Top Tech Startups in Illinois, US in 2024

Who are we? Meaningful Gigs is an online marketplace that connects skilled African designers with remote jobs at companies like Starbucks, Facebook, and IDEO. Meaningful Gigs has created a community of thousands of untapped designers, giving marketing, creative and product teams a way to solve their skilled labor shortage while accessing global diversity. Our vision: We believe that you can make money and an impact! Our aim is to create 100,000 skilled jobs for Africans and become the #1 remote jobs and skills marketplace for creatives.

Founded in march 1997, promethean is a global leader in interactive displays for education and interactive boards for schools. promethean develops award-winning free teaching software such as activinspire and classflow, that makes learning fun and engaging, and lesson preparation and delivery much easier for today’s busy teacher. for over 20 years, learning has been, and always will be what fuels our passions. it represents the highest order contribution that we can make to improving the societies in which we live. we believe that the purpose of technology is not simply about automating the teaching and learning process, but to inspire and empower every student.

MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-up spaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.

lulafit is a national leader in modern wellness amenity services, technology, and management. Today, lulafit works with top organizations and real estate communities to create a culture and space that supports people's physical, social, and mental well-being.

10x Genomics (NASDAQ: TXG) is one of the fastest growing biotech companies, growing from $3M in revenue in 2015 to $240M in 2019. We create hardware, chemistry, and software that accelerates biological research. Our products are used by scientists around the world, including 96 of the top 100 global research institutions. Our mission is to build products that will be used throughout the rest of this century, to better understand, and eventually conquer disease. Behind every breakthrough is an extensive network of talented individuals contributing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. This kind of collaboration is essential to building a strong and effective workplace, and it’s our goal to create an inclusive environment that reflects the diversity of the communities and the goals that we serve. The discoveries we make now, as a team, will lead to better technologies, better treatments, and a better future.

Zen Educate (zeneducate.com) is a fairer and better way to connect schools and teachers for supply work and long-term roles. We've built a marketplace that connects schools and teachers directly, cutting out the agency middlemen that have added a big layer of fees, bureaucracy, and a bad taste into the system for schools and teachers for too long. In the process, we're sucking out hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste from the education system that goes back to schools, teachers and ultimately pupils. With Zen, teachers don't get underpaid, spammed with endless calls and texts about irrelevant roles, and schools aren't ripped off and sent teachers and teaching assistants who don't pass the bar they need. We operate in London and Manchester and are growing quickly to provide a better service for schools and teachers than any traditional agency can provide.

JobPrepped makes sure our customers get hired fast for full-time paid marketing jobs. Our full-service program was created by Marketing Hiring Managers to quickly turn our customers into every Marketing Hiring Manager's dream candidate to ensure they get hired faster. We perfect each stage of their job application process and we're the only program to immediately give our customers the exact in-demand work experience their resume needs as work experience is the #1 thing hiring managers look at in determining who to hire. Here's how 94.3% of JobPrepped students get marketing interviews or job offers within 3 weeks. Our proven program works in 4 simple steps: Step 1: We Immediately Train Our Customers In Digital Marketing in an On-Demand SettingSocial Media, - Email, PPC, and SEO Marketing Step 2: We Give Our Customers Immediate Work Experience In The Exact Areas Hiring Managers Want - Work experience is the #1 thing hiring managers look at in determining who to hire - Our customers work 1-on-1 (remotely) with a former Fortune 500 top-level marketing exec where they’ll immediately put their training to use and complete Social Media, Email, PPC, and SEO Marketing tasks for JobPrepped as a Digital Marketing Associate. All assignments are 100% optional, there aren't any deadlines, and this all goes under their work experience section of their resume. Step 3: We Help Fix Their Marketing Resume, Cover Letters, and Linkedin Profiles To Ensure They Get Interviews ASAP - We train them on: - How to properly sell themselves on their resume - Which work experience to add and which to leave out - The specific order their work experience needs to be in - Exactly how their work experience should be phrased and formatted - And more Step 4: We Train Our Customers On Exactly What To Say To Ace Their Marketing Interviews We’ll: - Give them 100+ high-level marketing strategies to pitch during their interview so they feel confident and sound incredibly knowledgeable - And much more

NextStage is building a business development, project management, and market research SaaS platform for the $600bn+/year government contracting industry, a part of the economy critical for supporting missions in Space, Health Care, Cyber Security, National Defense, Energy, and Science, Infrastructure, and more. NextStage helps customers identify new contract opportunities by aggregating data from a variety of government databases. Our AI-enabled Business Development, Capture, and Proposal system helps teams identify, score, organize, and track key proposal, teaming, and bid decisions. As Head of Sales, you would work directly with the two technical co-founders (ex. Dropbox, Credit Karma, Next Insurance).

J2 Interactive is an award-winning software development and IT consulting firm specializing in customized solutions for health systems, labs, research institutions, health information exchanges, and companies that serve the healthcare community. Our approach to design and development is rooted in a fundamental belief that systems succeed or fail based on how well they serve the people who depend upon them. For our clients in the healthcare industry, that includes doctors, nurses, technicians, and administrative staff … but ultimately, it means patients and their families. Twice ranked #1 for Technical Services in the annual Best in KLAS survey, J2’s expertise spans a broad array of offerings including technology strategy and best practices consulting, workflow optimization, systems integration, application development, health information exchange, CRM, and business intelligence. Please share resumes to [email protected]