in

101 Top FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups & Projects (Illinois)

This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois 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 Illinois FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Watch Insiders

Watch Insiders

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Watch Insiders is a platform that provides trading patterns and trends to invest in particular stock.

Elementrade

Elementrade

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Customer-Focused Hybrid Wealth Management Firm

Elementrade

Firelily

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Firelily is the most efficient way for people impacted by disaster to recovery their financial losses.

Elementrade

Terry Savage Productions

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance, the markets.

Elementrade

Squirrel & Company

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Squirrel & Company provides financial educational tools for children.

Elementrade

micredito

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Technology-based consumer lending

Elementrade

CardSmart

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CardSmart is a fintech platform that offers solutions to merchant payments, transaction security, mobile payments, and POS systems.

Elementrade

FIZYX Investment Group

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FIZYX Investment Group provides financial and investment services.

Elementrade

Fyorin

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Fyorin is a Fintech company that accepts online payments.

Elementrade

PropertyGo

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

The simple way to apply to the top lenders in commercial real estate.

Elementrade

PeerTrader

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Deck Technologies is a technology and analytics company that provides investment automation solutions for peer-to-peer lenders.

Elementrade

The Solent Growth Hub

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Solent Growth Hub offers businesses with information, loans, grants, advice, and support to help them grow their ventures.

Elementrade

Cathedral Stock Transfer LLC

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

The Leading Stock Transfer Agency for the Microcap Community

Elementrade

Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C.

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment management firm focused on equity long/short investing.

Elementrade

Backersphere

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Invest in impact and socially-responsible startups.

Elementrade

Smarteys

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Smarteys is an online application that helps people manage their finances by paycheck.

Elementrade

Give Mortgage, Inc

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FinTech

Elementrade

K+H Connection

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

K+H Connection is a wide platform that specializes in offering gift cards, payment, security and other fintech solutions to its customers.

Elementrade

Citizen Camp

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Next Gen PFM

Elementrade

eStreetCap

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Boutique investment banking for young and growth companies (seed to pre-ipo).

Elementrade

FinTank

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FinTank is a Chicago based FinTech community with a physical space in the Chicago loop.

Elementrade

VirtualTrade

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Trading Visualization, Analysis, & Execution Platform

Elementrade

Zabana Technologies

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A FinTech development firm that incubates and monetizes cutting-edge, analytics-intense solutions for the financial sector

Elementrade

Enhanced Investment Partners

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Enhanced Investment Partners offers analysis, enhanced dynamic moderate active, passive, and alternative income investment funds services.

Elementrade

PayNet Inc

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

PayNet is a provider of credit ratings on small businesses.

Elementrade

UFT Commercial Finance

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

UFT Commercial Finance expertise in credit acquisition and credit participation certificate for credit asset classes & cashless investments.

Elementrade

Finom

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Finom is an online platform that enables users to find and hire investment advisors suiting their specific financial circumstances.

Elementrade

VentureUP

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

VentureUP is an accelerator network for rising VCs investing in the Midwest.

Elementrade

Tight Ship Advisors, Inc.

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Tech Enabled Concierge Service for Home, Health & Lifestyle

Elementrade

Metrixx

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Metrixx is a real-time financial engine that develops service management and mobile field service software solutions.

Elementrade

Swarm

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Investing powered by collective intelligence

Elementrade

Kinsella Group

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kinsella Group is a middle-market investment bank and business advisory group, helping clients grow, generate liquidity

Elementrade

LevelTradingField.com

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Online collection of financial applications for traders and finance professionals

Elementrade

4Access Communications

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

4Access Communications, a private company, produces revolutionary point-of-transaction systems.

Elementrade

X Change Financial Access

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

X-Change Financial Access is an industry-leading agency trade execution and one-stop access for market information services.

Elementrade

Bond Lab

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Bond Lab delivers fixed income analytics to market participants using technology to analyze market data and lower costs for customers.

