Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Marketplace companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Marketplace 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
[adace-ad id=”7108″]
Top Illinois Marketplace Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Grubhub
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Grubhub is a online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace dedicated to connecting diners with local restaurants.
Avant
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
The Mom Project
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace that helps women remain active in the workforce.
Raise
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Raise is a marketplace (exchange) for gift cards that is the largest direct-to-consumer seller of digital gift cards in the world.
Reverb.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear.
Insureon
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Insureon is the number one independent marketplace for online delivery of small business
Leaf Trade
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Leaf Trade is the industry wholesale marketplace between cultivators/processors and dispensaries in the highly regulated cannabis states.
Cameo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Purchasing Platform
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Purchasing Platform saves money and simplifies purchasing with negotiated pricing on millions of products for real estate operators.
Truss
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Truss is an online marketplace to help small and medium sized business owners find, tour, and lease space.
LandscapeHub
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.
Bolstr
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Bolstr is a marketplace where emerging consumer, retail, and manufacturing businesses can raise funding for expansion from real investors.
Tillable
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tillable is an online marketplace for farm landowners and growers to rent and manage farmland.
Brideside
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Brideside is an online marketplace for personalized bridesmaid dresses.
Machinio
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Machinio is a search engine for buying and selling new and used industrial equipment and machinery.
Quicklly
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Quicklly is an online marketplace that offers a wide range of Indian groceries and cuisines.
PartsTrader Markets Limited
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
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.
SpotHero
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
OjaExpress
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OjaExpress is an ecommerce company that offers a digital marketplace for cultural groceries.
Gearflow.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Streamlining parts procurement for construction’s majority through the first parts marketplace built for construction.
Fusioner
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Online marketplace for music instruments and accessories
EVENTup
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
EVENTup is the #1 destination to find and book venues.
uBid
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shop for trusted brands at the lowest price on the web.
Garmentier
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
SaaS platform helping retailers deliver holistic customer experiences via scalable selling, cx & clienteling technology.
Dabble
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Dabble is a marketplace for people to discover, teach and host in-person classes, events & experiences in the community.
ItemMaster
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ItemMaster’s cloud platform creates, manages, expands, & delivers structured product content for the $800B U.S. Food & Bev marketplace.
Resold
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Resold is a mobile app where you list an item for-sale and let a driver handle the delivery.
Abe’s Market
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Abe’s Market is an online marketplace that provides natural product entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their products.
JESVARDO
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
JesVardo is the most economical P2P RV Sharing Marketplace platform in the US providing you the opportunity with hassle-free vacations.
ChoreRelief
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ChoreRelief helps homeowners and contractors connect on-demand and on-budget.
StoryBolt
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The marketplace of storytellers for employee engagement solutions
Cora
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Data-driven SaaS platform & marketplace for $77B B2B furnishings industry
Supply Clinic
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Supply Clinic is an online marketplace for dental supplies.
Vivid Seats
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
Cashrent
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cashrent is a data-centric farmland marketplace and land management system.
GC Plus
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GC Plus is a 1-Click On-Demand Platform for Homeowners & 3X Earnings for Plumbers
Shuttle Planet
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
A 2 sided marketplace for long distance shared road transportation, where the traveller can join an existing ride or crowdsource a new trip.
MarkITx
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
MarkITx is an online, B2B, transparent and disruptive marketplace for enterprises to purchase, trade and sell their IT infrastructure.
FitBoomBah
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
FitBoomBah is an online marketplace enabling consumers to purchase health and wellness products and services.
Balodana
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
E-commerce Marketplace Exclusively for Women’s Made-to-Measure and Bespoke Fashions
Growth Geeks
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Growth Geeks is an online marketplace for high quality, vetted marketing services.
Bodaty
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Location based marketplace connects buyers, local stores and personal shoppers with an integrated payments system.
Kettera Strategies
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kettera Strategies is an online marketplace for accessing alternative investments.
Chicago Board Of Trade
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Chicago Board Of Trade is an exchanged holding company and provides global investors cutting-edge trading and investment solutions.
Brownfield Listings
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Brownfield Listings is a nationwide property marketplace & project workspace for real estate with reuse challenges.
Collaborata
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Collaborata is an online platform that enables the co-sponsoring of market-research projects.
Stylisted
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Stylisted is a proprietary platform enabling 1.4M beauty professionals to build & manage their freelance business.
Cureeo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cureeo is an online marketplace that offers original and limited edition artwork to collectors and novice art enthusiasts.
TicketsNow
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
TicketsNow is an event ticket resale marketplace where fans of live entertainment buy and sell tickets.
College Engine
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
College Engine provides student applicants and academic institutions with a transparent online marketplace.
Intentwise
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The Intentwise platform empowers Brands, Sellers and Agencies on Marketplaces such as Amazon & Walmart with automation, and expertise.
crowdSPRING
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
crowdSPRING is an online marketplace that enables buying and selling of creative services, including logo design and industrial design.
