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

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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Smarteys - lead generation personal finance young adults university students

Smarteys

We help people get the lifestyle they want. Suze Orman + Mint.com, for Millennials.
We are building a platform that allows Millennials to make a lifestyle transition from college to the real world. Based on the personal finance expertise of the founders, Smarteys will recommend services that help Millennials to save money or look smart. We will ...

Packback - digital media education big data university students

Packback

Pay-per-use etextbooks for $5 or less
Packback allows college students to "pay per use" for their digital textbooks by renting for $3-$5 per day, while enabling publishers to recoup revenue lost to the secondary used book market. Any money students spend on daily rentals can be directly converted towards ...

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Norkel

Craigstlist for Colleges
Norkel is a one of a kind site, a site for students to have an organized and efficient on-campus marketplace. Norkel gives students one central location to buy, sell and trade for free right on their campus. Norkel could be looked at as a college campus craigslist.

One Day One Job - university students

One Day One Job

Daily company profiles with jobs and internships
Every day we’ll introduce you to an awesome new company or non-profit. We’ll tell you what they do, who they are, why they’re interesting, and what kind of entry level jobs and internships they offer. We haven’t skipped a day since November 12, 2007, which means ...

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RedShip.com

Ultimate care package experience
RedShip is a care package company that provides an easy solution for Baby Boomers to connect with their Millennial children/family members who are living away from home in a very distinctive way. Parents (Baby Boomers) want the security of always staying connected ...

Roommate - families young adults university students

Roommate

Money and Life Organizer
Roommate makes it easy to pay your friends, keep track of shared tabs, coordinate shopping lists, and more. It's your life. Simplified.

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clusterFlunk

Get better grades.
Get better grades. Features: 1. Post questions about your academics 2. Upload/download files (study guides, lecture notes, past exams, etc.) 3. Free

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NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

AnonyMonkey - university students high school students

AnonyMonkey

Manage Your Anonymous Pages
AnonyMonkey's Upcoming App, Spakrs, offers a safe platform for young adults to express their emotions and affection semi-anonymous to their micro-communities. We connect them by using semi-anonymous chat. • Anonymous posts come from your friends, your communities ...

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Drop In

Airbnb for college visits.
Drop In connects those students interested in a college visit with current students who want to host them. We help visiting students by providing a place to stay and instantly immerse them in the schools social & academic setting. No more depending on boring ...

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HighrUp

LinkedIn for aspiring college/grad students
HighrUp offers a more effective way to help aspiring college and graduate students manage the school search and application process from start to finish. Social features make the process more fun. Students create profiles that highlight their academic achievements ...

Weelio - transportation university students collaborative consumption Ride sharing

Weelio

Destination Based Ridesharing (Kickstarter for Rides)
Weelio is a closed-network ride-matching platform where users go to discover shared rides with people in their trusted communities. By targeting high-density routes, we seek to help people optimize their commute while enjoying the lower costs of a shared ride.

Crashpad - college campuses university students Social Network

Crashpad

Overnight stays for student commuters
A hospitality based lending service based on students who live in or close to campus lending out their spare couch or bed for commuting students to spend the night. The target would be commuting students who are looking for a place to sleep close to campus for ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

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Swiftwit

Swiftwit helps students manage and organize their courses.
Swiftwit is a tool that helps students to manage and organize their education. We are putting learning back into the hands of students, by providing a platform that is student-driven, allowing for any student to input the information found on a course syllabus ...

BugPub - crowdsourcing user testing software university students

BugPub

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

The Black Sheep - college campuses local advertising university students local businesses

The Black Sheep

Revolutionizing Collegiate Content & Marketing
We are COLLEGE. We sleep it, eat it, and drink it. And then we talked about it through our student-run campus publications via print, mobile, social and online. We're in 15 markets, 275 campus reps, a rapidly growing digital presence (500K pageviews/month) and ...

Tabule - mobile education productivity software university students

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 ...

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Gameday Radio

Streaming Youth Baseball Play-by-Play to Mobile Phones
Gameday Radio is an internet radio broadcasting company that delivers realistic, system-generated play-by-play of youth, high school, and collegiate baseball games fed from live event data and player/team statistics captured from mobile score-keeping applications. Our ...

CourseGroups - education university students

CourseGroups

academic network and technologies for college students
CourseGroups.com is an academic network for college students to connect, collaborate, and learn. Launched in September 2013, the platform has grown quietly to over 2,000 students at Penn State alone. Our mission is to provide the most useful academic help quickly ...

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Freenters

Free Printing Service
Freenters receives licenses directly from educational institutions such as colleges to install printing kiosks or use the institutions’ existing printing infrastructure to provide an ad-subsidized free printing service [Freenters 1.0]. By default, every page that ...

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Radical Recliners

The "I-phone" of furniture
Radical Recliners offers the first piece of multi-purpose furniture. Three main ergonomic functions in one design offer simplicity, quality, and versatility to the customer. The customer is any college student, young adult, or family with children. A washable fabric ...

STEMfunder - ventures for good university students crowdfunding

STEMfunder

Kickstarter for academic projects
A crowdfunding platform for STEM education. working with alumni networks to provide funding and exposure for academic projects in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Guard Llama - real estate security parenting university students

Guard Llama

LifeAlert for a younger generation
Guard Llama is a pilot stage start-up focused on safety for women. Guard Llama is essentially a mobile life alert system to keep women safe and prevent occurrences of sexual assault and domestic violence. Guard Llama is a platform where: a) users can send their ...

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