Best Tech for Traditional Advertising Companies in Illinois, United States
The 32 best Tech for Traditional Advertising companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sportvision.
Ranked: Best Tech for Traditional Advertising companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sportvision Develops sports entertainment media product | $50M | 240 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1998 | — | 91 patents Real-time multi-camera video tracking and biomechanical analysis for sports events | — |
| 2 | Vibe Provider of a platform for streaming and connected television advertising | $29M | 13 mo ago | Series B | Arthur Querou Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | DatoCMSTurbopackEmotion+42 | 8 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 3 | UPshow Cloud based digital signage platform | $22M | 61 mo ago | Acquired | Adam Hirsen Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+16 | — | — |
| 4 | InStadium Digital video advertising network in sports venues. | $14M | 144 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2003 | — | — | — |
| 5 | elevate DIGITAL elevate DIGITAL creates interactive street-level technology that connects everyone. | $11M | 144 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Tagkast Event marketing platform to share branded photos, videos and content. | $9M | 148 mo ago | Series A | Joe Matthews Co-Founder & CEO | 1995 | — | — | — |
| 7 | rVue Demand Side Platform for DOOH | $4M | 129 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 1995 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Simage Network Digital outdoor screen advertising | $1M | 209 mo ago | Seed | Thomas Simonds Founder & CEO | 2008 | — | — | — |
Top 9 Tech for Traditional Advertising companies in Illinois
#1
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2010$28.9Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for streaming and connected television advertising. The platform offers tools for audience targeting, artificial intelligence optimization, and measurement and reporting. It provides integrations and application programming interface capabilities. The platform enables users to generate leads, increase sales, build awareness, attract traffic, and retarget prospects.
- Sep 2025Series B$50M
- Feb 2024Series A$22.5M
- Sep 2022Seed$6.3M
#2
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 38 employees$21.5Mraised▾
Cloud based digital signage platform. The platform offers software and hardware solutions for advertisers that help them in running engaging advertising campaigns by managing the signage content and screens. Also, it has features such as analytics, campaign monitoring, etc. It caters to multiple industries including healthcare, fitness, etc.
- Sep 2021Venture Debt$10M
- Sep 2020Series A$14M
- Mar 2019Series A$6M
- Mar 2017Angel$1.5M
#3
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1998 · 71 employees$49.7Mraised▾
Sportvision provides sports entertainment products for fans, media companies, and marketers and provide data solutions. It’s landmark innovations include pioneering broadcast products, real-time web and mobile products, and data analysis products. It offers digital sports content and broadcast enhancement solutions for football, baseball, bowling, golf, hockey, horse racing, motorsports, sailing, Olympics, soccer, and tennis. Its products are deployed across live television, Internet, and iTV for various sports on the U.S. networks.
- Oct 2006Conventional Debt$8M
- Jun 2005Venture Debt$4M
- 2004Series C$3.5M
- Jun 2003Venture Debt$2.5M
#4
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2003 · 4 employees$13.6Mraised▾
InStadium is an exclusive, multi-screen video and mobile advertising network that spans all major professional and collegiate sports leagues in America. Provides digital video advertising during live sports event and stadium facilities to engage audiences. Clients include AT&T, Geiko, Lexus, 2K Sports etc.
- Oct 2014Series B—
- May 2011Series B$1M
- Jun 2009Series B$7.5M
- Dec 2005Series A$5M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2010 · 17 employees$11.2Mraised▾
elevate DIGITAL deploys interactive displays in both indoor and outdoor high-traffic areas. The elevate DIGITAL hardware and software can be customized to the audience, municipality, attraction or advertiser. The elevate DIGITAL platform engages the consumer through content, services and connective advertising. elevate DIGITAL also provides a outdoor and indoor solution with interactive displays and also includes a hardware and display solution that creates a seamless integration and the fastest execution to provide benefits to city governments and its constituents.
#6
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1995 · 9 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Developer of an event marketing platform designed to offer social media photo booths and tablet cameras. The company's platform provides content creation options, lead capture, allows hosting contests, photo album streaming, social displays and analytics portals, enabling users to have a one-stop shop for photo marketing across events and retail activations.
#7
Deadpooled · Elmhurst, Illinois · founded 1995 · 7 employees$4.2Mraised▾
rVue is an advertising technology company providing a platform for planning, buying and managing Digital Out-of-Home and Place-Based Media. rVue's Demand side platform has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property which supports reporting and analytics. rVue went public on 1st May, 2010.
- Feb 2016Post IPO$270K
- Oct 2015Post IPO$220K
- Aug 2015Post IPO$115K
- Jul 2015Post IPO$252.5K
#8
Seed · Northbrook, Illinois · founded 2008$1.4Mraised▾
Digital outdoor screen advertising
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2020 · 7 employees—raised▾
Developer of an advertising platform intended to provide mobility-based omnichannel advertising services. The company uses smart backpacks with screens attached to them, advanced artificial intelligence, and big data, enabling businesses to advertise and target people dynamically based on geo-locations, demography, and behavior.
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