Generous Deals

VERY productive, no cost, passive fundraising service giving consumers sweet deals
Generous Deals is a daily deal online fundraising platform. We partner up with charity and non-profit organizations to help them with their fundraising efforts. We use the daily deal model to provide charities and non-profits with a fundraising vehicle while ...

BucketFeet

Our mission is to connect people through art.
Our mission is to connect people through art.

CookItFor.Us

Any Recipe. Made Fresh. Delivered.
CookItFor.Us is an online social community connecting Cravers to Makers, to get recipes made. We enable Cravers (people who love to eat) to get their selected recipes made fresh, and delivered to their door; and fully licensed Makers (caterers, restaurants, bakeries, ...

Abe's Market

Find the best natural products, organic products & eco-friendly products at Abe's Market. Shop for natural beauty products, organic food, green cleaners & more.

Orbitz

Book cheap airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacations and travel deals on Orbitz. Get our cheapest airfare and hotel deals or a 110% back automatically with Orbitz Price Assurance.

gDine (Group Dining Made Easy)

OpenTable meets Orbitz
ONLINE "SHOPPING" FOR GROUP DINING gDine is the easiest way to get a group together for a great meal at the city's premier restaurants. One site, tons of menu options, exclusive pricing, and easy-to-use tools that make planning and booking simple. - Book For ...

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.

Mystery Tackle Box

Product/Service Discovery Platform for the $45 billion Fishing Market
Mystery Tackle Box helps anglers discover new fishing products every month. More than 50 million anglers fish in the US and Canada every year, creating over $45 billion of economic activity. But the constant barrage of new products leaves many feeling overwhelmed. We ...

Doggyloot

Top Dog in Online Pet Product Discovery, acquired by FamilyPet in 2015
doggyloot is a super-simple eCommerce platform that sells curated pet products to a highly engaged customer base. We help dog-loving customers discover top-quality products every day at the most competitive prices with our daily emails, and make it convenient for ...

Stork Stack

Serendipity Shipped Monthly for Baby and Mom
We like to say: serendipity delivered monthly to a mom’s doorstep. We do the research, you get the benefits. No hassle, no fuss, just great products & a good value with some helpful tips & encouragement along the parenting journey. Each month, members receive ...

SimpleRelevance

Machine Learning For Marketers
We make it incredibly easy for your business to personalize digital marketing communication through personalized landing pages, email, digital ads, social media messages, and SMS messages. Our technology combines behavioral, demographic, psychographic, and other ...

Brideside

Warby Parker for Bridal Party Retail
Brideside is an online boutique to deliver on life’s most meaningful events. We started with the wedding vertical, and more specifically, the bridesmaid dress. We believe that every woman should experience the white glove service she deserves when shopping online. ...

Red Rocket Ventures

Startup Consulting & Venture Capital
Startup consulting and venture capital. Learn more at www.RedRocketVC.com.

Stock Mfg. Co.

American Made Menswear, Direct from the Manufacturer
Stock is a vertically integrated, domestically made clothing brand that blends an innovative sales model with old school, American craftsmanship. We set ourselves apart with high quality, affordably priced garments and a unique, compelling back story. We appeal ...

Inventables

Hardware Store for Designers
At Inventables we believe the world is at the beginning of a new renaissance. We see power in product development shifting from major corporations to individual designers and entrepreneurs. The availability of low cost manufacturing tools and low cost distribution ...

Whittl

Book appointments online, crazy fast.
Whittl allows you to easily find, compare, and book nearly any kind of local service such as haircuts, massages, yoga, dog grooming, gym memberships, and even Feng Shui consulting. It's as easy as buying a TV on Amazon or a ticket to Timbuktu on Orbitz. We're the ...

MightyNest

Powering mighty lives
MightyNest's affinity platform channels a parent's passion for their family and healthy living into a profitable ecommerce business while building an engaged community that gives back to their local school. Our platform has 3 key components: - Content filled with ...

WeDeliver

Same Day Delivery for Local Businesses
WeDeliver connects local businesses (small and medium sized) to their customers by providing same-day delivery of products and goods. We believe that our same-day on demand delivery technology will help local retailers gain a competitive edge against big box ...

Golfmiles

Buy Tee Times. Get Miles.
Golfmiles.com is an online aggregator of golf products & services (launching with tee times, then lessons, equipment etc.) that allows frequent flyer golfers to buy on our site and get rewarded with frequent flyer ‘miles’ for every purchase. Our target market is ...

Lemonade Stand

Small business cross-platform POS with the cloud, apps, widgets and open APIs
Lemonade Stand is a cloud-based point of sale solution and payment gateway designed to centralize all small business data in one system. Through extendable apps, widgets, and APIs, developers can design or integrate their own tools allowing businesses to easily ...

Interior Define

Warby Parker of Furniture
Interior Define is reshaping the way people shop for quality, customizable sofas at an attainable price. We focus on an an assortment of thoughtfully designed and well-crafted pieces that are fairly priced and made-to-order. Business Insider "25 companies that ...

StyleSeek

Personalized e-commerce for lifestyle products
StyleSeek is a personalized e-commerce site for lifestyle products. It works across the style spectrum by enabling users (both men and women) to create and refine their unique StyleDNA. StyleSeek also promotes new products via its email newsletter, 100% personalized ...

