Startups Chicago

Map of the local innovation industry.
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MentorMob - digital media education ventures for good crowdsourcing

MentorMob

Google of Learning, indexed by experts
Problem: Google doesn't index for learning. Nearly 1 billion Google searches are done for "how to" learn various topics every month, from photography to entrepreneurship, forcing learners to waste their time sifting through the millions of results. MentorMob is ...

oBaz - digital media e-commerce fashion crowdsourcing

oBaz

We empower women to become fashion bloggers & tag products from over 1000 brands in posts

CentUp - digital media publishing crowdsourcing finance

CentUp

Get paid for your content. Do good.
A one-click micropayment that lets fans give small donations towards specific pieces of online content. The Kicker: Every contribution is split evenly between the author, and the donor’s favorite charity. It’s the 1-for-1 model, for content.

crowdfynd - mobile commerce social commerce crowdsourcing big data analytics

crowdfynd

Advancing Lost Property Management
crowdfynd is a mobile and web-based platform that is bringing efficiency to the management of lost, misplaced and unwanted personal property. crowdfynd offers solutions for both organizations and individual users. crowdfynd’s Enterprise platform was designed ...

Unbranded Designs - communities crowdsourcing product design design

Unbranded Designs

Community-Based Furniture Design
We are a furniture company that provides consumers with unique, high-quality furniture, designed by the independent furniture designers from our online community. All designs are submitted to our website and voted on by all our passionate users. We take the best ...

MyWy - analytics crowdsourcing Content Curation

MyWy

MyWy curates opinion-based web content. We create a structured tagging platform that gives web contributors the opportunity to add meta data to their posts on our partner websites. They can tag the "Why" behind the words that they posted. This enables other users ...

Squirrel & Company - social media financial services crowdsourcing small and medium businesses

Squirrel & Company

The Squirrel Bank™ is the new generation Piggy Bank.
Squirrel & Company, the creator of the Squirrel Bank™, works to teach children the fundamentals of money through financial tools based on The Quadra-Banking System™. The Squirrel Bank™ consists of four individual banks that teach effective use of money by ...

Gunglba Games LLC- dba; StartMeUp - internet tv crowdsourcing social television crowdfunding

Gunglba Games LLC- dba; StartMeUp

To Disrupt Television & Crowdfunding with an Improved Business Model
CONCEPT: StartMeUp is the smarter, more tech savvy sister to the television series Shark Tank—but broadcast as a web series. StartMeUp gives the viewing audience the opportunity to contribute financially through a proprietary crowdfunding platform. StartMeUp ...

Hearken - digital media SaaS crowdsourcing journalism

Hearken

Tools to create original, popular content with audiences and with integrity
Hearken is an audience-driven framework and white-label platform enabling content creators to partner with the public during the reporting process, resulting in relevant and high performing content. We help media outlets cultivate, validate and measure audience ...

Civic ArtWorks - crowdsourcing design art architecture

Civic ArtWorks

Empowering community-driven place-making + design

Protolution - mobile crowdsourcing entrepreneur Business Ideas

Protolution

Crowdsourced Prototype Testing Platform
An idea is worth a million dollars only when executed. The best products are the ones that have been evaluated thoroughly and tested with potential users. Protolution is a crowd sourced platform that allows you to test your prototypes with a focused community of ...

Daily Delphi - social games crowdsourcing finance technology Futures and Options

Daily Delphi

Social Forecasting for Financial Markets
Daily Delphi builds research products for market professionals. The capital markets are the most efficient way to price assets, but the opening price in a given market is never indicative of the settlement for the day. It's the knowledge, insights and opinion of ...

Designs Desk - marketplaces crowdsourcing graphic design

Designs Desk

Crowdsource Any Type of Design
Designs Desk is a graphic design marketplace where businesses can outsource any type of design project to thousands of designers all over the world, using the power of crowdsourcing. Designs Desk helps business get the best logo design, website design or graphic ...

dscout - mobile crowdsourcing new product development

dscout

product research, ideation and launch with early adopters
Leading companies use dscout to engage users in improving their existing experiences and inventing new ones. Our platform connects organizations with early adopters who work with companies to gather insights, develop ideas and ultimately launch new stuff. This ...

MUMZY - ventures for good crowdsourcing technology crowdfunding

MUMZY

The first and only crowdfunding site for moms (or like Kickstarter for moms)
MUMZY is a crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for and by moms. Understanding the unique barriers, ideas and mindsets of moms, MUMZY is built to best serve this robust and innovative community. And, not only are we the first to do it, we will do it better than ...

sMap - crowdsourcing maps government innovation City Planning

sMap

Map based community outreach
Chicago wanted to address childhood obesity by improving access to its 540 parks, but how do you engage a population of 2 million? Tipton, Indiana, a small farming community wanted to prevent “brain drain”, but how do you engage a rural community? The answer was ...

