SafeCharge

Secure cell phone charging station
SafeCharge is a cell phone charging station that safely charges your phone in a locker at your favorite places. All you need is a credit card to pay for the charge and open your locker door.

BrightTag

ReaLync

Live Virtual Tours & Open Houses
ReaLync is a new age real estate technology company providing a mobile/web platform that enables live virtual tours of real estate. Preserving the power of a personal experience and live dialogue, our technology simplifies and enhances the real estate touring process ...

SpotHero

On-Demand Parking App
SpotHero is an on-demand app for parking that allows drivers to reserve their perfect spot right from the web and their phones. We partner with garages, lots and valets to get drivers discounted parking spots all across the US. We make life easier for the daily ...

AMPY

Charge your mobile devices using your movement
AMPY is the world's smallest dual-mode battery that charges both from human motion and from an AC outlet. An active day gives a user another few hours of battery life for their smartphone. A full AMPY delivers up to 60% battery life for a smartphone or several ...

Cloudbot

Your apps. Simplified.
Cloudbot is a mobile and web application that is an efficient solution to having your personal data and relationships scattered around on different services. People rely on different applications to access the little bits of their lives saved in the cloud. ...

TruckSpotting

Food Truck GPS and ERP
TruckSpotting is a suite of mobile applications and a website that displays the locations, menus, and schedules of food trucks in real time. It's free for the trucks, free for the users. At its heart, it is much much more than that - it is the independent system ...

BenchPrep

Exam Prep Platform: iTunes of exam prep.
BenchPrep is a learning platform that helps students study for any exam on any device (computers (web), iPhone, iPad, and Android). BenchPrep courses are interactive, adaptive & social. BenchPrep partners with the biggest publishers including McGraw Hill and ...

DealsGoRound

StubHub for daily deals.
DealsGoRound was a secondary market connecting millions of daily deal consumers to facilitated the purchase, re-sale and trade of vouchers including Groupon, LivingSocial and Google Offers via web and mobile. Our Deal Wallet was an industry leading product which ...

KitchIn

Your Mobile Digital Kitchen
Kitchin is your digital kitchen. Snap grocery receipts or scan your store loyalty card to create a digital inventory of all your groceries. Ready for mealtime? Kitchin will discover the best recipes to prepare using the ingredients in your digital kitchen!

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 ...

TerraChaos Studios

Progressive Digital Applications - Next Generation Entertainment Model
Our creative team has developed an umbrella of businesses and products that make the internet that much cooler. Using top of the line application development architectures and standards, we feel our expertise and creative energy will give us the leverage to build ...

Groovebug

Curated music subscription product platform. Mini Spotifys for targeted fan communities.
We help music rights holders monetize their assets on mobile devices, engage with fans, identify their best customers, and reinvigorate their catalog through our digital box set platform. We work with major labels like EMI and Universal Music as well as independent ...

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 ...

Donde

Location technology platform
Donde is a mobile marketing platform for brands and retailers that helps drive foot traffic, improve mobile SEO performance and deliver an omnichannel strategy. Our location aware technology understands location, dynamically delivers relevant content and measures ...

DoNotRent

Social Apartment Reviews Nationwide
We are creating the best user friendly social apartment review platform where users can search and write good or bad reviews of apartments and rental homes nationwide. With over 260,000 apartment buildings listed, DoNotRent.com also offers services for landlords, ...

Goshi

The mobile storefront to your neighborhood.
Goshi is the community-curated storefront to your neighborhood, a smartphone application for browsing, discovering, and buying the interesting items nearby. These items are surfaced with the 'original social graph,' the people in your community who share your tastes. ...

Pictarine

Turn the world into photos
Pictarine instantly turns your social networks into an amazing photo experience. Browse your interests with photos: Pictarine instantly turns social networks into photos of what you like!! Every day, you now open only one app, you save time and you stay up to ...

Curiosity.com

The web's best learning content.
We've aggregated and organized hundreds of thousands of the web's best learning videos and content providers so you can discover and learn something new every day.

BCKSTGR MEDIA

Self-serve rewards system for brands and retailers
BCKSTGR offers a self-serve application that enables brands to quickly create campaigns that reward myriad social, transactional and custom consumer behaviors, instantly as they happen, with their own reward currency. Consumers quickly earn and spend their currency ...

StageBloc

End-to-end context marketing & commerce
StageBloc helps you better understand & connect with your audience and own your digital relationships. Our platform provides community, management, and marketing tools in one networked solution.

LearnCore

Create Top Performers
Our professional learning platform makes people more motivated and productive at work. LearnCore, the flagship product for VLinks Media, makes it easy for organizations of all sizes to create and deploy engaging training courses to their teams. From the beginning ...

Tabule

Meet your student planner, on steroids.
Tabule is a smart student planner for managing your homework with your classmates. Students’ lives revolve around their homework and exams, yet student planners have seen zero innovation. Tabule is the first planner that learns and organizes for you, optimizing ...

