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EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.

When is an AI-driven off-boarding platform for employees. It's a personalized health insurance marketplace that simplifies the process of finding health insurance during a job transition. When is a B2B solution that partners with employers to provide a better off-boarding experience for employees while reducing the risk of high claims by making it easy for exiting employees to find alternatives to COBRA.

KPI Sense is a provider of B2B SaaS financial reporting solutions for startups. By aggregating, optimizing, and reporting data, it assists SaaS companies in creating and sharing their financial story. With its SaaS data aggregation tools, they make data collection and analysis easier. The company's novel model gathers information from wherever it is stored and organizes it into a detailed, easily digestible summary. These assessments provide valuable insights into the performance and scale of the business without the need for time-consuming manual data preparation.

Shopflix is a platform used by company brands to promote their products. Their Creative Team schedules and sets up the production and shoots of the brand's products.

86 Repairs is a computer software company that features a subscription service platform that manages the entire repair process for restaurant groups. Its services include 24/7 support from our expert team, actionable insights to improve back-of-house operations, and complete management of the service process. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.

Retail Aware develops a real-time, sensor-informed analytics platform to help brands and retailers analyze and track information to determine the actions they need to take. Its sensor analytics platform provides shelf-level data on impressions, dwell time, product engagement, and audience demographics, and operational factors such as temperature and stock outages without the use of cameras.

Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a designer or developer, with Draftbit you can design your app visually, and then export clean, well-documented code and libraries that give you full control.

Nexus A.I. helps global brands identify the best ideas and talent for every campaign. Supporting users in more than fifty countries across six continents, Nexus helps you become a more inclusive powerhouse. Learn more: www.nexusai.com

Leafwire is a global cannabis business network that offers a secure and welcoming platform to the cannabis community. It identified a need in the industry for a platform where the cannabis industry could share news, promote events, find business partners, employees, investors, and simply network.

86 Repairs is a computer software company that features a subscription service platform that manages the entire repair process for restaurant groups. Its services include 24/7 support from our expert team, actionable insights to improve back-of-house operations, and complete management of the service process. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

humanpredictions is a data-driven software company that gathers public data and assembles a technical profile for each person. The company has a sourcing solution focused on helping customers with hiring technical talent and differentiated by the depth of the technical skills data and by machine learning models that predict people most likely to be open to new opportunities. The tech recruiting product helps enterprise teams, start up founders and agency recruiters spend less time finding and researching potential candidates, so they can spend more time connecting with and recruiting people. Founded by tech recruiters, the team is embedded in tech communities and hyper-focused on data sources overlooked by general data aggregators. By training machine learning models using richer software community data, humanpredictions more accurately suggests when to most effectively contact potential candidates. At humanpredictions, they supercharge intelligent, relationship-focused technical leaders and tech recruiters by giving them tools that perform their research automatically. The decisions of who to email, when to reach out, which events to attend, and ultimately where and with whom to spend their time are automated. By rebuilding the craft of recruiting, they empower recruiters to do the real, human work: building relationships and evaluating talent. Customers also purchase data for research purposes including VC's assessing potential investments, geographic talent concentration market research, competitive business intelligence, and capital markets trading.

The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

Hunt Club is a new category of search firm helping companies leverage the power of relationships and referrals to achieve a better hiring experience. Hunt Club's proprietary technology transforms thousands of subject matter experts into the world’s most powerful network. They built their own technology that gives access to 5 million candidates referred from our network of 10,000+ subject matter experts. It connects the network of professionals to partner companies with open positions. Hunt Club was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The Graide Network is an internet company that offers an online platform that connects teachers with qualified teaching assistants to grade and provide thorough feedback on student assignments. The company is driven by its mission is to reimagine how middle and high school teachers spend their time. The Graide Network was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first and largest network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in all 50 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, PrintWithMe users have printed over 20 million pages on sustainably-sourced paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.

Apartment Jet is a short term property management software that offers solutions to owners and operators in apartment industry. The company helps these owners grab the reins and right the saddle. It provide property management owners and operators the portfolio-level visibility, control, revenue opportunity, and power to maintain a sense of community that’s too easily sacrificed in today’s sharing economy. The company is focused on turning corporate/guest suites and vacant units into revenue.

Esquify is a cutting-edge legal technology start-up. We replace the current in-person litigation document review with a virtual solution using our own patented, machine learning technology to do so. Our proprietary supervisory technology and communication tools allow our reviewers to perform a virtual, secure and efficient review utilizing all existing e-discovery platforms to access documents. This means that our team can do physical document reviews from anywhere in the country while being supervised in real-time by our case managers and artificial intelligence technology. As a result, our customers have CUT their TOTAL REVIEW COST by 20-45% while receiving a better, more efficient review with 90%+ REVIEWER PRODUCTIVITY!

PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first and largest network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in all 50 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, PrintWithMe users have printed over 20 million pages on sustainably-sourced paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.

ConceptDrop Inc. uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises find freelancers and build internal teams.

Nexus A.I. helps global brands identify the best ideas and talent for every campaign. Supporting users in more than fifty countries across six continents, Nexus helps you become a more inclusive powerhouse. Learn more: www.nexusai.com

ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).