Big Astronaut

Where ideas are launched.
We create products. We launch companies. We invest in great ideas and teams to build products that transform how people and businesses interact. We roll-up our sleeves and work directly with entrepreneurs to design, build, fund, grow, launch, manage & support their ...

Winestyr

Introducing A Smarter Way To Wine
Winestyr was conceived to provide an alternative to the boring, mass-produced wine that pollutes store shelves today. There are over 8,000 wineries in the United States yet the industry is still controlled by a handful of massive wine producers and wholesalers. ...

Blitsy

Arts & Crafts Ecommerce and Community
Blitsy is on a mission to become the online market leader in the Arts and Crafts market. 

Fooda

Food tech platform connecting restaurants to people at work
Fooda is food technology platform that connects restaurants to people while at work.  Companies and individuals join Fooda to get food brought right to their office everyday.

oBaz

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

TicketsNow

Rocketmiles

Fueling more vacations
We enable our customers to travel more, travel better and travel further. 20M+ consumers stock away miles & points to satisfy their wanderlust. Flying around or using credit cards are the only good ways to fill the stockpile today. We've built the third way. Customers ...

DealRod

DealRod aggregates, categorizes, and delivers daily deals based on a consumers preference
DealRod is an aggregator of daily deal offerings including market leaders Groupon and LivingSocial. DealRod’s subscribers log into their personalized account and set up desired deal offer parameters. DealRod’s algorithms will sort each daily deal site’s offering ...

Aframes Eyewear

Cause Driven, High-Quality Eyewear Brand
Aframes Eyewear is a cause driven eyewear brand that promises to donate a portion of each sale to help fund the distribution of vitamin A supplements in developing countries. Vitamin A Deficiency is the number one cause of childhood blindness, and we want to help. Aframes ...

ShelfFlip

Reselling sucks - we'll do it for you!
ShelfFlip is the TripIt for Online-Shopping. We analyze what a user bought in the past (by analyzing order confirmations) and automatically create a list of all products and their current resale value.

My Personal Shopper

Scalable Personal Shopper
Do you use Groupon or Living Social? Do they send you a ton of emails about stuff you don't want? We wanted a site that would only show people discounts on the things actually care about. When users register they get a personalized store that pulls in all the ...

IconBocs

Kickstarter-like, gamified engagement & eCommerce platform for Brands, Charities & Icons
Stemming from a desire to help people improve their personal brand, IconBocs creates a new standard for a growing number of status- and style-driven, socially-conscious consumers. We meld cause-based marketing with high-end brands and well-known celebrities. Celebrities ...

Home Chef

Fresh ingredient delivery
Our mission is to make cooking fresh food at home as easy as possible. Our chefs shop for you and plan your meals, allowing you to choose from a new menu every week. We offer a meal delivery service that includes all of the fresh ingredients and instructions needed ...

Zockster

Amazing socks. Delivered.
Zockster delivers amazing socks to your door automatically. All of our socks are made from bamboo, a material that feels like cashmere on your foot and takes 1/10 the water to make than your average cotton sock. Customers receive socks as often as their lifestyle ...

The JMom

Jewish online dating site where moms do the matchmaking
TheJMom.com is the Jewish online dating site where moms do the matchmaking.

Hidden

PageLime for eBay Sellers
Saves eBay sellers time and money, while adding a layer of professionalism to their auction listings. The appeal of the application lies in its ease of use as well as a large number of the highest quality listing design templates in the industry. The name is hidden ...

ClaraStream

Product Information Management Automated
ClaraStream is a cloud-based application that helps retailers increase efficiency and sell more by providing a platform to automate product information management and distribution across multiple sales channels.

SnapshotBids

Online photo-based marketplace based in Chicago. Host your photos, sell from your mobile phone, print flyers and more.

Moxie Jean

Curated secondhand marketplace for parents
Moxie Jean was just voted by moms as the most trusted source for clean, reliable, gently used baby and kid's clothes online. We help parents save time and money and bring the "sharing economy" to the parenthood space. Moxie Jean buys our inventory of gently used ...

popAD

User-generated advertising
In the future, ads will be created by communities of passionate consumers--not ad agencies. popAD is creating a marketplace for user-generated advertising--we allow you to submit their social media content as advertisements, and advertisers can purchase them automatically--using ...

ExpressPigeon

Powerful. Email. Marketing.
ExpressPigeon (EP) is a new Chicago-based email service provider (ESP). EP provides a complete and cost effective solution for marketing and transactional emails. We make it easy to create, send and track professional emails that look great across all providers ...

ThreadMeUp

ThreadMeUp is a world class e-commerce and supply chain technology company. Our technology enabled service allows users an inventory-less way to create and sell custom merchandise.

Foxtrot

The Good Life. Delivered.
Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets you shop our curated collections of drinks (including craft beer, wine and spirits), eats and everyday essentials, then sit back as it’s delivered from our own brick-and-mortar locations to your door in under an hour. Unlike ...

Sentic Technologies

Online Campaigns, Driven by Social Media
Currently Sentic offers 2 products: 1. Sentic Optimized AdWords has the unique technology to integrate real-time social media data into paid search campaigns. We measure volume, sentiment, and trends in what people are saying on social media to give our ...