Appolicious

Toy Studio

We make social cross-platform games.
Toy Studio is a developer, co-producer and publisher of cross-platform social and mobile games. Internally we build HTML 5 games for Web & Mobile. We are a recognized brand on the Nook by Barnes and Noble having published over 50 titles including several top ...

Silvrspoon

The Social Menu + Restaurant CRM
•MARKET Restaurants. Over $630 billion/yr in US. •PROBLEM Outdated feedback solicitation cuts into revenues and operational improvements in a highly competitive industry. •SOLUTION Empower operators with a mobile + social CRM to promote feedback and engage ...

Grabio

Location-based Marketplace
Grabio is a mobile marketplace where you can buy or sell things with people and businesses nearby. Grabio addresses some of the issues users have encountered with Craigslist: mobility,location-awareness,search efficiency,transparency and safety. With our user ...

Tap.me

Modest

The future of commerce
Modest gives your customers a whole new way of shopping. We've created an end-to-end experience that makes buying from you faster and easier than ever before.

Snapsheet

Mobile self-service claims solution
Snapsheet provides mobile branded apps to help auto insurance carriers settle claims in hours instead of days. Our self-service mobile app enables customers to take photos of their damaged vehicles on their own time without the hassle of scheduling an adjuster ...

MobileX Labs

Apps, Games, and Tools for the Mobile Generation
MobileX Labs (MXL) is an uber fast growing app solutions company based in Chicago, IL. We currently operate under 3 company divisions. Nativ App Builder Websites are great, but Apps are better. Apps are the best way to get tailored content at your fingertips. ...

Red Rocket Ventures

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

Wyd Eye Software

PicsChecker captures SMS and MMS events and automatically uploads to a server.
PicsChecker - The premier mobile application designed to prevent underage sexting. PicsChecker captures all outbound SMS, MMS and Photos taken with a smart phone. PicsChecker then emails the events in a simple easy to read Email report to the account owner/ parent. ...

Citymixin

Real-time social and mobile platform for nightlife
Citymixin is a brand-new social and mobile platform designed to match users with local venues (nightclubs, bars, lounges, etc) that match the user's preferences (music, crowd type, etc.) Citymixin will then show real-time, "twitter-like" status updates for each ...

Tabblr

Twitter specialized for businesses.
Tabblr's mobile apps helps people find something to do quickly with little distraction. Activities shown can be filtered by category or distance and can be put on a user's tab to be done later or shared with friends. Tabblr's web platform allows business ...

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.

Rune17

Bluetooth LE Mobile Device Accessories
Rune17 is an engineering company, designing the next generation of Bluetooth Smart(tm) Low Energy Mobile Device Accessories. Starting today with the iPhone 4S, Droid RAZR Maxx, and new iPad - people will be able to connect their mobile device to low cost, ultra ...

Snap it

share experiences with friends and loved ones
Snapit App, Inc. is a mobile platform that allows people to share in social experiences by purchasing (“snapping”) drinks at bars or gift certificates to restaurants, coffee shops, salons, grocery stores, movie theaters and other participating venues on college ...

Head Case Company

Sports Impact Sensor, Mobile Concussion Diagnosis App, Parental Alerts (similar to FitBit)
Head Case Company has created an affordable three-part concussion management system for youth athletics that measures and records head impacts, provides diagnostic tools to detect potential concussions, and recommends the best treatment facilities in an athlete’s ...

RentSpek

Changing the way you look at apartments... Literally.
RentSpek is a free app that offers users a less invasive home inspection, allowing renters to grade a property. Using a series of weighted questions derived from actual home inspections, the app prompts the user to look at and log items that they may never have ...

SnapshotBids

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

Laboratory Analytics

Google docs for laboratory mice
MouseHouse is using technology to transform all aspects of animal management in laboratories, from breeding and experiments to purchasing and veterinary management. In the US, scientists use 155M mice and spend $8.5B/yr housing and managing mice. MouseHouse is ...

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 ...

eevzdrop

Instagram For Audio
The silence of social media has been broken. Eevzdrop is a fun, new way to share your day-to-day life experiences with the rest of the world through audio recordings. News and information travels fast with eevzdrop. Record audio, give it a title, add a photo, and ...

Pikato

Mobile Personal Assistant “Optimizing the Path to Purchase”
Pikato allows retailers to provide targeted, time-sensitive promotional offers, coupons and product recommendations within their brand and mobile assets. The platform gathers real-time customer feedback in conjunction with a machine learning engine and collective ...

AirCast Mobile

Big Moments Deserve The Big Screen
Big Moments Deserve The Big Screen. AirCastLive is a private, cloud-based mobile photo and video messaging service for your TV. User can shoot a video or photo with their smartphone and send it immediately to someone's TV. From anywhere. To Anywhere. Our solution ...

ClassroomIQ

Easily grade any assignment online
The vast majority of the one million STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) teachers in the US still grade assignments the old fashioned way – with a red pen. Why? Because tablets and laptops are not suitable platforms to administer STEM assignments that ...

