Xcellent Life is building the Xcellent Life Cloud Platform (XLCP), which will be the central nervous system for connecting biometric sensors, mobile applications, & software systems for healthcare & wellness applications. Xcellent Life will revolutionize healthcare and wellness by using real-time data from a broad array of sources.
Olimp Corp. is a technology company that operates a platform designed to facilitate the connection between carriers and warehouses. Founded in 2019 and based in Long Grove, Illinois, the platform enables users to quickly find temporary storage solutions or cross-docking services within a network of warehouses. This service addresses a significant challenge in the supply chain, where approximately 200,000 trucks face delays or rejections daily due to the lack of immediate short-term storage options. By streamlining the process of locating available warehousing services, Olimp Corp. offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to traditional methods, which often involve time-consuming searches and phone calls. The company charges a 15% transaction fee for its services, significantly reducing the time and effort required for carriers to secure necessary storage and distribution solutions.
Drugviu combine data from FDA clinical trials, with physician and pharmacist expertise plus demographic relevant crowdsourced reviews to give you and your family trusted medication information. They have intentionally focused on Asian, Black, Latino and Native American populations because these groups have traditionally been underrepresented in medicine starting with clinical trials to measuring outcomes. They strongly believe everyone is important and everyone’s experiences matter. They believe that information is power not just for one’s self but when shared can really change communities.
Hello Patients is a medical fintech service provider that aims to offer pricing transparency and payment efficiencies. Hello Patients' platform offers a clear and transparent option for patients. Increase patient responsibility collection rates and streamline your RCM effectiveness. From point of service to recurring payments the company's platform will allow the user to manage repayment effectively. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Springfield, Illinois.
Rentgrata, Inc. is a Chicago-based online rental platform that facilitates apartment leasing through a mobile application. Launched in 2016, the app connects users with current residents and property managers, allowing users to browse and filter apartment listings by price and room specifications. It also enables potential renters to engage in conversations with current residents and ask questions about the apartments. A unique feature of Rentgrata is its focus on referral rewards, where current renters can benefit from property management referral programs by earning rewards when new tenants lease an apartment through their recommendations. The application is available on the App Store and serves the needs of property owners, managers, and residents alike.
Digs, Inc. operates a personal finance and guidance platform for home buying process and managing a house as an asset. The company offers Digs Saver, a platform to track savings goals, monitor credit, and provide information about the buying process. It also offers Digs Homeowner, a platform to monitor the value of a house, receive refinance alerts, and get guidance to optimize mortgage. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of October 15, 2020, Digs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OJO Labs Inc.
Autobon Holdings, Inc. specializes in developing vehicle assistance software aimed at enhancing fuel efficiency, safety, and operational effectiveness for truckers and fleet owners. The company's innovative technologies, including Autobon Visor and CargoCam, facilitate the tracking and monitoring of cargo and trucks, thereby improving overall logistics management. Founded in 2016 and based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Autobon is committed to transforming existing semi-trucks into safer and more automated vehicles. By providing a low-cost autopilot platform, Autobon empowers America's truck drivers and fleets to engage with the evolving landscape of autonomous transportation.
Advocatia Solutions, Inc. is a company based in Lake Bluff, Illinois, that specializes in providing benefit advocacy and enrollment software solutions tailored for hospitals and employers. Founded in 2016, Advocatia offers a range of tools, including Benefit Screening, Benefit Text, and Benefit Triage, designed to assist uninsured and underinsured patients in finding and securing available benefits. By partnering with Advocatia, hospitals can reduce bad debt, improve internal workflows, and create an audit trail of patient enrollment. The company's services not only facilitate access to healthcare options but also enable patients to seek necessary care following discharge, ultimately enhancing overall patient support and outcomes.
4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning.
The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships.
Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.
StoryXpress Inc. is a company headquartered in Roselle, Illinois, that specializes in cloud-based video creation tools. Founded in 2017, it offers an API that allows businesses to seamlessly integrate video creation capabilities into their platforms, enabling the conversion of images, text, and video clips into promotional videos. This automation significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional video production, which can be prohibitively expensive for many retailers. By providing a web-based DIY application, StoryXpress empowers small and medium businesses to create high-quality promotional videos without requiring advanced video editing skills. This solution not only enhances the customer experience but also increases conversion rates on e-commerce websites by transforming existing product catalogs into engaging video content.
StoryXpress Inc. is a company headquartered in Roselle, Illinois, that specializes in cloud-based video creation tools. Founded in 2017, it offers an API that allows businesses to seamlessly integrate video creation capabilities into their platforms, enabling the conversion of images, text, and video clips into promotional videos. This automation significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional video production, which can be prohibitively expensive for many retailers. By providing a web-based DIY application, StoryXpress empowers small and medium businesses to create high-quality promotional videos without requiring advanced video editing skills. This solution not only enhances the customer experience but also increases conversion rates on e-commerce websites by transforming existing product catalogs into engaging video content.