Monica + Andy

Bonobos for babies
We aspire to be the most thoughtful children's brand ever created... Monica + Andy (www.monicaandandy.com) is a vertically integrated, e-commerce driven children’s apparel brand. We are building a unique, community-driven brand which places boutique quality goods ...

SunnyBump

Social Catalog For New & Expecting Parents
SunnyBump collects and curates the best products for newborns.With the help of parents who've been there before and the experts who know, SunnyBump will help you find the baby products that make you say awwwwwww, the necessities that make parenting a bit easier, ...

Heirlume

Helping gift buyers find the perfect piece of fine jewelry
Heirlumé is a branded fine jewelry e-commerce site with a focus on helping men buy the perfect piece of jewelry for their significant other. We use personalization technology and a unique social voting tool to help gift givers pick out the perfect piece of jewelry. ...

Gaxsys

Global eCommerce fulfilled hyper-local + Priceline +eBay
Gaxsys is the eCommerce graph connecting the brand's assets, retailers and global inventory. Gaxsys is a fully automated turnkey IT, rules-based logistics and eCommerce marketplace and exchange that ties together on-line sales, all forms of marketing, logistics, ...

Peckish

Healthy Snacks Delivered to Your Desk
Peckish delivers healthy snacks straight to your desk every week. We take care of the nutrition needs of busy working professionals. Whether you’re looking for a high-protein, energy boosting, or satisfyingly sweet option, with Peckish, you can find curated ...

ForMen2 [specialty retail]

Brick-and-mortar men's premium grooming products w/ few players in a yet-to-mature market
ForMen2 will be a nationwide brick-and-mortar retailer with premium shaving and men's skin care products accessible to the masses. ForMen2 appeals to the man concerned about appearance, particularly for business and social situations, but also educates all on the ...

HoneyBee Entertainment Media (HB)

VEVO/GroupOn/TicketMaster/FB/Pandora via Mobile Applications
HB develops highly-intuitive (User) mobile apps, providing access and reach of unique Chicago content (HD video/images, high-end eCommerce, crowd-sourcing) in music, fashion and gaming. Apps free/2.99; promote consumerism; Ad-driven and Globally relevant. Geared ...

Sprout Products

We make going green easy

Reppio

Marketplace that brings together the best specialty shops in one convenient location
Reppio is an online marketplace that brings together select specialty shops from the best neighborhoods in one convenient location. We aim to be the premier guide for locals and tourists alike to shop and explore hyper-local culture, style, and talent. Starting ...

Reverb.com

Marketplace for Musicians to buy and sell gear
Reverb.com is the ultimate marketplace for musicians featuring thousands of listings for instruments and gear. Reverb charges only 3.5% to sell, compared to eBay's 10% or Amazon's 15%, making it a clear winner for sellers ranging from individual musicians looking ...

ForeverCar.com

Online portal for shopping and buying car warranties
First and only online platform for shopping and buying extended car warranties, a $10B marketplace that's highly fragmented and well known for shady selling practices. We're disrupting with full product and price transparency - whether B2C or B2B.

Unload

Get rid of anything
Getting rid of stuff can be a pain. Tons of niche marketplaces, eBay forms, Craigslist strangers, shipping, pickup? It's too much work. We're building a team of expert assistants that take care of everything so all you have to do is text us your stuff and we'll ...

LiveWatch Security

The most efficient, national delivery system for home security in America.
LiveWatch Security® has revolutionized home security in America. LiveWatch Security protects and delights its customers with its award-winning LiveWatch Security, interactive smartphone controls and commitment to delighting every customer. Thousands and thousands ...

PiecesofThere

Local Products from Around the World
Ecommerce marketplace of homesick cure products from around the world. Our mission to help consumers feel closer to their favorite place while far away. We currently have over 350 packages from over 50 locations. Our stage 1 strategy is to position as a care package ...

Aidhenscorner.com

Local Services Connector (Uber)
Aidhenscorner is an on-line concierge service for all things kids. We focus on making the power to discover amazing things to do with your kids more accessible. We are to parents and adults with kids in their life, as Uber is to Riders. The world of an adult ...

Blackmark-it

African American Groupon
Blackmark-it is a new deal site exclusively featuring black owned businesses in the Chicago area. We provide attainable advertising to small businesses and attractive discounts to shoppers. Our business model has reconstructed the formula of larger deal sites by ...

City Soles

Indie/Unique footwear experience
We sell high fashion, unique, and hard to find footwear. City Soles fills a niche for that consumer that craves originality. Providing niche and indie footwear brands, we are an exceptional ecommerce experience for our customers by providing educational video attached ...

Washboard

Quarters for laundry delivered monthly.
We deliver quarters on a monthly subscription basis to our customers, most of which are city-dwellers who use the quarters to do laundry in their apartment building's washers and dryers. We then sell household supplies with a simple one-click add-on to their monthly ...

DealTracker

Relevant daily deal aggregation; done right.
With hundreds of daily deals offered every day, it's easy to get lost searching for the perfect deal. With DealTracker, tracking your favorite online deals has never been easier! We aim to find and gather all the greatest daily deals available, and display them ...

