This article showcases our top picks for the best Chicago based FinTech (Financial Technology) companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the FinTech (Financial Technology) industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Chicago FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Watch Insiders
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Watch Insiders is a platform that provides trading patterns and trends to invest in particular stock.
Elementrade
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Customer-Focused Hybrid Wealth Management Firm
Firelily
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Firelily is the most efficient way for people impacted by disaster to recovery their financial losses.
Terry Savage Productions
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Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance, the markets.
Squirrel & Company
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Squirrel & Company provides financial educational tools for children.
CardSmart
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CardSmart is a fintech platform that offers solutions to merchant payments, transaction security, mobile payments, and POS systems.
PropertyGo
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The simple way to apply to the top lenders in commercial real estate.
PeerTrader
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Deck Technologies is a technology and analytics company that provides investment automation solutions for peer-to-peer lenders.
Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C.
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Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment management firm focused on equity long/short investing.
Backersphere
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Invest in impact and socially-responsible startups.
Smarteys
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Smarteys is an online application that helps people manage their finances by paycheck.
K+H Connection
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K+H Connection is a wide platform that specializes in offering gift cards, payment, security and other fintech solutions to its customers.
eStreetCap
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Boutique investment banking for young and growth companies (seed to pre-ipo).
FinTank
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FinTank is a Chicago based FinTech community with a physical space in the Chicago loop.
VirtualTrade
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Trading Visualization, Analysis, & Execution Platform
Zabana Technologies
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A FinTech development firm that incubates and monetizes cutting-edge, analytics-intense solutions for the financial sector
Enhanced Investment Partners
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Enhanced Investment Partners offers analysis, enhanced dynamic moderate active, passive, and alternative income investment funds services.
Finom
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Finom is an online platform that enables users to find and hire investment advisors suiting their specific financial circumstances.
VentureUP
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VentureUP is an accelerator network for rising VCs investing in the Midwest.
Metrixx
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Metrixx is a real-time financial engine that develops service management and mobile field service software solutions.
Kinsella Group
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Kinsella Group is a middle-market investment bank and business advisory group, helping clients grow, generate liquidity
LevelTradingField.com
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Online collection of financial applications for traders and finance professionals
4Access Communications
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4Access Communications, a private company, produces revolutionary point-of-transaction systems.
X Change Financial Access
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X-Change Financial Access is an industry-leading agency trade execution and one-stop access for market information services.
Bond Lab
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Bond Lab delivers fixed income analytics to market participants using technology to analyze market data and lower costs for customers.
FinanceFuel
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FinanceFuel provides capital to small & medium sized business based on their invoices in a simple & easy to use online platform
Mosaique
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Next-generation post-trade platforms leveraging distributed ledger technology for increased straight-through-processing.
Matrix Executions
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Matrix Executions is a financial service company.
Chicago Venture Summit
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Chicago Venture Summit is an event that showcases the best early-stage tech companies in the Midwest.
Hinsdale Bank & Trust
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Hinsdale Bank & Trust is a community bank based in Illinois.
ConnectedHealth
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ConnectedHealth drives corporate growth by making it easy for employees to be healthy and financially secure.
FT Options
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FT Options offers a suite of customizable, automated, and integrated applications.
FinTech Ranger
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FinTech Ranger provides executive training, capital, and customer acquisition solutions for the fintech sector.
AlgoFast
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Automated News Trading for the Individual Investor
Greenline Financial Technologies
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Greenline Financial Technologies is an online database that focuses on information in the global financial sector.
Forseva
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Forseva develops cloud computing apps that enable companies to assess customer credit risk, automate credit monitoring, and more.
FX-EDGE Trading Venue
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FX-EDGE Trading Venue is a financial technology company that provides a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Portfolio123
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Single destination to manage your investment accounts. Financial Research platform to create, backtest, and manage stock and ETF strategies.
Fundology
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Fundology is a high security M&A project management platform for complex transactions and due diligence.
Emotomy
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Emotomy is a digital platform that helps financial advisors in building, managing and marketing their investment strategies.
Toodalu
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Toodalu builds custom mobile applications with integrated loyalty programs.
Spendbot
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Spendbot is a personal financial execution solution, allowing its users to create spending plans, optimize, and continue with them.
BlockArrow Capital
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BlockArrow Capital is a digital asset fund focused on research and investment of innovative blockchain projects.
BornTec
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BornTec is a fintech company that provides software and managed hosting solutions to solve the Capital Markets industry challenges.
