Co-Hop

A BREW-cubator helping craft brewers succeed
The CO-HOP concept was created to address critical pain points faced by new entrants in the expanding craft beer market. Brewing in a CO-HOP cooperative brewery setting removes highly dilutive capital requirements, low margins, and other hurdles commonly faced ...

Sin Label

Turning the Best Fans Into Genuine, Crowd-Sourced Promoters
Current electronic music event promotions strategies are inefficient and expensive. Leading Event Creators are forced to pour money into street teams, promoters, email blasts, and social media spamming. In order to promote "better", event creators have only one ...

Woof

Mobile App Providing Guided Selection for Pet Adoption
Woof is building mobile apps that make pet adoption pain-free. We make it possible for our users to find the pet that they will fall in love with at their local pet shelter. If that pet isn't out there right now, count on a push notification to let you be one of ...

AF Solutions

Lifestyle App Development
Developing two specific apps concentrating on improving lifestyle.

Brewed In Chicago

Connecting consumers with Chicago Craft Beer
Brewed in Chicago is an online craft beer community that provides a directory of breweries, bars, and events throughout the Chicago area. Users can locate their favorite beer, provide ratings, and connect with other craft beer consumers. We track detailed information ...

PlanMatcher

Matching you with the best Health Insurance
SUMMARY PlanMatcher Inc., is a Web Broker / Software Company which “intelligently finds” the best health plan. We act as an infomediary, digitally sorting and simplifying the all the plans available to the user from the Federal Marketplace. PROBLEM Purchasing ...

Radish

Healthy meals delivered on-demand.
Radish makes eating healthy easy. We prepare & deliver completely customizable and incredibly healthy meals, on-demand. Through our technology we can recommend completely personalized meals based on your nutritional needs, fitness activity, and personal goals.

Halfstack Magazine

Attainable Lifestyle Digital Publication
Halfstack is the latest in lifestyle magazines focused on and dedicated to the local Chicago and suburban community. We showcase musicians, designers, boutiques, brands, artists, local entrepreneurs & social changers who are the rise because of the impact they ...

KloboMedia

Social media insights for brands and individuals
For people in the public eye, a strong social footprint can have a direct influence on salaries, career advancement, speaking engagements and contract terms. KloboMedia has created a product called TheSocialReports to help personal brands gain a competitive edge ...

What A Great Website

enticing, engaging, intuitive websites
Content Development and Copywriting, Website Design, Website Development, SEO

TravelMed

Healthcare where you need it.
TravelMed will serve the Chicago area, taking advantage of a home health ecosystem that actively uses house call groups and understands how to incorporate them into the healthcare continuum.  Home-based primary care is a niche sector of healthcare; one that is ...

Firearms Defense Training Center

Firearms sales and range services to a city that has never had it before
This will be a brick and mortar shooting range, retail store, and educational facility in Chicago. The city had banned this business until this year, and this market needs to be serviced. This will be an indoor facility to teach responsible firearms use, self ...

G2 Crowd

Yelp for business software

RideScout Chicago

RideScout is a mobile app that helps you get from point A to point B faster and smarter. Available for iOS and Android, RideScout shows you real-time information about transportation options that are available right now. Download RideScout and get all transit, ...

Aschenbrener Law

Law Firm for Tech
Aschenbrener Law represents technology companies and technology issues in the areas of business counseling, intellectual property, employment, finance, real estate, and litigation.

Cleaning.com

Cleaning made easy.
Cleaning.com helps connect busy homeowners with pre-screened cleaning professionals.

Kahoots

An intelligent contacts app
Kahoots reinvents your phones' address book; organizing contacts by how you remember them; sharing favorite local businesses contacts with friends and family. The contacts in our phone are not just a list of friends and favorites but an essential tool in our ...

Mabbly

Demystifying Digital Marketing
We started Mabbly because we love entrepreneurs. Like you, we’re passionate about what we do. We thrive on transforming ideas, no matter how big or small, into flourishing businesses. But as exhilarating as starting a small business can be, the demands are equally ...

ClinkCloud

Social Trending News
ClinkCloud delivers social trending news to users & their friends. Users rank content to determine what is trending, and also customize their own feeds to receive top 10 trending lists most relevant to them. Try it out today at www.ClinkCloud.com.