SnailMailPics

Creating lifetime memories from cellphone pictures
SnailMailPics allows you to print and mail your cell phone pictures to anywhere in the world by a simple text message. Once you sign up, it is as simple as sending a text message to us with the picture and the name of the recipient and we take care of the rest.

Bellhop

Smart Assistants
Bellhop is an automatic service that serves as a convenience layer with existing on-demand services. Smart assistants making your life easier via SMS.

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 ...

Spot It Out

Apps and Content Publishing for Location Aware Devices (GPS, phones)
We publish premium content onto location aware devices and services. Our first suite of consumer products are expert branded GPS Travel Guides and GPS Voices. We have developed and are actively selling a broad selection of GPS Travel Guides from Travel Channel, ...

CallOnTheGo

Phone app that auto speed dials lists of numbers for sales while tracking results online.
I actually built CallOnTheGo for myself to do sales. Here are a few demo videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx13QrGOjm4&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ltcI1RuSAk A phone app that allows users to select a list of numbers to call i.e. leads, ...

Worthee

Premium pet services, on demand.
Premium dog walking and sitting services – book on demand or schedule in advance, 24/7x365. Passionately serving dogs and their owners in metro Chicago since 2013.

Joketastic

Twitter for audio jokes.
Joketastic lets you listen to jokes like a regular music player. You can record new jokes and gain followers.

Dono.io

Mobile Donation Platform for Churches and Non Profits.
A truly mobile platform. Dono makes it effortless for organizations to accept donations from supporters. They give via their smartphone and you receive. For Supporters: Easy: Donate anywhere, anytime, and choose what cause your donation supports Secure: Payment ...

YuuConnect

The Smartphone Experience that recharges ad tech and keeps mobile consumers connected.
YuuConnect™ is a mobile engagement platform that delivers a Smartphone Experience™ through an interactive mobile recharging terminal that drives consumer behavior across the digital landscape. The platform enables brands to effectively deliver an engaging brand ...

SmartLine

A virtual queuing system for restaurants, nightclubs, and everything else.
Simply put, SmartLine is a a free app that makes line more efficient and less unbearable for consumers. Less simply put, SmartLine is a customer engagement and marketing iPad application that replaces traditional pen and paper and buzzer systems for restaurants. ...

Map of the Dead

A Zombie Survival augmented reality, interactive, multiplayer gaming mobile app
Map of the Dead was originally a Google-Map integrated Zombie Survival Map. After the map became a viral online sensation we decided to give into the demand and create an interactive, augmented reality, multi-player mobile game. Currently in development, the app ...

TIP Solutions

Changing the Way the World Responds to a Phone Call
TIP Solutions is a Chicago-based technology firm that has developed a patented product portfolio providing a robust set of new telecommunications services that automate and improve people’s communications.  The underlying technology consists of both downloadable ...

LUNATIK

Disruptive Mobile Accessories
Scott Wilson kickstarted KICKSTARTER in 2010 with his LUNATIK watch kits for the nano. Since then we have grown into a global grassroots brand driven by crowdfunding products that consistently exceed user expectations. We are growing rapidly and looking for smart, ...

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 ...

PingMe

Meet the friends you didn't know you had.
PingMe is a smartphone social networking app with the explicit goal of taking social networking offline and back into the real world. The primary goal is to have users interact in the real world based on hobbies, interests, and social gatherings they can design ...

SeatSync

Ticket resale community; a cheaper, mobile Stubhub
SeatSync is a mobile application for Android and iOS that pairs buyers and sellers of tickets to live sports and music events. The ticket market is currently dominated by big fee-based companies that charge a 25% fee on each transaction, or Craigslist, which free ...

RECSOLU

Enterprise software and mobile apps for university & diversity recruiting teams

MyChild

Parent engagement system for Early Education
MYCHILD helps Early Education Centers to become paperless and to focus on child development. It enables Teachers to provide, with a few key strokes, immediate information updates on the children’s activities and routines. The information is accessible to Parents ...

Kauzu

Connecting Jobseekers and Employers
Pinpoint jobs where you need them from any computer, tablet or smart phone. Save job info, share it with friends and explore for more — Kauzu.Jobs is the state-of-the-art in mobile job finding applications. And it’s free! No smart phone? No problem! Kauzu Kono ...

Nightstir

Simple, nightlife logistics for socially active young adults.
Nightstir is a nightlife logistics app for college students and post grads. The app allows users to privately plan, and share nightlife activities - taking the guess work out of who's doing what, tonight.

Road Raven

Real-time, geospatial, road condition intelligence
Road Raven helps motorists travel safer and optimizes road service planning. Road Raven mobile app identifies severe road surface conditions across the nation, aggregates data, and provides a rich interface for decision makers. Road Raven may improve motorist ...

minium

a modern minimalist phone
At Minium we believe technology should be simple and mindful. We realized that we were constantly distracted and feeling over-connected by our smartphones. We couldn’t find any exciting minimal solutions, so we decided to build a phone on our own. Minium is the ...

