chicago-startups
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Betsperts Built a Sports Media Portfolio by Learning When to Leave Good Communities Alone
The Chicago company raised millions to build a social betting app. Its more durable idea was quieter: buy beloved niche sports brands, keep their identities intact and sell useful tools to the fans who already live there.
The $3 SIM That Turned Carrier Chaos Into a Global IoT Business
Hologram sells 'phone plans for things that aren't phones.' Its real product is relief: one SIM, one dashboard, and fewer 2 a.m. calls when a carrier goes dark.
Trala Taught a Phone to Hear a Violin - and Learned Where Software Stops
The Chicago startup began with an algorithm and a bad assumption about its customer. Its pivot from grading violinists to teaching adult beginners is a useful playbook for any founder turning expert craft into software.
PatientIQ
PatientIQ is a Chicago-based healthcare technology company that builds a cloud platform for systematically collecting, measuring, and analyzing patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Founded in 2016 by Matthew Gitelis, the company connects hospitals, health systems, private practices, and medical device makers on a single EHR-integrated system that turns outcomes data into actionable clinical and operational intelligence. PatientIQ has grown to serve more than 200 healthcare organizations and has collected outcomes data from over 1.4 million patients.