HBM

VEVO/YouTube/Spotify/Pandora/MobileRoadie/OurStage - but better
HBM offers Users the ability to purchase music, merchandise and tickets; view unique content; share and customize their experience; and connect to Artists on a personal level via Web, Mobile App, or SmartTV App. Apps are free to Users, and the Website is free or ...

WeClickd

Social wedding planning tool
We have built a social network for the wedding community. Everything you can do on Pinterest you can do on WeClickd, but our content is organized by tags and color coordinated (2/3rds of weddings are planned by color) Our community sources information off of each ...

Ticketlab

Easily Search All the Games You Want
TicketLab is bringing advanced searches to the world of sports tickets. Search the way you want based on your schedule. TicketLab allows you to search and browse tickets from your favorite, trusted ticket marketplaces. Example searches: Cheapest Blackhawks ...

EmmaStineLimited

Lifestyle Brand bridging the gap between Manufacturer & Consumer.

JiSu

Marketing platform based on user generated content (Shortlist Marketing)
JiSu is a platform that solves core problems for shoppers and marketers. For shoppers, it is a free online shopping assistant that helps save time, find new products and save money. Services include: a) a private, centralized shopping cart that works across ...

marketEnomics

Complete Digital & Social Media Analytics & Publishing
The analytics, publishing and reporting engine named 'marketEnomics' helps firms to manage their social media campaigns. marketEnomics platform extensively uses Facebook Insights API and social graph, twitter feeds and mailchimp API to gather intelligence on user's ...

Supply Clinic

A marketplace for healthcare supplies.
Supply Clinic is an online marketplace for dental and healthcare supplies. We aggregate the low-touch end of the supply market on a single platform, bringing transparency to an otherwise opaque and inefficient market. Clinicians can browse our site, compare product ...

Unwithered

Art On Demand
Unwithered.com sells high quality prints from undiscovered artists. Orders are produced on demand and shipped within 24 hours.

Red Meat Market

We sell Locally Raised Meat to consumers, restaurants, grocers and at events.
Red Meat Market Inc. (also “RMM”) is a niche marketer of locally-produced natural, antibiotic free meat (“ABF”) products (beef, pork and poultry) addressing the growing demand for “better” meat. The Company has established the Red Meat Market® brand as a provider ...

Yankee Hollow

Monthly artisan cheese subscription box company.
Yankee Hollow is a monthly artisan cheese subscription box. Landing squarely between "Cheese of the Month" clubs, and subscription boxes of new, Yankee Hollow's focus is on exposing the great products made by American cheesemakers to foodies throughout the US. ...

Cosplay

DeviantArt for Costumes
Cosplay.com is a content-driven social networking site for cosplay enthusiasts, and is the largest site in its market with over 1.1 million unique visitors per month. Our user base is already 50% international. Our users create profiles, add costume detail pages, ...

Dealavue

A game changer in Groupons own back-yard!
Dealavue is a progressive digital marketing company that offers consumers major discounts on useful things consumers want to do, buy or experience. Unlike the competition, Dealavue does not base its model on a daily deal but rather builds on the concept of a daily ...

Project Selfridge

Giving the power of shopping negotiation back to the consumer.
Project Selfridge is a stealth mode start-up spinning out of the Incisent Labs Group. We are working to revolutionize online shopping by building a team, technology, and culture that seeks to disrupt one of the largest consumer verticals, one which is ripe for ...

teardowns

The Marketplace for teardowns and rehabs
Marketplace and marketing tool for participants within the redevelopment property industry (infill). Infill: the use of property in a developed area for new construction or redevelopment as part of a neighborhood revitalization process Buyers - http://teardowns.com/buyer_signup Sellers ...

Wrightwood Furniture

Amazing Handmade Furniture Made Affordable
Wrightwood makes amazing furniture affordable. Savings of 30% to 70% over ALL forms of retail including traditional retail and flash sales. Shop online or in our Lakeview, Chicago store.

Otobots

Managed marketplace for mobile mechanics.
oToBOTS is the name that comes to you for all your auto repair and service needs! oToBOTS connects car owners with expert mechanics who offer a mobile service through us. Expanding upon the evergreen issue of leading hectic lives and not having the time to deal ...

Tandem Lane

iPhone to Postcards to Help People Connect
Tandem Lane helps you create and send beautiful postcards to share life's moments with friends and loved ones. It's social media for those not on social media.

PlusNavigator

PlusNavigator: Full Figured Shopping, Simplified.
PlusNavigator seeks to empower full figured women apparel consumers around the world by providing education, acknowledgement, and information in an easy, accessible manner via our innovative tech-enabled platform.

Chitowncellular

THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS IPADS ETC WITH HIGH PROFIT MARGINS
ChitownCellular will be home for all mobile phones and latest technology toys..With competitive pricing for consumers and high profit returns for investors..ChitownCellular will not be the average mobile phone site.It will feature exclusive wholesale pricing for ...

TRIJETSET

Healthy Human Powered Adventure with Celebrity Flare
TriJetSet.com is a Tech / Travel company that specializes in connecting fitness and travel enthusiasts with comprehensive packages to premier destinations and events with Olympic Gold Medalists and prestigious Coaches / Guides along with a site to purchase all ...

