Best Facility Management Tech Companies in Illinois, United States
The 64 best Facility Management Tech companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SMS Assist.
Ranked: Best Facility Management Tech companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMS Assist 🦄 Provider of SaaS-driven maintenance management solutions for commercial spaces | $255M | 120 mo ago | Acquired | Jay McKee CEO | 2003 | Apple iCloud MailEnvoyBootstrap+8 | 4 patents Software algorithms for defining and managing geographic service area boundaries | — |
| 2 | Univa Data center optimization and HPC workload management solution | $46M | 107 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Rheaply SaaS-driven procurement management software | $35M | 14 mo ago | Series B | Garry Cooper Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | — | — |
| 4 | Cohesion Provider of a platform for smart building management and operations 48Growth top 20%Funding top 35%Tech top 37%Talent top 38% All 12 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Fundingtop 35% Techtop 37% Talenttop 38% Moattop 41% Producttop 47% Globalbottom 40% Innovationbottom 36% Marketbottom 35% Patentsbottom 34% Newsbottom 21% Customersbottom 9% Growth: Headcount 21 → 44 (+110%) across vintages · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo Funding: Raised $30.2M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 6 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $30M | 7 mo ago | Series A | Nick Lawrence Co-Founder | 2018 | WebflowZohoZepto+25 | 3 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | FreshAir Sensor Developer of an air-sensor device to detect tobacco and marijuana smoke 55Talent top 22%Moat top 31%Innovation top 35%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾Talenttop 22% Moattop 31% Innovationtop 35% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 38% Patentstop 38% Producttop 40% Techtop 48% Marketbottom 32% Globalbottom 31% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 3 named leaders on record Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 15 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $12M | 19 mo ago | Series B | John O'Toole Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 15 patents Selective VOC and gas sensing using molecularly imprinted polymer sensor technologies | — |
| 6 | Buildings As Batteries Developer of thermal energy storage system for commercial building applications | $8M | 95 mo ago | Series A | Gregor Henze Co-Founder | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Goby SaaS-driven platform offering energy management solutions | $7M | 64 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2008 | — | 2 patents Modular hygienic inductive charging stands for handheld electronic devices | — |
| 8 | Sigora International Provider of smart micro grid platform and smart meters | $3M | 102 mo ago | Seed | Andy Bogdan Bindea Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Indie Energy Provider of geothermal heating and cooling solutions | $2M | 199 mo ago | Funding Raised | Eric Schrock CEO | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Eta Vision Offers data center energy management solutions | $2M | 96 mo ago | Seed | Michael Lingle CEO & Cofounder | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 11 | iTRACS AI-enhanced DCIM solution for smarter, data-driven infrastructure management | $2M | 194 mo ago | Acquired | James Sherrin CEO & Director | 1987 | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | 33 patents Monitoring and diagnosing data port connection patterns in hardware interfaces | — |
| 12 | Route SaaS-driven business management platform for the building services industry | $100K | 47 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ricardo Regalado Founder & CEO | 2007 | WordPress Site EditorElementorWordPress+32 | 5 patents Remote desktop access solutions and email message rerouting technologies | — |
Top 12 Facility Management Tech companies in Illinois
#1
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 44 employees$30.2Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for smart building management and operations. The platform offers solutions for access control, experience enhancement, and maintenance. It consolidates data from building systems, software, and sensors into a unified platform. The platform also provides advisory services for planning, solution design, and system integrations.
- Nov 2025Series A$250K
- Nov 2021Series A$15M
- Jul 2021Seed$7M
- Jul 2020Seed$8.2M
#2
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2016 · 71 employees$35.5Mraised▾
SaaS-driven procurement management software. The company offers 'Rheaply AxM' - an online inventory management software, which enables organizations to lower procurement and storage costs and manage their assets. Features include automated listings, automated notification & messages, and automated reporting.
- Apr 2025Series B$1M
- Mar 2023Series B$15.2K
- Jun 2022Series B$20M
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$100K
#3
Series B · Lebanon, Illinois · founded 2013 · 36 employees$11.8Mraised▾
Developer of an air-sensor device to detect tobacco and marijuana smoke. It provides a two-plug adapter that fits over existing wall outlets and leverages Wi-Fi to send infraction information to a central monitoring system, which results in an email to the admin. Its device comprises polymer sensors that detect specific airborne chemicals like the biological receptors in the human body that is by binding only with the target molecule, making them sensitive and specific and resetting when the target molecules are cleared. It also provides an app that allows users to monitor the detection of smoke.
