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50 Best Chicago Startups To Work For

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

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

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

Pareto Intelligence
Big Data + Healthtech
About us
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.

100
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Ascent
Artificial Intelligence + Enterprise Web
About us
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.

30
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

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

Black Spectacles
eCommerce + Edtech
About us
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.

15
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Aptitive
Analytics + Big Data
About us
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.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Supernova Technology
Cloud + Fintech
About us
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.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

YCharts
Fintech + Software
About us
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.

63
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

ClearCut Analytics
Big Data + Business Intelligence
About us
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

30
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Atomic Object
Cloud + Consulting
About us
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.

7
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Kalderos
Healthtech + Machine Learning
About us
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.

50
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

CityBase
Information Technology + Other
About us
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.

60
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

ReviewTrackers
Business Intelligence + Enterprise Web
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.

80
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Otus
Big Data + Edtech
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.

43
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Purchasing Platform
eCommerce + Real Estate
About us
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.

38
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

UPshow
Digital Media + Marketing Tech
About us
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

50
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.
We deliver the most

90
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

cohesion
Internet of Things + Real Estate
About us
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.

40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

lulafit
Events + Fitness
About us
Lulafit is a national leader in modern wellness technology and services. Today, lulafit works with top organizations and real estate companies to create a culture that supports people’s physical, social, and mental well-being. The result is increased retention, higher engagement, and healthier and happier people.

40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

NexLP
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
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.

21
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Catch Co.
Digital Media + eCommerce
About us
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

50
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

CarrierDirect
Information Technology + Logistics
About us
We are a band of strategy consultants, technologists and industry veterans who focus on the hard problems facing transportation and logistics companies. Our portfolio includes everything from management consulting to custom software products to integrated service design.

16
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Brad's Deals
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
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.

75
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
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

GeoWealth
Fintech + Software
About us
GeoWealth is 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.

39
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
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

CPI, the OpenFox Company
Software
About us
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.

80
Local Employees
Founded
Bolingbrook
Location

Topstep
Fintech
About us
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.

61
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Accelerated Digital Media
Agency + Digital Media
About us
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

17
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Palantir.net
Agency + Consumer Web
About us
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.

22
Local Employees
Founded
Evanston
Location

Analytics8
Analytics + Big Data
About us
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.

45
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Nextpoint
Cloud + Legal Tech
About us
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

34
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Logiwa
eCommerce + Information Technology
About us
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

19
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Milyli
Enterprise Web + Information Technology
About us
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

27
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Adage Technologies
Consulting + eCommerce
About us
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.

64
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Neighborhoods.com
Real Estate + Software
About us
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.

55
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.

48
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Focused Labs
Agency + Cloud
About us
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.

18
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Redstone
Artificial Intelligence + Fintech
About us
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.

40
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Yakkety Yak
Agency
About us
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.

22
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

LaunchPad Lab
Software
About us
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.

25
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Kaizen Health, Inc
Healthtech + Logistics
About us
Kaizen Health is a healthcare technology company dedicated to removing transportation as a barrier to clinical care, food access, social services, education 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, Federally Qualified

42
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Label Insight, a NielsenIQ Company
Big Data + Machine Learning
About us
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.

33
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location

Wyzant
Edtech
About us
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.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
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Best Places to Work rates companies algorithmically based on compensation and employer benefits data they provide to us.