Shotfarm

The world's Product Content Network.
Shotfarm’s Product Content Network greatly simplifies the management and transfer of product content between manufacturers and retailers. Use of the network is 100% free and unlimited for companies, their employees, and all of their partners. Manufacturers enjoy ...

Madison Gift Club

Gift Help for Guys
Madison Gift Club (MGC) is a site that helps men purchase more thoughtful and unique gifts. We pair customers up with a personal shopper who curate and recommend three gifts based on the recipients style profile.

Giftbar

Personalized, digital gift cards from the best independent retailers.
Giftbar is an online marketplace that allows you to purchase and personalize gift cards from high end, independent retailers and send them via email, mobile and mail. We offer an insanely curated list of the best merchants from the best neighborhoods, providing ...

IfThisFits

Giving customers the ability to see if the clothes online really do fit before they buy
We provide a service that truly fills an unmet need in our market. We provide a new creative way to potentially shop online. By being able to now have a more hands on fun interactive experience with your favorite clothing stores while shopping online. We create ...

Sporty Threads

Where fashion meets sports
We make "being a fan" cool. Unlike the Walmarts of fan apparel, where you can find everything from coffee mugs to underwear, Sporty Threads carefully curates only the most fashionable fan apparel for women. It's their one stop shop where they know they are getting ...

The Tie Bar

Curated, High-Quality Men's Accessories for $15
The Tie Bar is a Chicago-based, rapidly growing, profitable retailer that is disrupting the men’s accessories space. We're already the #1 destination for affordable, high-quality ties and accessories on the web and are building off that by creating new experiences, ...

TrainSignal

Online Training for IT Professionals
Online training for IT professionals covering Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, Citrix, CompTIA and more.

SocialCart

Distributed Social commerce platform

RentMyAdSpace

eBay for Advertising
RentMyAdSpace.com is an intuitive service geared toward the buying and selling of ads online such as billboards, car wraps, newspapers, benches, websites, and storefronts to name a few. Inventory listed on the site appears as a pin, once the prospective buyer ...

Global Petals

Tech enabled importing of the Dom Perignon of flowers
Global Petals is a tech enabled import business that operates within the high-end cut floral industry. The company imports the Dom Perignon of flowers and sells these unique blooms to luxury event floral designers. These elegant events have flowers budgets of $5k-$150k+, ...

MentorHip

Quickly connecting parents and kids to classes, camps, programs, events, online content
Enabling parents and kids to more easily connect with activities, classes, camps, programs, and events.

Marbles: the Brain Store

Prime Access

Proprietary software allowing web sites to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act
Propietary software that allows websites to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act. The DOJ recently ruled that if you have a brick and mortar location requiring compliance with ADA, that compliance now extends to your website. Software has been demoed for ...

RE/LABLD

Smartest Marketplace For Luxury Fashion
RE/LABLD is reinventing how women buy and sell luxury fashion. RE/LABLD members submit fashion items they no longer use and get paid full value upfront. No waiting. No uncertainty. No commission. Members can instantly get a new luxury wardrobe without spending ...

YuVue

Instagram with a paycheck
YuVue is a discovery and monetization platform for user-generated photos and videos. We connect photographers, videographers and smartphone shooters with brands, broadcasters, print and Web publishers, and enable them to license their work. Our platform is built ...

propdi

Take control of your digital property: manage, buy, and sell it, all in one place.
Propdi organizes your deals, events, dining, travel, and everything else in one place. Forward any email receipt/confirmation to us and we'll add all the details to your calendar and remind you before it occurs/expires. Check out your dashboard on Propdi to see ...

Axadax

Internet Marketplace - etsy for professionals
Our Marketplace solves all e-commerce issues for vendors. We provide a store front to sell products, a 'back room' to run the business, on-boarding support to get started, business mentors to guide, business specialists to fill skill gaps, educational support to ...

Edopter

Klout and TaskRabbit for early adopters.
We aim to be "The Ultimate Distribution Channel for New Companies and New Ideas". Our model is a subscription service that sends items and triggers to our users about new companies or products that they may be interested in. We position ourselves as a way for a ...

House Of Múizz

Online Luxury Retail
House of Muizz is an online boutique that will provide consumers, both men and women, in the Unites States with access to luxury brands such as Pierre Balmain and etc that are seldom available to any other U.S. based online luxury boutique. The primary goal of ...

Smart Grid Network

Global Portal for Smart Grid e-Commerce and Education
Global portal for smart grid education and e-Commerce at SMARTGRID.COM This site helps Consumers understand how a smarter grid can empower them to better manage their energy usage and enables Vendors, big companies and start-ups alike, to get the message out ...

Little Independent

local design on t-shirts & mugs
Founded in 2010, Little Independent is a Chicago-based marketplace for t-shirts and mugs featuring local designs. Find bike shop t-shirts, coffee shop mugs, bookstore shirts and more. Proceeds are split 50/50 with small businesses. New designs are added regularly ...

Garmental

Garmental is shoppable video content for local boutiques and brands.
Garmental is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Clicktivate Video Inc. Garmetal produces fun and educational style videos for fashion fanatics to WATCH + CLICK + SHOP directly from their desktop, ipad or mobile phone. We take shopping local to a whole ...

