| TapiocaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on the development of full-link decentralized financial (DeFi) products in order to establish a seamless and compatible cross-chain future. | 2023 | $6,000,000 |
| Quiller is an AI copilot that helps Democratic campaigns and allied organizations draft and deploy high quality, effective fundraising content. Help digital teams save precious time and energy so they can focus on running creative, data-driven digital prog | 2023 | $2,400,000 |
| Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | 2023 | $2,000,000 |
| Pimly offers Salesforce product experience management. Pimly integrates the power of product experience management into the client's Salesforce org, providing completely customizable digital catalogs, sell sheets and other product experiences that are simi | 2022 | $5,000,000 |
| KeyCare is a virtual care platform powered by Epic that was created to assist forward-thinking health systems in increasing patient access and quality by enhancing the alternatives available for virtual care. | 2022 | $27,000,000 |
| Anovion Battery Materials produces synthetic graphite materials. | 2022 | $117,000,000 |
| Bluestar Energy Capital focused on investing in early-stage greenfield projects companies by addressing the scarcity. | 2022 | 100000000 EUR |
| GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percent | 2022 | $8,050,000 |
| Across is an L2 to L1 cross-chain bridge secured by UMA’s Optimistic Oracle. | 2022 | $10,000,000 |
| K1X is a 'fintech' company with long-established tax technology backed by experts with decades of experience in the Financial Industry. Our goal is to transform the K-1 experience by moving a traditionally analog based-process to an all-digital experience | 2022 | $15,000,000 |
| A deep-tech spinoff out of the University of Chicago, memQ is building solid-state hardware for distributed quantum information. | 2022 | $2,050,000 |
| We are Rivet. We’re on a mission to unleash the world’s creativity by building the world’s most creator-first platform. And we’re doing this by helping creators build and own their fan community-driven businesses. Rivet is a fan management platform that he | 2021 | $620,000 |
| Launch highly creative, highly measurable, highly targeted CTV & OTT campaigns in under a minute. A product by KMTX. | 2021 | $6,350,000 |
| Spot is a mobile and browser-based platform for voice conference calls. | 2021 | $6,900,000 |
| At The Primo! We aim to offer our customers the best and the latest products. We have come a long way, so we know exactly which direction to take when providing you with high-quality products. We offer all of this while providing excellent customer service | 2021 | $4,600,000 |
| Fresh Street is the first and only grocery store built exclusively for online, click & collect shopping. Their goal is to provide a convenient and affordable online grocery experience, free of the friction that plagues current online grocery shopping optio | 2021 | $4,000,000 |
| Tandym (bytandym.com) is a financial technology company transforming the private label credit card industry. As the first and only company to enable e-commerce businesses to quickly and easily offer their own, next generation, private label credit cards, T | 2021 | $60,000,000 |
| HiLink is a video conferencing and collaboration platform crafted for education with everything remote learning needs in a single organizing layer. It is easy to use, with a suite of essential collaboration tools and a cloud service that allows easy access | 2021 | $4,000,000 |
| LUDEX is a sports and trading card scanning application that digitizes trading-card collections. It utilizes technology to identify, digitize, and organize card collections on a subscription basis and helps trading-card enthusiasts track the value of card | 2021 | $9,100,000 |
| As the first collegiate athlete to launch his own NFT series in April 2021, Luka Garza demonstrated how a new asset class and income stream could be utilized to fund collegiate NIL. Since then, AGORALV was formed to redefine collegiate NIL through NFTs, pr | 2021 | 12300000 GBP |
| Instant Connect integrates mobile, IP, radio, and telephony in mission-based push-to-talk communications. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. | 2021 | $4,400,000 |
| Logik.io is a B2B technology company focused on improving the selling practices of customers by building a high-performance, enterprise-ready, headless configurator that augments Salesforce CPQ and eCommerce Applications. | 2021 | $26,000,000 |
| BravoTran offers an AI-driven solution to automate data and documents for freight forwarders. The company's automation platform currently supports industry leaders, including Yusen Logistics and AWA Logistics. BravoTran was founded in 2021 by Matt Bernstei | 2021 | $2,800,000 |
| Byt is the world's first chain agnostic NFT marketplace and NFT ecosystem providing full end-to-end services for users engaging with and interacting with the blockchain. | 2021 | $1,500,000 |
| Paintbrush is a fintech company connecting idea-stage founders with the non-dilutive capital they need to grow on their own terms. | 2021 | $30,000,000 |
