SupplyHive is Supplier Performance Review Software. By enabling easy input of reviews, and employing artificial intelligence, the entire SupplyHive now elevates, every time a review or rating is posted - or accessed. SupplyHive was founded by Mike Anguiano, a serial entrepreneur who worked with a few key influencers across procurement, investors, leadership, and well-known suppliers. In January 2021, The board of directors brought on serial entrepreneur and innovative business leader Lou Sandoval to refine, build and scale the company. Sandoval successfully led the Seed financing round to raise $2M in a priced round with a valuation of $12M.
Network Perception, Inc. specializes in network device configuration analysis software designed to help organizations visualize and manage their network effectively. Established in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers solutions that simplify firewall auditing and provide continuous monitoring capabilities. Its platform conducts automated, comprehensive analyses of network device configuration files, enabling organizations to assess firewalls and identify cyber vulnerabilities. By doing so, Network Perception assists corporate compliance and cybersecurity managers in ensuring that network configurations align with best practices and regulatory standards. The company initially launched in 2014 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park.
Winston Privacy, Inc. is a technology company focused on providing online privacy and data protection for consumers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Winston offers a hardware device that protects all connected devices, including computers, tablets, phones, and smart devices. This device provides comprehensive protection against hackers, corporate spying, and unwarranted government surveillance. It features a simple plug-and-play design, making it accessible for users without technical expertise. Additionally, Winston's solution blocks ads and offers faster performance than traditional VPNs, ensuring a safe and efficient browsing experience for its users.
Nurture Life prepares organic, ready-to-eat meals for babies, toddlers, and kids and delivers them weekly, straight to the customer's door. Its team of chefs, in collaboration with its pediatric dietitian, creates appealing meals that meet the changing nutritional needs of growing kids while introducing them to new flavors and textures. Over time, Nurture Life meals help expand a child’s palate and encourage healthy eating. Its commitment to sourcing and producing products and delivering a phenomenal customer experience means peace of mind for families.
Livly is a provider of technology-driven residential management platforms for developers, property operators, and third-party property management companies. Through the platform and app, property operators can manage community events, resident communication, maintenance requests, package deliveries, rent payments, and amenity reservations. Additionally, its portfolio management capabilities, AI-powered Maintenance assistant, and advanced analytics for renewal predictor scores and overall sentiment provide insights and efficiencies to enhance operational performance.
CamoAg is a leader in agricultural intelligence and operational management solutions. Leveraging advanced technologies, CamoAg empowers agribusinesses to optimize their operations, harness data insights, and make informed decisions that drive growth and sustainability. For more information, visit www.camo.ag
Packback is a social learning platform powered by a proprietary A.I. that college professors use to help their students fall in love with the subject matter, drive personalized learning, and most importantly, quantify and improve critical thinking skills.
Chowly specializes in providing technology solutions that link restaurant point-of-sale (POS) systems with third-party online ordering services. Its platform automates the order-processing workflow, allowing restaurants to seamlessly transfer online orders directly to their POS systems. This innovation reduces the need for manual order entry, which helps decrease staffing costs, minimizes errors, and enhances operational efficiency. By streamlining the ordering process, Chowly enables restaurants to save time and increase revenue while maintaining better control over their operations.
Mom Project is the platform unlocking the potential of moms in the workforce, connecting its community of over 500,000 moms, dads and allies with flexible work opportunities at F500s and small businesses. The Mom Project is committed to building a better workplace for mothers and the businesses they support, changing the way women work and redefining career structures by providing women with opportunities that are in balance with their personal goals.
LandscapeHub is dedicated to streamlining the B2B procurement process in the Landscaping Industry. Buyers and suppliers increase efficiency, expand their networks and gain valuable market knowledge and insights by using LandscapeHub.LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.LandscapeHub represents quality suppliers across the country, aggregating their available inventory and pricing, empowering buyers with a “one stop shop” buying experience.
Packback is a social learning platform powered by a proprietary A.I. that college professors use to help their students fall in love with the subject matter, drive personalized learning, and most importantly, quantify and improve critical thinking skills.
Heretik Inc. is a technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, established in 2016. It specializes in developing a software application that utilizes machine learning to enhance the contract review process. By empowering organizations to analyze contract data, Heretik aims to facilitate smarter decision-making and more favorable deals. The application assists attorneys in identifying risks, obligations, and opportunities within contracts, transforming extensive and varied contract data into valuable insights. Through its innovative approach, Heretik seeks to streamline contract management and improve overall efficiency for legal professionals.
Level Ex, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that develops virtual surgery mobile applications aimed at enhancing the skills of physicians through immersive training experiences. The company offers a platform called Virtual Technique Guides, which leverages cloud gaming technology to facilitate interactive surgical training. This platform allows surgeons to perform virtual procedures alongside medical device sales representatives in a web conferencing environment. Additionally, Level Ex has developed Airway EX, an app tailored for mastering critical endoscopic and interventional airway procedures. This application addresses various medical scenarios, including managing obstructing tumors, vocal cord injuries, and complex intubations in both adult and pediatric patients. Founded in 2015, Level Ex combines video game technology and cognitive neuroscience to provide physicians with tools to navigate rare medical cases, new medical devices, and evolving drug therapies.
