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Amount is a digital technology company that accelerates digital transformation for financial institutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting and analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million U.S. customers.

Blockware Mining is a diversified Bitcoin mining infrastructure and colocation service provider headquartered in Chicago, IL. Blockware Mining offers clients one of the most competitive hardware and hosting packages to get miners up and hashing using the latest generation mining equipment.

Fyllo is leveling the playing field for cannabis companies with the Fyllo Compliance Cloud, a suite of enterprise-grade software and services powered by RegsTechnology, the largest database of cannabis laws and regulations at the federal, state and local level. We deliver advanced data, media, and compliance solutions that are built for the complexities of the cannabis industry today. From local dispensaries to large MSOs and traditional CPG companies, ambitious cannabis brands and industry professionals choose Fyllo as their partner to go bigger and grow faster with trust and confidence in compliance.

Zing Health Choice IL (HMO) is a Medicare Advantage plan serving Medicare eligible beneficiaries. Zing Health Choice IL takes the time to get to know you and partners with you to develop a plan to help meet your health needs and goals.

Equal parts brokerage, education, and media company, dough is what investing should be: unlimited commission-free stock trading, zero account minimums, and iOS and Android apps filled with smart ideas. Our mission is to inspire the world to embrace risk, take control of their money, and make more of it. Investing in securities, ETFs, and ETNs, involves risk, and there is always potential of losing money when you invest. dough does not provide investment, tax, or legal advice. https://dough.com/disclosures/ https://dough.com/fee-schedule/ dough, member FINRA/SIPC.

Cameo is an American video-sharing website headquartered in Chicago. Cameo was created in 2016 by Steven Galanis, Martin Blencowe, and Devon Spinnler Townsend. The site allows celebrities to send personalized video messages to fans. , more than 30,000 celebrities have joined the platform.

Cooler Screens is a developer of interactive digital displays to replace glass doors in store aisles. The platform enables consumers to enjoy simplified access to relevant information to make decisions that best fit their budgets, taste, and health preferences. Retailers can increase sales by offering shoppers a better, personalized experience at the advertising. For consumer product companies, Cooler Screens is providing a new platform to build brand awareness, market their products at the point-of-sale, and improve visibility with real-time analytics. Arsen Avakian, Glen Tullman, and Jamie Koval co-founded the company in Chicago, Illinois in 2017.

NOCD is an online OCD therapy platform that helps people with OCD get better and then stay better. With NOCD, users can have face-to-face video therapy sessions with licensed therapists that specialize in OCD, as well as get 24/7 support between sessions from self-help tools and peer communities.

High Definition Vehicle Insurance offers next-generation truck insurance- real solutions for motor carriers in a rapidly changing world. High Definition Vehicle Insurance is an experienced team of insurance, technology, and trucking industry experts who deeply understand the challenges of today’s fleets. At its core, the HDVI team are composed of innovators who are passionate about developing game-changing solutions that support fleets in running safe, compliant, and profitable operations.

Tegus facilitates calls between experts and investors and provides those conversations to users via their platform with the ability to search, navigate, annotate, and analyze. Their platform helps their clients get direct perspective from former executives, customers, competitors, and industry consultants providing actionable insights, shortening the time in making smarter decisions, and generating new ideas.

Provi is the fastest growing B2B ecommerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry. Active in 35 states, Provi’s robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for retailers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022, 10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding and is valued at $750 million. The company received Built In Chicago’s Best Places to Work recognition in 2021. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty to provide a robust ecommerce marketplace and distributor tool-kit, aiming to streamline operations for licensed retailers, distributors and their sales representatives. Discover how Provi is digitally transforming the beverage alcohol industry at www.provi.com. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Clearcover, Inc. operates as a software development company. The Company provides an online platform for insurance users with different products and services. Clearcover serves customers in the United States.

Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s top universities and organizations.

Halo Investing is a financial technology startup that provides an independent multi-issuer platform focused on an investment product known as Structured Notes. Structured Notes are a pre-defined outcome investment product offering downside protection, previously only available to the ultra-high net worth. Halo is empowering and democratizing access to the product by building technology to analyze, purchase, and manage the full lifecycle of the product while building efficiencies for issuing banks.

The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace that helps women remain active in the workforce. With a community of over 500,000 talented professionals and more than 5,000 companies, The Mom Project is committed to building a better workplace for mothers and the businesses they support. The marketplace is changing the way women work and redefining career structures by providing women with opportunities that are in balance with their personal goals. The Mom Project creates opportunities for women to engage on their terms with incredible companies that need their talent and expertise. They facilitate connections and push for change at both the company and policy levels.

