Best Big Data Analytics Companies in Chicago, United States
The 32 best Big Data Analytics companies in Chicago, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Uptake.
Ranked: Best Big Data Analytics companies in Chicago
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uptake 🦄 Cloud-based platform for predictive analytics and asset performance management | $282M | 100 mo ago | Series D | 102 102 → 120 (+18%) | Bradley Keywell Co-Founder & Executive Chairman | 35 patents AI-driven predictive maintenance and asset performance analytics for industrial equipment | — |
| 2 | Ocient Provider of big data analytics platform | $161M | 18 mo ago | Series B | 140 140 → 240 (+71%) | Jason Arnold Co-Founder | 472 patents High-performance, massively parallel columnar database compression and query execution technologies | — |
| 3 | CMG Platform offering asset management solutions 45Funding top 24%Tech bottom 49%Growth bottom 48%Market bottom 47% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Techbottom 49% Growthbottom 48% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 27% Funding: Raised $32.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) Tech: 31 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $32M | 5 mo ago | Series C | 110 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Neurensic Regulatory compliance using Artificial Intelligence | $9M | 115 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 186 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Target Data Technology-enabled marketing intelligence solution | $7M | 107 mo ago | Series A | 25 | Ross Shelleman CEO & ex-Founder | — | — |
| 6 | NexLP Provider of a cloud based text analytics solution | $5M | 108 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 10 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Rippleshot Provider of AI-driven banking fraud analytics and detection platform solutions | $5M | 98 mo ago | Series A | 10 10 → 13 (+30%) | Yueyu Fu Co-Founder | — | — |
| 8 | Semantify Knowledge based Data Discovery and Analytics Platform | $3M | 125 mo ago | Series A | 25 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Tractiv Data lineage tracking and management solutions provider | $2M | 58 mo ago | Acquired | 13 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Equilo Provider of AI-powered platform delivering actionable insights from complex data | $225K | 93 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Jessica Menon Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 11 | DataForge Cloud based data pipeline development platform | $130K | 30 mo ago | Seed | — | Vadim Orlov Co-Founder | — | — |
| 12 | GeeYee Text analysis products for handling unstructured data | $102K | 198 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Tom Malkin Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 Big Data Analytics companies in Chicago
#1
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 110 employees$32.5Mraised▾
Platform offering asset management solutions. It offers a platform that connects buy-side and sell side in the capital market. It connects investors and underwriters via a platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, workflow collaboration, and more. It provides a digital system of record for firm wide deal activity and helps clients make informed decisions.
- May 2026Series C—
- Mar 2025Series C$30M
- Jan 2022Series B—
- Jun 2020Series B$25M
#2
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2016 · 140 employees$160.5Mraised▾
Provider of a big data analytics platform. It enables users to capture big data from different data sources and store data in the form of terabytes and petabytes. It allows users to analyze big data and helps organizations and individuals to improve business performance.
- Apr 2025Series B$48M
- Oct 2024Series B$2M
- Jan 2024Series B$47.8M
- Jul 2023Series B$24.4M
#3
Uptake 🦄Series D · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 102 employees$282.3Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform for predictive analytics and asset performance management. The company offerings include Asset Performance Management software and Uptake Fusion for OT data management on Microsoft Azure. These solutions predict failures, support ESG compliance, and reduce maintenance costs.
- 2018Series D—
- Nov 2017Series D$117M
- Apr 2017Series C$50M
- Feb 2017Series C$70.3M
#4
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 186 employees$9Mraised▾
Neurensic helps financial institutions reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance. It provides CORE, an intent-based surveillance solution which leverages AI to detect rogue trading, suspect trading behavior, fraud, and anomaly in trading activities to ensure regulatory compliance. It recognizes patterns of trading that are similar to regulatory inquiries and investigations, thereby helping organizations in identifying the same.
- Mar 2017Seed$1.8M
- Aug 2016Seed—
- Jul 2016Seed$225K
- Dec 2015Seed$500K
#5
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007 · 25 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Target Data is a big data firm that provides an end-to-end platform for integrated mover marketing solutions, powered by the most accurate, timely, and comprehensive pre-mover data available. Working with Target Data, businesses can accurately identify, deeply understand, and rapidly market to the greatest number of pre-movers. Target Data’s customers include hundreds of leading firms in moving and storage, banking, insurance, retail, appliance manufacturing, DIY, and cable MSO systems operators.
- Nov 2017Series A$1.1M
- Aug 2015Conventional Debt$1.5M
- Dec 2014Series A$2M
- Apr 2013Series A$3.4M
#6
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 10 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven banking fraud analytics and detection platform solutions. The platform helps financial institutions identify data breaches, high-risk merchants, and compromised cards. It enables users to reissue compromised cards, write decision rules for payment fraud detection, and identify compromised merchants and cards early. The platform gives access to data and tools to reduce card fraud.
- Aug 2018Series A$1.5M
- Feb 2017Series A$2.8M
- Dec 2015Seed$1.2M
- Apr 2015Seed—
#7
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 10 employees$5.1Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud based text analytics solution. It uses machine learning algorithms for natural language processing in its proprietary story engine. The engine can be used to transform the electronic unstructured data into searchable profiles about people, places, and events. It can also identify the trends and use them to provide actionable insights.
- Oct 2017Series A$3M
- Aug 2014Seed$2M
- May 2014Seed$118K
#8
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 13 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Data lineage tracking and management solutions provider. It provides a business intelligence platform that offers software to simplify and secure the companies data management needs. It also provides solutions such as data usage tracking, data optimization, and real-time analytics, tracking of data workflows with immutable reporting, etc.
- Dec 2021Seed$2.2M
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2023$130Kraised▾
Cloud based data pipeline development platform. It leverages functional code to build and manage data pipelines. The platform orchestrates the data pipelines to streamline the workflow, and perform analysis. Features include data orchestration and observability solutions.
- May 2024Seed$130K
#10
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2008 · 25 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Semantify provides data discovery and analytics platform for both enterprise and consumer web applications. Integrates advanced analytics, natural language, and machine learning to provide insights in real-time. Open platform enables the creation of knowledge applications. End users can use free form queries to perform ad hoc discovery and analytics across multiple data sources.
- May 2016Series A—
- Sep 2010Seed$1.6M
- Aug 2010Conventional Debt$1M
- Oct 2008Seed$2.2M
#11
Funding Raised · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017$224.8Kraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform delivering actionable insights from complex data. It assists organizations in identifying and addressing economic inefficiencies. The platform supports decision-making related to economic empowerment and portfolio risk assessment. It enables businesses, investors, and governments to optimize capital allocation.
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$224.8K
#12
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2006$102.5Kraised▾
GeeYee offers data analytics products that are used to analyze text such as opinions, reviews, and comments. The platforms are used to quantify unstructured data of text to discover or compare a product's features. Its clients are advertising agencies, associations, and marketing research companies.
- Apr 2010Seed$102.5K
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