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Best Sales Force Automation Companies in Chicago, United States

The 72 best Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ActiveCampaign.

72companies tracked
$1.1Bdisclosed funding
1unicorns
26have raised

Ranked: Best Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderStageTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ActiveCampaign 🦄
Platform offering sales, CRM and email marketing automation software
$363M62 mo ago705
705 → 839 (+19%)
Jason VandeBoom
Founder & CEO
Series CCraft CMSSentryAtlassian Statuspage+29—1 award
2SpringCM
Cloud enterprise content and contract management solutions
$136M95 mo ago161—Acquired———
3Mediafly
SaaS based content management software solutions for sales teams
$131M33 mo ago112
112 → 139 (+24%)
Carson Conant
Founder
Series DWordPressVisual ComposerElementor+48—1 launch
4SAVO
Provider of digital marketing and custom software development services
$93M144 mo ago136—Acquired———
5DialogTech
Call analytics and workflow automation platform
$76M72 mo ago258Irv Shapiro
Founder & Executive Chairman
Acquired—22 patents
Advanced call tracking, analytics, and fraud detection for telephony and marketing platforms
—
6Civis Analytics
Platform offering predictive analytics solutions for enterprises
$73M56 mo ago169Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO
Series B—19 patents
Predictive audience modeling and causal advertising analytics for data-driven marketing
—
7Logik
Platform offering product configuration solutions for e-commerce businesses
$54M20 mo ago70Christopher Shutts
CoFounder and CEO
AcquiredHubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20——
8Base CRM
Sales productivity and CRM software
$53M128 mo ago125—Acquired———
9MARKT PILOT
Provider of automated spare parts pricing software for machine manufacturers
$50M26 mo ago68Alex Morbe
CEO
Series AHubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+22—1 job opening
10XSELL Technologies
AI powered customer engagement platform through chat and messaging
$25M70 mo ago190Matthew Coughlin
CEO & Founder
Series BHubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20——
11Rapleaf
Real-Time Data and Emails verifications
$17M177 mo ago11Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder
Acqui-Hired—4 patents
Online identity resolution and email domain reputation scoring systems
—
12Buildout
Marketing automation platform for the commercial real estate industry
$8M71 mo ago90Jason Tillery
Co-founder & Board Member
Series BWebflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+30——
13Detective
AI-powered GTM platform: Identify, score, and target ideal customers
$6M108 mo ago84—Series A———
144Degrees
Provider of relationship intelligence and deal flow software for private markets
$2M60 mo ago15Ablorde Ashigbi
Founder & CEO
Series AWebflowKnockout.jscore-js+17——
15NativeERP
Provider of a unified platform for real estate business management
$2M87 mo ago—Adi Argov
Chief Executive Officer
Seed———
16RepIQ
Email lead nurturing solutions
$1M106 mo ago7—Deadpooled———
17Letter AI
AI-powered sales enablement platform
$500K3 mo ago—Armen Forget
Co-Founder & CTO
Series BWebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+16—2 job openings
18CloudERD
Entity Relationship diagram builder for Salesforce
$375K166 mo ago—Neeraj Shah
CEO
Deadpooled———
19Woobot.io
Sales enablement tool for Slack
$150K77 mo ago11Brandon Oelling
Co-Founder & CEO
Seed———
20Rhetora
Cloud and AI based cold calling sales enablement solutions for sales teams
$120K33 mo ago6Luka Eric
Co-Founder & CEO
Deadpooled———

