Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Internet companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Internet industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Illinois Internet Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
mHUB
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mHUB is a hardtech innovation and manufacturing entrepreneurial center.
The Mom Project
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The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace that helps women remain active in the workforce.
Groupon
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Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
G2
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G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time.
4Degrees
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AI-enabled relationship management platform, built for relationship driven industries.
Chowbus
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Chowbus is a delivery platform that provides authentic Asian food sourced from local independent restaurants and stores.
Sears
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Sears is a multinational department store that focuses on outdoor living needs, home appliances, clothes, and furniture.
KMart
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KMart is a large retail store that sells discounted merchandise.
Hallow
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Hallow is a Catholic prayer and meditation app that hopes to help folks grow closer to God.
Gogo
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Gogo is an inflight internet company that provides aviation broadband connectivity products and services.
Catalytic
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Catalytic offers the easiest platform for digital transformation and the automation of knowledge work.
Hologram
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Hologram is a platform for building Internet of Things products with a focus on cellular.
CoPilot
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CoPilot is an assisted commerce platform that provides expert partner services for car purchases.
Jellyvision
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We make learning and decision making delightful. ALEX, our benefits expert, helps millions of employees understand their benefit options.
Zap Solutions
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Zap, the crypto wallet which allows users to purchase Bitcoin instantly via the Lightning Network.
Cohesion
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Vertically integrated smart building SaaS platform
Aclaimant
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Aclaimant offers a risk reduction platform designed to save time and money on workplace incidents and insurance.
Everspring
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Everspring develops online and hybrid courses that deliver engagement free from traditional constraints.
Cityzenith
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Cityzenith is a technology startup that provides data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities.
Sittercity
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Sittercity’s mission is to make child care finally work.
Fieldglass
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Fieldglass provides SaaS-based solutions that help firms procure and manage contingent workers, services, independent contractors and more.
Purchasing Platform
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Purchasing Platform saves money and simplifies purchasing with negotiated pricing on millions of products for real estate operators.
Blueprint
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Blueprint aids mental health clinicians in providing personalized results through measurement-based care.
Dough
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Dough is a web-based investing platform that helps individual traders manage their own finances.
Portal
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Portal helps you impress your clients by turning around comprehensive.
Turn Technologies, Inc.
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The complete solution for contingent workforce management
Certiverse
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Certiverse leverages proprietary technology and proven, economic-based crowdsourcing models to develop high-quality certification exams.
Stacked
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Stacked is a smart automated crypto investing platform.
Peerless Network
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Peerless Network offers carrier and enterprise interconnection services for telecommunication companies, service providers and enterprises.
Swap.com
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Swap.com leads the low-priced online pre-owned clothing consignment segment in the U.S. due to its unique deep neural network AI.
Scout
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Scout is a home security system that combines hardware designs and easy-to-use controls.
Varuna
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Varuna provides alerts, recommendations, and predictions to help water utility leaders to effectively manage a water system.
Codeverse
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Codeverse is the world’s first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.
Tillable
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Tillable is an online marketplace for farm landowners and growers to rent and manage farmland.
Simfoni
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Simfoni provides spend analytics and spend automation products to leading global enterprises.
LotLinx
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LotLinx’ is a SaaS provider of Digital Retailing and Marketing technologies and for the Automotive Industry.
Bucketfeet
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Bucketfeet is a direct-to-consumer shoe brand that allows artists to create shoe designs and prints them on sneakers once ordered online.
Basecamp
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Basecamp is a private, secure space online where people working together can organize and discuss.
Cog
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We virtualize IoT. Cyber security focused on the connected device marketplace.
PreFlight
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PreFlight is an automated software testing in the browser.
FoodBoss
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FoodBoss is an all in one online food and alcohol delivery search engine that comprises data from food services companies.
ForeverCar
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ForeverCar is an online web portal that simplifies the auto repair experience
Drugviu
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Drugviu is a population health platform that is expanding the data set in health and medication outcomes for non-white populations.
Flamingo
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Flamingo is a free all-in-one resident engagement platform.
EarthSense, Inc.
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Agricultural Intelligence for a Sustainable Planet
Venzee Technologies, Inc.
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Venzee is a smart tech platform that provides solutions for brands to send product content to an unlimited number of selling channels.
K4 Mobility
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K4 Mobility is a digital platform that harnesses the power of the Internet to provide services for maritime ships.
Jammber
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Jammber provides music technologies, simplifying paperwork and payment processes without encroaching on the creative process.
Kapow
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Kapow connects companies with venues to book unique client events online in real-time
Amber Agriculture
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Amber Agriculture leverages the latest in analytics and automation to help farmers manage and market grain.
Dose
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Spartz is an online platform that makes it easy to create and share content with others to make them learn, laugh, and feel inspired.
Xaptum
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Multi-tenant, future-proof network operator that enables enterprises to seamlessly scale and secure IoT deployments.