GeoWealth, LLC
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GeoWealth is an end-to-end technology platform and turnkey model marketplace.
gDine
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
gDine is an online marketplace and yield management solution that enables its users to plan and book dining events.
newtrul
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Newtrul is a shipment aggregation platform that provides freight carriers an easier way to search for their next job.
Pixels.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Pixels.com is an online marketplace with 10M+ visitors per month that has revolutionized the way that artwork is bought and sold globally.
Nomad Credit
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nomad Credit is a financial marketplace for those under-served by other marketplaces.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The first and only real-time booking marketplace in Corporate Housing.
BookedOut
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
BookedOut is a marketplace where brands, agencies and promotional contractors intersect to promote and capture consumer feedback.
HERE Mobility
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
HERE Mobility Marketplace serves as a revolutionary central hub to connect mobility supply and demand, making mobility easy-to-use.
LocalLux
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
LocalLux is an online marketplace for shoppers to discover unique local designer fashion, accessories, and home decor all-in-one place.
BrokerAssist
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
BrokerAssist is a mobile-first SaaS marketplace product, connecting Realtors® on fractional assistance and referral networking gigs!
Closest Closet
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Closest Closet is a circular marketplace for used fashion where members use their items as currency.
ZeroPercent.us
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Zero waste. Zero hunger. They keep good food from being wasted by using web & mobile apps to help it reach people who need it most.
EvoLux Transportation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Regional Helicopter Charter Marketplace and Social ‘SkyShare’ Reservation Platform
FarmLogix
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
FarmLogix is a provider of an online marketplace designed to help farmers to supply food
ServiceLive
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ServiceLive is a true online services marketplace – a place unlike any other on the web, where people nationwide can find what they need to
Marketplace.city
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Marketplace.city connects government innovators with new technologies and solutions to make easier to find, verify and buy.
BEConnect
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Biggest Online Market Retailer for Black Owned Business
Entrade
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Entrade specializes in developing B2B e-commerce marketplaces and infrastructure companies to bring industry to the Internet.
Uvamo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Uvamo is a marketplace that enables those seeking insurance and investment returns to interact with each other.
buddhi
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
buddhi is a digital wellness companion for adults living with and recovering from cancer.
Piece & Co.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Piece & Co. is a marketplace that connects retail brands with artisans in the developing world. We create collaborations that provide
Lihtec Funding
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
A SaaS-enabled marketplace (SEM) for affordable housing development.
Xoobies
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Xoobies is bringing the experience back to travel. We connect travelers local providers who can give them a once in a lifetime adventure.
trainr.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Trainr.com is an online marketplace for personal fitness & training that allows consumers to search for and book trainers of all types.
Matchio
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Matchio is a marketplace geared to help students buy and sell between each other.
Unbranded Designs
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Unbranded Designs is an e-marketplace that funds, manufactures, and sells unique furniture from design-oriented communities.
DealerSource.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
DealerSource.com, a new business-to-business online marketplace for off-lease and used business equipment
Travelsports.com
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
TravelSports.com is creating the first marketplace for youth local travel sports information.
Noblivity
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Noblivity is a B2B marketplace that gives direct wholesale access to specialty retailers and boutique owners.
BillBoarder
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
BillBoarder is a B2B marketplace for outdoor advertising.
Sculpey
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sculpey is an online marketplace that offers bake polymer clay and polymer clay tools for all of the project needs.
LakeView Technology
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Lakeview Technology has lead the Data Replication marketplace for more than a decade.
HaulHound
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Chicago-based tech company building logistics search engine and digital freight matching marketplace
Chi-X Canada
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Chi-X Canada is a high-performance alternative trading system (ATS) marketplace for the trading of TSX and TSXV-listed securities.
Virtual Dining Chicago
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
We are a hyper-local hospitality talent marketplace
Leasabl
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Leasabl is a marketplace for short-term commercial real estate.
RightFit Personal Training
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
RightFit Personal Training is an online marketplace connecting consumers with independent personal trainers throughout the country
HiretoWork
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
HiretoWork is a leading freelance marketplace, connecting millions of freelancers and businesses every day. Hire your Freelancer Today.
tix4cause
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tix4cause is an e-marketplace that allows non-profit organizations to connect with their donors at no cost.
Eatyn
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Eatyn is an peer to peer marketplace to connect everyday chefs with diners as an alternative to restaurants
Fastave
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
FastAve is a provider of a dealer-centric auto loan marketplace intended to offer a digital, secure
HiRise
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
HiRise is a transactional marketplace for leasing office space online. Lease by the suite or by the seat.
Follett School Solutions
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Follett Corporation is a $2.7 billion privately held company that provides products, services and solutions to the educational marketplace.
