50 Best Small Companies to Work For in Chicago

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

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.

Pareto Intelligence is a leading healthcare solutions company modernizing the way health plans and providers succeed in value-based care. We deliver analytics, technology and advisory solutions, supported by predictive models and advanced data science, that demystify complex healthcare data and deliver actionable predictions that improve outcomes.

We’re leading the world of regulatory compliance forward by offering greater efficiencies, greater cost savings, and greater accuracy. Using market-leading RegulationAI, Ascent helps customers in financial services automate their compliance programs, significantly reducing their risk while saving time and money.

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.

Sittercity, a Bright Horizons company, is a technology platform working to reimagine the child care industry. Finding, hiring and managing high-quality, trustworthy and enriching child care has never been simple, for parents or caregivers. We want to change that. At Sittercity, you can imagine and create solutions that will revolutionize a multi

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

YCharts, the fastest growing online financial platform, helps investors make smarter decisions. YCharts customers gain access to comprehensive data, visualization, and advanced analytics at an affordable cost. Industry professionals use YCharts for idea generation, analysis, alerts, and updates from real-time news feeds to monitor the markets.

Aptitive is a Chicago-based IT consulting firm with solutions focusing on the management, design, and development of data-centric projects. Our high-aptitude consultants bring innovative technology solutions to your business problems.

Black Spectacles helps educate and inspire architects around the world to thrive in their career. We are an online learning platform, offering ARE® prep, software curriculum and career insight from the best and brightest in the biz. We are the industry leader as the first NCARB-approved test prep provider for all six divisions of the ARE 5.0.

Supernova is the technology leader in securities-based lending ("SBL") solutions that connect and empower the entire financial ecosystem. We offer the world’s first and only cloud-based, fully-customizable, end-to-end software solution to automate securities-based lending from origination through the life of the loan.

Atomic Object is a consultancy that creates custom software products. We work across web, mobile, desktop, and embedded product development—helping our clients innovate and grow by building software to help them do what they do better.

Kalderos delivers technology that solves the challenges around drug discounts in the US healthcare system. We work with healthcare providers, drug manufacturers, payers, and government agencies alike to increase transparency and restore trust — lowering the cost of healthcare and enabling everyone to focus on improving the health of all people.

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.

Otus brings the entire school community together on a common technology platform reducing the number of disconnected solutions educators use while providing actionable insight to school leaders.

Our technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. The CityBase platform equally serves people who want to complete a task from their phones, those who are underbanked and must pay a bill in cash, and the public servants who keep government and utilities running smoothly.

For 20+ years, SPINS’ mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural and organic products to encourage healthier and more vibrant living. By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform

ReviewTrackers is the award-winning customer feedback software that helps businesses measure and transform the customer experience. The platform collects review data from 100+ review sites to surface customer insights that enable brands to listen, comprehend and make data-driven decisions about what their customers truly need or want.

Purchasing Platform is an innovative spend management, analytics, and B2B online marketplace that connects property management companies with vendors by revolutionizing and simplifying their buying process. By centralizing procurement, our software brings stronger corporate controls and greater spend visibility to portfolio operators of all sizes.

UPshow, the leading in-venue entertainment and marketing platform, is the first and only provider of white-labeled, digital interactive networks for retail and hospitality brands to engage customers and employees directly from their mobile devices.

UPshow’s technology makes it simple for large brands to build and launch engaging and promotional

The search is on for the best engineering and technology talent in the market. We deliver talent solutions that connect our technology and engineering communities.

From start-ups to tech and engineering giants, we support the game changers, the inventors, and the market disruptors to ensure they have the right talent in place, helping them grow

BenchPrep helps the world's leading education, training, and assessment companies build and deliver best-in-class online learning programs. Customers include ACT, Becker Professional Education, AAMC, CFA Institute, CompTIA, ProLiteracy, HR Certification Institute, Hobsons, McGraw Hill Education, OnCourse Learning, and GMAC.

We deliver the most

Metafora (formerly CarrierDirect) is a business consulting and software development company that exclusively serves the transportation, logistics and supply chain space. We partner with carriers, shippers, and freight tech vendors to help them optimize their business and build software to fuel their growth. We live at the intersection of strategy

Cohesion is a leading Intelligent Buildings software solution that is disrupting how buildings operate and how people engage with buildings. Our cutting-edge converged IoT-enabled platform equips owners and operators with actionable intelligence through connected operations and connected communities.