Fandium

Geo located social sports app
Fandium® is the all-inclusive social destination for sports fans to get the real story from inside and around the stadium with aggregated, fan-generated content to create the ultimate game-day experience, whether they’re in the crowd or on the couch.

Indigo Interactive

Workflow automation for Accreditation Agencies
Jura allows accreditation agencies the ability to automate their entire workflow process which leads to less dependence on staff, flexible and scalable control, increased revenues and high level of operational efficiency.

Hard Hat Hub

Odesk/Elance for the construction industry
Hard Hat Hub's platform matches engineers and construction professionals with companies who design, build and maintain the world's infrastructure. We create content and leverage social media and digital ad campaigns to build a robust two-sided marketplace. Free ...

Cliq App

Meet New People. Bring Your Friends.
Spontaneously Meet New People. Bring Your Friends.

Urban Leash

Uber for dog walking
Urban Leash is like Uber for dog walking. Through our technology platform, we provide a convenient way for pet owners to order last minute and ongoing dog-walking and cat-sitting services from anywhere, at anytime. With instant check-in/out notifications, live ...

Flickogram

Photo & Video recording just got a whole lot better
Flickogram is a mobile based photo and video sharing platform. The service allows users to share photos and videos while using stylized filters. It's mission is simple: to become the leading and largest focused video and photo sharing community in the world. The ...

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 ...

OrangeQC

Refreshingly simple inspection software
OrangeQC quality control software helps building service contractors and facility managers digitally perform and manage inspections.

SpendOut

Really easy expense tracking
If you've ever been on the side of frustrated when it comes to managing expenses and budgets, you're not alone. With TextHog you no longer need to be a finance pro just to stay on top of your day-to-day expenses? Thousands of people rely on Texthog to keep track ...

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.

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 ...

Apollo Technology

Leader in Consumer Electronics and Wearables
Apollo Technology is a privately held consumer technology and wearable products company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It develops and sells wearable technology such as the Apollo Smart Watch and working on developing more new consumer technology products. ...

Vayia

360˚ Video Solution
We are building an end-to-end solution and mobile application for spherical (360˚) video. Unlike panoramic still images, spherical video bridges the gap between virtual reality and video. Our process consists of filming content with a special multi-cam rig, which ...

Map of the Dead

Zombie Apocalypse Alternative Reality Game
Map of the Dead was originally a Google-Map integrated Zombie Survival Map. After the map became a viral online sensation we decided to give into the demand and create an interactive, alternative reality, multi-player mobile game. Currently in development, the ...

Table XI

Idea to MVP Release
Table XI is a Chicago-based software development and design firm, focused on building web and mobile applications that deliver business value to our customers. For more than 12 years we’ve helped entrepreneurs with product strategy, funding options, revenue models ...

Gadgeted

Consumer Electronics Warranties
Gadgeted addresses the inefficient market for consumer electronics warranties with an initial focus on smartphones. With an innovative profit sharing model, Gadgeted counters preconceptions that consumer electronics warranties are a "bad deal." Our new operational ...

yikes

Hyper-proximity consumer efficiencies
Skip the hassle of hotel check-in and enter your room without taking your smartphone out of your pocket. yikes technology allows you to access your room and set all of your preferences, transforming your hotel stay into your home away from home. y!kes was established ...

Box Score Games

Real-time mobile games for professional athletes.
We create mobile games for professional athletes that allow to them to engage with their fans on their phone in real-time. Fans are looking for more access to their favorite athletes, and athletes are looking for innovative ways to connect with their fans while ...

Momma Cuisine

Great Everyday Meals
Johanna M. Cook has been capturing audiences as Momma Cuisine since 2009 with her mission to get families across America making Great Everyday Meals with simple ingredients and basic cooking techniques. Momma Cuisine’s warm and engaging personality has helped her ...

Platformz

Platformz is a mobile device indie media search engine.
Platformz is a mobile device indie media search engine. It allows you, the fans of indie media to search the largest digital distribution platforms – Audiomack, Soundcloud and others – for artists you like along with recommendations of artists for you in the Featured ...

Moran-Heitzman

Angel Investing with The Full Ratchet podcast in our corner
We invest in founders and products that are positioned to fundamentally change existing markets or create new markets. We typically invest very early at the seed or pre-seed stage. Our aim is to connect to and support founders and future founders before any capital ...

ExpressText

The Constant Contact of SMS
ExpressText provides businesses and organizations with an easy to use platform that can be quickly adopted. The technology we use to send SMS messages to cell phones isn't difficult. The difficult part is training and educating our clients on how to effectively ...

For True Foodies Only

Social network for food and wine lovers.
ForTrueFoodiesOnly is a global mobile app and social platform designed for those who enjoy the art of an impeccable meal. Molecular cuisine lovers, the best chefs and sommeliers on earth, Michelin starred restaurants and Cordon Bleu cooks are all part of this fast ...

BuddyBoss

Social Networking on WordPress
BuddyBoss helps entrepreneurs create large-scale, privately owned online communities. We build our software on top of WordPress, the most popular online publishing platform in the world with over 75 million installations powering over 20% of all websites. As human ...

