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Best MarketingTech Companies in Illinois, United States

The 287 best MarketingTech companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ActiveCampaign.

287companies tracked
$1.5Bdisclosed funding
1unicorns
69have raised

Ranked: Best MarketingTech companies in Illinois

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ActiveCampaign 🦄
Platform offering sales, CRM and email marketing automation software
$363M61 mo agoSeries C705
705 → 839 (+19%) · sector median +24%
Jason VandeBoom
Founder & CEO
Top 100k—1 award
2Sprout Social
Provider of a platform for social media management and optimization
$102M89 mo agoPublic1,383
1,383 → 1,767 (+28%) · sector median +24%
Ryan Barretto
President
Top 500k8 patents
Social media analytics: optimal posting scheduling and data integration platforms.
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3Circana
Customer analytics solutions for brands and retailers
$100M180 mo agoFunding Raised6,400
6,400 → 6,219 (-3%) · sector median +24%
Kirk Perry
CEO
Top 5M——
4PowerReviews
Cloud-based platform to generate insights on reviews
$91M67 mo agoAcquired121
121 → 81 (-33%) · sector median +24%
Mark Dillon
CEO
Top 5M20 patents
E‑commerce product review generation, analysis, and dynamic summary tools for online retailers.
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5Signal
Cross Channel Marketing Technology
$91M84 mo agoAcqui-Hired35——19 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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6dscout
Provider of a platform for conducting and analyzing user experience research
$81M51 mo agoSeries C127
127 → 304 (+139%) · sector median +24%
Michael Winnick
Founder & CEO
Top 500k——
7DialogTech
Call analytics and workflow automation platform
$76M72 mo agoAcquired258Irv Shapiro
Founder & Executive Chairman
—22 patents
Advanced call tracking, analytics, and fraud detection for telephony and marketing platforms
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8Civis Analytics
Platform offering predictive analytics solutions for enterprises
$73M56 mo agoSeries B169Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO
—19 patents
Predictive audience modeling and causal advertising analytics for data-driven marketing
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9Vibes
Mobile marketing solutions for businesses
$60M120 mo agoSeries B106Jack Philbin
Co-Founder
Top 5M5 patents
Customizable hearing protection devices for personal audio safety
1 partnership · 1 award
10Market Logic
Provider of AI-powered market and competitive intelligence platform for businesses
$50M108 mo agoSeries C321
321 → 171 (-47%) · sector median +24%
Olaf Lenzmann
Co-Founder & CTO
Top 5M—2 partnerships
11Cobalt Group
Marketing services for automotive industry
$47M264 mo agoAcquired—Steve Anenen
CEO & President
—93 patents
Microbial fermentation processes and bioproduct manufacturing technologies
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124C Insights
Cloud-based market intelligence solution across closed ecosystems
$32M116 mo agoAcquired282——24 patents
AI-driven enterprise data analytics and classification for talent, product, and defense applications
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13Hybris
Customer experience software solutions provider
$30M159 mo agoAcqui-Hired800————
14Leapfrog Online
OmniChannel Campaign management and Predictive Analytics
$30M213 mo agoAcqui-Hired126————
15Geofeedia
Location based social media monitoring tool
$26M124 mo agoDeadpooled2Phil Harris
Co-Founder & CEO
—44 patents
Geolocation-driven social media analytics, location-based content feeds, and influence detection.
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16Brandgility
Cloud based brand asset management platform
$20M262 mo agoEarly Stage33Adam Lavelle
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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17ReviewTrackers
Reputation management software to improve online presence and customer experience
$19M83 mo agoAcquired47—Top 5M——
18Rapleaf
Real-Time Data and Emails verifications
$17M177 mo agoAcqui-Hired11Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder
—4 patents
Online identity resolution and email domain reputation scoring systems
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19SIM Partners
Provider of a location-based marketing automation solution
$16M112 mo agoAcqui-Hired65————
20SaleCycle
Ecommerce sales recovery
$15M95 mo agoSeries A165—Top 10M——
21HYPR Brands
Influencer marketing platform connecting brands and agencies with influencers
