SmartBiz Loans

2021 Top Small Business Lending Platform Award by LendIt Fintech. SmartBiz is on a mission to transform small business lending. SmartBiz is the leading AI-powered small business financing platform equipping entrepreneurs with access to the right capital at the right time. To date, we’ve connected borrowers with more than $9 billion in funding while increasing efficiency for its network of banks and trusted lending partners. More than 230,000 entrepreneurs have utilized our platform to access the funding they need to grow, with 60% of loans made to minority, women, or veteran-owned businesses.

The Mx Group

The Mx Group is a B2B marketing agency with a 30+ year history of solving complex marketing challenges. We accomplish this by harnessing the power of connections to make every touchpoint effective, delivering significant impact to our clients’ revenue and growth. We call this “The Power of X.” The exponential transformation that results in connecting the customer experience through strategy, creative, demand generation and digital development. We are aligned around one goal: creating solutions for clients that propel buyers and businesses forward. The Mx Group is ranked among the top 5 B2B agencies in the country by B2B Marketing, and we continuously win creative, digital, and company culture awards. We’re privately owned and located 20 minutes west of Chicago in Burr Ridge, Illinois.

Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports was founded in 1936 at a time when consumers had very few options to gauge the value, quality, or authenticity of goods and services. Our investigative journalism, advocacy, and digital testing empower consumers, inform people’s purchasing decisions, influence businesses to improve the products and services they deliver, and strengthen norms, laws, and regulations through science, evidence, and data.

Trillium Labs

We are a trading technology development group and the creator of Surveyor, a post trade surveillance tool designed to detect and eliminate market manipulation.

Kin + Carta

Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation consultancy committed to working alongside our clients to build a world that works better for everyone. We’re a technology business with trust and human connection at its heart. Our triple bottom line focus on people, the planet, and profit is at the core of everything we do.

Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot started with a seed of an idea in 2014 and is sprouting into the ultimate plant-based marketplace. We envision a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Taste is at the center of what we do: good, vegan food for everyone. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being bold.

PS AI Labs

PS AI labs is a data science consultancy firm that uses deep resources and world-class data science to help businesses change the way they optimize their operations and understand their customers. Our data scientists and AI experts are adept at tackling complex business challenges with predictive analytics. We design, build, and implement practical, end to end solutions that help companies make smarter decisions and provide more valuable services.

Fisher Investments

We’ve been helping clients reach their financial goals for over 40 years by providing a tailored approach to investment management. We’re a different kind of investment firm than most in our industry and work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe.

Greater Good Health

At Greater Good Health, we believe that primary care is where healthcare begins, which is why we are on a mission to enable and expand access to holistic, value-based primary care. Our proven care model and clinical programs benefit patients, providers, and payors alike, improving outcomes, reducing costs, and delivering a best-in-class patient experience.

Paylocity

Hello, we're Paylocity! -- Our all-in-one software platform gives HR pros a way to easily manage daily tasks in payroll, benefits, talent, and workforce management. But what makes us different is that our technology is backed by a culture that truly cares about our clients’ success.

FloorFound

Meet FloorFound, a company on a mission to help save the planet by powering recommerce and the reuse of large products that often end up in landfills. We are solving precarious problem to benefit retailers, consumers, and our planet. Joining our team means serving some of the biggest retail brands in the industry today, while building a company that will last.

BiggerPockets

BiggerPockets is the largest online community and complete resource for anyone looking to succeed in real estate investing. With over 2 million members, our goal is to provide everyone with the resources and support they need to find their own success — whether that’s quitting a job to invest or simply creating additional passive income.

Ascension

Ascension is one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S. and leverages a modern solutions stack and principles to build our products and create collaborative solutions. Our teams are made up of big thinkers who are tasked with defining groundbreaking opportunities and ultimately reshaping the way we deliver healthcare to those who need it most.