Cygany

Poopy Products, Pooh Pee Tracker APP
Poopy Products are over 20 retail products in pet waste management. We are up in over 20,000 stores including online store locations. The Pooh Pee Tracker APP, just launched in September, 2013, is an innovative, educational, and fun animated social media APP, allows ...

Power Kiosk

Energy brokerage Software as a Service
Power Kiosk is an industry-disruptive clearinghouse and platform for energy retail. Power Kiosk provides the energy customers with direct access to all top-rated national energy suppliers. Well-negotiated contract with all national energy suppliers, streamlined ...

Femme du Coupe

Simple 3-Step Cocktails For The Home
Femme du Coupe, Chicago's leading experiential mixology company has spent the past two and half years working with home consumers teaching over 2000 guests simply how to make cocktails at home. Focusing on "Simple 3-Step Cocktails" Femme du Coupe will fully launch ...

Edefinite

Increasing your notability towards employers.
Edefinite is a employment website for professionals and individuals looking to network or market their brand. We aggregate job listings worldwide and specialize as an on-line recruiting network. We allow members to upload resumes, videos, and case questions.

Yolto

On-demand direct marketing and direct selling (marketplace).
http://ask-the-stores.com (videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/askthestores) is a real-time Q&A service for local and online commerce. It is built for on-demand direct marketing and selling. People research online before going to a store, trying the found things ...

Avé Gourmet

Digital Platform for Social Event Shopping
We help retailers showroom products in the real world at amazing events easier and cheaper than banner ads.

PeopleVine

Integrated CRM and Marketing Platform
PeopleVine provides businesses with the tools to: Sell, Reward, Engage, Automate, Socialize and Connect to and with customers. With over 20 core components spanning from social automation to eCommerce, PeopleVine's tools help businesses create an engaging relationships ...

CrowdFranchise

Franchising Made Easy, For Everyone
CrowdFranchise relieves the financial burden of opening a new business: it gives you, your friends and your neighbors the ability to vote on or fund the right franchise for your area, and later helps by providing the additional tools to build, hire, monitor and ...

Dwibit

Deal membership site meets Personal shopper
Dwibit combines exclusive shopping services, inspirational content and real time social integration to deliver tailored shopping experiences using predictive behavioral merchandising algorithms that learn and build robust customer profiles by collecting data across ...

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.

iManageSites (ie PenGyn)

A La Carte Website Services
iManageSites.com is sort of like a Groupon of website services. The company is built around an easy to use Task Management system that makes it easy for website owners to post & track small things they need help with on their website from Social Media updates to ...

eSale Solutions

E-commerce software and services
eSale Solutions provides e-commerce enablement products and services for small businesses, initially focusing on multi-channel presence across various marketplaces and webstores. We target small businesses and artisan makers who are not yet professionals in multi-channel ...

Flawed Clothing

FLAWED Graffiti Clothing Line
Flawed Clothing is created for both men and women of all ages. Being flawed is nothing to be ashamed of, but rather embraced and loved. So why not strut your flaws for the world to see? Graffiti has always been my favorite art form, so I've decided to put the pens, ...

eMorials.com

eMorial Planner™ is a web-based provider of end-of-life products and tools
eMorial Planner™ is a web-based provider of end-of-life products and tools essential to the planning and financing of consumer-centric memorial ceremonies. We allow people to plan how and what they wish and then fund their plan to become a reality.

FingaPay

Pay by Text mobile Payment system and Localized Marketing
The product helps customer pay on the go without having smartphone, apps, or NFC capability or a data plan. The Merchant does not need to by fancy equipment to have merchant transactions. The merchant also send localized coupons and promotions to the users in their ...

Flowers for Dreams

Warby Parker for Flowers
Flowers for Dreams is a new kind of flower service. Locally crafted flowers sold online for a simple $35 with free local delivery - all done with the click of a button. Each purchase benefits an amazing local charity. We're making flowers more accessible, simple, ...

Flicker Flight

Groupon for Flights:Daily Flash Sales For Airfare
Flicker Flight connects the airline industry to millions of flight-hungry, open-minded and spontaneous vacation goers that airlines are not currently reaching at all, or at the desired extent. Flicker Flight's flash-sale format, providing daily email deals to ...

ZmarkIT

The 3D Future of Online Shopping
ZmarkIT is a provisionally patented 3D shopping app in which customers navigate and shop as they would in a real store using touch screen navigation. The company creates customized 3D stores/end-cap ads for any ecommerce platform. The ZmarkIT app avoids security ...

Chicago Belt Company

American made canvas and ribbon dring belts with Chicago and Great Lakes themes.
Chicago Belt Co. makes American made canvas and ribbon dring belts with Chicago and Great Lakes themes.

JoinGiving

Cause marketing platform
JoinGiving lets you quickly launch a profitable giving back program on your ecommerce website and measure ROI in real time.

Purple Vain

Providing fun individual pieces to women of style !
Purple Vain is an online fashion boutique that provides fun fashion pieces for all women. Some of our pieces are handmade. We go above and beyond to find the most unique styles to allow our customers to make a statement without saying a word.

TapePlay

Where athlete get seen.
Identifying athletes is a big part of the job for a college coach or scout. Our platform makes that part easier by giving college coaches and scouts the ability to assess an athlete's full complement of skills rather than sifting through a list of hopefuls. We ...

