Startups 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.

workforce.io - ventures for good recruiting career management employment

workforce.io

Merit badges for entry level hiring
workforce.io is software-as-a-service that allows employers to receive qualified, recommended candidates from the job trainers and mentors in their local community. We do away with resumes and bring people back to the equation. We've built a proprietary job skill ...

Moneythink - financial services education ventures for good nonprofits

Moneythink

Technologically-enhanced financial mentoring for teens
Moneythink (MT) targets urban 11th and 12th graders. These students have dreams, but between age 17 and 20, they face many financial decisions that can make or break their future: getting/keeping a job, using a paycheck, credit cards, paying for college. To prepare ...

Humble Venturez Inc. (Humble Pen) - education ventures for good art handmade

Humble Venturez Inc. (Humble Pen)

Handcrafted pens that give back
Handcrafted pens, packaged with artist inspired stationery in a beautiful packaging. For every Humble Pen purchased, we provide education for children around the world.

XploreU - social media online travel ventures for good college campuses

XploreU

Build Loyalty. Change their lives.
XploreU is a social network that allows college students to travel and volunteer abroad for free. Corporations sponsor these volunteer trips in exchange for massive on campus publicity, press, events, advertising, word of mouth, facebook postings and 2m+ impressions ...

KarmaKorn - social media social games ventures for good apps

KarmaKorn

Social Apps & Games That Change Your Life
kar-ma-lyze (verb) : To sweeten your life with a yummy karma glaze. (noun) : A social game for getting good karma to change your life. You don't have to karmalyze ... but, if things happen (or don't happen) in your life -- don't blame us!

ChoreMart - social media marketplaces communities ventures for good

ChoreMart

neighbors who need work done, helping neighbors who need to earn money

Collaborative Group - retail fashion ventures for good artists globally

Collaborative Group

Collaborative Group connects brands and retailers to artisans in the developing world.
Collaborative Group connects brands and retailers with artisans in the developing world. We create collaborations that provide sustainable livelihoods in underserved communities and unique, socially impactful products to our brand partners. The artisan sector ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

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

CancerIQ - health care information technology big data ventures for good personal health

CancerIQ

Predictive analytics to eliminate cancer (Rock Health)
Our team has modeled proven cancer genetics workflows at top academic centers, and translated them into a suite of digital health tools. Our cloud-based cancer risk clinic “in a box”, helps providers: - Predict cancer by automatically processing lifestyle, clinical, ...

International Biomedical R&D Group - health care ventures for good small and medium businesses health and wellness

International Biomedical R&D Group

Next-Gen Medical Implants
Next-generation medical Implants using Additive Manufacturing which will increase quality and performance with a substantial low customer price. Health care is one of the most interesting and important fields in the world, there is a big room of improvement as ...

MUMZY - ventures for good crowdsourcing technology crowdfunding

MUMZY

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

Venturesome Consulting - ventures for good startups social innovation

Venturesome Consulting

Entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs build innovative, scalable, impactful companies

Outgive - education analytics ventures for good

Outgive

Platform for higher education donations
Universities motivate only 15% of their alumni base to give back. With limited resources and an inefficient market, universities are eager to increase the percentage of alumni donating as well as the average amount donated. Outgive.me is a web-based platform ...

Invitation codes

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

Real Food Blends - health care medical food and beverages ventures for good

Real Food Blends

100% real food meals for those on feeding tubes. Disrupting the $10B enteral food market.
Real Food Blends provides shelf-stable, 100% real food meals that can be fed through a feeding tube. Unlike the current commercial formulas that make up the $10 billion enteral market, Real Food Blends meals do not contain corn syrup, additives, preservatives or ...

Aframes Eyewear - e-commerce fashion ventures for good

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 ...

GoodPays.me - consumer internet social media ventures for good loyalty programs

GoodPays.me

get paid ... for doing good!
A consumer rewards program for doing good. Sponsors offer to pay us money for doing good deeds. Use it to buy whatever we want at leading online stores.

IconBocs - e-commerce ventures for good subscription businesses entertainment industry

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 ...

Flowers for Dreams - e-commerce retail ventures for good flowers

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, ...

Urban Offering - fashion ventures for good custom retail

Urban Offering

Socially conscious custom fashion
Socially-conscious custom fashion

MentorMob - digital media education ventures for good crowdsourcing

MentorMob

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

Pharos Philanthropy - ventures for good

Pharos Philanthropy

Goods, Causes, Change
GivingAid.Org allows donors/supporters to give directly to individuals in need. By removing the administrative overhead of donating, more of the contribution can go to helping the individual in need.

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.

Spendbot - lead generation ventures for good personal finance health and wellness

Spendbot

Personal Financial Execution (TM) system
Spendbot is a Personal Financial Execution solution to create a spending plan, optimize it, and stick to it so as to align spending with informed values. We combine cloud-based data visualization, algorithms, expert systems, and partner integrations to deliver ...

Generous Deals - e-commerce ventures for good social commerce deals

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 ...

Public Good Software - SaaS ventures for good social media platforms nonprofits

Public Good Software

A marketplace for civic participation.
Public Good is a community of people and nonprofits working together to inform, engage, and activate the next generation of civic champions - the donors, volunteers, and advocates who help make the world a better place. Our mission is to turn passions into actions ...

Reliefwatch - ventures for good mobile health

Reliefwatch

Tracking Data for Health Clinics in Developing World
Reliefwatch is an inventory management platform targeted at multinational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating health clinics in developing countries. Reliefwatch allows workers in these health clinics to digitize and manage inventory records via both ...

UnaBellaVita - health care ventures for good personal health dietary supplements

UnaBellaVita

Toms Shoes for Vitamins
We sell a full line of vitamins and supplements. For every serving you buy, we give one serving of multivitamins to make child in need stronger & smarter. Giving multivitamins to undernourished children is the most powerful and cost-effective form of aid. We sell ...

MightyNest - e-commerce ventures for good social media platforms health and wellness

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 ...

BallotReady - mobile analytics ventures for good Public Elections

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, ...

GetAFive - education lead generation ventures for good high school students

GetAFive

Video-based year-long course review for HS students
GetAFive is a video-based ed tech company that provides classroom review to high school students. Our 1st product focuses on Advanced Placement courses, which are taken by high school students looking to earn college credit at American colleges. A passing score ...

Uprising Technology - ventures for good alumni Higher Education

Uprising Technology

Google for the higher education enterprise
Uprising provides an innovative web-based platform for higher education that seamlessly blends student and alumni records from CRMs and student systems with social media profiles and third party data, delivering a holistic view of constituents from any device. Uprising’s ...

Votimo - social media ventures for good nonprofits content discovery

Votimo

Facebook for Nonprofits & Supporters
Votimo is a social donation platform that curates content from donors and nonprofits around the causes they care about and matches them with donation opportunities. Donors, especially Millennials, want the ability to give back in ways that go beyond just money. ...

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