| Speede is the new strength training machine that’s designed to deliver the world’s most efficient resistance training. Whether you’re a beginner or an elite professional athlete, Speede will find your weaknesses and challenge you to build strength faster. | 2021 | $2,500,000 |
| IMX Health is the first financial futures exchange for the healthcare industry. In addition to offering hedging opportunities for payers, providers, and other market participants in the healthcare industry, IMX will create a transparent, two-sided market | 2021 | $5,100,380 |
| Dom's Kitchen & Market is an operator of a grocery store chain designed to combine shopping, restaurant dining, and home delivery. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | 2021 | $46,428,920 |
| 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. | 2021 | $1,640,000 |
| Pathos develops an AI-enabled drug discovery platform to reduce the medication development process. Its self-learning platform utilizes big data, technology, and artificial intelligence to identify targets, validate them, and establish their clinical effic | 2020 | $19,999,992 |
| Tiv is a payments platform built with the gaming community at the core. Tiv believes in creating financial products and services that reflect who you are and integrate what you do – not just what you spend – to reward you for spending time doing what you l | 2020 | $4,374,999 |
| Syntellis Performance Solutions, previously Kaufman Hall Software, provides innovative enterprise performance management software, data and analytics solutions for healthcare, higher education and financial institutions. Syntellis’ solutions include Axiom | 2020 | |
| Ascend Technologies is an award-winning managed services provider. Our information technology professionals help business leaders make IT investments with confidence, eliminate cybersecurity threats, meet the needs of the business, and optimize user produc | 2020 | |
| FranShares will soon let you invest in a diversified portfolio of franchise locations for as little as $500. By adding franchise ownership to your investments, your equity will increase in value over time while you earn passive income from franchise cash f | 2020 | $1,420,000 |
| Hyfe is an acoustic AI that runs on any phone and detects and classifies coughs. It is the most sophisticated AI cough classifier on the market, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world. | 2020 | $11,000,000 |
| qBraid is the platform where developers harness our automated classical stack and community focus to augment their ability to learn, build, and deploy quantum code. | 2020 | $25,000 |
| About Employee Voice Platform that enables companies to check-in on the mental health of their entire team through SMS. Positively impact employees in real-time. Products Company Culture Platform | 2020 | |
| Outfit provides a kit with instructions, tools, and materials for DIY home renovation. | 2020 | |
| At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operat | 2020 | $31,900,000 |
| CampfireSocial is a private, branded social network and commerce solution that uses AI to provide organizations 365/24/7 access to their stakeholders while creating a modern member, attendee, and vendor partner experience that is monetizable to ultimately | 2020 | $1,200,000 |
| TheLoops is the first intelligent support operations platform to bring product context to support, optimizing the support experience. It contextualizes data from a variety of sources and provides insights to reps within the tools they are using. Its collab | 2020 | |
| Kadeya is a closed-loop water vending business that utilizes digitally connected reusable water bottles and tiny bottling equipment. Kadeya was founded by Manuela Zoninsein. | 2020 | $35,000 |
| Cambio is a digital, alternative banking platform that gives consumers who rely on alternative financial service providers the tools and resources they need to break the cycle of paying fees to cash checks, pay bills and access their funds. | 2020 | $500,000 |
| GoLogic helps small businesses quickly digitize and efficiently manage delivery and pickup operations in the low touch economy, while simultaneously providing critical economic impact metrics to SBDC's, WBC's, and the entrepreneurial support ecosystem. | 2020 | $321,097 |
| Grove Biopharma is a biotechnology company offering a materials science solution to peptide therapeutic challenges, focused on the discovery and development of a novel class of “protein-like polymers” to treat significant unmet medical needs in chronic inf | 2020 | $10,500,000 |
| Anthill AI is a software company that offers personal and actionable workforce development. The company was founded by Muriel Clauson and Young-Jae Kim and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | 2020 | $7,360,000 |
| Conferencing apps connect people, but they aren't great for running productive meetings. Tendii was built with the goal of filling that productivity gap, enabling project managers to manage time and document outcomes. | 2020 | |
| Janus is leapfrogging the low-code, no-code solutions of today by developing a vertically integrated process improvement platform. | 2020 | $53,099,968 |
| 4Logik is an innovative hyper-productivity tool designed for data-intensive industries. It targets use-cases where low-code, no-code, BPM, BRM, and Enterprise Integration products fail, forcing firms to use programming languages. 4Logik compresses the tech | 2019 | |