LogicGate, Inc. develops an application software. The Company offers platform that helps businesses automate risk, incident, enterprise risk, audit, policy and case management, and compliance operations.

Hazel Technologies, Inc. operates as a agricultural technology company. The Company develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve fresh produce supply chain, as well as offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers. Hazel Technologies serves customers in the United States.

Boro is a leading consumer financing platform for college students. With its proprietary underwriting system, Boro is revolutionizing the existing consumer financing industry by providing convenient and affordable financial solutions to college students, who are underserved in the current market.

Tovala designs and develops cooking software. The Company offers an application that allows users to control cooking method, time, and temperature. Tovala serves customers in the United Kingdom.

M1 Finance LLC operates as a brokerage firm. The Company buys and sells securities such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investment products. M1 Finance serves customers in the United States.

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). Zero Hash’s turnkey solution handles the entire back-end complexity and regulatory licensing required to offer digital asset products. Zero Hash powers neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs. Clients include MoneyLion, Transak, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, and tastyworks. Zero Hash is backed by investors including Point72 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and NYCA. Our mission is to enable businesses to easily create amazing crypto products, unlocking digital assets for everyone, everywhere. Zero Hash enables developers and businesses to focus on building experiences and products.

Tempus Labs, Inc. operates as a clinical laboratory. The Company provides genomic sequencing services and analyze molecular and therapeutic data to help physicians to make real-time and data-driven decisions. Tempus Labs serves customers in the State of Illinois.

Uptake is an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) software company. Built around a foundation of data science and machine learning, Uptake’s core products include an Asset Performance Management application and a fully managed platform.

Braviant Holdings, LLC operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides analytics and proprietary technology to improve lending decisions. Braviant Holdings serves customers in the State of Illinois.

FourKites, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers solutions such as mobile, cloud, and analytics software products. FourKites serves logistics industry in the State of Illinois.

ShipBob, Inc. provides shipping services. The Company offers pick up, package, and shipping services. ShipBob serves customers in the State of Illinois.

Project44, Inc. designs and develops software. The Company offers supply chain, truckload, intermodal, air and ocean freight, less-than-truckload, and drayage application program interface. Project44 serves customers in the United States.

Revenova TMS is a 100% cloud CRM based transportation management system for shippers, brokers and third-party logistics (3PL) companies. Plan, price, optimize, tender, schedule, track and manage freight, settle invoices and manage claims across modes and carriers. Coordinating and managing truck, rail, air or ocean shipments requires effective communication and collaboration between customers, carriers and co-workers. Revenova TMS aligns all the people, processes and information required to manage shipping freight. Empower your sales, customer service, shipping teams to more efficiently and effectively your manage transportation workflow: - Plan, Price & Optimize - Tender & Schedule - Track & Trace - Settle Invoices - Manage Claims - On-Board and Monitor Carriers If you ship products by Truck (LTL, Truckload, Flatbed, Specialized), Rail (Intermodal), Air Freight or Ocean, contact us to learn more about our deployment options for shippers, brokers or third-party logisitcs (3PL) companies.

Hologram is a cellular platform designed for the Internet of Things. Thousands of connectivity teams rely on Hologram to keep their fleets connected around the world — from Burbank to Brisbane. Hologram was founded in 2014 by Benjamin Forgan and Patrick Wilbur. Inspired by the connectivity challenges affecting food delivery startups in Singapore, Hologram's co-founders focused their efforts on removing the red tape preventing fast-growing IoT teams from launching cellular equipped fleets around the world. What started as a Kickstarter, under Hologram's old name, Konekt, has blossomed into the de facto networks IoT teams use to launch their products. In the years since Hologram was founded, the company has been a partner to leading technology pioneers around the world. Hologram made it possible for the rapid growth of micromobility vehicles like e-scooters. Hologram kept self-driving cars connected and on the road. Hologram helped drones deliver medicine to remote communities and kept vital health devices online across six continents. The future will have billions of more devices connected to the internet. Hologram is focused on being the operating system for global connectivity.

Foxtrot is your new favorite corner store and delivery market. With a curated selection of local goods, some-selected wines, and everyday necessities, there’s a little something for everyone. Come see us in the shop for a cup of coffee or get all your faves delivered right to your door in under an hour.