Zerv
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Zerv enables a smartphone to open any access controlled door without updating the existing hardware.
TruGrid
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TruGrid simplifies access and device security for organizations via a Cloud Gateway. TruGrid software can be deployed in minutes.
Gearflow.com
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Streamlining parts procurement for construction’s majority through the first parts marketplace built for construction.
Fusioner
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Online marketplace for music instruments and accessories
BellyCard
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BellyCard is the leader in loyalty for customers and small- to medium-sized businesses.
uBid
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Shop for trusted brands at the lowest price on the web.
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Rapunzl is an award-winning app that allows you to earn cash & scholarship prizes while you learn how to invest.
Varsity Views
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Varsity Views is a high school sports media outlet capturing the story of high school athletes’ games.
Delic
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Delic is a psychedelics corporation that specializes in education, content, and events about psychoactive compounds.
Abe’s Market
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Abe’s Market is an online marketplace that provides natural product entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their products.
OfficeLuv
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OfficeLuv creates happier and more productive workplaces by centralizing office ordering through one platform.
Ecentria group
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Ecentria group is an e-business platform that operates in the retailing industry.
Winestyr
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Winestyr offers users exclusive access to creative wineries and carefully crafted wines.
Winston Privacy
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Winston is a plug-and-play privacy device that protects all devices in the home from mass surveillance.
Inspirit IoT
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Inspirit IoT is a computer hardware that provides solutions in machine learning to cloud, server and edge devices.
Bopdrop
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Bopdrop is an application that makes it easy to share music.
Upshot
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The Only Mobile Reporting App That Allows You To *Create* New Reports On Your Mobile Device.
GamerzArena
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GamerzArena provides everyone with the platform to compete in eSports for cash prizes or sponsored product at any time.
Tangiblee
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Tangiblee is an eCommerce visualization service that transforms retailers’ online catalogs into powerful, interactive shopping experiences.
Luna Lights
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Luna Lights has developed an automated lighting system that utilizes behavioral analysis to help older adults stay safer at night.
Triggr Health
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Triggr provides a predictive system of care for addiction recovery that supports users on their personal path to long-term remission.
Rise Science
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RISE is the only app that unlocks the real-world benefits of better sleep.
Doorage, Inc.
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Doorage is a door to door provider that brings storage direct to consumers, eliminating the hassles of traditional self storage.
Vivid Seats
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Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
Hooks
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Hooks is an iOS app that enables its users to stay updated with alerts on various topics they are interested in.
Digital H2O
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Digital H2O develops an online oilfield water management analytics platform to change how energy companies manage scarce water resources.
Accuradio
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Accuradio is a multichannel internet radio station that caters to audiences with varied tastes.
FeeBelly
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FeeBelly:FinTech App helping consumers See & Avoid costly hidden fees & terms in any Doc or Agreement before eSign or Pay at point of sale.
Infogix
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Infogix provides large and mid-market companies with a broad range of integrated and configurable tools to govern, manage and use data.
Eat Purely
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Chef-crafted meals made from intentionally sourced ingredients delivered in about 20 mins.
Fueloyal
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Smart Fuel Cap transforming $146B worth fuel management market in trucking industry.
Shuttle Planet
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A 2 sided marketplace for long distance shared road transportation, where the traveller can join an existing ride or crowdsource a new trip.
Everpurse
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Everpurse offers a special charging pocket that enables users to charge their smartphones when they are outside.
Access Media 3
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Access Media 3 is a provider of high speed internet, television, and voice services to multi-tenant residential properties across the U.S.
Rivet
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Rivet is an internet radio news application that provides local, national, and international news.
Alltuition
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Alltuition is an online search engine that enables collage students to find sources for financial aid.
Noirefy
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Noirefy is a web platform that connects diverse professionals to corporations using data and referrals.
PCTEL
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PCTEL delivers performance critical technology solutions to the wireless industry.
Moxie Jean
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Moxie Jean helps busy parents to keep their kids in high quality, like new clothes from playtime to Sunday supper.
Akouba
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Akouba is a the first SAAS platform to provide community and regional banks with an online, end-to-end, small business lending solution.
Accertify
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Accertify is a provider of fraud prevention, chargeback management and payment gateway solutions to merchants.
Aegis Secure
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Ultra-Secure mobile and connected device product company
Bounteous
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Bounteous creates big-picture digital solutions that help leading companies deliver transformational brand experiences.
RepairDesk
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RepairDesk is a cloud based point of sale software for mobile phone repair shops with features such as repair ticket workflow.
Digi-Me
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Digi-Me is a video technology company that uses a global patented technology to reach job seekers with VideoJobs, helping staffing, recruiting and talent acquisition professionals improve their return on investment in the human resources technology market.
Sivic
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A Chicago, IL-based maker of a ‘post function’ app.
StageBloc
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StageBloc is the best way to create, promote and sell anything.