Elemetric, Inc. provides an API service for the blockchain Internet, which creates a marketplace that bridges data on the Internet and data used in blockchain applications. It offers Elemetric, a data platform for blockchain applications that enables companies with APIs/data feeds to improve their network/monetize their data by listing it on the marketplace to companies building blockchain apps. The company serves various industries to improve the applications built by blockchain developers. Elemetric, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
At Abode, they all come to work every day because they want to solve the biggest problem in residential real estate. When you buy a home, it is usually the largest transaction of your life to date and the process is stressful and complicated. Home buyers are required to hire a team of professionals to help them get financing, find the best house, get it insured, manage all of the associated paperwork... The list goes on and on. The way this is currently done is manual and antiquated. Their team learned from personal experience that this process was simply too painful in its current form. They saw enough up close and personal to know that much of the stress and confusion could be solved by creating easy-to-use software to guide everyone in the process and enable buyers and the professionals to collaborate in real-time. Throughout the history of real estate, people have used more and more data to make better decisions. Yet in the past, most of that data has been hard to access or even understand as it was held in the hands of the few. Their mission is to make this data more transparent and easy to understand for everybody (not just real estate agents).
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Specless empowers publishers and advertisers to evolve beyond standard display ad formats and rich media inventory and begin bringing a more valuable advertising experience to market.
Through a proprietary API and creative toolkit, Specless fundamentally separates the specifications of how an ad functions and appears from the creative content itself. This allows publishers to innovate at their own pace by selling differentiated ad formats while simultaneously increasing an advertiser's ability to scale complex creative campaigns across an endless variety of media and platforms.
Fueloyal, Inc. specializes in manufacturing GPS fleet tracking devices and fuel management equipment, with a focus on addressing issues in the trucking industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Bloomingdale, Illinois, the company offers innovative products, including the patented Smart Fuel Cap, which prevents fuel theft and card misuse. This device integrates smart hardware and software to provide trucking companies with comprehensive protection against fuel-related losses. Additionally, the Smart Fuel Cap collects and analyzes data from sensors on trucks, enabling companies to optimize fuel purchases and potentially save up to $950 per truck each month. Fueloyal's solutions encompass GPS tracking and asset tracking, ensuring real-time location monitoring, alerts, and enhanced asset security for fleet operators.
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PartySlate, Inc. operates a website for event professionals worldwide. Its platform enables users to browse, search, and save event ideas for weddings, fundraisers, mitzvahs, birthdays, milestones, holidays, corporate events, etc. posted by event professionals; and provides images from decor companies, event planners, caterers, photographers, venues, entertainers, and more. The company also connects users with event professionals. PartySlate, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Bright Labs, Inc. provides a SaaS metrics and analytics platform that offers real-time metrics to increase subscription business. It tracks SaaS metrics, such as monthly recurring revenue, average revenue per account, lifetime value, and more. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois.
LogicGate, Inc. provides enterprise process automation solutions that enable organizations to streamline and manage risk and compliance activities. The company's main offering is an agile platform that allows users to create applications through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. This platform supports various functions, including enterprise risk management, regulatory change management, compliance management, incident management, and IT security risk management. LogicGate's technology is designed to help businesses address the challenges of disorganized processes, facilitating better collaboration and transparency across the organization. The company's clientele spans multiple industries, including software, fintech, telecommunications, banking, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and energy. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, Illinois, LogicGate aims to reduce mission-critical risks and enhance compliance through its innovative solutions.
Wise Apple makes life easier by making lunch better - delivering fresh, custom, pre-packaged, ready-to-serve lunches and snacks directly to your door. The service takes away the daily challenge and stress parents face when planning and packing their children's lunch. Wise Apple lunches are chef-crafted, and kid-approved using the highest quality, nutritious ingredients. The service offers items for a range of preferences including gluten-free, dairy-free and nut-free options. Launched in 2016, by Rebecca Sholiton and Nate Cooper, Wise Apple is on a mission to see food through kids eyes, making good-for-you food fun for kids.
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.
AddStructure offer a white-labeled natural language understanding (NLU) platform that Retailers and Brands can use to enable conversational commerce channels.
Each day, millions of consumers interact with AddStructure's products: Signal Search, Path, and Scaffold. Applications of their technology range from review summarization (distilling thousands of reviews of a product into digestible pros and cons) to a complete conversational commerce system (chatting with an intelligent digital assistant to find and purchase products).
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart" communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).
