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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Chicago 2019
Clearcover
Fintech
About us
Clearcover is a smarter car insurance choice. The company offers better coverage at lower prices than traditional carriers by using advanced technology, eliminating wasteful spending, and promoting transparency to help consumers make informed decisions. The company has been featured in Forbes and Inc for its innovative approach.
41
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Bento for Business
Fintech + Software
About us
At Bento, our mission is to be the 'go-to' provider of financial services for SMBs by making their day to day easy. Today, we issue smart employee debit cards that can be controlled remotely by our awesome software. Think Amex+Expensify on steroids. We have thousands of (very) happy customers and are launching our next killer apps shortly.
16
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Payformance Solutions
Healthtech + Machine Learning
About us
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.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Punchkick Interactive
Agency + Fintech
About us
Punchkick is digital innovation for the world’s brightest brands. We build custom software and everything that supports it, including user research and business intelligence. We specialize in mobile apps, web experiences, user experience design, and business analytics.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Sittercity
Kids + Family + On-Demand
About us
Sittercity’s mission is to make child care finally work. As the company that pioneered tech-enabled child care, we've come a long way since 2001. We've connected millions of families and sitters, and now we’re reinventing the category we created, with technology that radically simplifies the way families and sitters connect.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Camelot Illinois
eCommerce + Gaming
About us
Camelot Illinois has been awarded the contract as the new private manager of the Illinois Lottery. The company is restoring transparency, integrity and responsibility to the Illinois Lottery. In partnership with the state, Camelot will operate a modern lottery that truly benefits the people of Illinois.
88
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
All Campus
Agency + Marketing Tech
About us
All Campus creates value for leading universities by expanding their reach and cultivating relationships with students to advance their lives through education. All Campus is dedicated to providing an outstanding experience for students, university clients and our employees, through collaborative partnerships and innovative technology and services.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Adage Technologies
eCommerce + Professional Services
About us
Founded in 2001, Adage 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.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Club Automation
Software
About us
Club Automation is the leading club management software for health & athletic clubs and medical wellness centers. Club Automation's comprehensive web-based solution currently serves over 400 enterprise-grade facilities nationwide. by offering a club management solutions to increase revenue, reduce cost and engage customers.
35
Local Employees
Founded
Bannockburn
Location
Pareto Intelligence
Big Data + Healthtech
About us
Pareto Intelligence is an analytics and advisory company committed to delivering solutions that improve financial performance for health plans, providers, and any other organizations within the healthcare ecosystem.
32
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Sertifi
Software
About us
Sertifi is the leader in Frictionless Business, with innovative solutions for modernizing the last mile of the sales process. Sertifi offers the fastest and most secure way to close business, from eSignatures to online payment capture.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Otus
Edtech + Software
About us
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.
24
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Pangea Money Transfer
Fintech + Mobile
About us
Founded in 2012, Pangea Money Transfer started with the mission of giving everyone the power to move money effortlessly, starting with those who need it the most. Receivers in our 15 active countries across Asia and Latin America can collect the money at available cash pickup locations or directly into any bank account in minutes.
35
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Brad's Deals
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
Brad’s Deals brings together the best deals on the internet, all in one place. We’ve grown from a one-person operation in 2001 to a 85-person, employee-owned company that helped shoppers save more than $100 million each year.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Smokeball
Legal Tech + Software
About us
Smokeball empowers small law firms to manage emails and documents easily, create documents faster through clever automation, and gives a digital filing system in the cloud so staff can work together from anywhere. Our mission: help small law firms be successful businesses so that they can better serve our communities.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Infutor Data Solutions
AdTech + Big Data
About us
Infutor is the expert in Consumer Identity Management. We are 100% focused on enabling brands to know everything they need to about consumers, to instantly make informed marketing and risk decisions. Infutor’s experience linking trusted data sources result in proven solutions for our clients.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits
Dental Benefits
Wellspring
Software
About us
Ideas, expertise, and intellectual property are the building blocks of product innovation. Companies source these assets from partners around the world and combine them in much the same way that manufacturers combine parts. Wellspring develops purpose-built software for technology scouting, corporate venturing, and technology transfer.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Quicket Solutions
Cloud + Enterprise Web
About us
At Quicket, we understand that government needs great technology to best serve our communities. Quicket’s unified data management and operational intelligence software improves efficiencies by breaking down data silos, automates services for residents, and eliminates costs associated with managing infrastructure.
