This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based E-Commerce companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the E-Commerce industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Illinois E-Commerce Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Grubhub
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Grubhub is a online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace dedicated to connecting diners with local restaurants.
ShipBob
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ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands.
Groupon
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Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
Catch Co.
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Catch Co. is a startup that sells fishing lures and other gears for anglers.
Globant
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Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Foxtrot
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Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop a curated collection of drinks, food, and everyday essentials.
ShopRunner
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ShopRunner is an e-commerce platform providing shipping, free returns, discounts, and seamless checkout for more than 100 brands.
Raise
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Raise is a marketplace (exchange) for gift cards that is the largest direct-to-consumer seller of digital gift cards in the world.
Sears
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Sears is a multinational department store that focuses on outdoor living needs, home appliances, clothes, and furniture.
KMart
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KMart is a large retail store that sells discounted merchandise.
Provi
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Provi is a communication platform that simplifies the operations for bars, restaurants, and retailers in ordering booze.
Interior Define
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Interior Define is a digitally-native furniture brand, offering the most elevated and customized experience in the middle market.
US Foods
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US Foods is a foodservice distributor that provides its customers with innovative food offerings and a suite of business solutions.
Reverb.com
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Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear.
PowerReviews
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PowerReviews is a leading provider of ratings, reviews and question and answer technology for brands and retailers.
RedShelf
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RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials for the higher education community.
ShoppingGives
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ShoppingGives encourages consumers to make an impact through its change commerce technology.
Logiwa
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Logiwa is the industry-leading WMS serving retail, e-commerce, wholesale, and 3PL businesses worldwide for over a decade.
The Catch Co
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At Catch Co, our purpose is to rescue people from the indoors by connecting them with America’s top outdoor sport: fishing.
Leaf Trade
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Leaf Trade is the industry wholesale marketplace between cultivators/processors and dispensaries in the highly regulated cannabis states.
CASHDROP
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CASHDROP is a mobile commerce platform that helps businesses create and manage an online storefront from a smartphone.
Inventables
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Inventables is a 3D carving company offers a powerful machine, intuitive software and unique materials.
Purchasing Platform
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Purchasing Platform saves money and simplifies purchasing with negotiated pricing on millions of products for real estate operators.
Leap Services
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Retail-as-a-Service platform for consumer brands
CloudCraze
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CloudCraze delivers robust B2B commerce native on Salesforce that allows businesses to generate online revenue.
Rocketmiles
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Rocketmiles is a startup that lets travelers earn frequent flier miles in major airline programs when booking hotel stays through its site.
FanFood
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FanFood is a mobile ordering and concession management platform for sports and live events.
Mystery Tackle Box
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Mystery Tackle Box is a retail company that deals with fishing products at affordable prices.
Swap.com
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Swap.com leads the low-priced online pre-owned clothing consignment segment in the U.S. due to its unique deep neural network AI.
LandscapeHub
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LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.
OneSpace
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OneSpace positions your CPG brand front and center on the digital shelf with a suite of tools and on-demand services.
CircleIt
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A generational platform that gives you ability to send cards, media and gifts to loved ones across time.
Shopflix
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Shopflix is a platform used by company brands to promote their products.
TrunkClub
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Trunk Club is a men’s clothing service where a personal stylist handpicks high-end clothes and ships it for free.
Grunt Style
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Grunt Style is an apparel & fashion company that provides military clothing and uniforms.
Tillable
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Tillable is an online marketplace for farm landowners and growers to rent and manage farmland.
MightyNest
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MightyNest handpicks content and products to help families build non-toxic, eco-friendly and stylish homes.
Brideside
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Brideside is an online marketplace for personalized bridesmaid dresses.
Revieve
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Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
Bucketfeet
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Bucketfeet is a direct-to-consumer shoe brand that allows artists to create shoe designs and prints them on sneakers once ordered online.
Machinio
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Machinio is a search engine for buying and selling new and used industrial equipment and machinery.
FoodBoss
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FoodBoss is an all in one online food and alcohol delivery search engine that comprises data from food services companies.
ForeverCar
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ForeverCar is an online web portal that simplifies the auto repair experience
Quicklly
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Quicklly is an online marketplace that offers a wide range of Indian groceries and cuisines.
Venzee Technologies, Inc.
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Venzee is a smart tech platform that provides solutions for brands to send product content to an unlimited number of selling channels.
PartsTrader Markets Limited
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Online marketplace for auto parts trading more than $1.4B per annum with tens of thousands of business users in the US and New Zealand.
Restaurant.com
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Restaurant.com is a dining deals site and a marketing platform where users can read restaurant reviews, find deals, and browse menus.
Eved
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Eved is an event commerce company built by event experts for event experts.