Interior Define is revolutionizing the way people shop for the most important pieces of furniture for their home. Our approach reduces the cost and complexity associated with conventional custom furniture - enabling I/D to serve customers highly customizable and well-crafted sofas, beds, chairs, and dining sets at an exceptional value. Interior Define has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Business Insider, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, among other publications.

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Catch Co. creates amazing products, content, and shopping experiences for the modern angler.

Avant, Inc. provides financial services. The Company offers online personal loans to near-prime customers at lowest possible interest rates. Avant serves customers in the United States.

G2.com (formerly G2 Crowd) is a peer-to-peer review site headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It was known as G2 Labs, Inc. until 2013. The company was launched in May 2012 by former BigMachines employees, with a focus on aggregating user reviews for business software.

Shiftgig, Inc. operates as a local technology company. The Company provides an online job search community for job seekers and companies in the restaurant, hotel, and nightclub industries. Shiftgig conducts business in Countryside, Illinois.

Nature’s Fynd is a food company producing a protein from a microbe discovered in the geothermal springs. The company's mission is to create foods that both nourish people and the planet. Its revolutionary fermentation technology grows protein using a fraction of the land and water resources required by traditional agriculture. Nature’s Fynd was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

dscout, Inc. operates as a platform as a service company. The Company provides a web and mobile application platform that enables users to engage audiences in sharing real world experiences, in-the-moment ideas, and real-time feedback. dscout serves clients in the State of Illinois.

SpotHero is a digital parking marketplace that connects drivers looking to reserve and pay for parking spaces with parking lots, parking garages and valet services. The company, which operates a mobile app and website as well as a parking developer platform, is available in over 300 cities in the United States and Canada. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Renovo Financial LLC operates as a mortgage lender. The Company offers loans for home rehabilitation, construction, residential, investment property, landloard, and mixed use commercial loans. Renovo Financial serves customers in the United States.

Hireology Inc. develops selection management systems. The Company offers an online platform that allows companies to identify and organize their hiring process and leverage data to make better hiring decisions. Hireology offers its products to banks, financial institutions, health care, dealer networks, and other multi-site operators in the United States.

RECSOLU, Inc., doing business as Yello, develops software. The Company offers mobile recruitment software, which includes talent relationship management, interview scheduling, campus recruiting, and video interviewing. Yello operates in the State of Illinois.

HighTower is a advisor-owned financial services company. HighTower Advisors are free of those conflicts typically found in traditional brokerage firms. They are totally independent, yet fully supported in both viewing the financial lives of our clients more completely and working with them more effectively.

Mediafly, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers solutions to empower and transform salespeople and marketers. Mediafly serves customers in the State of Illinois.

ThreeKit.com, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company designs and develops third dimension product configuration and visualization platform. ThreeKit.com serves customers in the United States and Canada.

ActiveCampaign Inc operates as a software company. The Company develops email marketing, sales automation, and customer relationship management tools. ActiveCampaign serves customers worldwide.

BigTime Software delivers time-tracking, billing and project management software for more than 2,500 professional firms, tracking over $2 billion (USD) of billable time each year. Their flagship product is a SaaS-based system that is custom-built for the professional services industry – specifically, Accounting, Architecture and Engineering, Consulting, Creative, Government Contracting, IT Services and Law firms. BigTime is a venture-funded company based in Chicago committed to helping clients run professional teams more efficiently, unlocking potential revenue and improving profitability within the knowledge economy.

At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance operations with SaaS platform RelativityOne and Relativity Trace. Relativity has users in 48+ countries from organizations, including the U.S. Department of Justice, and 199 of the Am Law 200. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for nine consecutive years.

SMS Assist, L.L.C. develops software. The Company offers multisite property management using the SMS proprietary technology platform. SMS Assist serves commercial and residential sectors in the United States.

Madison Capital Partners acquires and develops industrial manufacturing and service companies. It provides strategic resources and management support by offering management direct equity investment opportunities. Some of the equity investors of the company include former Fortune 1000 CEOs and chief operating officers (COO), entrepreneurs, investment banks, insurance companies and major global banks. Some of its acquisitions include Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Kvaerner Operations AS, Thermo Electron Corporation, Danaher, SPX Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation. The portfolio companies of Madison Capital Partners include Hudson Products Corporation, API Heat Transfer, Industrie ILPEA S.p.A., Holm Industries, Brown Machine and more. The company takes into account businesses with revenue less than $50 million.