Best Big Data Analytics Companies in Illinois, United States
The 45 best Big Data Analytics companies in Illinois, 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 Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Stage | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uptake 🦄 Cloud-based platform for predictive analytics and asset performance management | $282M | 98 mo ago | 102 102 → 120 (+18%) | Bradley Keywell Co-Founder & Executive Chairman | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+22 | Series D | 35 patents Predictive maintenance analytics and optimization for industrial asset performance and failure prevention. | — |
| 2 | Mu Sigma 🦄 Visual data analytics platform for enterprises | $211M | 28 mo ago | 2,312 2,312 → 3,604 (+56%) | Priyanka Ashok Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Series C | 143 patents Additive manufacturing process monitoring, quality control, and sensor-based defect detection | 1 award |
| 3 | Ocient Provider of big data analytics platform | $161M | 16 mo ago | 140 140 → 240 (+71%) | Jason Arnold Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+22 | Series B | 472 patents High‑performance columnar database analytics with advanced compression, query optimization, and scaling. | 1 award |
| 4 | 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 | 3 mo ago | 110 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+28 | Series C | — | — |
| 5 | Aginity Cloud based collaborative analytics software for enterprises | $14M | 127 mo ago | 12 | Rick Hall CEO | — | Acquired | — | — |
| 6 | Tackle AI powered text data analytics platform for enterprises | $11M | 25 mo ago | 42 | Joe Stecher Founder & CEO | — | Series B | 2 patents Adjustable tension-controlled line release mechanisms for kite and fishing applications. | — |
| 7 | Neurensic Regulatory compliance using Artificial Intelligence | $9M | 113 mo ago | 186 | — | — | Acqui-Hired | — | — |
| 8 | Target Data Technology-enabled marketing intelligence solution | $7M | 105 mo ago | 25 | Ross Shelleman CEO & ex-Founder | — | Series A | — | — |
| 9 | NexLP Provider of a cloud based text analytics solution | $5M | 105 mo ago | 10 | — | — | Acqui-Hired | — | — |
| 10 | Rippleshot Provider of AI-driven banking fraud analytics and detection platform solutions | $5M | 96 mo ago | 10 10 → 13 (+30%) | Yueyu Fu Co-Founder | Webflowcore-jsSwiper+16 | Series A | — | — |
| 11 | Cognida AI powered predictive data analytics platform | $5M | 18 mo ago | 111 | Pavan Tadepalli Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+24 | Series A | — | 2 launchs |
| 12 | Semantify Knowledge based Data Discovery and Analytics Platform | $3M | 123 mo ago | 25 | — | — | Series A | — | — |
| 13 | Tractiv Data lineage tracking and management solutions provider | $2M | 56 mo ago | 13 | — | Node.jsChakra UIReact+7 | Acquired | — | — |
| 14 | iQuest Provider of a platform offering semantic search and analytics | $2M | 195 mo ago | — | Josh Rosenthal Founder & Chairman | — | Deadpooled | 4 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 15 | Equilo Provider of AI-powered platform delivering actionable insights from complex data | $225K | 90 mo ago | — | Jessica Menon Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactHubSpot Chat+12 | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 16 | DataForge Cloud based data pipeline development platform | $130K | 27 mo ago | — | Vadim Orlov Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | Seed | — | — |
| 17 | GeeYee Text analysis products for handling unstructured data | $102K | 196 mo ago | — | Tom Malkin Co-Founder | — | Deadpooled | — | — |
Top 12 Big Data Analytics companies in Illinois
#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
Mu Sigma 🦄Series C · Northbrook, Illinois · founded 2004 · 2312 employees$210.8Mraised▾
Visual data analytics platform for enterprises. It enables users to analyze data and generate insights that support businesses in the decision-making process. It provides solutions such as data engineering, data science, and decision science. It offers a problem-solving system to improve decision-making through analytical models and visual frameworks.
- Apr 2024Series C$2M
- Feb 2013Series C$45M
- Dec 2011Series C$108M
- Apr 2011Series C$25.8M
#4
Series A · Lincolnshire, Illinois · founded 2022 · 111 employees$4.7Mraised▾
AI powered predictive data analytics platform. It offers predictive analytics solutions that allows users to analyze the data, and predict the outcomes in real time. The analysis provides insights to support the decision making process. It leverages computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI to convert unstructured data into insights.
- Feb 2025Series A$15M
- Oct 2022Seed$4.7M
#5
Series B · Schaumburg, Illinois · founded 2017 · 42 employees$10.8Mraised▾
AI powered text data analytics platform for enterprises. It leverages AI that discovers and structures data from documents. The platform processes and analyzes unstructured data and documents to derive insights for decision making. It caters its solution to industries such as legal, healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity. Features include workflow automation, data discovery, extraction and validation, datasets and records management, review summaries, and more.
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$150K
- Dec 2022Series B$6.1M
- Jun 2022Series A$1M
- Nov 2021Series A$3M
#6
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
#7
Acquired · Evanston, Illinois · founded 2005 · 12 employees$13.8Mraised▾
Aginity provides collaborative analytics software for enterprises. It provides a platform to manage data across hybrid and multi cloud database systems and with its innovative active catalog, data engineers & analytic stewards users can curate, govern, and promote the most SQL assets with role based governance. It also has an attributed workbench that allows the user to segment data by attributes using HQL Hadoop query language. Its clients include Homemakers and Orkin.
- Dec 2015Series B$12M
- May 2015Series A$275K
- Jan 2015Series A$1.5M
#8
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
#9
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
#10
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—
#11
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
#12
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
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