Kids + Family Startups Chicago
List of Kids + Family startups in Chicago
59 Companies
Sittercity
Kids + Family • On-Demand
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.
Disability Insurance
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ThinkCERCA
Edtech • Kids + Family
ThinkCERCA is on a mission to set every student up for real-world success. The ability to synthesize information and communicate ideas effectively is key to college and career readiness. We help educators teach these critical thinking skills through argumentative writing across subjects. See our results: http://ThinkCERCA.com/results
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
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Monica+Andy
Kids + Family
If we don't think it's healthy for our little ones, then we don't think it's healthy for yours either. For that reason, we ensure that all of our fabrics are free of lead, phthalates, and flame-retardants. And beyond safety, we recognize that feel is just as important as fashion. We take great pride in sourcing only the softest cotton and muslin...
Bughouse
Gaming • Kids + Family
We believe in a day when every child grows up knowing they can realize their dreams through their creations. Our mission is to inspire creative play and learning in children and provide the tools for parents to help raise amazing people.
- We're Bughouse: a super fun group of musicians, engineers, artists and writers who believe that they too, can use...
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Local Employees
Mac & Mia
Fashion • Kids + Family
Mac & Mia is a curated children’s clothing service that delivers handpicked apparel and accessories to parents for kids sizes newborn to 10Y. Our personal stylists create unique looks for kids, shipped free and on-demand (no subscription necessary).
Mac & Mia was founded by Marie Tillman.
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Generous PTO
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Local EmployeesChicago
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Runchkins
Fashion • Kids + Family
Personal shopping service for busy parents and fashionable kids (0-6yr). We send a box of adorable kids clothes + accessories to your doorstep. Keep only what you love, and shipping is always free, both ways.
But what makes us SPECIAL? We guarantee to buy back every piece of clothing when your little one outgrows them.
Chicago
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Player's Health
Healthtech • Kids + Family
Player’s Health is the first universal health management and compliance application for youth athletes. Our HIPAA compliant mobile application provides athletic programs with players' essential medical information and streamlines the injury reporting process in an easy to use digital platform. Coaches, trainers, parents and athletic directors can...
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Local EmployeesChicago
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Little Nugget
Kids + Family • Mobile
Little Nugget is a baby photo app made by parents, for parents. Use Little Nugget to capture pregnancy and baby milestones by adding custom artwork and personalized text to your baby photos in seconds. Safely save your photos in a private feed or share them on social media!
3
Local Employees
Woof Rescue App
Kids + Family • Mobile
Woof Rescue is an app which helps people find the love of their lives at their local pet shelter. Utilizing our app, users can view thousands of pets available for adoption to a loving home, and begin the adoption process right from their phone. The app is just the beginning -- many exciting and innovative solutions to help facilitate the pet...
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Local EmployeesNaperville
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Aidhen's Corner
Consumer Web • Kids + Family
Aidhen's Corner is an on-line concierge service for all things Kids! We give our member's ability to quickly, easily and seemlessly search, find, and book, amazing "what to do's" with their kids the instant they need it.
As a parent you want to make every day, every experience and every moment count with your kids. But finding that creative, new...
4
Local EmployeesChicago
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Codeverse
Edtech • Kids + Family
Codeverse® is the world's first fully interactive coding school and educational technology platform for kids aged 6-12, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.
To book weekly coding classes and 2018 Spring/Summer camps, visit www.codeverse.com.
Chicago
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MakerGirl
Edtech • Kids + Family
MakerGirl is an organization that strives to reduce the gender gap in STEM by teaching young girls about 3D printing, women leaders in STEM fields, innovative companies, cutting edge technology, and much more. MakerGirl sessions are for girls aged 7-10 and are led by university STEM women.
Urbana
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Homeology
Real Estate • Kids + Family
Homeology is an online service designed to makes it simpler for families to evaluate and choose the community that best suits their lifestyle and needs. Our Start up enters the real estate industry with premise that the community is as important, if not more important than the features of a house. We not only bring together data on all the key...
4
Local Employees
Jiobit
Kids + Family • Wearables
Jiobit is creating the world's smallest and longest self-learning location tracking technology - starting with kids! The team's first product, Jiobit, helps parents keep track of their kids in every location - indoors, outdoors, above and below, in over 120 countries.
12
Local EmployeesChicago
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Paige & Paxton
Edtech • Kids + Family
Paige & Paxton is an innovative curriculum that leverages puzzle piece characters that make STEM easy to teach and easy to learn at the very beginning of a child's educational experience. We carry out this mission through storybooks, curriculum and pop-up events across the U.S. that engage educators, kids and their parents in STEM.
Evanston
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Noble Network of Charter Schools
Edtech • Kids + Family
Noble is Chicago’s highest-performing and largest network of public charter high schools. Our 18 campuses currently serve over 12,000 students, of whom 98% are minority, 87% are low-income, and 82% are first-generation college goers. We believe our people are the most valuable asset in preparing our students for success in college. For that reason,...
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
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Kids + Family Jobs in Chicago
Senior Web Developer
Monica+Andy
Chicago
3 days ago
Position Title: Senior Web Developer
Job Description
What is Monica + Andy?
We are a digitally native, organic baby and children’s brand that strives to make things better for parents and babies. Inspired by the birth of her daughter, our Founder Monica Royer created Monica + Andy to deliver softer organic fabrics, better-designed clothing and blankets, and a seamless, easy shopping experience for all parents. Thoughtfulness can be found in
Lead User Experience Designer
ThinkCERCA
Chicago
4 days ago
+7
This role will be responsible for bringing design concepts to life by creating forward-thinking designs for our web-based learning platform. You will be an expert on all things interaction, experience and information architecture for the team. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary agile R&D team to define, design and test product and digital service features with the goal of creating valuable and delightful experiences for our users. This position will work collaboratively with our Design Researcher and Visual and UX Designers, as well as, the strategy, product, development, and marketing teams to deliver the collective vision.
Junior Customer Success Advocate
Sittercity
Chicago
1 week ago
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Sittercity is looking for a customer-centric and motivated individual to join our Customer Success team. In this role, you'll utilize your organizational, problem-solving, and people skills to provide real-time support to our network of families and sitters. As a part-time Junior Customer Success Advocate, your day-to-day will include connecting with customers through phone, email, and chat...
Data Analyst
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Chicago
1 week ago
+18
Organization Background
Starting as one school in 1999, the Noble Network of Charter Schools (Noble) has now grown to serve over 12,000 students from 70 different communities at 18 separate campuses in Chicago, Illinois. Consistently, these campuses represent Chicago’s highest performing open-enrollment high schools (based on SAT as well as other critical outcomes like college graduation, etc.)
Job Overview
Noble is looking for a Data Analyst
Director of Partnerships
Sittercity
Chicago
3 weeks ago
+19
About Sittercity
Sittercity’s mission is to make child care finally work. We pioneered tech enabled child care in 2001, and we connect millions of parents with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, our on-demand service, we are building a platform that is radically simplifying the way we find, book and pay for trusted care. Headquartered in Chicago, we serve families and caregivers nationwide.
What You’ll Do
As the