Elementrade

BitAML

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

BitAML is a provider of compliance services for bitcoin ATM operators, exchanges, lenders and other innovative platforms.

Elementrade

FinanceFuel

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FinanceFuel provides capital to small & medium sized business based on their invoices in a simple & easy to use online platform

Elementrade

Olympus Fintech

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Olympus Fintech provides tools for asset management including investor relations, financial reporting and accounting for organizations.

Elementrade

Mosaique

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Next-generation post-trade platforms leveraging distributed ledger technology for increased straight-through-processing.

Elementrade

Matrix Executions

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Matrix Executions is a financial service company.

Elementrade

Chicago Venture Summit

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Chicago Venture Summit is an event that showcases the best early-stage tech companies in the Midwest.

Elementrade

Hinsdale Bank & Trust

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Hinsdale Bank & Trust is a community bank based in Illinois.

Elementrade

ConnectedHealth

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

ConnectedHealth drives corporate growth by making it easy for employees to be healthy and financially secure.

Elementrade

FT Options

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FT Options offers a suite of customizable, automated, and integrated applications.

Elementrade

Menerva Software

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Building AI-enabled lending solutions for Banks and Credit Unions

Elementrade

FinTech Ranger

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FinTech Ranger provides executive training, capital, and customer acquisition solutions for the fintech sector.

Elementrade

AlgoFast

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Automated News Trading for the Individual Investor

Elementrade

Earthmover Credit Union

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Earthmover Credit Union helps people earn higher returns on their savings accounts while saving them money in loan rates and service fees.

Elementrade

Theorem Technologies

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

SaaS for Post-Trade Data Management

Elementrade

Greenline Financial Technologies

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Greenline Financial Technologies is an online database that focuses on information in the global financial sector.

Elementrade

Vertical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Construction SaaS + Fintech

Elementrade

Forseva

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Forseva develops cloud computing apps that enable companies to assess customer credit risk, automate credit monitoring, and more.

Elementrade

Mosendo

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Borderless access to money and wealth, with decentralized personal finance tools.

Elementrade

Connect Lending

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A marketplace connecting business and lenders across 42 different loan types

Elementrade

Business Lending Solutions

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Business Lending Solutions is a fintech company which provides Loan located in Libertyville.

Elementrade

National Loan Exchange

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

National Loan Exchange is the largest volume broker of charged off receivables in the United State Canada.

Elementrade

FX-EDGE Trading Venue

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FX-EDGE Trading Venue is a financial technology company that provides a cryptocurrency trading platform.

Elementrade

Portfolio123

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Single destination to manage your investment accounts. Financial Research platform to create, backtest, and manage stock and ETF strategies.

Elementrade

Fundology

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Fundology is a high security M&A project management platform for complex transactions and due diligence.

Elementrade

Emotomy

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Emotomy is a digital platform that helps financial advisors in building, managing and marketing their investment strategies.

Elementrade

Healthcare Growth Partners – HGP

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Healthcare Growth Partners provides investment banking and strategic advisory services to small- and mid-sized, high-growth companies.

Elementrade

Toodalu

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Toodalu builds custom mobile applications with integrated loyalty programs.

Elementrade

Spendbot

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Spendbot is a personal financial execution solution, allowing its users to create spending plans, optimize, and continue with them.

Elementrade

Fidus Investment Corporation.

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Fidus Investment Corporation is a business development company specializing in leveraged buyouts, refinancings,

Elementrade

Global Material Technologies

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

GMT is to optimize the long-term economic values of our assets and resources while meeting our responsibilities to our customers, investors.

Elementrade

Healthcare Insights

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

INSIGHTS® financial management software solution puts relevant, micro-level data directly

Elementrade

DealDock

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

DealDock is a SaaS platform to automate deal flow management and improve analytics for middle-market private equity firms.

Elementrade

BlockArrow Capital

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

BlockArrow Capital is a digital asset fund focused on research and investment of innovative blockchain projects.