$15M79 mo agoAcqui-Hired31————
22Popular Pays
Platform offering influencers marketplace to brands
$14M90 mo agoAcquired27
27 → 23 (-15%) · sector median +24%
—Top 500k——
23Cured
Digital marketing tool for healthcare professionals
$13M57 mo agoAcquired25
25 → 54 (+116%) · sector median +24%
Rohit Narayan
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer
Top 50M——
24Numerator
Market research and consumer insights platform
$12M126 mo agoAcquired1,200Eric Belcher
CEO
Top 1M——
25Vodori
Cloud based marketing solutions for life sciences companies
$12M56 mo agoSeries A38
38 → 57 (+50%) · sector median +24%
—Top 50M—1 job opening
26Buildout
Marketing automation platform for the commercial real estate industry
$8M70 mo agoSeries B90Jason Tillery
Co-founder & Board Member
Top 5M——
27QualSights
AI based visual qualitative research tool to generate consumer insights
$8M43 mo agoSeries A34—Top 10M—1 launch
28Target Data
Technology-enabled marketing intelligence solution
$7M103 mo agoSeries A25Ross Shelleman
CEO & ex-Founder
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29Persio
Marketing Personalization for Retail Marketers
$7M121 mo agoAcqui-Hired36————
30Wizaly
Platform offering marketing intelligence solutions
$6M45 mo agoSeries A20Guillaume Baurand
Founder & CEO
Top 50M——
31Brandmuscle
Local marketing management platform
$5M132 mo agoAcquired248—Top 5M——
32KnowledgeHound
Searchable customer data and insights
$4M115 mo agoAcquired19————
33Fippex
Client engagement and communication platform
$4M169 mo agoDeadpooled—David Pessis
CTO and Co-Founder
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34Earshot
Location based social media analytics
$3M123 mo agoDeadpooled14David Rush
Co-Founder & CEO
—2 patents
Audio diarization analytics and real-time social media relevance scoring systems
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35Talk3
Platform offering ecommerce marketing solutions
$3M181 mo agoDeadpooled12——4 patents
Automated network modeling and latent social network analytics for management and commercial use.
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36Blinkfire Analytics
Sports media analytics
$3M108 mo agoSeed27
27 → 50 (+85%) · sector median +24%
Juan Luis Hortelano
Co-founder and COO
Top 1M11 patents
AI-powered image analysis and automated media content review/valuation systems
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37Elicit
Onsite search conversion optimization software
$2M146 mo agoSeries A18Sunil Taneja
Co-Founder
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38Ledgestone
Employee engagement and risk management solutions for businesses
$2M33 mo agoSeed30——2 patents
Customizable user interface hardware for specialized equipment
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39Cision
Provider of media monitoring, journalist outreach, and social listening platform
$2M50 mo agoAcquired1,407Abel Clark
CEO
Top 500k10 patents
Real-time social media content aggregation, analytics, and reputation management platforms.
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40Bckstgr
Develops online platform for loyalty rewards
$2M169 mo agoSeed2Justin Jarvinen
Founder & CEO
Top 5M——
41PicUp Mobile
Platform offering Customer engagement solutions
$2M40 mo agoSeed24Ofir Oron
Co-Founder
Top 50M——
42SimpleRelevance
Online slot site offering premium gaming experience with advanced technology
$1M156 mo agoAcqui-Hired7Erik Severinghaus
Founder and CEO
—2 patents
AI-driven content recommendation and distribution systems for personalized media delivery
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43Moonshado
Mobile Messaging Aggregator
$1M177 mo agoDeadpooled—Patty Mayer
Founder
———
44Caterva
Recommendations and Insights for Personalized Targeting
$1M171 mo agoDeadpooled11Hieu Le
Founder
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45Mavely
Influencer marketing platform for enterprises
$1M81 mo agoAcquired26Peggy O'Flaherty
Co-Founder
Top 1M——
46Profitics
Analytics platform for marketing planning
$540K46 mo agoSeed7Chandra Pendyala
CEO
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47PromoShare
Provider of loyalty management platform
$370K31 mo agoSeed6—Top 50M——
48SwayBrand
Online marketplace for connecting brands with influencers
$200K33 mo agoSeed7————
49Journey Foods
AI-powered software platform for product monitoring and development
$100K56 mo agoSeed11—Top 10M——
50CustomerX.i
Consumer insights platform
$100K56 mo agoFunding Raised11Hakeem James
Co-Founder & CEO
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Top 12 MarketingTech companies in Illinois

