Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Marketing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Marketing 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 Marketing Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Signal
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Signal is an independent SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution.
G2
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G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time.
DialogTech
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DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value phone calls.
CDK Global
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CDK Global is transforming how cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds are marketed, sold, and serviced around the world.
Centro
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Centro’s technology platform, Basis, is an advertising solution unifying programmatic buying, workflow automation and business intelligence.
Numerator
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Numerator brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple.
Cooler Screens
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Cooler Screens is a developer of interactive digital displays to replace glass doors in store aisles.
Cheetah Digital
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The technology and marketing expertise B2C marketers need to deliver enterprise-scale brand experiences.
ActiveCampaign
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ActiveCampaign specializes in email marketing, marketing automation, and sales automation.
Popular Pays
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Popular Pays is a platform that connects brands with creators who make content worth sharing.
4C Insights
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Scope by 4C™ is the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems.
Buildout
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Buildout is an end-to-end solution that provides a marketing platform for commercial real estate.
ReviewTrackers
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ReviewTrackers is a customer feedback software that is used to measure and transform the customer experience.
UPshow
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UPshow is transforming what people experience on the shared televisions of the world
Infutor Consumer Identity Management Solutions
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Infutor provides brands with technology solutions to identify and obtain information about their customers.
Leap Services
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Retail-as-a-Service platform for consumer brands
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.
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.
Shopflix
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Shopflix is a platform used by company brands to promote their products.
Rise Interactive
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Rise Interactive is a full-service digital marketing agency, helping leading brands drive better business outcomes.
Revieve
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Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
simMachines
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simMachines provides similarity-oriented solutions for advanced analytics.
Freeosk Inc
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Freeosk is a network of in-store kiosks, driving trial and awareness for brands by giving free samples of new products to customers.
SIM Partners
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SIM Partners is a marketing businesses that focuses on improving communication with local markets.
Cedar Capital
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Cedar Capital delivers innovative investment solutions.
Sandbox Agency
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Sandbox Agency is an international full-service agency. It creates personalized emails, Websites, e-newsletters, and mobile experiences.
Channel IQ
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Channel IQ is a provider of online retail intelligence, channel management and brand protection solutions to manufacturers and retailers.
ConceptDrop
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ConceptDrop matches brands with an invite-only community of creative professionals.
Gather Voices
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Gather Voices is a company that helps organizations to easily collect, manage, and share user-generated videos.
Fusioner
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Online marketplace for music instruments and accessories
Dabble
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Dabble is a marketplace for people to discover, teach and host in-person classes, events & experiences in the community.
Delic
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Delic is a psychedelics corporation that specializes in education, content, and events about psychoactive compounds.
Cision
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Cision is a global media intelligence company that offers PR and social software as well as analytics.
Upshot, Inc
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Upshot specializes in total brand engagement, brand initiatives, and shopper marketing.
SwayBrand
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SwayBrand’s AI-powered platform creates authentic influencer micro-marketing moments.
Renegade Brands
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Renegade Brands provides safe and high performance cleaning products.
Strike Social
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The global leader in AI for social advertising
Specless
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Specless empowers publishers to evolve beyond tired display ad formats and bring to market a more valuable advertising experience.
BookingKoala, LLC
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All-in-one platform designed for the service industry. From marketing & sales to management & convenience.
Revenew
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Revenew is a through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) platform that brings control, transparency, and a holistic view of local marketing.
PowerPublish
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PowerPublish is a virtual newsroom that leverages technology and content automation that turns modern brands into power publishers.
Brandgility by Elateral
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Brandgility: The platform for self-service adaptation and localization of print and digital assets
VacayHome Connect
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VacayHome Connect focuses in the fields of vacation rental industry, distribution, digital marketing, web-stores, and websites.
Tagkast
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Tagkast is a photo marketing platform to help event marketers increase social reach and capture consumer data
Persio
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Persio helps retailers personalize cross channel communications using a simple SaaS platform.
Music Dealers
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Music Dealers is a music licensing platform providing pre-cleared music and custom song creation for content creators.
Rivet
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Rivet is an internet radio news application that provides local, national, and international news.
Motorola
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Motorola provides products and services for mobile, wireline digital communication, information, and entertainment applications.
Earshot
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Earshot is a precision-based customer acquisition platform
Manifest Digital
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Manifest Digital provides designing, rapid application development, online marketing strategy and hosted management services.
