.
From FORTUNE. ©2020 FORTUNE Media IP Limited. All rights
130
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Citadel
Fintech
About us
Citadel is a leading global financial institution with a diverse business platform built on world-class talent, technology and infrastructure.
Explore NXT–our engineering network that puts premier candidates on an accelerated path to success during their first two years at Citadel with training, mentorship, experience and business exposure.
Founded
Chicago
Location
Northern Trust
Financial Services + Fintech
About us
We serve the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions through deep expertise, a culture of unwavering values and operational precision—working closely with every client to help them achieve something greater. We’ve come a long way since our foundation as a small Chicago bank in 1889, and not by following the pack. Our
6 245
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Stride Consulting
Agency + Information Technology
About us
We build custom software for companies like Spotify, Codecademy, and Casper!
Stride Consulting is the missing piece of the puzzle that combines deep technical expertise with the ability to feel deeply and passionately about human experience. We continually learn and implement best practices to put people first, and in turn, help other
10
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Wipfli
Business Intelligence + Cloud
About us
Wipfli Digital offers more than digital solutions.
We bring clarity. As part of Wipfli, we combine the sizable consulting and technology expertise of a top firm with a level of personal commitment and care that’s a true extension of our clients' teams. Our focus: Helping businesses thrive — today and into the future.
150
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Flexport
Logistics + Software
About us
It’s our mission to make global trade easier for everyone. We aim to do this by building a new Operating System for Global trade - a strategic operating model for global freight forwarding that combines technology and analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.
160
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
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