Elementrade

Best Money Moves

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Best Money Moves provides a financial wellness platform for employers to provide tools to improve financial health for their staff.

Elementrade

BornTec

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

BornTec is a fintech company that provides software and managed hosting solutions to solve the Capital Markets industry challenges.

Elementrade

Lihtec Funding

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A SaaS-enabled marketplace (SEM) for affordable housing development.

Elementrade

PayNet LLC

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Cash + E-wallet Smart Kiosks like QIWI+PayPal

Elementrade

OnBoard Finance

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Financial Models on Demand

Elementrade

BlazePortfolio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Investment Automation for Investment Advisors

Elementrade

FinTech Forge

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Innovation enablement for fintech and financial sevices

Elementrade

FinTEx

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FinTex Chicago is a member-driven organization seeking to expand Chicago’s role as a center of innovation in financial services.

Elementrade

Heartland Alliance

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty organization that offers housing, healthcare, jobs, and justice for people with financial problems.

Elementrade

Colonnade Advisors LLC

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Collonade Advisors provides expert advice on mergers and acquisitions and capital raises.

Elementrade

CFO Base

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Digital CFO and CPA services providing solutions for business and individuals in accounting, tax, payroll, finance and business management

Elementrade

Encina group

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Encina Business Credit provides safe asset based lending options for middle market companies nationwide.

Elementrade

Yezzi

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Yezzi is a socially-oriented money transfer platform for underbanked consumers to send remittances to their families.

Elementrade

Eagle Seven

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Eagle Seven is a capital markets company specializing in the algorithmic trading platform.

Elementrade

BLUECHXP

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Mobile App | Gamified Stock Market Education

Elementrade

Haven Protocol

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Haven is a novel cryptocurrency that enables holders to remove all traces of their tokens from the blockchain.

Elementrade

Alertatron

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Alertatron is an automated algorithmic trading service platform for digital asset markets, with a trading strategy.

Elementrade

7QUBES

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

SaaS, FinTech, Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, AI, ERP

Elementrade

InHub

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

InHub is the investment community’s #1 RFP and DDQ management platform.

Elementrade

Aiolux

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Automated Investment Research using Quant Finance, Statistics& AI / ML. (Think Bloomberg meets AWS)

Elementrade

Chama Capital

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Chama Capital is a financial technology platform designed to increase access to capital for women-owned small businesses.

Elementrade

American Homeowner Preservation

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

AHP offers a wide range of viable long-term solutions that have helped hundreds of families stay in their homes.

Elementrade

Sensefolio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Artificial Intelligence ESG Data startup specialized in socially responsible investment #AI #ESG #SRI #AM #FinTech

Elementrade

Liventus

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Liventus offers software solutions in fintech, CRM, paperless office systems, financing & leasing as well as loyalty & engagement.

Elementrade

Performant Capital

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Performant Capital is a Chicago-based investment firm focused on majority and buyout investments in technology-driven companies.

Elementrade

tradeMONSTER

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

tradeMONSTER is a financial services company that offers online brokering services to its clients.

Elementrade

Visionary Financial (VF)

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Revolutionizing digital asset media and introducing first to market decentralized crypto sector investing

Elementrade

Beaxy Exchange

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Beaxy is the new generation of cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange

Elementrade

Owl

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Owl is a online financial advisors accessible and affordable to everyone, no matter the individual’s current financial situation.

Elementrade

Amplify ETFs

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Amplify ETFs is an investment firm that supports financial advisors and investors across its product line.

Elementrade

Peeptrade

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Peeptrade is a social network and financial information platform where you can “peep” into the success of the best investors!

Elementrade

Genivity

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Genivity is a platform that tracks and predicts family health risks to help financial advisors better serve their clients.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

GIPHY App Key not set. Please check settings

101 Top FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups & Projects (Massachusetts)

101 Top FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups & Projects (Tel Aviv)