At lulafit, we're on a mission to help employers and real estate communities build modern and inclusive workforce wellness cultures. Nurturing employee physical, social, and mental health, the lulafit platform is rooted in five spokes of wellness: empowerment, movement, connection, nourishment, and restoration. Diverse virtual and in-person well

Founded by a team of data scientists, programmers, and eDiscovery experts, NexLP uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to derive actionable insight from unstructured and structure data. Powered by a proprietary cognitive computing engine, NexLP uses next generation text analytics to help corporations uncover answers in their data.

Our company was founded to redefine consulting. Our people, our culture, and how we serve our clients reflect that mission.

We are seasoned consultants who are passionate about helping companies create workplaces where employees are productive and happy.

At Inspirant Group, partnership and transparency are at the root of everything we do—from

Brad’s Deals is a team of real people committed to saving shoppers time and money by connecting them with validated online deals and discounts. Since 2001 the company’s mission, "create the consumer advantage" provides users with an honest and transparent shopping experience, helping them to make the best choices and saving them $200M+ annually.

GeoWealth provides wealth management technology; combining a comprehensive and fully-integrated platform with best-in-class portfolio solutions. Our customizable open-architecture platform and our proven spectrum of investment strategies address all the essential needs of RIAs by helping them grow faster and serve their clients more efficiently.

At Catch Co, our purpose is to rescue people from the indoors by connecting them with America’s top outdoor sport: fishing. More than 50 million Americans fish every year and Catch Co is the industry leader in creating products, content, and experiences that modern anglers love. Most importantly, we aim to have the most loyal customers in the

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.

Computer Projects of Illinois, Inc. (CPI), is a privately held corporation that delivers market-leading software solutions to the law enforcement industry. CPI develops & maintains many different best-in-class, mission-critical criminal justice solutions to law enforcement & public safety agencies around the world with their OpenFox® Product Suite

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.

Topstep®’s vision is to be where the world goes to safely engage in and profit from financial markets. We evaluate traders’ performance in the Trading Combine® - a real-time, simulated account. When traders follow the risk criteria and meet the profit targets, they receive a Funded Account™ where they trade real capital and keep real profits.

Palantir.net is a full-service digital consultancy that designs and develops solutions for healthcare, higher education, technology, and public sector clients using Drupal and other open source technologies.

We are consultants for complex digital systems who specialize in working with organizations at all stages of their digital transformation

Accelerated Digital Media is a bootstrapped company that has recruited some of Chicago's top talent in digital marketing. We're on a mission to create one of the country's top digital marketing firms.

ADM is a a team of performance marketers specializing in paid media management for high growth eCommerce companies. We work with our clients to

Apervita is the trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization and interoperability. We empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality and administer and run analytics on value

Founded in 2001, Adage Tech is a web design and development firm combines strategic thinking with a passion for technology to advance our client's purpose. We bring together a diverse team of creative and technical professionals who partner with our clients to create their digital strategy and build applications to connect with their audiences.

We are the data and analytics consulting firm you want to work for. We help organizations make smart, data-driven decisions by translating their data into meaningful and actionable information. We believe that organizations thrive, lives are improved, and the world is a better place when organizations understand and use the data around them.

At oak9, we are passionate about removing the friction between development and security so that businesses can achieve development velocity and agility without compromising on security. We are a SaaS company with a cloud native security automation platform that analyzes infrastructure-as-code and seamlessly integrates into existing development

Milyli builds secure, intuitive software that makes managing sensitive information tasks easier. Milyli has worked with Relativity and other eDiscovery technologies since 2008, building custom solutions and developing innovative applications like our flagship redaction tool, Blackout. The world’s top law firms, services providers, and government

Nextpoint is the industry leader in delivering cloud-based services for eLaw. Our market leading software and services help legal related organizations conquer their eDiscovery, Litigation and Admin needs. We do this by providing a powerful SaaS platform with world-class support and engagement teams that help hundreds of law firms across the

Founded in 2017, Logiwa is the cloud fulfillment software leader, empowering high-volume direct-to-consumer businesses to scale and impress customers with a flawless delivery experience. The Logiwa Cloud Fulfillment Platform is an integrated WMS and fulfillment system that makes it easy to run a digital warehouse and scale your high-volume DTC

Neighborhoods.com is the first online real estate resource to put the neighborhood at the center of the home search. The platform invites visitors to imagine their life in a new area by providing a local’s perspective, including detailed descriptions and resident reviews of schools, amenities, and the surrounding community.

