Best Business Intelligence Companies in Illinois, United States
The 62 best Business Intelligence companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mu Sigma.
Ranked: Best Business Intelligence companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mu Sigma 🦄 Visual data analytics platform for enterprises | $211M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Priyanka Ashok Co-Founder | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 143 patents Additive manufacturing process monitoring, quality control, and sensor-based defect detection | 1 award |
| 2 | Ocient Provider of big data analytics platform | $161M | 14 mo ago | Series B | Jason Arnold Co-Founder | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+22 | 472 patents High‑performance columnar database analytics with advanced compression, query optimization, and scaling. | 1 award |
| 3 | Adeptia Cloud based data integration platform for enterprises | $65M | 39 mo ago | Series C | Charles Nardi CEO | 2000 | SanityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29 | — | — |
| 4 | Narrative Science Provider of an AI-based content creation solution | $48M | 110 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Aginity Cloud based collaborative analytics software for enterprises | $14M | 125 mo ago | Acquired | Rick Hall CEO | 2005 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Tackle AI powered text data analytics platform for enterprises | $11M | 24 mo ago | Series B | Joe Stecher Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | 2 patents Adjustable tension-controlled line release mechanisms for kite and fishing applications. | — |
| 7 | NexLP Provider of a cloud based text analytics solution | $5M | 104 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Cognida AI powered predictive data analytics platform | $5M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Pavan Tadepalli Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer | 2022 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+24 | — | 2 launchs |
| 9 | Tada.today Cloud based visual data analytics platform | $4M | 69 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Semantify Knowledge based Data Discovery and Analytics Platform | $3M | 121 mo ago | Series A | — | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Tractiv Data lineage tracking and management solutions provider | $2M | 54 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2019 | Node.jsChakra UIReact+7 | — | — |
| 12 | iQuest Provider of a platform offering semantic search and analytics | $2M | 193 mo ago | Deadpooled | Josh Rosenthal Founder & Chairman | 2004 | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 13 | PulsOps Provider of a platform offering decision support software | $174K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Nitin Garg Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 14 | DataForge Cloud based data pipeline development platform | $130K | 25 mo ago | Seed | Vadim Orlov Co-Founder | 2023 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | — | — |
Top 12 Business Intelligence companies in Illinois
#1
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
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2000 · 20 employees$65Mraised▾
Cloud based data integration platform for enterprises. It leverages AI that enables users to create a cloud to cloud business integrations using data exchange and mapping, data transformation, and data integration with customers, partners, and suppliers. Features include monitoring data performance, dashboard analytics, information templates, a centralized message center, data protocols, and more.
- Mar 2023Series C$65M
#6
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2010 · 64 employees$47.5Mraised▾
Narrative Science provides an AI-based content creation solution. Offers Lexio, that helps organizations analyze data and transform it into narrative reports. Uses artificial intelligence to mine data for meaning and provides insights to automatically generate relevant communications that are easy to understand. Provides solutions to improve decision making, create new information products and optimize customer interactions across many industries, including financial services, insurance, government, sports, and marketing services. Customers include Alpha, Fike, Freight Verify and more.
- Apr 2017Series D$11M
- Nov 2014Series C$10M
- Sep 2013Series C$11.5M
- May 2013Series B$5M
#7
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
#8
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
#9
Series A · Peoria, Illinois · founded 2016 · 96 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Cloud based visual data analytics platform. It allows users to analyze and visualize the datasets in real time. The analysis provides insights to support the decision making process. It aggregates data from different sources to support analysis and decision making process.
- Sep 2020Series A$250K
- Jan 2020Series A$3M
- Jan 2017Seed$450K
#10
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
#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
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
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