#1
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2011 · 127 employees
$81Mraised
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Provider of a platform for conducting and analyzing user experience research. The platform facilitates participant recruitment, research method execution, and data analysis. It supports various research methods, including usability testing, concept testing, and field studies. The platform also offers features for organizing insights and generating reports.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 35k LinkedIn followers — 3.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Series C$70M
  • Apr 2018Series B$7.5M
  • Jan 2017Series A$2.5M
  • Jul 2014Series A$1M
Founders & team
Michael WinnickFounder & CEO
Investors
Guidepost Growth Equity, Synetro Group, Beringea, gravitytank, Better Angels
Tech stack
Alpine.JsApple Icloud MailBlitzCdnjsChili PiperCloudflare
#2
Seed · East Peoria, Illinois · founded 2009 · 30 employees
$2Mraised
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Employee engagement and risk management solutions for businesses. The features include employees engagement strategies development, communication management, performance tracking, analyzing recruitment process including job descriptions, evaluating fit and attitude, feedback and collaboration management, conducting assessments, skill mapping, and more. It helps organizations identify, manage, and mitigate organizational risk, and leverages data centric analytics to generate risk transfer recommendations for clients.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 595 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2023Seed$2M
  • Sep 2023Conventional Debt—
#3
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 6 employees
$370Kraised
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Provider of loyalty management platform. The product offered by the company is a software that helps brands generate revenue, loyalty, and engagement. The features include the creation and management of promotions, automated incentive campaigns, performance and conversion optimization, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 381 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. National Hockey League (NHL)) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023Seed$20K
  • 2023Seed$100K
  • May 2023Seed$250K
  • Feb 2019Seed$1.3M
Investors
Techstars, Gener8tor, Bronze Valley, Angel Investors, Colosseum Sport, Latinx Incubator
Tech stack
AstraCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsElementorElementor Header & Footer Builder
#4
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2003 · 705 employees
$362.7Mraised
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Platform offering sales, CRM, and email marketing automation software. The platform enables marketers to create newsletters and email campaigns using a drag and drop email designer and adding images and other forms of content. It also enables the creation of entire sequences of email messages that run completely on autopilot, track contacts action on websites, within custom applications, and within the campaigns. It provides contact management, lead management, CPQ management, and task management solutions to its users. Clients include Boutique Hotel Seven Days, Thrive Themes, Approve Me, and Codal.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 196k LinkedIn followers — 20.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Series C$240M
  • Jan 2020Series B$102.7M
  • Oct 2016Series A$20M
Founders & team
Jason VandeBoomFounder & CEONick McClanahanDirector Of Marketing Operations And AnalyticsSimon MalkowskiCOO
Investors
Susquehanna Growth Equity, Silversmith Capital Partners, Silversmith, Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAdobe AnalyticsAdobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform Identity ServiceAdobe Experience Platform LaunchAdobe Target
#5
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 169 employees
$73.5Mraised
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Platform offering predictive analytics solutions for enterprises to leverage the huge amount of data to gain business insights. The platform workflow starts from collecting data, matching, transforming data using a matching algorithm, predicting using machine learning. The application media optimizer enables firms to reduce ad spend, enhance conversion by targeting the right customers. It has roots in political campaign targeting and now is partnering with media, education, healthcare, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 13k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series B$30.7M
  • Dec 2020Series A$20.8M
  • Nov 2016Series A$22M
  • 2013Angel—
Founders & team
Dan WagnerFounder & CEO
Investors
Drive Capital, Verizon, WPP, SVB, Alumni Ventures, Civstart
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlMariadbPhpYoutubeBootstrap
#6
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 121 employees
$90.7Mraised
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PowerReviews provides a cloud-based customer engagement engine that helps brands engage with customers before, at the time of purchase, and after purchase by generating insights on the reviews given by them. Works with 1000+ brands to create and syndicate reviews with google to be used in 5000+ sites during a transaction. This helps in brand visibility and also, the brands can use the reviews and ratings to gain insight into customer choices and alter their brand strategy likewise. It also operates a product review and recommendation site for consumers, called Buzzillions. Clients include National Geographic, iRobot, and others. Acquired by Bazaarvoice on May 24, 2012.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Series C$7.6M
  • Apr 2018Series B$3M
  • Jul 2014Series B$35M
  • Mar 2011Series A$12.8M
Founders & team
Mark DillonCEO
Investors
Menlo Ventures, Tenaya Capital, Four Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Draper Richards, Lehman Brothers
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#7
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 34 employees
$7.7Mraised
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AI based visual qualitative research tool to generate consumer insights. It enables businesses to observe and analyze customers behavior, conduct video interviews or focus groups, and enhance in-person fieldwork. It allows clients, customers, or research participants to broadcast perspective live from any geographical area, through smartphones, smart glasses or cameras, and more. It helps researchers to gain consumer insight, shopper insight, patient insight, product insight, brand insight, and media insight.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series A$7.7M
  • May 2017Seed—
Investors
4490 Ventures, 500 Global, G2T3V, Same Page Capital, Chicago Early Growth Ventures, Bluestein Ventures
Tech stack
ActivecampaignBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-Js
#8
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 258 employees
$76Mraised
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DialogTech provides call analytics and workflow automation platform. It connects, measures, and optimizes sales and service calls for businesses and organizations. DialogTech's VBMA solutions capture and manage phone leads. The product suite is a set of software-as-a-service applications including call tracking, hosted IVR (interactive voice response), call routing, virtual call center and voice broadcasting. The company aims to widen its brand beyond telephones. Major customers include Zendesk, Uber, and Sotheby’s International Realty.