Products On White Photography

Professional Ecom Product Photography
At Products On White Photography (POW) we specialize in photographing products on a white background for ecommerce websites. We’ve made the process simple: 1. Our clients place their orders online with our easy to use website. 2. Send us the products from anywhere ...

Snap Fashion Pop!

Retail network and styling app for emerging designers
Our mission is to create a retail network for emerging accessories designers.  There are way too many talented jewelry designers out there for us all to be wearing the same thing.  We have launched our e-commerce site and working on exciting brick and mortar partnerships. ...

The401Kman's Insurance Marketplace

National Insurance & Benefits Exchange
Online insurance exchange with voluntary benefits for individuals and employers, We are seeking to expand The401Kman's insurance exchange marketplace and financial services platform. These expanded services will be available to small business owners, corporations, ...

Buygantic

Shopping in Reverse
“Shop in reverse” with BuyGantic.com. A new and refreshing approach to buying and selling makes Buygantic.com one of the most innovative sites around. The greatest perk is that it caters to both buyers and sellers. For example, you request a laptop for $400. Anyone ...

MFGTrade

A Leading U.S. B2B Trade Portal
MFGTrade.com is a leading U.S. b2b trade portal for import export and international trade businesses including manufacturers, suppliers, buyers, purchasers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, distributors...

Fricket

Simplified ticket search. The "Kayak" of event tickets.
Fricket simplifies shopping for tickets to concerts and sporting events. Similar to"Kayak" in travel, Fricket aggregates and analyzes data from only the top-rated ticketing sites. No reason to go anywhere else!

Datelivery

Unique date night experiences delivered monthly for couples to enjoy in their home
Monthly subscription box focused on providing unique and creative date night experiences for couples to enjoy in the comfort of their home. You don't have to leave your home or spend a lot of money, to have regular, novel date nights with your mate. Each month ...

Meatmill

Meat Lovers Exclusive Club
Meatmill is a meat hub for all meat aficionados. We provide the highest meat grades and best meat quality in traditional and contemporary cuts. Thru our online and mobile platforms as well as same day home delivery service we bring to you a great shopping experience.We ...

Parille Motor Oil

Everyday low prices motor oil lubricants
The increasing cost of oil and oil based products coupled with the trend of falling and/or stagnant wages for the middle and lower income classes has raised the percent of income spent on oil lubricants and oil changes. Our everyday low prices on oil lubricants ...

Idyllic Software

Software Services
We are into Software Services. If you think your idea is challenging enough we are all ears and ready to develop it.

Glance Technology

A Better Mobile Discovery Experience
Glance Technology is currently in stealth-mode, but this will be a mobile app that revolutionizes the way users search and discover via mobile platforms. We are currently in prototype development stage with a full business model and product spec prepared. We’re ...

Reelagram

Turn your favorite Instagram photos into classic slide reels
Reelagram turns your favorite Instagram photos into classic slide reels. Designed and assembled in the good 'ole US-of-A. Simple sign in with your Instagram account, select the photos you want in your reel and we will send you a customized classic view-master. ...

Faschei

It's the stock market for consumer goods.
It's an online marketplace like eBay that works with the rules of the stock market. The biggest difference is the publication of the anonomized transactions to provide a clear and transparent market. This would let buyers forecast the likelihood their offer will ...

PupJoy

Helping Dog Lovers Treat Better. Raising the Bar on the Subscription Box.
For your dogs' treat and toy needs, we are a better subscription box, focused on customization and outstanding service. When you want to outfit them with cool, quality accessories, visit our online boutique. We provide you with better products (like healthy, clear ...

Out of Pages

Notebook Subscriptions
Subscribe to the best field-tested notebooks around. Some ideas can't be saved on a smartphone. They have to be sketched, diagrammed or written by hand. They have to be torn out and handed to someone or rolled into a bottle and sent adrift. Out of Pages wants ...

LocalLux

The best hyper-local shopping marketplace.
LocalLux is the best smartphone app for hyper-local shopping! It puts quality, independent goods at your fingertips, that’s the “luxury” of it. More importantly, the app gives you the opportunity to purchase household items, clothes, and furniture from the carpenters, ...

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 ...

PhoneTender

Ending the Check Out Line
Ending the Check Out Line.

nickvopsteele (NVS)

Motivation for sports and self-help
NVS is the host of an array of self-help and fitness products that allow you to really change your life by changing your mind and body. We make this very easy to change your life by providing you with t-shirts, "word coffee," and books to uplift your mind and body. Motivation ...

FollowLater

eCommerce for B&M stores
FollowLater is developing the way to help B&M stores fulfill customer's wishes. We provides the way to follow up the walk-in customers. We decrease showrooming effect. We help to get wishes.

Wheelz On Time

Rent-to-own tires
Wheelz On Time is a revolutionary tire dealer that accommodates the segment of consumers whose needs have not been met by the main stream chain stores. We offer our rent-to-own financing option to the working class consumers who are on a tight budget, but, can ...