| Buzz Schedules is a free shift planning and employee scheduling software. | 2019 | |
| They believe there is a better way to do logistics. A more valuable, less invasive way where customers are earned rather than bought. They are obsessively passionate about it, and their mission is to help people achieve it. They focus on connecting people | 2019 | $4,350,000 |
| Mastery is on a Mission to empower select shippers, carriers and logistics companies to thrive in complexity. Mastery brings to market MasterMind™, a cloud-based SaaS technology solution for large complex organizations, built to fuel automation, visibility | 2019 | |
| Better Earth offers solar energy solutions and aims to create a more sustainable and better Earth through solar energy. | 2019 | |
| ioRefer is a leading online platform streamlining the referral management and matter staffing process for law firms, bar associations, and legal referral groups. It replaces the traditional and ineffective processes with an efficient, online process, allow | 2019 | |
| Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisa | 2019 | $28,000 |
| Snippit is a content management service (CMS) that allows businesses to easily store, share and create new content! | 2019 | |
| 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, pu | 2019 | $6,415,000 |
| We provide information security solution for organizations that are in their digital transformation journey so that they can protect their business critical applications and enable their engineering teams to focus on building great products that are secure | 2019 | $13,900,000 |
| Glo Life Inc is a full-service software delivery partner for mid-market and large enterprises looking to accelerate or evolve their IT engineering or build custom software. | 2019 | |
| 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. | 2019 | $190,000,000 |
| CFO solutions built for SaaS businesses. Tech-enabled automation paired with SaaS expertise at one low monthly cost. | 2019 | $1,100,000 |
| The technology used by governments to valuate homes for property tax assessment is outdated and often inaccurate. The appeal process, which is intended to allow homeowners to contest inaccurate valuations, is expensive, confusing and time-consuming. As a r | 2019 | $2,150,000 |
| Synapticure is a tele neurology startup that provides tailored care to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) patients and their families. | 2019 | $6,000,000 |
| HelloJoy, Inc., doing business as Blueprint, provides software solutions. The Company designs and develops sensor-based remote patient monitoring platform that allows mental health clinicians to efficiently practice measurement-based care. Blueprint serves | 2019 | $13,725,000 |
| MSPbots is a cutting-edge business intelligence and process automation platform tailored for IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs). We understand the challenges MSPs face with repetitive tasks and operational inefficiencies, such as reporting, ticketing, and | 2019 | $5,000,000 |
| Sympatic builds simple to use cloud software that allows safe and secure rental access to data. | 2019 | $120,000 |
| Ducknowl is an Applicant Screening and assessment sofftware, which allows recruiters and HR professionals to screen the applicants in shorter time and more accurately. You won't have to spend hours to go through resumes and make phone calls, Ducknowl will | 2019 | |
| Stop fraud, spam, and account takeovers with our 99.5% accurate browser fingerprinting as a service. | 2019 | $44,000,000 |
| Numbrella is a Chicago tech startup focused on bringing the power of data to restaurants and retail locations. We use our specially designed software to gather real time customer footfall data and to provide our clients with effective, automated text messa | 2019 | |
| ToBoot Group is your technology partner and Salesforce.com specialist on a mission to eliminate complexity from IT Projects and bring back the real value of enterprise cloud software to companies who aspire for excellence
Even if you are just starting th | 2019 | |
| 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 l | 2019 | $31,000,000 |
| Rivs, Inc. designed and operates an online interview software. The Company offers a software that provides written, voice, and video interviews to eliminate the time constraints associated with normal interview processes. Rivs delivers services to clients | 2019 | $4,087,999 |
| TransLoop provides logistics, digital freight and supply chain management services for carriers and shippers. | 2019 | |
| Bring clarity to your cloud infrastructure with the most comprehensive visualization tool available for the public cloud | 2019 | $4,000,000 |
| apprvl, Solution for photographers and retouchers. In the first place, to get photos or any visual content to be easily approved. With an opportunity to comment and share each piece. | 2019 | $40,043 |
| Stacked is the largest SEC-registered automated robo-advisor for crypto & digital assets. Using Stacked, investors can completely simplify and automate their investing experience, buy pre-built portfolios, and run trading strategies.
