Startups Chicago

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Chicago.

36 sales and marketing Startups View all

Kohoe - sales and marketing video games human computer interaction Media Streaming

Kohoe

E-Sports Organization With Winning Infrastructure
Start an e-sports organization from the ground up competing in, at first, League of Legends. Since Korea has had an e-sports culture for around two decades, an infrastructure was created to "breed" talent. We will incorporate that type of infrastructure and ...

ActiveCampaign - sales and marketing small and medium businesses email marketing marketing automation

ActiveCampaign

Email & marketing automation designed for small businesses.
ActiveCampaign is an email & marketing automation platform designed with small businesses in mind.

PointDrive - enterprise software sales and marketing small and medium businesses productivity software

PointDrive

Smarter content sharing for sales professionals
PointDrive is a sales-oriented application that improves the way you share content with customers. It’s just as fast as sending an email, but it streamlines the information in a sophisticated, easy-to-absorb format. Simply import your LinkedIn profile, logo ...

bizHive - sales and marketing marketplaces small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

bizHive

Thumbtack for small biz marketing
bizHive is a marketing marketplace for Small Biz. We've created a secure online destination for Small Biz Buyers to learn about, shop & buy new media & new marketing products & services from "best fit" suppliers & resources - a safe haven to manage what's become ...

Vendori - advertising lead generation sales and marketing marketplaces

Vendori

Search the entire brand marketing ecosystem openly online.
We connect buyers and sellers within the $20B brand marketing industry via company and contact profiles and enterprise SaaS so agencies, marketers and vendors can find the right solution to their marketing objective. An enterprise SaaS vendor management tool allows ...

A Door Ahead - sales and marketing consulting business development

A Door Ahead

A Business Owners Dream
We Help Business owners build online presence, save money, boost up their sales and grow their business!

The Plastic Bag Solution - sales and marketing green sustainability outdoor advertising

The Plastic Bag Solution

Daily Advertising Medium for all Tree Huggers
Compostable bags are 100% certified by BPI to meet ASTM 6400 composting standards. Bags are distributed at no cost to restaurants and grocers. Bags are used as an advertising medium to non competing business. Advertisers get the opportunity to have their brand ...

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 ...

JiSu - e-commerce sales and marketing online shopping internet marketing

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 ...

Aisle50 - sales and marketing analytics coupons groceries

Aisle50

Aisle50 sells grocery deals direct to shoppers and partners with retailers for redemption.
Aisle50 gives consumers an easy, fully digital way to save big on groceries at their normal grocery stores. We offer the best ROI in the industry for CPG marketing teams, who spend more than $40 billion a year. We will supplant newspaper coupon books, which ...

Karrot

We Modify People's Behaviors
We are an experienced team with deep understanding of the point of sale. We work within our client's budget to provide premium service and quality loyalty and incentive programs. Karrot modifies people's behavior. Karrot provides a hosted online loyalty platform ...

Mineful - sales and marketing analytics quantitative marketing big data

Mineful

Mineful automates customer retention for online businesses.
We turn 1-time buyers into brand loyalists. Mineful uses analytics to triggers emails based on the customer's interaction with the brand. This allows online retailers and app developers to send targeted emails at the right time; increasing engagement, repeat purchases, ...

CarteLux Commsisions - e-commerce sales and marketing automotive

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 ...

Live Storefronts - retail advertising sales and marketing

Live Storefronts

Online Showrooms made easy
Live Storefronts helps Brick & Mortar businesses keep their website up to date with their inventory.

Haka Products - sales and marketing marketing Sales Enablement Product Management

Haka Products

Turn voice of the customer feedback into successful new products.
Turn voice of the customer feedback into successful new products. Haka Innovate: Listen for customer feedback. Identify customers' unmet needs. Engage customers during new product development to validate your problem and solution hypotheses. Improve product success. Haka ...

Shotfarm - SaaS e-commerce sales and marketing web hosting

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 ...

Live Scene - social media music sales and marketing concerts

Live Scene

Nightlife Entertainment for the under 21+
Live Scene is Promotional/Marketing/Entertainment Company based in Chicago specializing in the 18+ Market. With weekly events and attendance rates of over 4,000 a month.

Health Freedom Network - digital media sales and marketing health and wellness broadcasting

Health Freedom Network

Helping Patients Find Holistic Health Specialists By Web, Text, Phone
The Health Freedom Network's Holistic Health Referral System connects patients with the holistic health provider in their city or with the specialty they need (Example: Lyme or Cancer Expertise). In a chaotic online space, its hard to know who to trust when researching ...

DealRod - consumer internet e-commerce sales and marketing social commerce

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 ...