19
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
OneMain Financial
Consumer Web + Fintech
About us
OneMain Financial is focused on one simple thing: making borrowing better. We’re pioneering the future of consumer lending by creating a different online loan experience. The key? A simpler process with a personal touch. Our goal is to help connect people with the funds they need in order to take charge of their financial future.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
RedShelf
Edtech
About us
As a leading distributor of digital learning materials, RedShelf provides technology to the learning community to accelerate the transition to digital. In collaboration with strategic partners, publishers, institutions and campus bookstores, RedShelf offers easily accessible and cost-effective learning materials to students everywhere.
74
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
BenchPrep
Edtech + Enterprise Web
About us
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.
58
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Catch Co.
eCommerce + Sports
About us
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. Incumbent retailers drive anglers mad with intimidating and confusing product assortments, causing customers to waste hundreds of dollars on gear they don’t know
28
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
One North Interactive
Agency + Professional Services
About us
One North is a digital agency that partners exclusively with professional services organizations to create programs that enhance the client experience, drive new business and attract top talent. Our team of more than 85 curious and passionate professionals specialize in brand, digital strategy, experience design, technology and managed hosting.
81
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
TopstepTrader
Fintech
About us
TopstepTrader®’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.
34
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Highland Solutions
Professional Services + Software
About us
Highland Solutions is a customer experience firm focused on CX strategy, custom software development, and CRM implementation. We help innovative leaders thrive in the experience economy by helping them understand their customers and take smart risks.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Networked Insights
Big Data + Marketing Tech
About us
Networked Insights technology helps marketers from the world’s biggest brands and agencies understand their customers, inform their media spend, invent new products, drive amazing creative campaigns and improve their targeting by providing game-changing insights no other technology company can provide.
63
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
SwipeSense
Big Data + Healthtech
About us
SwipeSense is building an operating system for the hospital of the future, today. We're doing this through several products built on top of our connected hospital platform - a combination of sensor networks, wearable technologies, and big data insights.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
DAIS Technology
Fintech + Information Technology
About us
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.
35
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Cognos HR
HR Tech + Other
About us
CognosHR is a Chicago-based PEO and HR consulting firm that helps early-stage, small and midsize businesses improve productivity and lower overall employment costs by providing top-tier HR expertise, infrastructure, and group benefits. We love working with startups and are proud to partner with some of Chicago's top VC's and incubators.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
ReviewTrackers
Enterprise Web + Software
About us
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.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
closerlook, inc.
Agency
About us
closerlook is a digital marketing agency that specializes in helping pharmaceutical brands build and maintain meaningful relationships with their most valuable healthcare professionals. Our 100+ employees specialize in digital strategy, user experience, creative design and writing, data analytics, web and mobile application development.
95
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
UI LABS
Other
About us
UI LABS is an innovation accelerator that leverages a network of hundreds of partners from university + industry, along with startups, government, and community groups, to address problems too big for any one organization to solve on its own. Our mission is to transform industries, starting with manufacturing and infrastructure, using digital tech.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Table XI
Mobile + Software
About us
Table XI is a UX design and custom development firm with 15 years of experience building web applications, mobile apps, and custom software for everyone from startups to storied brands. To deliver the best solutions, we need as many bright and diverse minds in the room as possible. If you’re curious, talented and hungry, we want to hear from you.
34
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Milyli
Enterprise Web + Information Technology
About us
Make It Like You Like It: That’s what Milyli stands for. Milyli is a talented team of tech-savvy professionals who specialize in building the most innovative solutions to the most complex ediscovery problems. Our mission is to make ediscovery easier for case managers and review attorney’s through our custom solutions and products for Relativity.