GSTV

GSTV is a data-driven, national video network with tens of thousands of locations across the country. Reaching over 40% of American adults monthly, our broadcast engages viewers with full sight, sound, and motion video as they fuel their vehicles — an essential waypoint on their consumer journey. We not only offer consumers everything they want to know on the go with engaging, uplifting content, we deliver measurable results for the world’s largest advertisers through immediate action and lasting brand impressions. Analysis of billions of consumer purchases demonstrates that GSTV viewers spend significantly more across retailers, services, consumer goods and other sectors, following a fuel transaction. Our convenience and fuel partners include 7-Eleven, Arco, BP, Chevron, Gulf, Kwik Trip, Circle K, Speedway, ExxonMobil, Sunoco, Phillips 66, and Marathon.

Thankful

Thankful is a cutting-edge AI company transforming customer support for leading brands. We offer a suite of AI-powered products, including an AI Customer Support Agent that works just like a human agent in text-based channels (email, SMS, chat) to resolve customer support requests. Thankful is so adept at solving problems such as returns, exchanges, order tracking, missing packages, and 50+ other actions, end-users believe they’re interacting with a human.

Stride

Stride is a strategic partner in driving technological transformation. With our team of seasoned engineers, designers, and product managers we go beyond the traditional boundaries of software development, and delivery, to achieve our clients goals and up-skill their teams. As trailblazers in the utilization of generative AI, we’re harnessing new and emerging business intelligence and productivity gains to produce value and business outcomes faster than ever before.

sweetgreen

We're a plant-forward food company with a vision for a healthier tomorrow, and we're only just getting started. As we continue building, it's our priority to nurture talent from restaurants to our support center, so everyone can be part of the movement. And the best thing? When you join sweetgreen, you don't just grow your own future—you grow the planet's.

Radio Flyer

Radio Flyer is known for our iconic little red wagon, and we are always dreaming up FUNomenal new ways to deliver joy to families by introducing new products every year. Radio Flyer is a recognized leader in the toy industry, with our corporate headquarters located in Chicago. From wagons and tricycles to battery powered eBikes, Go-Karts and Tesla ride-ons, our Chicago-based team innovates in every product category we enter. We are excited to announce our newest venture into retail at the Radio Flyer Store, recently opened at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL! For over a century, Radio Flyer has served as the first set of wheels for generations of kids. We have helped inspire creative play as wagons transformed into rocket ships, race cars and airplanes, transporting children anywhere they imagined. Now, with over a billion Radio Flyer wheels on the road, we have introduced our biggest innovation for all the kids at heart - FLYER™ is a line of electric bikes and scooters, our first ever product line created for adult riders. Want to fly with us? Visit radioflyer.com/careers to learn more and apply today!

CityBase

Our technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. The CityBase platform equally serves people who want to complete a task from their phones, those who are underbanked and must pay a bill in cash, and the public servants who keep government and utilities running smoothly.

Nomad Health

Nomad Health is the first digital marketplace for healthcare jobs, efficiently connecting quality clinicians with rewarding career opportunities. Forbes recognized Nomad in their inaugural “Best Startup Employers”, Built-In NYC named Nomad one of the “Best Mid-Sized Companies To Work For” and Newsweek listed Nomad as one of 2021's Most Loved Workplaces. Our technology takes the busywork out of finding clinical work. We are a well-funded Series C startup backed by First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, .406 Ventures, Polaris Partners, Icon Ventures, Adams Street Partners, and Kevin Ryan (founder of MongoDB, Zola, Gilt, and DoubleClick). The U.S. healthcare system is experiencing a staffing crisis. Employers spend $20 billion per year recruiting clinicians to care for the rapidly aging U.S. population. Nomad replaces antiquated staffing agencies with modern technology to efficiently source, qualify, and hire medical talent on demand. Clinicians find better jobs with higher pay. Employers fill roles faster with higher quality care. Nomad is a fast growing team of technologists, creators, and industry experts passionate about modernizing healthcare staffing so clinicians can get back to the work they do best: caring for others.