Payline Data, LLC
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Platform for Killer Payment Experiences for in-app, in-store and online for buyers and sellers alike. Experience Payments Differently.
OjaExpress
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OjaExpress is an ecommerce company that offers a digital marketplace for cultural groceries.
Wise Apple
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Wise Apple makes life easier by making lunch better – by delivering fresh, custom, ready-to-serve lunches and snacks directly to your door.
Gearflow.com
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Streamlining parts procurement for construction’s majority through the first parts marketplace built for construction.
Stock+Field
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Stock+Field is a retail company offering general merchandise and DIY products.
Fusioner
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Online marketplace for music instruments and accessories
DRYV
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DRYV is an on-demand dry-cleaning and laundry service available through a mobile application.
uBid
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Shop for trusted brands at the lowest price on the web.
Garmentier
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SaaS platform helping retailers deliver holistic customer experiences via scalable selling, cx & clienteling technology.
Click Deal Buy!
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Click Deal Buy! specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and analytics.
ItemMaster
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ItemMaster’s cloud platform creates, manages, expands, & delivers structured product content for the $800B U.S. Food & Bev marketplace.
Resold
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Resold is a mobile app where you list an item for-sale and let a driver handle the delivery.
Abe’s Market
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Abe’s Market is an online marketplace that provides natural product entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their products.
World’s Finest Chocolate
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World’s Finest Chocolate has crafted premium chocolate directly from the cocoa bean.
Winestyr
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Winestyr offers users exclusive access to creative wineries and carefully crafted wines.
doggyloot
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Doggyloot, a sales site for dog owners, offers discounts on dog-related products to members nationwide.
AddStructure
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AddStructure offers a white-labeled natural language understanding platform.
Power Kiosk
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Connecting Buyers And Sellers Of Gas And Electricity
Carlease
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Leasing a car has never been easier. You find the perfect car – we’ll find the best financing and deliver to your door.
Tangiblee
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Tangiblee is an eCommerce visualization service that transforms retailers’ online catalogs into powerful, interactive shopping experiences.
BabbaCo (acquired by Barefoot Books in 2014)
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BabbaCo is an e-commerce subscription company sending age-appropriate activity boxes to kids and parents. A parenting lifestyle brand.
ZipFit Denim
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Founded in 2011 ZipFit helps aims to simply clothes shopping through technology.
Occasion
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Occasion provides a simple, but powerful tool for merchants to grow their business and connect with customers.
Cottage Door Press
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Cottage Door Press is publishes high-quality children’s books and believes that reading is learning! Beautiful books and gifts for babies.
WeDeliver
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WeDeliver is a crowd-sourced hyperlocal delivery platform that helps local merchants compete with large online retailers.
Supply Clinic
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Supply Clinic is an online marketplace for dental supplies.
Ellison
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Ellison provides handmade designer eyewear from Greece.
Vroom Delivery
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Vroom Delivery is the first eCommerce platform specifically designed for the $233B convenience store industry
ePublishing
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ePublishing offers publishers and media companies with SaaS content management, community, and e-commerce solutions.
Options Away
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Options Away revolutionize the way people research, plan and book travel.
Tidal Commerce
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Modern, Simple, Cloud-powered, Payment Processing and Merchant Services for businesses of all sizes.
Giftbar
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Giftbar is an online marketplace that allows its users to purchase and personalize gift cards from high end, independent retailers.
DailyKit
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DailyKit is an open source technology platform enabling local restaurants and grocers to start a meal kit service.
Banyan Technologies, Inc.
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B2B local food e-commerce platform
MarkITx
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MarkITx is an online, B2B, transparent and disruptive marketplace for enterprises to purchase, trade and sell their IT infrastructure.
FitBoomBah
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FitBoomBah is an online marketplace enabling consumers to purchase health and wellness products and services.
IndyBuild
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IndyBuild is a free entertainment industry platform developed to fully showcase creative and performing artists
Radish
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Radish delivers delicious ready to eat meals straight to your door in under 20 minutes.
Balodana
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E-commerce Marketplace Exclusively for Women’s Made-to-Measure and Bespoke Fashions
Moxie Jean
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Moxie Jean helps busy parents to keep their kids in high quality, like new clothes from playtime to Sunday supper.
Whittl
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Whittl allows consumers to compare prices for local services such as child care, guitar classes, housekeeping, dog grooming, and others.
Accertify
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Accertify is a provider of fraud prevention, chargeback management and payment gateway solutions to merchants.
SimpleRelevance
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Our machine learning platform was acquired by Rise Interactive December 2015! Follow technology updates through their site and blog posts
Blocklight
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Blocklight is the premier analytics platform for e-commerce businesses
Peapod
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Peapod is the largest U.S. grocery delivery service. Started in 1989, we are celebrating our 25th Anniversary in September 2014. www.