ZupStream

Sharing and collaborative planning of activities with friends
ZupStream is a service where real friends share, discover, and organize real-world activities. Users express intentions, aspirations, and opportunities to do things. In ZupStream, friends share what they are up to and up for tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, or ...

StylePraise

An interactive beauty & fashion community
StylePraise.com is an interactive beauty & fashion community, where members rate and review beauty salons, spas, boutiques & more. We interact with clients and potential clients on a Daily basis via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn -- they give us the low down on what's ...

Solstice Mobile

Matte Black Studios

Complete Branding Solutions
MBS creates brands range across all modern design and development disciplines. Our in-house development teams have created custom loyalty app programs for large-small businesses by making native iOS and Android apps affordable for even a Lemonade stand. Three ...

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 ...

RSK Capital Partners

Location-based service
Sr. Developer Need experienced individual to develop a location-based, service-oriented app on Native mobile and mobile web platforms. This is for a start-up that has funding & now needs to build prototype and/or mvp. The business is in a tech backward industry ...

flik

Video Yelp/Pinterest
flik allows you to window shop thru your friends' lives. flik is a social mobile platform where users share their commercial experiences thru video. Patent pending technology.

TicketVue

Digital Ticket Stub Collection Hub
TicketVue is an electronic scrapbook that allows you to permanently preserve ticket stubs on a smartphone or social media site. TicketVue is the gateway to protect those memories you never want to forget, access an abundance of information about that moment, and ...

Productive Edge

High quality web and mobile application development.
Productive Edge has built three unique products. 1. ThinkTime - Help Ticket and Knowledge Base Software: www.thinktime.com 2. EZCall - Medical Scheduling: www.ezcall.com 3. Easy Beauty - Beauty product distribution: www.easybeautypro.com

Phonevalley

givby

giving within your reach
give less, to give more -- as low as $1.00, to any nonprofits you choose.

Alligator Games

Fantastic Mobile Games
Alligator Games is all about building unique games, with an initial focus on iPad and iPhone. We've already released one game, ThreeSwipe and starting development on our new game. Please contact us to hear more about it!

SetuServ

Text Analysis
SetuServ is a text analytics firm focused on building Voice of Customer (VoC) solutions using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and curation. These VoC solutions derive actionable insights that clients can use to "close the loop" with their customers and to make ...

ZumiOS

Dynamic mobile imaging
ZumiOS dynamic imaging literally completes the picture for mobile browsing. ZumiOS senses the users zoom level and delivers the right size image, at the right time... and only for the visible portion of the page for fast mobile browsing. ZumiOS replaces the need ...

SayHey! Mobile App

Reaching out has never been easier
With SayHey! starting a conversation with somebody has never been easier. You can now use your mobile phone to browse and reach out to people who have checked into your exact location. Upon finding somebody who piques your interest, simply press the 'SayHey' ...

Mixn

Social life organizing app
Mixn is an app-enabled tool that helps users organize their social life--keeping track of and organizing things they want to do. Start with a list of things you want to do, share the list with your friends, and make plans based on your mutual lists.

Verde Sustainable Solutions, L3C

Subscription LED Lighting
What began as an energy savings API for e-commerce has become a subscription LED lighting program for small business. We install LED lighting for free to small businesses and restaurants, then charge a small subscription amount that is lower than the energy savings ...

Truepad

Google for real estate
Truepad reveals the best homes on the market in Chicago and helps you find a trusted real estate professional. Raised $3.565MM in Seed round.

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 ...

Diveo

Share beautiful videos quickly with friends.
Diveo lets you share beautiful videos with friends and the world.

Warbler

Prescriptive Mobile Marketing Platform
"Warbler" is a prescriptive mobile marketing platform, sold by channel partners into vertical markets that currently include Auto, Hotels, Hospitality and Events. Our partners include Agencies, Software Providers, ISO's, MLM's, Financial Institutions and Payment ...

Lvxvria Investments

Innovative social media concepts for a profitable future
freedom of digital information/anti-censorship social media network with zero restrictions integration with mobile payment and financial processing network interoperability across social platforms to facilitate hierarchical scaling and global access

Limelight

Gamified Customer Loyalty and Social Rewards Platform
Using Limelight, individuals have the ability to directly communicate with their favorite brands through a simple interface that is intuitive & easy to navigate. Users can utilize this platform for the purposes of establishing brand loyalty and directly monitoring ...

itsashort.com

best short content for consumers
itsashort.com is 'the Netflix for short content' or a distribution platform for the best/award winning short film, short video and webisode series. We connect the customer to amazing, totally cool, award winning short video, webisode series and short film that ...

Minute List It

eBay Mobile Bulk Listing Tool with Video
Through a partnership with Vevue (https://angel.co/vevue) Minute List It is the first App to bring selling with video to eBay. We are eBay Powersellers that have listed & sold over 500,000 items on eBay! Our App, Minute List It, was created to make the listing ...

sEats

Concession delivery solutions.
sEats is a mobile platform that allows ticket holders to have concessions delivered to them without leaving their seat.