Threadless - e-commerce consumer goods fashion crowdsourcing

Threadless

Giving the creative minds of the world opportunities to make and sell great art.
Threadless exists to give the creative minds of the world more opportunities to make and sell great art.

Sicarf - e-commerce manufacturing fashion crowdsourcing

Sicarf

Threadless for scarf
SICARF uniquely combines software capabilities with manufacturing processes to bring personalized fashion to trendsetting consumers. We style-source prints from artists, fashion bloggers, emerging designers, and individuals looking for inimitable pieces to produce ...

Commogri - social media analytics crowdsourcing nonprofits

Commogri

Social network for philanthropy.
Commogri lets people become advocates when they volunteer. We're developing a mobile application where individuals can easily discover volunteer opportunites and post their best photo from the experience to build a visual resume of their positive impact. Nonprofit ...

House Actually - mobile social media real estate crowdsourcing

House Actually

Crowdsourced Home Price Estimates
We've built the most accurate valuation tool for residential real estate, by crowd-sourcing price estimates. CrowdPrice takes the guessing out of pricing real estate, by aggregating dozens of estimates of a home's value and producing a consensus value, weighted ...

Spartz - digital media social media crowdsourcing technology

Spartz

We're the team behind OMG Facts, Dose.com, and more. Our products educate, entertain, and inspire over 45 million users every month. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, Spartz is one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers.

ORYS - crowdsourcing technology travel mobile consumer

ORYS

Let your package be your friend's travel companion
For individuals who need to deliver their packages and travelers who would like to earn money, ORYS is an application that provides a platform where they can contact each other and collaborate to satisfy their needs in package delivery. ORYS will create the conditions ...

Innovation Factory - crowdsourcing product design 3d printing crowdfunding

Innovation Factory

A creative space for designers and entrepreneurs creating innovative physical products.
The Innovation Factory is a new concept in industrial design, bringing the latest technologies for design, modeling, prototyping, and alternative manufacturing to Main Street. IF’s aim is to provide the technology, expertise and infrastructure to enable designers ...

Healthihelp - health care crowdsourcing private social networking

Healthihelp

Crowdsourced Open Book Healthcare
Web platform for consumers to add their healthcare costs, download hospital chargemasters and review hospitals.

Refreco - e-commerce marketplaces crowdsourcing

Refreco

The crowdsourced purchasing engine
Refreco lets experts compete to help you find the best products and stores on the web. Tell us what you want to buy and receive an easy to use report straight from community experts within 24 hours.

Storymap - video film crowdsourcing geospatial

Storymap

Crowdsourced video stories of every human on a map.
Storymap records the stories of people around the world. Every human being owns a story worthy of our ears and our time. All stories have at least one nugget of universal truth. Storymap seeks to capture the stories of the world and to geographically visualize ...

LawStud.io - crowdsourcing small and medium businesses startups legal

LawStud.io

We help businesses find affordable legal help
LawStud.io is the first and only online crowdsourcing platform for startups and small businesses to find affordable legal help. We allow businesses to post their legal needs online and lawyers to bid on the legal work through a closed bidding model. Once a business ...

BugPub - crowdsourcing user testing software university students

BugPub

CrowdTesting by people with LinkedIn profiles
We are about to hit the ground running new testing community that is going to make software testing open and interesting for everyone. We believe all bugs of public software should be revealed and publicly available for everyone. Сrowdtesting saves your money ...

Spartz - mobile digital media crowdsourcing web development

Spartz

We're turning virality into a science.
We specialize in growing viral, multi-platform digital properties. We are pioneering a model that uses predictive science to measure the viral potential of websites and apps. Nearly twenty million people access the company’s digital portfolio of websites and mobile ...

Pixtant - mobile social media crowdsourcing social media platforms

Pixtant

Crowd-sourced decision-making (Instagram with voting)
Ever had a question and wanted to take a quick poll? Want more feedback on questions like: "Which outfit looks better on me?" or "Which hairstyle/hair color looks better on me?" Pixtant is an iOS app (on Google Play in Summer 2013) that helps you receive instant ...

Scenora - crowdsourcing advertising platforms professional services content discovery

Scenora

Image tagging for products, music, locations and people.
Scenora extends the benefits of product placements in movies, TV shows and webisodes by helping viewers easily find more information about products, movies and locations they encounter.

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