101min.com

Better Education, Faster
We provide Grade tests via 101min.com. The site is under development and will be formally launched in October of this year for Math and Reading streams upto Grade 8. We started working on it 2 weeks back. The site will follow a subscription based model of $8 per ...

liftUPlift

The Woman-Owned Marketplace
liftUPlift is a hybridized social network and e-commerce marketplace, where you can shop directly from woman-owned businesses for everything from soap to software. liftUPlift provides women makers with a platform to sell their products and grow their businesses, ...

Digital Bridge Solutions

Open source web development services
Digital Bridge Solutions helps emerging and mid-sized businesses maximize investments in the digital channel. Using open source tools like Drupal and Magento, we'll energize your company's online sales and marketing efforts without sinking your budget. We work ...

MyVacation

Personalized Vacation Search Engine
MyVacation is a first of its kind vacation search engine that uses your input to build the best trip possible. MyVacation.com matches the best hotels, restaurants, events, and excursions to your needs, wants, age, and vacation preferences (Relaxation, Partying, ...

Babybin.com

Trunk Club for babies / new parents.
Babybin.com is a free monthly service for new parents to receive the items necessary for the day-to-day process of caring for a new baby. BabyBins are filled with consumables, development products, and baby gear. Not only do we provide new parents with the items ...

Tennille White

Plus-Size Fashion Lifestyle Brand
Tennille White is an “attainable” luxury lifestyle brand that aims to provide plus-size women with quality high fashion products. This lifestyle concept has multiple product categories, including ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories for women sizes XL- 4X (14 - ...

Tem Jal

Globally Aware | Artisan-made | Ecommerce
Tem Jal is a social enterprise dedicated to the design and production of exclusive personal accessories. We are committed to the preservation of tribal and traditional cultural heritage, promoting environmental and social awareness through the use of recycled materials ...

Fortune Innovations Chicago

Web Development Chicago
Android Apps Development, iPhone Apps Development, Magento Development, eCmmerce Development, Joomla Development, Drupal Development, Mobile Application Development, WordPress Development, web design, Web development

Oliver Hazard

$99 Great Fitting Tuxedo Rentals
Oliver Hazard is the alternative to high-priced, poor fitting tuxedo rentals. We offer high-quality, modern fitting tuxedo rentals shipped directly to the customer for only $99. We are seeking to solve three major issues: 1. Rental tuxedos fit poorly 2. The rental ...

Argon

Artificial Intelligence & decision-engines to issue online personal loans.
Argon (Argon Credit, LLC) was created to increase consumer liquidity by offering unsecured online loans. Argon offers people a safe and easy way to acquire loans at competitive rates. Argon has committed to providing world-class client services and leveraging bleeding ...

Buddy Editions

An online art gallery offering limited edition prints.

Primp Sweat Shine

Beauty/Health Subscription Box
Primp Sweat Shine is the only beauty box designed for the glamour girl that likes to get dirty in the gym. Each month subscribers get a custom tank of the month and the newest in beauty and health products. 

coming soon !!

Smart Class
Idea/Prototype/Flow ready. Looking for dedicated team - who believe in passion, hard work, integrity, loyalty, humanity.

Flash Bravo

A smarter and simpler recommendation engine
Flash Bravo makes recommendations easy, for both businesses and consumers. We're continuing to build a collaborative and content-based recommendation engine system that is both effective and simple to implement for the developer while maintaining it as captivating ...

CarteLux Commsisions

Car-Tell-a-Sales™ (Commissions for auto sales)
CarteLx Commissions™ founder is partnering with a family member's new Auto Dealer, that invests luxury cars. CarteLx Commissions™ (CarteLux Commissions™ - CarteLuxurious Commissions™- CLx C™) , an early stage startup, is an Online Auto Dealer referral website ...

Connect Lending

The Match.com for commercial lending
Connect Lending's mission is to be the premier source of loan origination by leveraging our nontraditional distribution system, which is a combination of technology and personalized attention. Our process provides a higher level of service by giving business owners ...

Kingaroo Pouche

KP is a single unit product that merges your cell phone and listening device.
KP was designed to merge cell phone and IPOD with earplug or headphone to eliminate two thing; constant hand held process, and the limp noodle effect of dangling earplug cords during commuting. KP can be worn inside or outside of any attire during any season, during ...

Divvey.Space

Space Sharing for Retailers
While e-commerce retail sales are a multi-billion dollar industry, e-commerce still makes up less than 10% of all retail sales made in the US. Consumers still want to touch, smell, taste products before making a final purchase. DIVVEY.SPACE helps these business ...

Shutter Trade

A better marketplace for an underserved market!
There is a large market for used photography gear that is completely uncatered to. Retailers of new equipment often have a department that buys & sells used gear, but since the margins are generally low it’s treated as a service to their customers more so than ...

Roundown

Redefining online shopping through social commerce
We are a marketplace for fashion where brands sell more and consumers pay less. The more products our users buy from a brand in a set time frame determines how much less everyone gets to spend on their individual purchases. Our goal is to be the supply and demand ...

MerchMe

Apparel Merchandise Marketplace
MerchMe is a marketplace where colleges and clubs can sell you their apparel online. 

The Virset

The Virset allows you to get friends' opinions when shopping online
The Virset Application is an interactive, multi-user application; allowing the primary user to solicit opinions from her peers on a potential purchase on an eCommerce site. Right now eCommerce is not very social and is not effectively harnessing the influence ...