EVENTup - sales and marketing Venue and events

EVENTup

Marketplace for Event and Venue Spaces
EVENTup - Events Made Easy. Easily browse our website to find your perfect spot from over 15,000 venues, choose from a variety of click to buy curated corporate experiences, or let our expert event planners help you plan any customized corporate event! SEARCH, ...

GFC2016 Conference & Expo - B2B education sales and marketing finance

GFC2016 Conference & Expo

Global Business Management Conference & Expo
The GFC2016 Conference & Expo for the first time anywhere combines the latest in technologies to the world wide web streaming our conference & expo worldwide via the web to provide global business management professionals educational discussion meetings and peer ...

savvo digital sommelier solutions - sales and marketing wine and spirits retail technology mobile coupons

savvo digital sommelier solutions

The "match.com" for the retail wine industry
Savvo deploys touchscreen wine kiosks directly in the wine aisle of grocery stores to match shoppers and wines at the point of decision-making. To a majority of shoppers, wine is a product they love but are also very confused by. Wine suppliers who have product ...

Rifird - sales and marketing small and medium businesses social media marketing mobile application

Rifird

Referral Marketing
Rifird is a tool that facilitates referral campaigns for merchants, distributing incentives to current and prospective customers.

Drink Deck Destination Guides - sales and marketing restaurants deals travel & tourism

Drink Deck Destination Guides

A destination guide for foodies & bar enthusiasts.
Drink Deck is a discount & travel guide cleverly designed as a deck of playing cards. Each card in the deck represents a different bar scene representing a curated list of the best food, drink and entertainment establishments in Chicago, IL; Portland, OR or New ...

CloutReach - social media sales and marketing business productivity small and medium businesses

CloutReach

Sales and Marketing Automation for SMBs
The CloutReach mission: To help small and mid-sized businesses profitably grow revenues by improving their sales and marketing effectiveness through integrated marketing communication and the introduction of a new social channel. We offer: • Social media setup ...

Carzell - lead generation sales and marketing automotive online auctions

Carzell

When dealers compete, you win
When car dealers compete to buy your car, you get the most money. Carzell is an online auction platform for our network of dealers to bid on vehicles listed by consumers. Comsumers get more money for their car than trading it in, there is no hassle, and its a free ...

678 Partners - business services sales and marketing business intelligence

678 Partners

Strategic Business Development

SupremeWebinar - telecommunications sales and marketing small and medium businesses corporate training

SupremeWebinar

Automated webinar delivery platform
SupremeWebinar allows marketers to deliver high quality and fully automated webinars. Marketers can deliver highly leveraged educational based marketing content to attract new prospects and customers to their businesses around the clock.

WeBe - social media sales and marketing advertising platforms

WeBe

Ephemeral Social Video Sharing
WeBe lets you record and watch your friends. Videos last for 24 hours. WeBe is built on your Facebook friend network. WeBe helps the end user better connect with their friends. The customers are companies who pay for interactive video ads.

Eventbin

Free Online Deals and Coupon Organizer
Eventbin.com is a free online application for shoppers to stay on top of discounts by using our patent pending and proprietary technologies. It aggregates discounts from major coupon sites, presents discounts in a user-friendly calendar format and offers personalized ...

ZigaVite - sales and marketing business development lead management incentives

ZigaVite

Motivating Business Conversations
ZigaVite lets you request, scheduled and manage meetings with potential business prospects by including an "appreciation" item if they follow through with your meeting request. You determine the value of your prospects time by choosing from a variety of items in ...

Demo Duck - video sales and marketing online video advertising film production

Demo Duck

Handcrafted explainer videos
At Demo Duck we create handcrafted explainer videos for companies small and large including Netflix, Dropbox, Lowe's, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and more.

IntentBuy - digital media advertising sales and marketing mobile advertising

IntentBuy

Integrated Customer Acquisition Solutions
IntentBuy is a performance media agency that works with advertisers to improve return on ad spend by more effectively buying digital media via direct publisher relationships, programmatic platforms, mobile ad networks and performance channels. IntentBuy was founded ...

ExpressText - mobile SaaS sales and marketing sms

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 ...

Ruben Digital Media - digital media sales and marketing web design small and medium businesses

Ruben Digital Media

Building Homes in the Digital World
Every business today needs a strong web presence. It is no longer a luxury reserved for big companies. RDM pinpoints each client’s personality traits and company essence to replicate an in person experience on the web. My goal is to have customers connect with ...

thenext90 - sales and marketing small and medium businesses business development Mortgage

thenext90

Business Planning in 90 Day Sprints
thenext90 is web based application that provides business leaders the most efficient and productive system for implementing business, strategic and sales plans. In most cases, plans either sit in a document on an executive's shelf or in a Excel or Word Document ...

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