Big Shot Marketing

We specialize in impressive creativity, ingenuity and expertise in building power brands.
Besides BRILLIANT marketing ideas, we create a plan to help you craft a rock-solid brand identity. Yeah we’re pretty good at coming up with smart advertising, marketing campaigns, high-impact public relations, & website design and search engine optimization. We ...

MyButler

On-Demand butler service for the busy individual
Housework, chores, and errands do their best to pop up on your To-Do list every day.They are notoriously time-consuming and trivial. MyButler allows you to put your unwanted errands on a different list, a “Not- To-Do” list. With MyButler you can focus on what truly ...

tanetservice

The anything and everything site
Offering 100+ presumably odd services to a plethora of customers. Our odd services include: driver companion, house cleaner, animal sitter, closet perfectionist, grocery picker upper, wedding singer. Our customers come from all walks of life and from different ...

Right Fit for You

Online Network of LGBT-Friendly Personal Trainers
Right Fit for You is an online network of certified Personal Trainers who either identify as members of the LGBT community or as Straight Allies to the community. Our primary mission is to provide the LGBT community with a comfortable client/trainer relationship ...

Around the Bend Beer Co.

High quality craft ales
We make high-quality, full-flavored, craft ales and lagers. Around the Bend Beer Co. will initially produce three flagship beers; a Kölsch, an American Pale Ale, and an American Brown Ale. Each of these are well established styles that enjoy a great deal of popularity ...

BuildingBuddy

Resident Friendly Apartment Building Mobile Application
BuildingBuddy allows residents in apartment buildings to stay up to date with what is going on in their building. The mobile application offers residents the ease of paying rent, submitting maintenance requests (with picture), access vital building info (emails ...

ScrapPays

From Trash To Treasure
ScrapPays is an auction platform designed for the end of life marketplace. When customers are no longer interested in a product, the can take a picture and "scrappers" bid on the item, pay for it, and pick it up. ScrapPays is simply the easiest way to clean your ...

Social Power Hour

Marketing Game-Changer for Small Businesses
Social Power Hour takes everything it knows about social media, online advertising and event planning to close the gap between companies driving real and digital traffic and revenue and small businesses with uncertain futures.

Lumii Health

Health insurance without the pain
Lumii Health helps small- to mid-sized businesses make better healthcare decisions. Through data analytics, scalable recommendation tools, and an integrated insurance technology platform, we bring education, transparency, and efficiency to an underserved market. We ...

Shurpa, Inc.

Micro-logistics for last mile delivery.
Shurpa is the evening package delivery service for people who don't have a doorman. Customers get a special address when they sign up, then ship all their online purchases and other packages there. When they receive a package, we send them a text message with ...

MyMenu

Allergy Conscious Dining
MyMenu is a mobile platform designed to help individuals with food allergies and sensitivities to dine away from home. Allergy Free Dining Made Easy: We believe dining out should be safe, easy and enjoyable for everyone! Find Allergy Friendly Restaurants: MyMenu ...

Tribune Publishing

Sprk'd

Content you crave & design that converts
We grow startups and small businesses through content strategy and inbound marketing solutions (blogging, email marketing, search engine optimization, social media, web design, and more). We also lead workshops, create helpful tools, and provide one-on-one strategic ...

HealthcareResumeReview.com

Healthcare Career Resources and Placement Services
Healthcare Resume Review is a trusted resource for seasoned and entry-level healthcare professionals. Our services include: 1) Professional resume review and job coaching services from coaches who currently work in the healthcare industry 2) Curated job and ...

EastWest Investment

Real Estate Investments and Business Acquisitions
EastWest (soon to be incorporated in the state of Illinois), is DBA EastWest Investment that acquires Real Estate properties for investment gains such as buy & hold, wholeselling, fix & flip, notes, and hard money lending. We also buy and manage other businesses, ...

Chefmade

Delicious, Healthy, Prepared Meals Delivered To Your Door
Chefmade is redefining healthy eating by providing it's members with professionally prepared meals that are simple and easy to heat, nutritious, and most importantly delicious. Chefmade delivers chef prepared meals to your door weekly. New meals are prepared each ...