Jamernot

Discover the Music Around You
Jamernot is a mobile music discovery app that connects you with artists around you. Artist plug-in to Jamernot using SoundCloud. The geolocation of the user and the artist to the fan make the Jamernot's music discovery service a hyperlocal experience. Each piece ...

Clover Mobile Ventures

The Better Professional Networking Mobile App
Clover promotes real connections by setting up in-person meetings. We link people through warm introductions or prior connection, so that Clover is a great way to meet people you know will be interesting and to stay in touch with your network. Thanks to mobile ...

Frespiration!

Bringing designers & clients together, a Facebook for designers!
Frespiration! is the home for the best hand-picked creative. It lets you organize your portfolio, resume, ideas and journal in a better way. We're currently preparing for the beta version and will select 500 best creative in different field to help us giving the ...

Fluency Mobile

Simplifying Language Interpretation
Fluency provides live, on-demand interpreters who speak 200+ languages to help you connect with anybody, anywhere on your terms--all from your smartphone. We eliminate language barriers to help you focus on what you do best--opening up new opportunities to grow ...

CANDID Cup

Real-Time Market Research
Your brand loyal customers and employees on the ground level know your business better than anyone else, and they are ALREADY having conversations about what is and isn't working in YOUR business. CANDID Cup is a real-time market research mobile app designed specifically ...

Power Tower

Phone Charging Station Manufacturer
Power Tower is a leader in mobile phone charging technology. We design and develop a variety of different charging station kiosk. These kiosks are used around the country at some of the largest most popular live events, and locally in highly trafficked locations. ...

FullCircle

the platform for help
Everyone needs help, but help isn't easy accessible and it is extremely scattered, that's why we created FullCircle, the first platform for help. Asking for help or giving back to the society in whatever shape or form, will be easy and fun! Help is out there, ...

Toodalu

Credit Card based rewards platform for businesses.

312Go

Geo-Triggered Audio Tour, Unleashed
312Go™ uses the latest geo-tracking technology to trigger audio bytes about the people, buildings, and events that make Chicago unique. Whether out for a run or bike ride, walking the dog, or simply heading home from work, you’ll be able to explore the fabric ...

BlueLine Labs

Mobile App Development
BlueLine Labs specializes in native iOS and Android development. We want to partner with startups to go from idea to app creation to product/market fit. We are passionate about creating apps that users love.

ViralSport

Connect | Play | Gather
Connect | Play | Gather ¡SALUT! is a social trivia game that connects people and gathers friends to raise their glasses and enjoy the company of others. We are the match.com and meet-up for bringing people together for conversation and cocktails. Social trivia ...

Chicago Works

Help us Renew Chicago!
Chicago Works app will allow you to make service requests to 311 and track issues as they are addressed. Simply put, you can watch your tax-dollars work for you. Chicago Works is a mobile application developed by 2pensmedia and Ald. Ameya Pawar. To date, 4,000+ ...

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Pitch info
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Playoff

Engaging the Next Generation of Sports Fans.
Playoff is a new media company focused on sports and educational gaming. Our office is in Chicago, IL.

MVCWizards

Better WebSite & Application Development using Better Practices
The product is a essentially a consulting service, offering customers expertise in building out a better web brand and/or application.  We are a dedicated, collaborative team that delivers much more than great code. We build FULL STACK applications to support your ...

Marriage Material

Helping you make the biggest decision of your life
Marriage Material is a fun tool to anonymously assess your relationship to understand your legitimate needs, increase self awareness, and see how you compare to happy and healthy couples. Ever want to see what your relationship will be like in 10 years? We give ...

CodiPark

Parking payment app
The parking lot industry losses $1.7B every year from grace time Grace time – It takes an average of 15-20 minutes to exit the lot after paying at the machine, this period of time is the grace time CodiPark cuts the grace time to zero Parking lot owners revenue ...

CornerTable

Automated Waiter for Restaurants
Corner Table is a mobile app which offers automated waiter service at restaurants by letting customers order & pay from their smartphones using Mobile Visual Search technology. Value Proposition 1. Customers Greater Convenience –Customers can explore the menu ...

Dreamfish Labs

Visual communication through mobile keyboard
Roxie Keyboard, one of the industry’s first iOS 8 predictive emoji keyboard. Roxie suggests emojis as you type and helps people express their tone and connect with people in a way that enriches communication. But it doesn't stop there. Roxie will also suggest images, ...

¡SALUT!

Connect | Play | Gather
Connect | Play | Gather ¡SALUT! is a social trivia game that connects people and gathers friends to raise their glasses and enjoy the company of others. We are the match.com and meet-up for bringing people together for conversation and cocktails. Social trivia ...

Keeper Security

Password Management Application & Digital Vault
Keeper Security is the world's most secure digital vault for smartphones, tablets and desktops. We have built an easy-to-use and secure password management application that allows users to manage and store login credentials across all devices and operating systems. ...

