Top Tech Startups in Illinois, US in 2024

Hippo Education is on a mission to empower the people of medicine to learn, grow, and thrive by creating education and community. Our hard working and quick-to-laugh crew creates exceptional medical education products through our platform that hosts podcasts, video courses, and more to keep clinicians up-to-date and at their best. We have a team of over 40 people with some working at the main studio in Los Angeles while most of us work remotely across the world. Hippo’s a fantastic place to work and we’re genuinely proud of the impact we have on clinicians and their patients.

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Rowan is a venture backed health and wellness company reimagining ear piercing. Re-thinking the traditional mall-based model, we’re revolutionizing the experience through a network of licensed nurses, providing ear piercing that is safe and celebratory with at-home appointments, through our studio-in-store Target locations across the US, and at our NYC studio. We celebrate the milestone of ear piercing, prioritizing the importance of hypoallergenic materials and designs that invoke a sense of joy, creativity and self-expression. Rowan has closed an institutional-backed seed round and is growing rapidly. See Rowan on Business Insider's "21 thriving DTC companies to bet your career on in 2021".

Unlock the potential of every investment partnership. Juniper Square empowers GPs and LPs to focus on building enduring relationships and exceptional investment opportunities. Our partnership enablement solutions empower investment partners to connect and communicate seamlessly across every interaction, freeing teams from the disjointed and siloed systems, operations, and processes holding organizations back from realizing their full potential today.

Valkyrie Trading was formed in Chicago in 2011 with the intent of embracing trading opportunities and technology in the modern financial marketplace. Positioned in the heart of the derivatives trading capital of the world, Valkyrie aims to provide liquidity to various disjoint, competitive financial markets. Unlike hedge funds, mutual funds or banks, Valkyrie has no investors or clients and trades only its own capital. Such a structure allows our employees the freedom to focus on trading and the growth of our business. Operating for ourselves, we dynamically price, model, and manage risk across a spectrum of derivative products. Our lean size and fierce growth appetite commits us to building cutting-edge technology from the ground up. We move nimbly and decisively to target the opportunities present in our market niche. Although our trading is primarily quantitative and electronic, we maintain indispensable links to the over-the-counter and traditional floor markets alike.

Launchsquad is an award-winning public relations, content marketing and creative agency with offices in san francisco, new york, boston, and chicago. since 1999, we’ve been passionately helping companies make a name for themselves, grow their services and become market leaders. our expertise spans both consumer-facing and b2b clients in a variety of industries including consumer technology, enterprise technology, fashion, retail, entertainment, media, ecommerce, gaming, education, finance, energy and more.

Over thirty years ago, we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Our independence allows us to objectively improve the markets and provide efficiencies for end investors.

Kudoboard is an online reinvention of the greeting card that is passed around and signed. Kudoboard creators upload content to a board for a special occasion, invite others to contribute online, and then deliver an online or printed version to their recipient on a selected date.

Fortellar's best-in-class consultation, implementation, training and support are designed to deliver growth, efficiency and enhanced value through cutting-edge solutions for Technology Transformation, IT Innovation, and Organizational Effectiveness. Our solutions are meticulously tailored to your unique requirements to ensure alignment with your business.​ ​With Fortellar your technology investments bring real and lasting​ benefits. From start to finish, we enable you to focus on what you do best – running your business – while we focus ​on what we do best: Enhance, Fortify and Manage your security, infrastructure, and technology needs.

Our core offerings include: (i) business intelligence applications, (ii) enterprise solutions that provide data science and operations research-driven insights to business users, and (iii) data science consulting.