48
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Sterling Trading Tech
Fintech + Software
About us
Sterling Trading Tech (STT) is a leading broker neutral provider of trading platforms, risk and compliance technology and trading infrastructure products for the global equities, equity options, and futures markets. STT is committed to providing fast, stable technology along with outstanding customer service.
25
Local Employees
Chicago
Location
Fusion Risk Management
Professional Services + Software
About us
Fusion Risk Management is recognized as the most innovative and fastest growing provider of cloud-based enterprise software for business continuity risk management, IT disaster recovery and crisis management. Fusion is transforming the industry and has been named a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Continuity Management software.
92
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Buildout, Inc.
Cloud
About us
Buildout is a web application for marketing commercial real estate. It produces and publishes custom materials and streamlines the entire property listing process. We’ve worked with companies across the country to develop an easy-to-use tool that will showcase your brand, save time, and grow your business.
74
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Neighborhoods.com
Real Estate + Software
About us
Neighborhoods.com is an easy-to-use online real estate resource that helps people find the perfect home and ideal neighborhood. There are plenty of real estate websites that let people search for houses, but we are the only site that helps people find their ideal community. From urban cores to suburban subdivisions, neighborhoods.com covers it all.
87
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
dscout
Enterprise Web + Mobile
About us
dscout helps companies better understand the experiences people have with their products and brands in everyday life. Our SaaS video research platform helps our customers gather, manage, share and analyze millions of in-context moments submitted by people around the world.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
HEXstream
Big Data + Cloud
About us
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.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Heretik
Legal Tech + Machine Learning
About us
Heretik is a Relativity (leading eDiscovery platform) application that marries effective text analysis machine learning models and flexible document review capabilities. Our solution structures contract data for smarter, faster, and more favorable decisions.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Nerdio
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
Nerdio is a ridiculously easy IT management platform for private and public cloud. Nerdio Private Cloud is a fully integrated platform that delivers a complete virtual IT environment. Nerdio for Azure is an automation technology offering packaging, pricing, provisioning, management, and cost-optimization of IT environments in the Microsoft Cloud.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Skokie
Location
Level Ex
Gaming + Healthtech
About us
Level Ex unites award-winning game developers with expert surgeons from leading academic hospitals to create professional video games for physicians. The company’s mobile app, VR, and AR experiences present scenarios to diagnose and perform procedures on life-like virtual patients to advance decision-making skills with real patients.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
TRYTN
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
TRYTN is an online booking and central reservation management system for tour and activity companies. Businesses increase their direct sales while reducing costs by utilizing TRYTN's state of the art booking system, subsidized web development and customized marketing services.
6
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Yaro
Fintech + Healthtech
About us
Yaro is building people-centered digital products that give consumers transparency into healthcare. Considering a consumer’s life stage, family setup, and finances, we’re able to deliver the most relevant options for them. Partnering with health plans and providers, we simplify healthcare for consumers.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
TRIBUS
Angel or VC Firm + Real Estate
Truss
Machine Learning + Real Estate
About us
Truss is a leading online marketplace to help small and medium sized business owners find, tour and lease space. Our tech-enabled platform and our people help you find the right space for the best price in record time. We are growing like crazy by bringing technology and data to the forefront of the commercial real estate industry.
18
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Lendr Online
Fintech
About us
Growing your business is our business. In an economy where it’s almost impossible for small businesses to get traditional loans, Lendr offers fast, friction-free cash advances to help small and medium business owners focus on what they do best: grow. We say yes more because we consider more. It’s not just about your credit score. We look at your f
40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
GreenKey Technologies
Artificial Intelligence + Fintech
About us
GreenKey is a technology leader, driving workflow automation with voice. The Call Dashboard tool understands tribal language to transcribe calls in real-time, while extracting actionable data, insights and summarizations. This is invaluable in industries like financial markets where minutes mean millions and jargon is a complex language of its own.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Semantify
Artificial Intelligence + Fintech
About us
Semantify leads the next wave of innovation in business intelligence tools with the powerful combination of natural language processing, semantic search and self service business intelligence within a single, unified and extensible platform.
4
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
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