Top 12 Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago

#1
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 70 employees
$53.8Mraised
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Platform offering product configuration solutions for e-commerce businesses. It offers a configuration engine built for administration and sales productivity. It is an omnichannel e-commerce platform that provides headless configuration technology. It helps companies provide pricing information for product configurations.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Series B$25M
  • May 2023Series A$16M
  • Sep 2021Seed$12.8M
Founders & team
Christopher ShuttsCoFounder and CEOJeffrey WilkinsCo-FounderFazal GuptaCo-founder
Investors
Emergence Capital, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow, High Alpha, GoBig
#2
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2023
$500Kraised
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AI-powered sales enablement platform. It provides content and training for sales representatives to close deals. It leverages AI technology to create interactive and personalized enablement materials, empowering field teams and customers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: An Bui Roman Danilov Aikanysh T. Adrian Naranjo, Kevin C. Pete Dolan
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2026Series B$40M
  • Oct 2025Series A$10.6M
  • 2023Seed$500K
Founders & team
Armen ForgetCo-Founder & CTOAli AkhtarFounder & CEO
Investors
Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, Lightbank, Northwestern Mutual, Formus Capital, Mangusta Capital
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Turnstile
#3
Series D · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2006 · 112 employees
$131.3Mraised
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SaaS based content management software solutions for sales teams. It provides a platform for users that includes features drag-and-drop content or import content through integrations with existing solutions and distributes multiple content formats such as PDF, audio, video, and PPT. It also provides a SalesKit app that lets sales representatives access content, track content being used and recommends relevant materials, and lets users customize content using a presentation builder. Customers include Pepsico, Sony, SC Johnson, MillerCoors, GE Healthcare, Disney, and Charles Schwab.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 3.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2023Series D$80M
  • Apr 2022Series C—
  • Nov 2021Series C$10M
  • Jan 2021Conventional Debt—
Founders & team
Carson ConantFounder
Investors
BIP Ventures, Boathouse Capital, Sterling National Bank, Riverside, Keiretsu Forum, Lontra Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCookieyesFont AwesomeGoogle Font Api
#4
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2020 · 68 employees
$49.8Mraised
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Provider of automated spare parts pricing software for machine manufacturers. This software offers solutions for market pricing and lead time data collection, as well as optimized price recommendations. The software is designed to support data-driven decision-making and strategic planning, ultimately contributing to revenue growth. It provides access to comprehensive market data and tailored pricing suggestions, supported by expert consultants. The platform includes tools for automated research and manual deep dives, ensuring a thorough and accurate pricing strategy.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Career & Jobs
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Series A$43M
  • Apr 2022Seed$6.8M
Founders & team
Alex MorbeCEO
Investors
Capnamic Ventures, Insight Partners, Grundermotor, Start-up BW, German Accelerator, 2pq Untemehmensberatung Gmbh
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFont AwesomeGoogle Analytics
#5
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 — 69.5% 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
#6
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 — 4.6% of this cohort's audience
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
#7
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 161 employees
$136.1Mraised
▾

SpringCM provides cloud enterprise content and contract management solutions for businesses. It features on-demand workflow automation and document management for the legal and sales team in a web-based environment. The platform manages the contract lifecycle from contract creation through negotiation, approvals, signature, archiving, and renewals. The product includes workflow, mobile, and security features that eliminate time-consuming manual steps in critical business processes. It integrates with Salesforce and provides visibility into the status of contracts. Its major clients are ADP, Aetna, AthenaHealth, and CableOne.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2018Conventional Debt$10.5M
  • Feb 2017Series E$25M
  • Jun 2016Conventional Debt—
  • Jun 2016Series D$17.5M
Investors
Foundation Capital, Square 1 Bank, Goff Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Horizon, Wellington Financial
#8
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 258 employees
$76Mraised
▾

