Best GovTech Companies in Illinois, United States
The 45 best GovTech companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CivicPlus.
Ranked: Best GovTech companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CivicPlus Website development, HR management, and emergency notification systems for government agencies | $456M | 35 mo ago | Series D | — | 1998 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+37 | — | — |
| 2 | Forecast5 Analytics and visualization tool for government agencies. | $60M | 95 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 3 | CityBase Provider of cloud based solutions for streamlining smart city operations | $21M | 95 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 4 | Quicket Solutions Platform offering law enforcement solution | $17M | 46 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 8 patents Software configuration management platforms and digital citation issuance/monitoring systems | — |
| 5 | CrimeReports Location based crime mapping and analysis | $7M | 204 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Kokomo Provider of a platform for health, safety, and operational management | $4M | 39 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | TypeScriptGoogle MapsZone.js+14 | 4 patents Assistive communication platform and safety/incident management software solutions | 6 launchs |
| 7 | Haystax AI-based incident response and management platform | $4M | — | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | JusticeText Platform offering video evidence transcription software | $2M | 47 mo ago | Seed | Leslie Dove Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 9 | FlowMSP Provider of a geo tech-based pre-planning app for firefighters | $2M | 33 mo ago | Seed | Jason Marvel Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressZohoMySQL+27 | — | — |
| 10 | DACRA E-citation solution for law enforcement agencies | $2M | 76 mo ago | Seed | Bobby Schur CEO | 2012 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+13 | — | 1 partnership |
| 11 | Road to Status Online platform to fill immigration forms and information | $610K | 125 mo ago | Funding Raised | Javad Khazaeli Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Guard911 Law enforcement alerting system | $261K | 147 mo ago | Seed | Nate Mcvicker President & Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | 5 patents Real-time wireless alert systems for law enforcement about armed intruder incidents | — |
| 13 | Devnet Tax management solutions for government agencies | $170K | 94 mo ago | Early Stage | Michael Gentry President and CEO | 1997 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+23 | 2 patents Online advertising content delivery and management platforms. | — |
| 14 | mRelief Online platform for checking eligibility for food stamps | $120K | 125 mo ago | Seed | Genevieve Nielsen Co-Founder and Board Member | 2014 | RubyChart.jsAnimate.css+30 | — | — |
Top 12 GovTech companies in Illinois
#1
Series D · Manhattan, Illinois · founded 1998 · 694 employees$456.3Mraised▾
CivicPlus is a provider of solutions for citizen engagement including website development using web-based tools, HR management for recruiting, engaging, and managing employee data, and emergency notifications systems for alerting citizens during emergencies. Claims more than 4000 local governments use the products. Has won several awards from government associations like National Association of Government Web Masters, California Association of Public Information Officials.
- Aug 2023Series D$76.2M
- Jul 2021Series D$107.4M
- May 2021PE$290M
- May 2019PE—
#2
Seed · Streator, Illinois · founded 2017 · 12 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of a geo tech-based pre-planning app for firefighters. The pre-incident planning software platform for the fire service industry enables users to collect, and use critical building & response information. Provides en-route positioning solutions and enables to pre plan location for fire situations. The platform leverages current RMS data to prepopulate pre-plans. Platform delivers automated dispatch alerts for providing timely access to critical information. The app is compatible with iOS and Android devices.
- Nov 2023Seed$818.7K
- May 2021Seed$847.5K
#3
Series A · Illinois City, Illinois · founded 2013 · 56 employees$16.9Mraised▾
Platform offering law enforcement solutions. It leverages a data mining engine that automatically sorts existing party records, and provides historical context to current open cases. It offers law enforcement and code enforcement calendars for court date assignments.
- Oct 2022Series A$8M
- Sep 2019Seed$1.1M
- Jul 2019Seed$3.4M
- Aug 2018Seed$1M
#4
Series A · Glenview, Illinois · founded 2013 · 25 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for health, safety, and operational management. The platform delivers tools to implement and manage health, safety, and well-being initiatives. It offers solutions for incident, visitor, and emergency management. The platform also provides features such as anonymous tiplines, secure data collection, and communication suites.
- May 2023Series A$4.1M
#5
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 7 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Platform offering video evidence transcription software. It offers features such as speaker recognition, timestamped notes, video clipping, accuracy heat map, exporting transcripts, and editing transcripts. It automatically syncs transcript text with video files. It includes a heatmap feature that highlights the sections of the video with poor audio quality.
- Sep 2022Seed$2.2M
#6
Acquired · Naperville, Illinois · founded 2012 · 153 employees$60Mraised▾
Forecast5 provides web-based analytics and data visualization platforms to city and county agencies, and schools. Currently offers five products- 5Sight is a performance management and benchmarking tool; 5Maps to integrate business data with google maps to derive insights; 5Cast is a budgeting and forecasting tool; 5Share for collaboration and peer to peer sharing; 5Lab to help agencies in building customized data sets and developing financial plans. Partners with professional associations for acquiring data.
- Sep 2018Series B$60M
#7
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2011 · 77 employees$21.1Mraised▾
CityBase provides solutions that helps cities in streamlining their operations and hence making governance more efficient and accessible. Some of the modes through which they plan to realize this is advanced payment technology, citizen facing websites and apps, analytics on the data collected. They plan to integrate the various databases used in the city to uncover correlations using data sciences. They plan to provide these application over a cloud SaaS platform so system wide upgrades become easier.
- Sep 2018Series B$14.9M
- May 2018Conventional Debt$4M
- Jul 2016Series B$6.2M
#8
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2021$20Kraised▾
Manufacturer of an AI-powered law enforcement drone solution. The drone uses AI technology and incorporates facial recognition and behavioral algorithms to provide real-time 3D imaging and topography data. The drone connects with the 911 system or another computer-aided dispatch system providing a bird's eye view of specific public safety encounters and collaborating with officers using natural language.
- Dec 2022Seed$20K
#9
Seed · Arlington Heights, Illinois · founded 2012 · 18 employees$1.5Mraised▾
DACRA is an e-citation solution for law enforcement agencies. The platform allows law enforcement agencies to create and analyze tow receipts, issue administrative tow tickets municipalitys violation procedures such as parking, code, animal, administrative towing, and state ticking. The features include GPS-based location tracking, license plate recognition, etc. The product is offered for law enforcement agencies, code enforcements, administrative hearing, IT professionals, etc. The clientele includes Cook County Department Of Administrative Hearings, Schaumburg Police Department, Hanover Park Police Department, South Elgin Department, etc.
- Apr 2020Seed$1.5M
#10
Acqui-Hired · Schaumburg, Illinois · founded 2006 · 8809 employees$7.2Mraised▾
CrimeReports partners directly with law enforcement agencies to provide automated crime mapping and alerting. They provide location-based crime analysis, predictive policing etc. Grew to over 1000 departments by 2010. Acquired by Motorola Solutions on April 1, 2015.
- Aug 2009Series B$7.2M
#11
Acquired · Virginia, Illinois · founded 2012 · 355 employees$4Mraised▾
Haystax is an AI-based incident response and management platform. The platform uses AI-based analytics to monitor and track the suspicious activity of persons, vehicles, and other indicators to predict the upcoming alerts. The product is used by law enforcement, fire safety, department, enterprise security, cybercrime security, etc.
#12
Funding Raised · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 11 employees$610Kraised▾
Road To Status is an online platform to fill immigration forms and information providers. The platform allows users to answer questions and that answers are used to fill the forms and upload supporting documents, documents are verified and print, sign, and mailing the application to respective departments.
- Mar 2016Conventional Debt$610K
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