Funding rounds
  • May 2020Series D$2.5M
  • Aug 2015Conventional Debt$10M
  • Sep 2014Series D$30M
  • Jan 2014Series C$9M
Founders & team
Irv ShapiroFounder & Executive ChairmanDoug KofoidCEO
Investors
Square 1 Bank, Apex Venture Partners, Origin Ventures, Bluecrest Capital Finance, Spring Mill Venture Partners, I2A
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapGoogle CloudSmash Balloon Instagram Feed
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 7 employees
$200Kraised
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Online marketplace for connecting brands with influencers. They are is reimagining the influencer marketplace by bringing “cultural intelligence” and authenticity to brand content. We are creating all new Web2 and Web3 channels to help brands develop authentic partnerships with diverse creators that would normally go undiscovered, but define and drive global buying trends.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2023Seed$100K
  • Feb 2022Seed—
  • Dec 2020Seed$200K
Investors
Accenture, Andreessen Horowitz, Plug and Play Tech Center, Lyfe Ventures, Fuel Venture Studio
#10
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 20 employees
$6Mraised
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Wizaly offers Marketing intelligence solutions. The product offered by the company is a platform that provides optimization and intelligence. The features of the product include automated actionable recommendations, data driven insights generation, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series A$6M
Founders & team
Guillaume BaurandFounder & CEO
Investors
Innovacom, Galia Gestion, FrenchFounders, Ankaa Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCookiefirstDiviGoogle AdsGoogle Ads Conversion TrackingGoogle Analytics
#11
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2009 · 35 employees
$90.7Mraised
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Signal (formerly Brighttag) provides real-time, cross-channel marketing technology. The Signal Open Data Platform helps marketers collect data from any offline or online source, synchronize the data across all touchpoints, and distribute it to any marketing or analytics endpoint, all in real time. The platform is ecosystem-neutral and makes data and marketing technologies work better together for increased engagement, loyalty and conversions. Claims to run on 45,000 digital properties in 158 countries, supporting top brands that generate more than $1.5 trillion in commerce, including Allstate, Audi, Crate & Barrel, DeVry University, GAP, JetBlue Airways, Macy’s, 1-800-Flowers, Starcom MediaVest Group, Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Has acquired Signal (in Apr 2014) and SiteTagger (in Aug 2012).