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
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1999 · 136 employees
$93.1Mraised
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Provider of digital marketing and custom software development services. The company delivers cohesive strategies for organizations. Services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, content marketing, and data analytics. The company also builds custom, mobile-first websites and scalable, high-performance applications tailored to operational needs.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2014Series D$49.1M
  • Jun 2013Conventional Debt$10M
  • Jun 2011Series B$14M
  • Jul 2008Series B$10M
Investors
Sterling Partners, SAP Ventures, NXT Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Goldman Sachs
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpZurb FoundationGravity FormsYoast Seo
#10
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2009 · 125 employees
$52.9Mraised
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Base is a web-based, mobile-enabled sales management application for sales analytics, lead management and customer records management. The product also offers mobile geo-location services to find customers in real time, BaseVoice to make calls and capture calls from any device, sales pipeline tracking, tracking sales goals, contact and account management for each sale, lead management integrated with social networks along with insights visualization tools. Integrates with Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Outlook etc. It offers a subscription-based pricing policy. Its major clients are Expensify, Blue Raven Solar, and Museum Hack.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2015Series C$30M
  • Mar 2014Series B$15M
  • May 2012Series B$6.9M
  • Feb 2011Series A$1M
Investors
Index Ventures, RRE Ventures, OCA Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Social Capital, I2A
Tech stack
Node.JsReactNext.JsStyled-ComponentsCloudflareNaver Analytics
#11
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2011 · 190 employees
$25.3Mraised
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AI powered customer engagement platform through chat and messaging. The platform features a proprietary machine learning engine that provides agents with the best possible response in real time. In case of not being able to resolve any query, the same is routed to appropriate customer service personnel for answering. Additionally, it features a built in analytics suite that allows users to analyze, extrapolate, and predict future outcomes, from new product introductions to improving marketing communication.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 28k LinkedIn followers — 9.9% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 5 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: IT Helpdesk Analyst, Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. XSELL's agent assist foundation) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2020Series B$25.3M
Founders & team
Matthew CoughlinCEO & FounderMark StoehrCo-Founder
Investors
Sageview Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAosApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#12
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2006 · 11 employees
$17Mraised
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Real-Time Data and Emails verifications. It provides a database for marketers to access and personalize content for their customers. Rapleaf aggregates consumer data from data providers, cleanses it, and maps it to emails. The company’s Rapleaf is used by SMBs, large corporations, agencies, B2B platforms, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2011Series B$1M
  • Oct 2010Series B$15M
  • Jun 2007Series B$1M
  • Jun 2006Angel—
Founders & team
Vivek SoderaCo-FounderJeremy LiztCo-FounderManish ShahCo-Founder
Investors
North Bridge Venture Partners, Rembrandt Partners, Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, The Pilot Group, Felicis Ventures

Funding & investor landscape

$1.1Btotal disclosed funding
21companies funded
88disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
I2A3 rounds
Tensility Venture Partner3 rounds
Goldwing Capital2 rounds
HPA2 rounds
Lightbank2 rounds
North Bridge Venture Partners2 rounds
Right Side Capital Management2 rounds
Ringleader Ventures2 rounds
Riverside2 rounds
Salesforce Ventures2 rounds

Notable founders

Christopher Shutts
CoFounder and CEO · Logik
Jeffrey Wilkins
Co-Founder · Logik
Armen Forget
Co-Founder & CTO · Letter AI
Ali Akhtar
Founder & CEO · Letter AI
Carson Conant
Founder · Mediafly
Alex Morbe
CEO · MARKT PILOT
Jason VandeBoom
Founder & CEO · ActiveCampaign
Nick McClanahan
Director Of Marketing Operations And Analytics · ActiveCampaign
Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO · Civis Analytics
Irv Shapiro
Founder & Executive Chairman · DialogTech
Doug Kofoid
CEO · DialogTech
Matthew Coughlin
CEO & Founder · XSELL Technologies
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 12,654,465 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Sales Force Automation coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Sales Force Automation companies are there in Chicago, United States?
Radar tracks 72 indexable Sales Force Automation companies headquartered in Chicago, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago, United States?
The Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago, United States on this list have raised a combined $1.1B in disclosed equity funding across 21 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Sales Force Automation company in Chicago, United States?
ActiveCampaign is the highest-funded Sales Force Automation company in Chicago, United States, with $362.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago, United States are funded?
21 of the 72 Sales Force Automation companies in Chicago, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Sales Force Automation unicorns are there in Chicago, United States?
1 Sales Force Automation company in Chicago, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Chicago, United States Sales Force Automation companies?
The most active investors in Chicago, United States Sales Force Automation companies on this list include I2A, Tensility Venture Partner, Goldwing Capital, HPA, Lightbank.
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