- Nov 2024Series B$3.7M
- May 2023Series A$1M
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jan 2019Series A$3.5M
#4
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2003 · 782 employees$255Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-driven maintenance management solutions for commercial spaces. It integrates clients, affiliates, and employees in one online tech-enabled platform. It offers various managed like vendor management, facility management, work order management, call center management, quality assurance, and asset management. It also offers training and education programs to its technicians.
- Jun 2016Series D$150M
- May 2015Series C$45M
- Oct 2013Series B$45M
- Jun 2011Series A$15M
#5
Acquired · Hoffman Estates, Illinois · founded 2004 · 12 employees$46.4Mraised▾
Univa offers data center optimization and HPC workload management solution. The company's product offering is gridEngine, an HPC workload management solution. Also offers tools to provide optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. The products are used to improve resource sharing, amplify the efficiency of people and processes, and increase application and license utilization. The company offers an integrated product set for managing shared, high-demand data center resources ranging from workload management to policy-driven provisioning across physical, virtual and cloud resources.
- Jun 2017Series C$3.5M
- Oct 2015Series C$250K
- May 2014Series C$500K
- Feb 2012Series C$10.4M
#6
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2008 · 33 employees$7.4Mraised▾
SaaS-driven platform offering energy management solutions. The platform helps building owners, architects, management companies, tenant representatives, tenants, and contractors integrate green thinking into their decision-making processes and policies. It facilitates owners to manage their entire portfolio on the cloud, turning data into actionable information.
- Jan 2021Series A$1.9M
- Sep 2019Series A—
- Dec 2015Series A$5M
- Aug 2014Seed$500K
#7
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007$7.6Mraised▾
Developer of thermal energy storage system for commercial building applications. The system utilizes building materials as a thermal energy storage medium. It manages thermal load profiles to reduce energy consumption. The system aims to reduce carbon emissions as a byproduct.
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Jul 2011Series A$7.2M
- Oct 2010Seed$450K
#8
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 36 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Sigora International has developed a smart microgrid management system enabled with smart meters for rural households and microgrid areas. It offers proprietary pre-pay enabled smart meters and cloud-based network system which can identify thefts, demand control with secure RF communications. Its subsidiary Signora Haiti has developed a smart micro utility system in Haiti to demonstrate its technology.
- Dec 2017Seed$2M
- Oct 2016Seed$649.7K
- Dec 2015Conventional Debt$50K
- Seed$200K
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 8 employees$2Mraised▾
Offers data center energy management solutions It works with data centers and utilities to maximize infrastructure flexibility, reliability, and efficiency and improve operator visibility through a smart zero management sensor network and control system. Their system offers real-time physical visualization, monitoring, and also cloud and API connectivity.
- Jun 2018Seed$2M
- Seed—
#10
Funding Raised · Evanston, Illinois · founded 2006 · 8 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of geothermal heating and cooling solutions. It provides smart geothermal heating and cooling technologies for commercial and public buildings.
- Nov 2009Grant (prize money)$2.5M
#11
Acquired · Oak Brook, Illinois · founded 1987 · 15 employees$1.8Mraised▾
AI-enhanced DCIM solution for smarter, data-driven infrastructure management. It is a software solution that empowers data center managers to optimize physical infrastructure. It offers unified asset visibility across data centers, inside plants, and outside plants, enabling data-driven management. The platform allows users to visualize and optimize infrastructure, access and analyze data on asset management, network connectivity, and power connectivity. Users can plan, design, monitor, troubleshoot, simulate, and test infrastructure performance. It facilitates remote data center management, comprehensive connectivity mapping, and seamless integration with third-party applications through REST APIs. The solution provides powerful reporting, full 3D visualization, detailed asset management, and granular security. It is a go-to solution for managing data centers, smart buildings, and wide area environments, including ISP and OSP networks. It offers control, efficiency, and foresight in managing resources. It provides white papers, brochures, and guides for in-depth knowledge and offers professional services for support from setup to maintenance.
- Apr 2010Unattributed$1.8M
#12
Funding Raised · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007 · 11 employees$100Kraised▾
SaaS-driven business management platform for the building services industry. The platform enables users to automate building workflow operations with features such as job scheduling, team management, proposal generator, workflow management, inspection reports, and more. It earns revenue through monthly/yearly subscription-based plans. Their apps are available for Android and iOS devices.
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
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