Asvp

Multiple social media platform
Asvp (or Asap), is a social media app, that makes it possible to connect with people you love! You can do anything from Chat, Like, Post, Video Chat, and Follow your favorite people! *Completely FREE *Be able to connect with anyone no matter the distance

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FitHero

Uber for Personal Trainers
Fit Hero is the "Uber/Lyft" of personal training. Using our mobile app, and user can simply log in, choose if they would like to work out now or later. If the user chooses now, the app will find your location and show available trainers with your surrounding area. ...

MakeMoves

Simple way, to find, create, and relive events
MakeMoves lets you find your friends' events/activities/parties or create one yourself all from a simple tap. During the event, attendees can post Live Photos, Comments, and view event data such as Gender Ratio and Event Rating. This unique data will help users ...

Markr

Mobile Photo Branding App
Markr gives you the power to create visual hashtags for your photos and videos. You can tag your photos with hashtags that are popular around you, and around the world. You can even create branded photos using your favorite brands. WHAT ARE VISUAL HASHTAGS? Visual ...

Wavesence

Jawbone/Fitbit for mobile power
We're creating a wearable/pocketable power source that generates charge via kinetic energy. The device is small and simple, and is intended for mass-market.

TalkBout

Win Bouts. Impress Your Friends.
Comment: The world needs a new Reddit. A more engaging Reddit. Reply: Hell we need a better looking Reddit. This isn’t 1994. Reply: I like TalkBout.com. Check it out. We are big fans of Reddit but at TalkBout.com we believe that user engagement online ...

FanGo

Caselinq

Attorney Trial Preparation Software. Casemap Alternative Online.
Caselinq is web-based software made for lawyers to analyze and prepare their cases for trial and settlement. It allows lawyers to input facts, witnesses, exhibits,and issues and combine and analyze to come up with witness direct and cross examinations for deposition ...

trademonster

Online trading platform for stock and option traders. Compare online brokers to see why Barron's named tradeMONSTER Best for Options Traders four years running.

lifeol.io

Keeping track of your life's memories. Cloud storage for all of your life's memories
Web and Mobile Applications Allows users to upload any document or pictures they would like to use as a cloud based service. Users will add metadata when adding photo's, video's and documents. Users will be able to create a sub-domain when joining. Example: GeneOlsen.lifeol.io They ...

Gopeers

uber of car wash
Our mission is to provide customers environmentally friendly and cost-effective cleaning solutions – on demand. Gopeers is almost waterless, uses the latest in steam technology, which can quickly and effectively remove dirt, stains, etc,= its convenient and cash-less.

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 ...

Suggesthat

Reliable & relevant suggestions
Suggesthat is a mobile social recommendation application that provides the most reliable and relevant suggestions. Suggesthat lets you share reliable and relevant contents with your own social network. Users can also request suggestions from their friends by sending ...

Xcilo

(Ex-See-Low) Provides data access on any device at any time in any place
Xcilo’s technology assists organizations by providing a secure platform that facilitates data on any device at any time in any place. Through this platform Xcilo provides: big data analytics, integration of IT systems, business process automation, instant mobile ...

wayfer

Jetset better with your friends
wayfer builds a shared Travel Stream of upcoming trips in your select social circle. It is the better way to see, share, and coordinate travel with your friends. All in one spot and unlike before. Jetset better with your friends. Get ahead of the curve on your ...

Cliqster

Mobile Application Social Club
Cliqster allows groups of people (friends, coworkers, etc.) to form a Cliq and peruse other groups of people (Cliqs) going out in Chicago. Once two groups agree to meet, Cliqster sends each group the time and venue their meet-up will take place. Though Chicago ...

Global Turnarounds

Realizing your Ambitious Vision
Add credibility to your ambitious startup story by adding us to your team. We help you construct the best pitch supported with a financial model and then continue to help execute your plan to ensure the best growth of your equity value. And our fees are aligned ...

BallotReady

Online voter guide
BallotReady makes it easy to decide who to vote for, by providing background information on all the candidates and referendums on your ballot. The app will have a customization feature that will allow Information on candidates to be tailored to individual users, ...

SkyList

The World's Most Advanced Nightclub and Bar Management System!
We've created a Nightclub and Bar Management System for the Web & Mobile. Managing a nightclub or a bar takes an incredible amount of hard work and dedication as well as a great deal of organization. Keeping track of your parties, events, guest lists and promoters ...

recBux

Groupon for internal corporate structures
Employers are not optimizing their use of their employees as external Champions for the company. Additionally, employees lack choice and relevance for how the company rewards employees for desired behaviors. recBux is an app that allows an employer to better ...

Sociable Media

Physical Social Media (social media + gamification)
We are creating a new social experience that will combine social media and gamification. We will offer different experiences for different demographics, but it will all enable the same thing: Meeting people with a purpose.

Entourage

Group social networking
Entourage is a social app that connects group of friends. Here's how it works in 3 simple steps: 1st) Team up with your friends and create a group. 2nd) View other groups nearby and anonymously "Like" or "Dislike". 3rd) If there are sufficient mutual likes between ...