Lihtec Funding
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A SaaS-enabled marketplace (SEM) for affordable housing development.
BlazePortfolio
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Investment Automation for Investment Advisors
FinTech Forge
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Innovation enablement for fintech and financial sevices
FinTEx
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FinTex Chicago is a member-driven organization seeking to expand Chicago’s role as a center of innovation in financial services.
Heartland Alliance
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Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty organization that offers housing, healthcare, jobs, and justice for people with financial problems.
Colonnade Advisors LLC
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Collonade Advisors provides expert advice on mergers and acquisitions and capital raises.
Encina group
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Encina Business Credit provides safe asset based lending options for middle market companies nationwide.
Yezzi
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Yezzi is a socially-oriented money transfer platform for underbanked consumers to send remittances to their families.
Eagle Seven
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Eagle Seven is a capital markets company specializing in the algorithmic trading platform.
Alertatron
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Alertatron is an automated algorithmic trading service platform for digital asset markets, with a trading strategy.
7QUBES
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SaaS, FinTech, Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, AI, ERP
InHub
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InHub is the investment community’s #1 RFP and DDQ management platform.
Aiolux
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Automated Investment Research using Quant Finance, Statistics& AI / ML. (Think Bloomberg meets AWS)
Chama Capital
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Chama Capital is a financial technology platform designed to increase access to capital for women-owned small businesses.
American Homeowner Preservation
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AHP offers a wide range of viable long-term solutions that have helped hundreds of families stay in their homes.
Sensefolio
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Artificial Intelligence ESG Data startup specialized in socially responsible investment #AI #ESG #SRI #AM #FinTech
Performant Capital
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Performant Capital is a Chicago-based investment firm focused on majority and buyout investments in technology-driven companies.
tradeMONSTER
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tradeMONSTER is a financial services company that offers online brokering services to its clients.
Visionary Financial (VF)
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Revolutionizing digital asset media and introducing first to market decentralized crypto sector investing
Beaxy Exchange
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Beaxy is the new generation of cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange
Owl
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Owl is a online financial advisors accessible and affordable to everyone, no matter the individual’s current financial situation.
Peeptrade
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Peeptrade is a social network and financial information platform where you can “peep” into the success of the best investors!
Genivity
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Genivity is a platform that tracks and predicts family health risks to help financial advisors better serve their clients.
Uvamo
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Uvamo is a marketplace that enables those seeking insurance and investment returns to interact with each other.
Advyzon
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Advyzon is a cloud-based platform for investment advisors that combines portfolio management, flexible performance reporting.
Cambio
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Cambio is an enablement banking and financial habit-building app for the underserved
WH Trading
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WH Trading is a software development company with a focus on trading programs.
Thinkorswim Group
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Thinkorswim Group is an online broker that offers live and internet-based options trade services.
Chicago Board Options Exchange
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Chicago Board Options Exchange, located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange
Digs
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Digs offers financial tools that empower consumers to build wealth through their home.
Anasova
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Anasova creates tools so people can maximize life and minimize financial stress. Our primary offering is a free financial plan.
Itexus
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Itexus is a one-stop shop for teams of Ruby (on Rails), .NET & mobile developers with a strong focus on custom-tailored enterprise apps.
Redstone
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Redstone is a fintech company that offers lending solutions.
Red Fog
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We are driven to help mature the crypto asset class through lowering the barriers to entry for millions of new participants.
Ipox Schuster
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IPOX Schuster is an independent research-driven financial services firm.
Founder’s CPA
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Founder’s CPA is an accounting firm that helps startups with outsourced accounting, tax, and CFO work.
Base Capital
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Income Share Agreement company integrating artificial intelligence into the servicing of ISAs.
CLOUDQUANT, LLC
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CloudQuant a powerful and comprehensive data + tech+ research + distribution platform for investors and corporate clients
TISI Corporation
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Delaware C-Corp in Travel, FinTech & Telecom industry.
truCrowd
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truCrowd is a funding portal that enables non-accredited investors to invest in startups.
Strategic Systems International
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SaaS, Advanced Analytics, Apps, Software Development
KAOSHI
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We build financial technologies that enable banks and financial institutions offer bespoke financial services to immigrants in the diaspora.
SpringFour
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SpringFour’s technology platform connects consumers to local financial health resources, tools and products. SpringFour is a B2B solution.
Hehmeyer
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Hehmeyer is a proprietary trading firm that provides trading advisory services.
Green Key Technologies
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GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Decred
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Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.
umaproject
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UMA is a decentralized financial contracts platform.
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