At Focused Labs we take a unique approach to developing high-quality, business focused, software. We believe that digital products can and should be built to evolve with your business. Our approach is structured around delivering products to market fast, testing with real customers, and iterating based on their feedback.

DAIS is reimagining insurance by empowering agencies and carriers with a cutting edge software platform designed to handle the complexity of insurance. We have a strong and vivid vision at DAIS: A day in which agents, carriers, and policyholders are connected in real-time through a cooperatively-owned digital network.

More than a CRM, Practifi is an enterprise-grade business management platform designed for high-performing financial advice firms. Practifi’s innovative product suite helps advisory teams integrate systems and automate processes while maximizing revenue, boosting growth and strengthening client relationships. 

Our clients are trusted to grow the

Redstone is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in the country focused on streamlining creation of esoteric alternative asset classes. The fintech disruptor dismantled the MBS ecosystem, streamlining it with a digital platform that employs AI and machine learning tools to eliminates unnecessary steps and redundant approval processes.

Yakkety Yak helps business find the right words to connect with their target audience. Our content marketing services encompass everything from website copy, custom blogs and newsletters, content audits, press releases, case studies, social media marketing and custom publishing. We want to figure out how to say what you want to say – so let’s YAK.

LaunchPad Lab is a Chicago-based software development agency that partners with businesses to transform their digital technology. We believe that great software can propel a business forward, and we have helped hundreds of organizations unlock revenue and efficiency by transforming their technology.

Our purpose is to empower people with the knowledge to improve their lives through better product choices. We achieve this purpose by driving growth for our grocery retail and consumer packaged goods customers through unparalleled product transparency.

We believe 1-1 instruction is the most powerful way to unlock “I get it” moments—when eyes light up and confidence is born. With an extensive selection of tutors listed, Wyzant helps more students, in more places, than anyone else. We work hard to make personalized learning accessible and affordable, and we're looking for great minds to join us.

Mediafly is a fully customizable sales app and sales enablement solution that empowers sellers and marketers to create dynamic, interactive, value-focused selling experiences both in person and remotely.

For more information, please visit http://www.mediafly.com

TXI is a product innovation firm transforming ideas into pragmatic digital solutions and driving meaningful outcomes for organizations.

For 16 years, we've built our software development consultancy around three small words and one big idea: tech done right. To us, it means more than clean code and sound design. It means doing right by our

Here at Magma Capital Funds, we believe humans drive research and AI drives trading decisions. We leverage a systematic strategy, that utilizes machine learning to respond to volatility by tactically allocating capital between asset classes. We strive to produce above average returns over the long term, regardless of economic environment, while

Phenix is the go-to provider for real-time video streaming solutions and the only company that can stream synchronous real-time video to broadcast sized audiences. We offer an end-to-end solution that delivers video with less than ½ second of latency. Real-time is the next frontier for companies to drive interactivity, enabling them to acquire

Kaizen Health is a healthcare technology company dedicated to removing transportation as a barrier to clinical care, food access, social services, education, the justice system, and employment as well as delivering supplies, food and prescriptions so that everyone can live a healthy and happy life. 

Kaizen Health works with health systems

Arcalea is a privately held consultancy focused on data science and marketing. We specialize in the strategic analysis and application of marketing analytics.

Culture, quality, and team are of the highest importance to all of us. We blend a proprietary methodology of quantitative analysis to reveal unique industry insights for our clients. In

Shipfusion gives brands the best real-time technology for building a successful Ecommerce operation. We store, manage and track inventory at our fully operated temperature-controlled warehouses across the United States and Canada. Shipfusion’s real-time platform offers visibility into every stage of the fulfillment process.