Stacked has automated | 2019 | $36,500,000 |
| TrustClarity is a B2B software as a service (SaaS) storefront platform. | 2019 | $300,000 |
| 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 a | 2019 | $283,000,000 |
| rSquared CRE is revolutionizing the commercial real estate industry by providing innovative, next-generation software that empowers CRE professionals to work smarter, faster and more efficiently.
Our essential software is built by CRE experts for CRE expe | 2019 | |
| 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 l | 2019 | $98,000,000 |
| GOODPIX is a robust yet ridiculously simple platform that lets creative entrepreneurs easily build, scale and run a thriving digital business, anywhere. | 2019 | |
| 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 cele | 2018 | $165,710,000 |
| Word36 is an innovative platform that connects businesses and customers by utilizing up to 36 simple keywords, resulting in the relevant data needed for business decision-making and risk management. | 2018 | |
| Vennity is a next-generation integrated management platform for residential communities. Built from the ground up using the latest web and mobile technologies, the platform features visitor management, package tracking, management communications, associati | 2018 | |
| 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, t | 2018 | $49,000,000 |
| symmetRE is an upcoming Real Estate software solution committed towards transforming the way we all think about renting. Our innovative approach unifies residents and property managers together on a single platform, creating collaborative rental partnershi | 2018 | |
| Cdl 1000 specializes in the transportation and warehousing of different freight with domestic and international services provided. This technology gives the same price for every transport and offers a reliable solution to keep track of miles and costs. | 2018 | |
| BUNDLAR is a Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform company that makes it easy for businesses, institutions, and individuals to increase efficiencies and profita ... bility by integrating cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) technology into their training, l | 2018 | $4,610,000 |
| Drift Net Securities creates and provides technical solutions to keep communities safe and disrupting security and AI-based technology. | 2018 | $15,626,204 |
| Livly, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers platform with a focus on unlocking new revenue streams for property owners and managers by monetizing physical and digital transactions. Livly serves customers in the State of Illinois. | 2018 | $18,000,000 |
| Hiome makes smart homes accessible to everyone with zero setup! Our sensors enable your home to know exactly where you are and learn your habits, while protecting your privacy. This means your lights can instantly follow you from room to room, like in a sc | 2018 | $10,000 |
| ThinΛpp specializes in creating cutting-edge, fully-native mobile app solutions (ie. sort of like templates). In July 2018 ThinΛpp officially partnered with Square to help integrate their various POS versions with its $4M+ in IP (ie. Intellectual Property: | 2018 | |
| Cohesion provide a secure, converged IoT-enabled software solution that unites core building workflows, optimizes portfolio management, and generates actionable insights to increase profitability and create better tenant experiences. They combine a wide ra | 2018 | $29,754,450 |
| PlumCloud Labs is a Salesforce ISV Partner and is focused on the Salesforce Data Privacy space. Its ''Cloud Compliance GDPR/CCPA Data Privacy Suite'' is a native Salesforce App. It enables companies to automate and streamline their Right to Data Portabilit | 2018 | |
| Hecate Grid is an independent power producer (IPP) that develops, owns, and operates standalone storage projects. | 2018 | $98,900,000 |
| BetterSession lets you see what your customers see as they browse your website in real time. Using a combination of the live view and chat, you can use insights from BetterSession to provide A+ customer support or to convert on-the-fence customers. You can | 2018 | |
| Shortest Track manages and accelerates the intelligence supply chain for business executives by sourcing, assembling, operationalizing, and syndicating ‘Intelligence-as-a-Service’. Its Intelligence as a Service offering enables businesses to access the b | 2018 | |
| Five to Nine provides culture solutions to increase workplace connectivity and inclusion. The platform allows HR administrators to use culture-building opportunities to elevate work culture while leveraging employee experience data to drive business outcom | 2018 | $5,400,000 |
| Varuna helps water utility leaders to effectively manage a water system.The Varuna platform collects, analyzes, and displays relevant operational and business data. The platform enables the utility to perform real-time water quality monitoring using advanc | 2018 | $1,754,997 |
| Foamy is an outbound sales tool that combines a high quality database of machine processed B2B contact data and email automation. From the web app, users are able to search for and import prospect data and move them directly into automated outbound sales | 2018 | |