Akouba is a the first SAAS platform to provide community and regional banks with an online, end-to-end, small business lending solutionAkouba is committed to helping financial institutions provide businesses with the capital they need to succeed, in a way that is simple, quick and cost effective for both the bank and the customer.
Hooks Technologies Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in designing and developing a mobile application for iOS. Founded in 2015, its app allows users to discover and create personalized push notifications on a wide range of topics, including television, music, sports, social media, and weather updates. The application is designed to keep users informed about concerts, shows, films, sports scores, lottery results, and even horoscopes, providing a customizable experience tailored to individual interests.
Lightstream builds live streaming creative tools and technology with a true passion for live video production, gaming and supporting the explosive growth of creators and their communities. Their cloud-based technology and products transform difficult technical hurdles into streamlined workflows – empowering creators to effortlessly share their passion, talent, and creativity on live streaming platforms like Mixer, Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, and more. Since 2014, they have been building a cloud-based live streaming studio with the goal of removing all the technical hurdles and putting advanced production capabilities in the hands of beginners. Today, they have thousands of creators streaming with Lightstream Studio for thousands of hours every day. They have partnered with Microsoft to offer Lightstream Studio to millions of Xbox and Windows streamers as part of the native OS experience – in addition to licensing their technology to major game studios and media companies.
A growth geek is a hired gun. A marketer with skills. The kind of person that can change the trajectory of a business. Millions of companies across the world are trying to grow, and they need growth geeks.
If you have mastered some aspect of modern marketing, anything from paid traffic, to content marketing, to social media, to data scraping, to analytics, or anything in between, then you might have what it takes to be a growth geek.
Glidera makes digital currency wallets better by providing applications the ability to offer bitcoin buy and sell services. Dozens of great wallets and applications now exist with millions of users, yet nearly all do not offer an easy way to obtain bitcoin. Using Glidera’s flexible API, developers can integrate this functionality while Glidera handles the compliance, banking, liquidity, and fraud challenges. Different than all other conversion services, Glidera never holds customer funds and is specifically built to work with user-controlled wallets.
NexLP, LLC, based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in predictive intelligence software that transforms electronic data into insightful patterns and narratives. Its primary product, the NexLP Story Engine, is a SaaS solution designed to help users visually identify key players and topics within their data, detect patterns, and understand the context of information. The platform allows users to create profiles for interviews and depositions while identifying critical elements such as money, dates, and organizations. Additionally, NexLP offers an on-premise version called Story Engine I3, which enables data mining and analysis for actionable insights. The company provides various consulting services, including product customization and artificial intelligence model development, primarily serving the legal, security, compliance, and human resources sectors. Founded in 2013, NexLP operates as a subsidiary of Reveal Data Corporation.
Data Everywhere is an add-in that enables spreadsheets to publish individual datasets to other spreadsheets, databases, websites, and mobile devices. It connects existing spreadsheets to a cloud data management service, which provides replication, security, revision control, basic workflow, and search for these applications. The company allows ordinary business users to publish their data to colleagues and outside parties as real data, not just embalmed files, which allows other users to easily remix the data in new ways. By treating Excel as a datasource instead of just as a document, Data Everywhere users can create new kinds of applications that formerly would have required custom development. Data Everywhere was founded by Dan McGee and Dave Bortz in November 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, the United States.
Tangiblee is an eCommerce visualization service based in Chicago, Illinois, that enhances online shopping by allowing retailers to transform their catalogs into interactive experiences. The platform enables customers to visually try on merchandise before making a purchase, thereby improving the online shopping experience. By providing this innovative solution, Tangiblee aims to bridge the gap between physical and digital retail, making it easier for consumers to engage with products in a meaningful way.
Package Zen LLC is a mobile application company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in January 2014. The application provides delivery and package receiving services for offices, apartments, and condominiums. Users can take snapshots of their bills, allowing the software to identify the intended recipient and manage notifications related to the delivery. These notifications include essential delivery details and confirmation instructions, ensuring that the correct individual is informed via email or SMS. Package Zen aims to streamline the process of managing deliveries, making it easier for clients and delivery partners to coordinate package logistics efficiently.
WeDeliver connects businesses to their customers by providing same-day delivery of goods, real-time tracking and customer feedback. Using a fleet of curated, on-demand drivers powered by algorithmic dispatching, the company ensures the quickest delivery of any product from any business to any customer at any time.