Reconstruct, Inc. specializes in predictive computer vision data analytics software tailored for construction projects. Its visual production management platform facilitates data collection through drones, fixed cameras, or mobile devices, enabling effective progress analysis and documentation. By visualizing images and 3D points aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM), the platform enhances coordination and transparency among project stakeholders. It identifies locations at risk of delays, allowing for proactive weekly work planning, and integrates schedules with BIM animations to illustrate any changes in plans. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Champaign, Illinois, Reconstruct aims to improve construction management by fostering better communication and visibility, thereby mitigating risks and ensuring project returns on investment.
Truss Holdings, Inc. operates an online marketplace that simplifies the leasing process for small and medium-sized businesses seeking office, co-working, industrial, and retail spaces. Founded in 2016 and based in Deerfield, Illinois, its platform employs machine learning to match businesses with suitable properties, allowing users to virtually tour listings, compare prices, and manage lease documents seamlessly. The company offers dedicated brokers to support clients throughout the process, ensuring a smooth experience. Truss is noted for its commitment to price transparency, enabling business owners to compare costs of traditional office and co-working spaces effectively. Through its technology-driven approach, Truss provides a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to find the right space quickly and confidently.
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensive property data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results.
Regroup provides integrated telepsychiatry services designed to offer psychiatric care remotely through live and interactive video conferencing. They improve access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographical distances, restrictions on mobility, transportation difficulties, and time and cost burdens.
Inprentus is a nanotechnology company that specializes in the fields of Diffraction gratings, diffractive optics, monochromator, and spectrometer. The company has developed a new method for manufacturing mechanically ruled blazed diffraction gratings for synchrotron, FEL, and laser applications, offering high resolving power with blaze angles lower than 1 degree. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.
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).
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.
Aclaimant, Inc. develops a comprehensive incident management system aimed at efficiently handling workplace-related incidents. The Aclaimant platform allows employees, employers, and insurance carriers to utilize a personalized dashboard for tracking incidents and reports, facilitating the incident resolution process. This system promotes collaboration among all parties involved, encouraging a shared responsibility for workplace safety. Aclaimant serves a diverse range of clients, including staffing firms, elder care facilities, small to medium-sized businesses, municipalities, insurance brokers, and carriers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Aclaimant is dedicated to reducing the time, effort, and costs associated with managing workplace incidents and related insurance claims.
Rippleshot, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in cloud-based predictive technology solutions designed to detect payment card data breaches. Founded in 2012, Rippleshot provides a range of services aimed at helping card issuers, processors, and merchants monitor suspicious activities and manage fraud risk effectively. Its offerings include Rippleshot Community, which assists credit unions and banks in identifying local and national breaches; Rippleshot National, a tool for fraud analysts to enhance card re-issuing strategies; Rippleshot Merchant, which allows store owners to track and assess data breaches through a user-friendly portal; and Rippleshot ISO, which helps acquirers monitor merchant data breach threats daily. The company’s technology leverages big data analytics and machine learning to reduce fraud losses significantly, ensuring timely detection of breaches and protection of consumer payment experiences.
Curiosityis a award winning curiosity daily podcast will help you learn more about the world around you every day. You'll get a unique combination of research-based life hacks, the latest science and technology news, and more in less than 10 minutes. Cody gough and ashley hamer of discovery will teach you about your mind and body, outer space and the ocean depths, and how history transformed the world into what it is today.
Mac & Mia provides a personalized at-home shopping experience that exposes moms and dads to boutique and specialty clothing pieces for their newborns to six year olds without any of the hassle of traditional shopping
Tovala combines a smart oven with a fresh meal delivery service to makes dinner effortless. Tovala is a smart oven that sits on the countertop and is paired with a companion meal delivery service. The company's meal system combines an internet-connected countertop steam oven capable of multi-step cooking with meals prepared by gourmet chefs, making dinner preparation as simple as scanning a barcode, enabling busy people to get access to an effortless way to eat delicious, healthy, home-cooked meals. The Chicago-based company was founded in 2015 and was launched in 2017.
Remote Year offers users to travel the world with 75 interesting people while working remotely. It allows users to spend a year working, travelling, and exploring 12 cities around the world. The 75 people will spend one month in each location, the community will connect with local cultures and business ecosystems, forming lifelong, borderless personal, and professional relationships along the way. Remote Year also provides professional workshops, guest speakers, and networking events in each city with personal development and local service activities within a collaborative community. It was founded on 2014 and is based in Highland Park, Illinois.
Luxury Garage Sale is an operator of an online e-commerce fashion platform intended to sell stand-out items from the world's beloved luxury brands. The company's platform specializes in selling luxury designer clothing, shoes, handbags, and jewelry which are customized to consignment as they are sourced, sell and share, enabling consumers to have high-end fashion and exceptional experience at a low price. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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).
Align Income Share Funding, formerly Cumulus Funding, is to invest in the American worker. Many people in this country need access to funds for many different reasons. They recognize that in many cases, traditional banks and lenders are unwilling or unable to meet those individuals’ needs. When loans are available, they are made at terms that are extremely favorable to the banks — high and inflexible interest payments, multiple hidden fees and service charges, and often, a requirement that if you can’t make your payments the bank can come and take your personal assets that were pledged as collateral.