Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Fitness companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Fitness 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
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Top Illinois Fitness Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Higi
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Higi’s platform enables & empowers users to self-screen their biometrics & share that data with a trusted health professional.
Vital Proteins
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Vital Proteins engages in providing natural, whole food proteins that support animal well-being and sustainable eco-friendly practices.
Cubii
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Cubii offers an under-desk elliptical trainer which integrates wirelessly with mobile devices and fitness trackers.
HealthChampion
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HealthChampion is reshaping the healthcare ecosystem by giving individuals more control over their health records, decisions and care.
LulaFit
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Designing, Building, and Managing Wellness Experiences That Work
MoveSpring
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MoveSpring is a fun, simple, highly engaging health platform enabling employers to educate and motivate employees toward better health.
Charge Running
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Charge Running is a mobile fitness app that provides interactive, trainer-led running classes, and live leaderboards.
skinIO
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skinIO is an equipment for skin cancer screening and skin health monitoring.
Zest Health
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Zest Health provides a mobile application for consumers, employers, and providers to be more informed health consumers.
metaMe Health
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MetaMe Health develops FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutics for the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions.
IndiFit
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Empowering fitness instructors & trainers to earn more by hosting independent classes
hiitide
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The hiitide builds technology and services that help authors virtually engage with new readers, for good.
City Health Tech
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City Health Tech provides a wireless-connected handwashing device and IoT platform to help promote healthier handwashing habits.
Bump Boxes
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Bump Boxes is a monthly Pregnancy subscription box. Healthy products tailored to your due date & conveniently delivered to your door.
PUSH Wellness
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PUSH is the first fair and effective progress-based health and wellness incentive program. The program leverages principles of behavioral
FitBoomBah
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FitBoomBah is an online marketplace enabling consumers to purchase health and wellness products and services.
amSTATZ
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amSTATZ is a cloud-based software for fitness professionals to streamline their booking, payment, and client communication procedures.
Edward-Elmhurst Health
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Edward-Elmhurst Health is an integrated health system comprised of three hospitals.
Pathfinder Health
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Pathfinder Health is a health and fitness company providing mobile healthcare services.
Envision Healthcare
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Envision Healthcare offers various facility-based physician staffing and health-related management services.
Health As We Age, Inc.
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HAWA is Your Friend In Healthcare. Let us connect you to health & fitness providers, device and lab data, incentiv and well-being solutions.
NutriSense
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NutriSense personalizes nutrition by leveraging state of the art continuous glucose monitoring and machine learning technology.
CommonSpirit
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CommonSpirit is a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people.
Betway
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The Betway Group is a leading provider of first-class entertainment across sports betting, casino, bingo and poker.
Life Fitness
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Life Fitness provides the tools needed for a transformational workout experience.
Luwi
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LUWI is a new product made for women for both hormone-free contraception and latex-free protection against STI/STDs.
DoveMed
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DoveMed is a physician-approved health information resource company.
Qualia Health
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Qualia Health have built the first software platform that can measure anyone’s complete physical, mental, and social health.
TapFit
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TapFit is the best way to search for and discover fitness options nearby. They develop mobile applications that help remove the friction
TapGenes
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TapGenes is a place for families to collect, save, & share their health information together, to help families care for the ones they love.
ATI Physical Therapy
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ATI Physical Therapy is an outpatient orthopedic private practice focused on providing rehabilitation services
Vitality Group
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Vitality encourages individuals to commit to long-term healthy changes in how they live, work, exercise and eat.
Trustmark
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Trustmark is a national employee benefits company.
HealthFitness
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HealthFitness is a proven leader and partner for enhancing wellbeing programs and transforming lives for the better.
Gatorade
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Sports performance innovations designed to meet the needs of athletes at all competitive levels and across a broad range of sports.
Orunje
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Orunje is a location based platform, which connects patients with vetted local area doctors and nurse practitioners.
Tencar
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Tencar develops ostomy appliances for active-lifestyle colostomy and ileostomy patients.
WOW
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WOW is an online content provider in entertainment, health, technology, food, lifestyle, family, sports, and finance.
Brunswick
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BRUNSWICK IS A MARKET LEADER in the marine, fitness, and bowling and billiards industries. They have made a commitment to focus their
Base10
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Base10 is a precision medicine company that provides cutting edge genetic technologies.
Interactive Health
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Interactive Health offers integrated workplace wellness solutions to organizations in the United States.
Aligned Modern Health
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Aligned Modern Health is the provider of a patient-centered integrative healthcare management platform
Midtown Health
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Midtown Health is a health & wellness company specializing in fitness center management and health enhancement solutions.
Fitcline
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Fitcline is an all-inclusive application that tracks the user’s fitness abilities, diet, weight loss, and the overall health condition.
Jetson Health
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The first and only Probiotic seasonally tailored to meet your body’s needs.
Caravel Autism Health
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Caravel Autism Health is a mental health care company providing applied behavior analysis and ABA therapy.
Home Access Health
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Home Access Health Corporation offers laboratory testing services.
Punchpass
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Punchpass is a software for yoga, dance & fitness studios that help run fitness or yoga business online.