Funding rounds
  • 2019Series E$20K
  • Jun 2016Series E$30M
  • Mar 2016Series D$13.4M
  • Nov 2013Series D$27.3M
Investors
Techstars, Pritzker Group, Baird Capital, EPIC Ventures, SVB, I2A
#12
Seed · Illinois City, Illinois · founded 2015 · 24 employees
$1.5Mraised
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PicUp Mobile provides customer engagement solutions to brands. It allows users to personalize their outing calls which helps them to strengthen their brand image and increase sales. It also helps users to call on busy or unavailable lines. It integrates with multiple third party software such as Microsoft Dynamics, ZOHO, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and HubSpot CRM.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Seed$1.5M
Founders & team
Ofir OronCo-FounderLior ShachamCEO
Investors
Cross Ocean Ventures, Vibranium, Skywell Capital Partners, Startupbootcamp, Demtech, Alchemy Crew
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoast SeoCloudwaysGoogle Ads

Funding & investor landscape

$1.5Btotal disclosed funding
63companies funded
171disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
G2T3V4 rounds
HPA4 rounds
I2A4 rounds
Plug and Play Tech Center4 rounds
SVB4 rounds
Square 1 Bank4 rounds
Techstars4 rounds
Gener8tor3 rounds
Hyde Park Venture Partners3 rounds
Riverside3 rounds

Notable founders

Michael Winnick
Founder & CEO · dscout
Jason VandeBoom
Founder & CEO · ActiveCampaign
Nick McClanahan
Director Of Marketing Operations And Analytics · ActiveCampaign
Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO · Civis Analytics
Mark Dillon
CEO · PowerReviews
Irv Shapiro
Founder & Executive Chairman · DialogTech
Doug Kofoid
CEO · DialogTech
Guillaume Baurand
Founder & CEO · Wizaly
Ofir Oron
Co-Founder · PicUp Mobile
Lior Shacham
CEO · PicUp Mobile
Ryan Barretto
President · Sprout Social
Rohit Narayan
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer · Cured
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,418,279 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of MarketingTech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many MarketingTech companies are there in Illinois, United States?
Radar tracks 287 indexable MarketingTech companies headquartered in Illinois, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by MarketingTech companies in Illinois, United States?
The MarketingTech companies in Illinois, United States on this list have raised a combined $1.5B in disclosed equity funding across 63 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded MarketingTech company in Illinois, United States?
ActiveCampaign is the highest-funded MarketingTech company in Illinois, United States, with $362.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many MarketingTech companies in Illinois, United States are funded?
63 of the 287 MarketingTech companies in Illinois, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many MarketingTech unicorns are there in Illinois, United States?
1 MarketingTech company in Illinois, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Illinois, United States MarketingTech companies?
The most active investors in Illinois, United States MarketingTech companies on this list include G2T3V, HPA, I2A, Plug and Play Tech Center, SVB.
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