Foodini is a meal recommendation engine that uses members' food and cooking preferences to customize a weekly meal plan and grocery list for them. To get started, members fill out their food preferences, including likes, dislikes, allergies, and dietary restrictions, on www.foodini.co. Then they enter preferred cooking styles and time-to-table. Foodini's recommendation engine uses these preferences to create a weekly meal plan, including recipes for main dishes, sides, and desserts, plus a grocery shopping list. Members pay a monthly fee to join and can get discount credits for sharing their meal plans with friends on social media or for uploading their own recipes to share with other Foodini users. Foodini was founded in 2012 by Dan Roberts and Dave Shapiro, and is backed by venture capital firm and startup foundry Sandbox Industries.
Project Fixup, a Techstars startup, is making the process of meeting someone new as easy as ordering an Uber by curating fun and convenient dates at the click of a button. How it works: Once a prospective member is approved by a fixup specialist, we use a combination of humans and technology to find a like-minded person and coordinate a great location and convenient time for the two to meet. Members just click to confirm and meet someone with similar interests over a drink. Research has shown that there's no magic algorithm to predict compatibility and back and forth messaging, while occasionally entertaining, is also time consuming and inefficient. We are bringing the human element back into dating by helping people connect the right way - by meeting in person and seeing if there's a
WebCurfew is a cloud-based platform to enable home automation by managing the routers (gateway) that people already have at home… and a simple dashboard to control the experience. The first application is an “Internet Parental Control” service that allows parents to take back control over when and how their children access the internet from any connected device. It replaces the antiquated device-centric model of managing parental controls on individual devices, and provides a simple solution by managing the central point of all WiFi internet access in the home – the router.
SocialCrunch LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in building a behavior graph of individuals online. The company focuses on gathering information that aids businesses in creating relevant marketing content by utilizing insights derived from audience data. SocialCrunch offers services in deep profiling, data capture, and trend research, enabling brands and agencies to unlock significant human insights. As of January 2015, SocialCrunch operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.
FindIt is the easiest way to find emails and files across your cloud accounts using your smartphone. Search in a visual way using people, timing, and file types. Search Gmail, Google Drive, and Dropbox at the same time!
SimpleRelevance Inc. offers a marketing technology platform designed to enhance personalized digital marketing efforts for businesses. Founded in 2011 and based in Chicago, the company specializes in providing automated marketing recommendations across various channels, including emails, digital advertisements, social media, SMS, and mobile applications. SimpleRelevance utilizes machine learning technology to analyze customers' behavioral, demographic, and psychographic data, allowing businesses to tailor their marketing messages with precision. This personalization extends to aspects such as the timing of message delivery, subject lines, and product recommendations, ultimately leading to improved conversion rates and return on investment. The platform serves a diverse clientele, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies across sectors such as media, finance, and retail. In December 2015, SimpleRelevance became a subsidiary of Rise Interactive, further enhancing its capabilities in the marketing technology space.
AdYapper, Inc. operates a comprehensive platform designed to enhance advertising effectiveness by providing real-time feedback on commercials. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in New York, the company specializes in tracking display and mobile ads, offering detailed verification data, consumer sentiment analysis, and viewability monitoring for a vast majority of ad impressions. AdYapper centralizes this data within its platform, enabling advertisers to identify wasted ad spend and make informed decisions on reallocating resources throughout their campaigns. The tools provided by AdYapper facilitate direct audience engagement, allow for the submission of new advertisements, and transform television marketing into an inbound marketing opportunity, ultimately making advertising performance data actionable and optimizing ad efficacy.
Foodini is a meal recommendation engine that uses members' food and cooking preferences to customize a weekly meal plan and grocery list for them. To get started, members fill out their food preferences, including likes, dislikes, allergies, and dietary restrictions, on www.foodini.co. Then they enter preferred cooking styles and time-to-table. Foodini's recommendation engine uses these preferences to create a weekly meal plan, including recipes for main dishes, sides, and desserts, plus a grocery shopping list. Members pay a monthly fee to join and can get discount credits for sharing their meal plans with friends on social media or for uploading their own recipes to share with other Foodini users. Foodini was founded in 2012 by Dan Roberts and Dave Shapiro, and is backed by venture capital firm and startup foundry Sandbox Industries.
GetAFive is an online AP test prep tool that offers video reviews from expert teachers, customized study plans, practice tests, and more. In addition to AP review close to test time, students can use GetAFive to review for regular tests in AP classes during the school year. Students who purchase an AP class review from GetAFive begin with a diagnostic test to see what areas they need to work on the most. They then have access to individual video lessons from expert teachers, each of which is followed by a review quiz and includes study notes. Once the reviews are completed, students can take practice exams and opt to have their free response questions hand-graded by AP teachers. Parents with a GetAFive account can purchase classes on behalf of their students, monitor students' progress on video lessons, and see quiz and test results. GetAFive was founded in 2012 by Lindsay Cohen and Danny Levi, and is backed by venture capital firm and startup foundry Sandbox Industries.