HEXstream is a digital transformation company that is highly specialized in Data Fabric and Analytics. We provide expert consulting services to help clients streamline their business processes through the power of prescriptive and predictive analytics.

Jiobit personal safety products secure your most precious assets with trusted and long lasting location technology. 

Founded in 2015, Jiobit shipped its first product, "The Jiobit Smart Tag," in 2018 as a location monitor for kids. Jiobit quickly expanded into other consumer segments including pets and adult safety, as well as the government and

Moov provides a platform for developers looking to embed payment functionality into their products. We take the complexity out of the process so you can focus on your customers and deliver an exceptional user experience—not worrying about banking protocols, security, or compliance.

RoomIt by CWT helps business travelers find the right room, right now. Our intelligent app serves up hotels rooms based on travelers preferences and behaviors making it easy to find a hotel with the price and amenities travelers crave. Plus, you can track your spending and locate travelers in an emergency - a must-have for fast-growing businesses.

We're building an automated, freight-matching marketplace that connects cross-border shippers (customers) with their optimal carrier (trucking companies) based on region, price, and service rating.

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

OneMain Financial is one of the largest consumer lending companies in the country. We provide real lending solutions to real people who use their loans for debt consolidation, home improvements and much more. Through constant innovation, our mission is to simplify the loan process and be the premier branch and online lender of the 21st century.

Perfect Search Media is a Chicago-based digital marketing agency.

We’re experts in Paid Search and Social Media Advertising, SEO, Remarketing, Display, UX, Design, and Content. (And we like to think we're pretty cool, too). We’re a results-driven, remote company with teammates from coast to coast.

Ocient is a data analytics solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL, enabling rapid analysis and management of the world’s largest datasets. Over the past five years, Ocient has built an ANSI SQL compliant analytical database for Petabyte and beyond datasets that is 10x to 50x times faster than competitive OLAP databases. We sell data

BigTime is the engine behind the greatest consulting firms on the planet, delivering back-office time/budgeting and invoicing to over 2,000 firms worldwide and tracking over $2 billion in billable time each year. Our flagship product is a SaaS-based system that is custom-built for the professional services industry. BigTime is a PE-backed company

GreenKey is an end-to-end platform for natural language processing (NLP). We structure complex human conversations across audio and text. Our models learn industry-specific jargon to generate insights and power automation. Our training environment can learn on-premise and is containerized using microservices.

Screencastify is the #1 screen recorder for Chrome. In 2020, Screencastify became K-12’s most used asynchronous video tool with more than 15 million users every week (!!!) recording, editing, and sharing all sorts of amazing videos. While we already had a passionate community of millions of educators, nothing could have prepared us for the growth

Livly is modern apartment software that creates convenience and community in buildings. We offer a set of user friendly applications to improve the property management and resident experiences. From an intuitive digital move-in to simple package notifications, Livly is creating a new standard of property technology amenity.

At Bento, our mission is to give businesses the freedom to drive their vision, empower their employees and deliver business growth. We do that with our awesome financial operating platform that makes it easy for SMBs to manage daily expenses, virtual payments and cashless workflows. We are serving thousands of (very) happy customers and growing!

Sagence is a data focused consulting firm working with clients in information-intensive industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance and Retail. We specialize in data management and analytics, assisting our clients with the acquisition, evaluation and development of data assets.

Relocating for a job can be scary, complex and overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be. At UrbanBound, we build software to to help HR teams manage and track relocation benefits, while providing relocating employees access to the tools and support they need to move for their job.

Mothership's groundbreaking technology is unlocking the world's potential by making freight delivery more efficient. Started in 2017, we're backed by some of venture capital's best investors and have already become the logistics backbone for many of today's most innovative companies.

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.

DigitalMint is the leading Bitcoin point-of-sale provider in the nation, enabling consumers to buy cryptocurrency instantly through Bitcoin ATM and Teller locations. DigitalMint empowers underserved and underbanked populations, utilizing digital currencies as a tool for financial access and inclusion.

Let’s be honest: finance actually sucks for SaaS companies. Traditional finance systems can’t capture the level of detail and nuances specific to SaaS, which leads to many frustrating hours trying to cobble together reports and make sense of metrics. At KPI Sense, we’re on a mission to bring clarity and strategy into the SaaS space in a new way. We

Equilibria is a high-growth, omni-channel premium CBD platform for women. We are dedicated to restoring balance to our community — physically and mentally — through our high-quality CBD products, personalized dosage support, and digital journey accompaniment.