IndyBuild
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IndyBuild is a free entertainment industry platform developed to fully showcase creative and performing artists
Bounteous
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Bounteous creates big-picture digital solutions that help leading companies deliver transformational brand experiences.
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
Booking Social
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It is a cloud based appointment booking solution based on Salesforce.
Growth Geeks
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Growth Geeks is an online marketplace for high quality, vetted marketing services.
Roniin
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Roniin is a software company that connects talented founders to execute their ideas to create new companies.
ZS Associates
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ZS Associates is a global leader in sales and marketing consulting, outsourcing, technology and software.
FanFueled
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FanFueled Engagement Systems empower brands to build, congregate, mobilize and monetize fan communities.
Cars.com
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Cars.com is a online destination that helps car shoppers and owners navigate every turn of car ownership.
Wordego
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Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers.
L37 Creative
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L37 Creative helps brands across industries deliver incredible live experiences and powerful creative storytelling.
ADSHIFT
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We help companies spend their digital ad budget more efficiently by automatically reallocating ad spend to their most profitable products
Americaneagle.com
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Americaneagle.com is a web design and marketing company specialized in custom web applications and e-commerce services.
Revenue Well Systems
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Automated practice marketing and patient communication suite.
SiteVibes
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A User Generated Content & Visual Marketing Platform helping ecommerce businesses engage shoppers.
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Sharetapes are physical cards for launching digital content on smartphones
Brandmuscle
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Brandmuscle provides integrated local and channel marketing for companies that want to make an impact.
Rewards Network
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Rewards Network is a provider of capital and marketing services to the restaurant industry.
Fusion92
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Fusion92 is a independent marketing innovation agency.
Transparentrees
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Transparentrees is a web-based app, listing company and employee reviews while revealing the reporting structure within an organization.
Profitics
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Profitics is a software and services company specializing in pricing, profit, and Marketing Optimization Solutions and more.
Neon One
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Neon One is a comprehensive technology ecosystem of software and services.
Starcom Worldwide
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Starcom is a world-renowned media agency that simplifies human understanding to deliver meaningful brand experiences.
Greco and Sons
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Greco and Sons is a food and beverages company that provides meats, cheeses, olive oil, and tomatoes.
Rapid Displays
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Rapid Displays is a marketing and advertising company providing retail displays, store fixtures, and kiosk merchandising products.
Closerlook
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Closerlook, inc. is a digital marketing agency which provides solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
dCommerce – Hotel E-Commerce Consulting
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dCommerce is a consulting firm that assists hotels in managing their digital marketing and e-commerce systems.
Dotomi
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Dotomi provides Personalized Media display advertising that is dynamically adapted in real time at the user and impression level.
Zeno Group
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Zeno Group, a PR and communications company, offers services including reputation management, corporate communications and brand marketing.
Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals)
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Buzz Referrals enables companies to have their own referral programs that integrate with both social media and their company websites.
Vanilla Video
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Vanilla Video is a video production company that helps people express things they care about through video.
Squadhelp
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A leading naming platform offering a unique combination of crowdsourcing, smart technology and agency level services for brand naming
Band Digital
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Band Digital is an independent and industry-leading digital connection agency that provides digital marketing services.
Intentwise
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The Intentwise platform empowers Brands, Sellers and Agencies on Marketplaces such as Amazon & Walmart with automation, and expertise.
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ShareASale is retail focused performance marketing network, enabling users to tap into a wider consumer base without additional costs.
Moss
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Moss is a provider of custom trade show display components, tension fabric displays and structures.
crowdSPRING
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crowdSPRING is an online marketplace that enables buying and selling of creative services, including logo design and industrial design.
Transistor.fm
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Podcast hosting and analytics for creatives, brands, and professionals.
NEXT/NOW
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NEXT/NOW operates as a creative technology company that produces next-generation digital/physical experiences for world-class brands.
The AnyLogic Company
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The AnyLogic Company is a multinational team that designs and develops simulation modeling software for business applications.
Egen Solutions
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Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Design and Software Consulting
Walker Sands
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Walker Sands is a B2B marketing agency focused on accelerating growth.
The Pampered Chef
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Pampered Chef is a global multi-level marketing company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products.
Cogensia
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Cogensia is the premier provider of breakthrough data-driven marketing strategies and solutions.
Avionos
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Avionos is the digital services firm that delivers connected customer engagement solutions for marketing, sales, and customer service.
