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What's Best Small Companies?
Built In's “Best Small Companies” list rates companies with less than 100 employees based on their employer benefits and employee submitted compensation data. Rank is determined by combining a company’s score in each of these categories.
50 Best Small Companies to Work For in Chicago
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
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
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
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.
55
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
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
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
Sagence
Big Data + Information Technology
About us
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.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Tegus
Fintech + Information Technology
About us
Want to make a BIG impact in a growing start-up? Are you a high achiever with a hunger to learn? Take a look at Tegus! We are a fast-growing financial technology start-up, connecting institutional investors with experts and decision makers directly from the field.
Interested in exploring opportunities Tegus? Feel free to contact Shay: [email protected]
17
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Chowly Inc.
Food + Information Technology
About us
Chowly integrates third-party Online Ordering Systems (TOOS) such as Grubhub, UberEats, Doordash, and more, into a restaurant's point-of-sale (POS) system. Restaurant staff will no longer need to manage delivery tablets and manually enter each order. This saves time, controls staffing costs, increases efficiency, and reduces errors.
50
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
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
Shiftgig
HR Tech + Software
About us
Shiftgig connects businesses with the on-demand workforce through our industry-leading mobile platform. Our technology provides financial opportunity for hourly workers seeking flexibility and choice, while delivering powerful business agility to companies.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
The Mom Project
HR Tech + On-Demand
About us
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.
25
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.
47
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Label Insight
Big Data + Machine Learning
About us
Label Insight was founded with the mission of helping consumers understand what’s in the products they use and consume. Today, their world-class data solution powers transparency between CPG brands, retailers, and consumers.
50
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.
25
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
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.
35
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Medean
Fintech
About us
The smarter, simpler way to budget and take control of your money. Medean is the all-in-one budget tracker and P2P financial planner that finally puts your spending and savings into context. Find out how your finances compare with people like you, complete money-saving Achievements, and track your Medean Score.
5
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
GrowthPlay
Professional Services
About us
GrowthPlay is a sales effectiveness firm helping people find their true selves so they can be better salespeople. We do this while leveraging analytics, coaching and training so they can do what achieves results. GrowthPlay disrupts the status quo by believing that personal and professional growth is fundamental to achieving revenue growth.
17
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
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
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.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Casechek
Healthtech
About us
Casechek connects hospitals and medical device suppliers to ensure the correct products are delivered and processed for surgery. With its proprietary supplier databases and interfaces with hospital information systems, Casechek brings automation to this complex supply chain.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
E15 Group
Food + Machine Learning
About us
We apply an analytical mindset to our partner's businesses and help enhance performance in every facet of their operations. We thrive on empowering our partners to manage complexity by harnessing the data they have to gain the insights they need. Services include Data Services, Emerging Tech, Consumer Insights, AI, Partner Strategy, & Consulting.
38
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
Eight Bit Studios
Agency + Consumer Web
About us
Let's create the world's best mobile apps and websites, right here in Chicago.Created from the brimstone of Chicago's top acquired agencies: We are a smart, fun, rowdy, privately-owned group of pixel-slingers from the midwest, here to crush it for brands on their mobile and web initiatives. Our work has garnered attention in USA Today, Brandw
36
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
RhinoDox
Big Data + Cloud
About us
RhinoDox is a cloud-based, Intelligent Content Management platform for Manufacturing companies. We streamline communication and visibility by connecting people, content and business processes to deliver the power of lean manufacturing. We help get more done in less time.
14
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
McDonald's Technology
eCommerce + Food
About us
McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries. More than 90% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women. McDonald's & our franchisees employ 1.9 million people worldwide.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Inspirant Group
Fintech + Healthtech
About us
Founded on two basic ideas--people matter and delivering value is the highest priority--Inspirant Group is a digital transformation "consulting" (we prefer Unconsulting) firm intent on changing the way consulting is done.
10
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
RedShelf
Edtech
About us
Founded in 2012 and recently named one of the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses by Inc. Magazine, RedShelf is a Chicago-based EdTech company helping to make education both more affordable and more effective by replacing yesterday’s pricey print publications with today’s more dynamic and far less expensive digital content.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Highland Solutions
Professional Services + Software
About us
Highland Solutions is a customer experience agency 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
MotherG
Information Technology
About us
MotherG leads the industry by making small and mid-sized business clients happy with excellent technology. We provide IT managed services for thousands of computers and servers across metro Chicago. MotherG has perfected its Light-Switch Technology model which delivers the highest value in managed services.
29
Local Employees
Founded
Itasca
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.
17
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.
47
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Cognos HR
HR Tech + Other
About us
CognosHR is a Chicago area HR services and consulting firm that helps small and midsize businesses grow by providing HR infrastructure, expertise and core services like payroll and group benefits. We serve dozens of local startups and are proud to partner with some of Chicago's top VC's and incubators.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Credico USA LLC
Marketing Tech
About us
Credico is the world's leading face-to-face customer acquisition agency, helping our clients attract and retain loyal customers. Founded in 1991, Credico connects internationally recognized brands with high-quality, local-market outsourced sales teams that help clients acquire new customers via retail, events, door-to-door and street market sales.
52
Local Employees
Founded
chicago
Location
Rippleshot
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Rippleshot is transforming the way that card issuers and processors detect fraud through a cloud-based technology solution that leverages machine learning and data analytics to distinguish fraudulent activity more quickly and efficiently.
8
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Building Blocks
Other
About us
We work with architects and contractors at the forefront of architecture to design, engineer, fabricate, and install innovative facade systems.
8
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Tock
Food + Software
About us
Tock is changing the way restaurants, bars, wineries, event organizers (and more) think about and run their business. This includes a robust reservation, guest, and table management system for businesses of all sizes across the globe. Tock was founded with the idea there was a better way for guests to book reservations.
Founded
Chicago
Location
What's Best Small Companies?
Built In's “Best Small Companies” list rates companies with less than 100 employees based on their employer benefits and employee submitted compensation data. Rank is determined by combining a company’s score in each of these categories.