We are the only CBD company with a dedicated team for 1-on-1 consults and education

Upfront delivers dynamic, digital care navigation to improve patient experience, increase necessary visits, reduce no-shows, and improve population health performance. Its flexible omnichannel communication capabilities, combined with personalized patient content and calls-to-action, eliminate common barriers to patient engagement and enable

Founded in 2001, Entara is an eXtended Service Provider (XSP) focused on providing cutting-edge technology and cyber security solutions to companies in regulated industries. With our roots in providing service to the electronic trading market, we are known for growing with the pace of technological change and the developing security needs of our

Led by the award-winning MVP Plant™ CMMS software and its professional services and technical support, CMMS Data Group also provides comprehensive reliability engineering services, enabling maintenance and facilities teams to increase customer satisfaction, reliability, capacity, productivity, and profitability.

Kazoo is an all-in-one Employee Experience Platform that brings together Real-time Recognition & Rewards, Continuous Performance Management and Employee Engagement Surveys in one powerful solution.

Visibly, a Chicago-based healthcare technology company founded in 2012, creates digital eye care technologies that enable patient choice and convenience while providing doctors the ability to create awesome user experiences. Visibly was founded with the belief that glasses and contact lens prescriptions should be accessible and affordable to

Renovo Financial is a rapidly-growing Chicago-based private lender serving real estate investors who acquire and renovate single and multi-family residential properties. We pride ourselves on supporting clients by providing unparalleled service, from the loan application through the payoff.

Casechek's platform coordinates and manages medical devices for surgeries, but the entire implant supply chain is ripe for disruption. We’re building an expanded solution to automate the implant supply chain and bring greater transparency to the cost of patient care. It sounds crazy, but without Casechek, hospitals can’t be 100% sure they have

Sagence is a management advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients optimize the value of their data assets. We work with leading institutions in the acquisition, evaluation, development, and management of their data assets and in the application of analytics to discover new insights, shorten time-to-value, and drive competitive advantage.

Tillable was created to help landowners receive fair rent and get the insights they need about their farm’s performance, while also helping great farmers build their reputations and expand operations. We’re using the power of data and technology to make renting farmland easier, more profitable and more efficient than ever before.

The Mom Project is rewriting the working mom narrative. We are a digital talent marketplace and community connecting professionally accomplished women with world-class companies. Our mission is to build a more diverse and inclusive workforce so women never feel forced to choose between their families and their careers.

Developed by blockchain and networking experts from Chicago's Northwestern University, bloXroute has built the crucial blockchain network infrastructure to scale Web 3.0. At the core of bloXroute is its Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) that propagates data extremely fast, solving the “scalability problem” and benefitting all network

Nousot is derived from the Latin root “nous” meaning intelligence. A Nousot is an instance of automated intelligence. Combining advanced deep learning techniques, data engineering expertise, and business acumen to automate analytic processes. We have built a modeler, not a model, that constantly learns and constantly improves. We are deploying this

Key2Act is an award-winning software as a service (SaaS) company that brings innovative and advanced technology platforms to the building intelligence, field service and construction management industries. Our industry-leading Signature software is the leader in field service & construction markets and our BOB smart building offering is the world's

With a mission to build the world’s leading global live TV streaming platform with the greatest breadth of premium content, interactivity, and integrated wagering, fuboTV Inc. (NYSE: FUBO) aims to transcend the industry’s current TV model. fuboTV Inc. operates in the U.S., Canada, Spain and, through its acquisition of Molotov, in France.

Improving outcomes for patients, employees, and communities.
The Exeter Group is a healthcare consulting firm. Founded in 1998, we provide customized talent acquisition, leadership development, and organizational development solutions to healthcare-centered organizations.

The mission for Payformance is simple. We aim to be a catalyst for payment transformation in the healthcare industry. Our software focuses on what really matters: aligning incentives to ensure insurers and providers deliver the best health outcomes for patients, at the lowest cost. Find us at the intersection of healthcare, tech, & social good.