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 ...

Epazz

Cloud Business Process Software
Product web portal infrastructure software Epazz, Inc. is an enterprise cloud business process software company. Epazz provides business process software products to Fortune 500 Companies, government agencies, health providers and post-secondary institutions. ...

StuffHubb

Stuff as a Service
StuffHubb is a peer-to-peer network built to facilitate rentals of consumer goods. List. Rent. Live.

wazSUP

Dedicated Event Statuses
With the use of wazSUP, users can have a consolidated view indicating the event status of all of their friends. Ever wonder what your friends are doing on a given day? Or how you're going to plan to do something on a random weekend? Now you can know with wazSUP. ...

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 ...

Battery Club

On-demand portable charging for your smartphone.
Battery Club is a network of fully portable and convenient smartphone charging devices available in restaurants, fine dining, bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, hotels, events, and festivals. Our mission is to give people the peace of mind to be out and about without ...

Mobile Doorman

Property management on resident's phones
Mobile Doorman makes customized mobile apps for properties that solve inefficiencies for residents and managers. Real estate technology is not compatible with how residents live their lives. We focus on the resident experience to create a more customer-centric ...

Betskee

Friendly Bets for Friendly Stakes
Now there’s a way to make bets—over anything you want, for anything you want—and hold your friends to it! Introducing Betskee, a new app that lets you establish bets (and be creatively inspired by the bets of others), send them to your friends, keep score and ...

Zenflow

Forget about your air filter.

Me+We social chatting

Me+We is a social chatting platform. Chat. Rant. Ask. Play.
Me+We is a social chat world, reimagined. Meet new people with similar interests, play games, collaborate and have fun!

Tastebud

Mobile apps for retail
Tastebud creates mobile apps that drive sales at brick-and-mortar shopping centers.

Coat of Arms

Startup & Explainer Videos
We create video content for startups across the world. Whether it is live-action, hand-drawn animation, or motion design and graphics, we have a great deal of experience telling memorable stories with impact. We know how to engage an audience and keep your message ...

Rally - a mobile event experience app

Instagram for events
Whether it's you or a group of friends, create an event for the occasion. Rally is a mobile event sharing application that allows users to not simply watch reports of current events, but participate in creating them as they progress. Share maps, photos and messages ...

Bellwether Creation Company

Software Product Development
Here, we strive to fill our office with Bellwethers, disruptive individuals who dedicate themselves to leading the pack and perpetually challenging the status quo. Our squad always finds the best way, and the fastest way, to create products that truly matter. We ...

AppDevy

Saving the world from horrible websites
Website support, 24/7 monitoring, web and application development.

Weatherist

Moneyball for Weather
Weatherist is an online weather service that provides users with The Most Probable Forecast for their area. Weatherist scours the web for weather forecasts, grades their accuracy based on actual measurements, then generates The Most Probable Forecast for over ...

Athena Arts

The internet in a nutshell
Athena Arts is primarily a blog about start ups, emerging technologies, future trends, etc. Every post on the home page is in the form of a button. Think of Athena Arts as a link caster, that take users to a different page. For example, a button might say "Inside ...

Hippo

Memory based social app
We are trying to revolutionize the way you capture, share and relive the moments that define your life, by providing clarity and context to your memories, and doing it through a beautifully designed experience.

The Brady Group

Startup Go-to-Market Consulting
The Brady Solutions Group provides business management consulting, education, knowledge transfer, ethics and culture development for all aspects of technology startups. We help technologists create Go-to-Market and organization development strategies for all customer ...

NIN Ventures

Early stage venture capital firm investing in disruptive tech startups
NIN Ventures (or NIN.VC) is a first of its kind technology venture capital fund to be raised via world wide web. NIN.VC will invest in early / growth stage financial services technology, education software, Internet and digital media, mobile communication, cloud ...

MaBaker

Your tattoo can chat to another
Now your Tattoo can like and be liked by other Tattoos around it! TatChat’s aim is to attract and unite all people that bare body art, becoming the biggest walking & talking body art gallery worldwide, where one body art piece can talk to another. Anonymously ...

2pensmedia

We are a full-service web & mobile development company based in Chicago
We develop websites, web applications and mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

Celebrity Spotter

Connecting you with stars
Celeb Spotter - Finding celebrities with a tap. What does it do? - Helps fans, photographers, and journalist find musicians, models, and athletes with a tap of a button. - Makes the world more open when it comes to connecting with stars. - Localization safety ...

Txt2Teach.me

Smarter Homework for Smarter Students
Txt2Teach is a specially designed Learning Management System that caters to the specific needs of tutors and test prep centers, focusing in on homework. It allows study centers to send test and homework questions to their students' phones. The instructors know ...

Hall Pass

Glassdoor for universities
Hall Pass is your pass to the schools you'll love. See ratings and reviews of colleges by the people who actually attended them. It's the most personal & delightful way of finding your next school.