Quantivize Health
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Quantivize Health pays you to exercise.
CHC Wellness Inc.
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CHC Wellness is a health & wellness company that offers corporate wellness solutions.
AbelsonTaylor
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AbelsonTaylor has remained singularly focused on brands that help people live healthier lives.
Innovista Health Solutions
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Innovista Health Solutions was created for today’s evolving health care environment.
School Health Corporation
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School Health Corporation is a medical device company offering sports medicine equipment and medical supplies.
LifeStart
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Corporate fitness center design, development, and management
Fitness Formula Clubs
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Fitness Formula, Ltd. develops, owns, and manages urban and suburban health, fitness, wellness, and spa facilities.
Muscular Dystrophy Association
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Muscular Dystrophy Association is the nonprofit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related diseases.
XSport Fitness
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XSport Fitness is an fitness chains with gyms.
Lakeshore Sport & Fitness
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It offers its members a full service health club with an incredible 4 story facility with over 180,000 Sq Feet of space.
Azuba Corporation
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Azuba develops a mobile health information network for patients and caregivers to manage and share electronic health records.
Anita Margarita
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All natural lo-calorie powdered margarita mix, sweetened with 100% agave nectar.
Scrip Products
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Scrip Products provides wellness products for healthcare practitioners.
FitRx
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FitRx Offers a range of brand name body building supplements, equipment, and books.
Health Data Link
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Health Data Link is a technology company.
Midtown Athletic Clubs
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Midtown Athletic Clubs provides Tennis, Fitness, Sports, Recreation, Spa Services, and Group Exercise.
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
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People know the Y for swimming, water safety and fitness, but that’s just part of what we do.
Bear Paddle Swim School
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education, fitness, school, wellness
Glo Bags
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The Glo Bag LLC was started by Jennifer Koutouras and Kendra Cunningham, two avid gym goers who were tired of their traditional gym.
IlliniCare Health
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IlliniCare Health is a hospital & health care company that offers health insurance product.
Excel Physical Therapy
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Excel Physical Therapy is a health & wellness company that offers outpatient, orthopedic physical therapy services.
Ganeden Biotech
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Ganeden Biotech manufactures and supplies probiotics and probiotic bacteria.
Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating (SSHE)
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SSHE prepares thousands of fresh meals w
Healthy Interactions
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Healthy Interactions is a healthcare company offering programs for diabetes and other chronic conditions.
Z Ventures
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Z Ventures is a boutique search firm passionate about finding mutually beneficial solutions.
Charter Fitness
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Charter Fitness is one of the Chicago area’s largest and fast growing fitness centers.
Power Wellness
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Power Wellness is a management company in the medical fitness industry.
Great Lakes Gelatin
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Great Lakes Gelatin is a provider of collagen and gelatin products consisting of a brand and wholesale/bulk business.
Bloglines
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Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats.
Tanita
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Tanita is a professional in precision electronic scales that manufactures scales and body composition products for fitness and medical use.
Carlson Labs
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Carlson Labs is a digital store that provides a wide range of nutritional supplements, probiotics, nutrient formulas and COD liver oil.
Chunk Fitness
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Chunk Fitness is an online platform providing objective advice on fitness, exercise, nutrition, weight lifting, cardio and more.
CoreSource
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CoreSource is a national health plan administrator and URAC- and NCQA-accredited health and wellness services company.
SweatWorking, Inc.
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Empowering gyms and fitness studios to deliver on-demand, digital experiences to their members
WalkJogRun
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WalkJogRun helps runners find or create running routes around the world and provides the tools to help them train effectively.
MiGym
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MiGym is a Chicago-based mobile app solution provider that helps gyms across America become a constant part of their members’ lives.
The Center for Medical Weight Loss
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Highly personalized weight loss plans from CMWL physicians who are trained experts in weight loss, nutrition and fitness.
Flex Interactive
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Flex is a full-service pilates machine that provides its users full-body workouts.
Active Ideas LLC dba HOVR
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Developer and manufacturer of exercise equipment
Christie Clinic
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Christie Clinic is providing the people of east central Illinois with the highest quality health care.
Coeus Health
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Coeus Health provides digital health solutions.
Foss Swim School
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Foss Swim School is a health & wellness company that offers swimming instruction and child development services.
Elysian
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Elysian is a hospitality company that provides foot spa and health club services.
Bird
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Bird aims to provide affordable and personalized coaching to athletes by connecting coaches and athletes to each other.
Prevent Blindness America
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Prevent Blindness America is an eye health and safety organization.
Fitsby
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Fitsby is a mobile application that groups its users into fitness buddies to create experiences and motivate each other.
Best Price Nutrition
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Best Price Nutrition is a vitamin sales company specializing in bodybuilding supplements.
East Bank Club
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East Bank Club opened its doors on December 15, 1980 with 3,000 members and 100 employees. At that time, building an exercise, recreation
Hearing Help Express
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Hearing Help Express is a direct-to-consumer mail order hearing aid provider.
The Exercise Coach
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The Exercise Coach help people achieve the personal health and fitness results that matter most to them .
