Best Vertical Business Intelligence Companies in Illinois, United States
The 59 best Vertical Business Intelligence companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Civis Analytics.
Ranked: Best Vertical Business Intelligence companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Airline Operations Analytics Operations analytics platform for the airlines industry | — | — | — | John Doe Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Appmetrix Privacy-focused web analytics platform for insightful website behavior analysis | — | — | 18 | Lee Jacobson CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Ardent Platform for Demand Research using Analytics | — | — | 3 | Andrew Swinand Co-Founder | — | — | 22 patents Integrated insurance accounting software and waterless thermal processing for cannabinoid extraction | — |
| 4 | BridgeNet Solutions Supply chain data analytics | — | — | 45 45 → 78 (+73%) | Aaron Samuels CEO & Director | ApostropheCMSNode.jsVimeo+23 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 5 | bright Bright is the smart founder’s co-pilot | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | 83 patents Design and automation of synthetic tensile members and cable termination systems | — |
| 6 | Causometrix AI & SaaS-based demand planning and forecasting solution | — | — | 5 | Jamsheed Iqbal Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | ClearCut Analytics Marketing intelligence solution | — | — | 31 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Cogent Point Predictive Marketing platform | — | — | — | Ajay Manglani Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Vertical Business Intelligence companies in Illinois
#1
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 110 employees$32.5Mraised▾
Platform offering asset management solutions. It offers a platform that connects buy-side and sell side in the capital market. It connects investors and underwriters via a platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, workflow collaboration, and more. It provides a digital system of record for firm wide deal activity and helps clients make informed decisions.
- May 2026Series C—
- Mar 2025Series C$30M
- Jan 2022Series B—
- Jun 2020Series B$25M
#2
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 169 employees$73.5Mraised▾
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.
- Sep 2021Series B$30.7M
- Dec 2020Series A$20.8M
- Nov 2016Series A$22M
- 2013Angel—
#3
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2011 · 13 employees$43.5Mraised▾
Apervita enables health professionals and enterprises to upload health data on patients, performance, utilization, medication, billing, and claims to their platform. Users can secure, share, publish data in the Apervita marketplace for anyone to purchase. Institutes and Researchers can turn their paper-based medical algorithms into computable insights on readmission, compliance, and disease-specific insights, then share or commercialize them. It also allows providers, payers pharma players to take control of safety, quality, and enterprise performance. Users can see all their metrics in one place, monitor public reputation, share performance across teams, and access tools to drive improvement.
- Oct 2019Series B$22.6M
- Jan 2015Series A$18M
- Jun 2013Conventional Debt$1.4M
- Jun 2013Seed$1.4M
#4
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
#5
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2005 · 321 employees$50.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered market and competitive intelligence platform for businesses. The platform offers tools for insights management, data integration, and AI agent utilization. It delivers solutions across industries, including healthcare, consumer goods, retail, and financial services. The platform supports roles such as insights managers, marketing professionals, IT leaders, and product managers.
- May 2017Series C$50.3M
- 2008Seed—
#6
Acqui-Hired · Evanston, Illinois · founded 1995 · 126 employees$30Mraised▾
LeapFrog Online provides a platform for Fortune 500 marketers to find, convert and monetize the right customers. Offers a mix of agency-level strategy and services through a proprietary closed-loop technology platform and a performance-based compensation model. Enables users to manage campaigns across paid search, programmatic, video,social and email channels. Offers real time predictive analytics across devices for multi-channel conversions. .
- Sep 2008Series A$30M
#7
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007 · 25 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Target Data is a big data firm that provides an end-to-end platform for integrated mover marketing solutions, powered by the most accurate, timely, and comprehensive pre-mover data available. Working with Target Data, businesses can accurately identify, deeply understand, and rapidly market to the greatest number of pre-movers. Target Data’s customers include hundreds of leading firms in moving and storage, banking, insurance, retail, appliance manufacturing, DIY, and cable MSO systems operators.
- Nov 2017Series A$1.1M
- Aug 2015Conventional Debt$1.5M
- Dec 2014Series A$2M
- Apr 2013Series A$3.4M
#8
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 61 employees$6Mraised▾
Samya provides an AI-based SaaS platform for consumer packaged goods companies to manage their demand and supply operations. The platform uses deep learning, probabilistic machine learning, and reinforcement learning methods to help CPG companies improve their sales operations.
- Jan 2020Seed$6M
#9
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2013 · 19 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Knowledgehound provides search driven analytics platform for customer insights.The platform retrieves survey questions and documents from relevant market research studies helping to identify trends and insights. Also, offers visualization engine to create charts and tables. The clients include P&G, SC Johnson, Weber, Telus, Whirlpool, and others.
- Nov 2016Series A$2.7M
- Jul 2015Seed$1.2M
- May 2015Venture Debt—
#10
Seed · Schaumburg, Illinois · founded 2007 · 7 employees$540Kraised▾
Profits provides software and services around pricing, profit, CEM, and marketing optimization. Its "Profit Analytics" suite has capabilities around market planning, pricing, and promotions analytics to optimize the marketing planning function. Its features cover modelling customer needs, building optimized product portfolios, etc. for marketing analytics and managing demand using discount strategies, pricing strategies and product recommendations for pricing analytics. The firm's client list includes ConnectPoint Resolution Systems, MaxxAthlete.com, and NetworkOR.
- Aug 2022Seed$440K
- Aug 2020Seed$100K
#11
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2010 · 7 employees$2Mraised▾
Food industry insights and analytics empowering informed decisions and culinary innovation. This company delivers data-driven insights, recommendations, and analytics to help foodservice businesses thrive. They operate as an innovative research and development lab, exploring complex questions within the food industry. The company utilizes advanced technology like natural language processing and machine learning to uncover trends, analyze menus, and provide product and pricing insights. They transform complex information into actionable strategies for sales, merchandising, recommendation engines, and pricing. They offer software solutions and data analysis services, empowering sales and tech teams to make better decisions and drive culinary innovation.
- Sep 2013Seed$740K
- Sep 2012Seed$1.2M
- Oct 2011Conventional Debt$160K
- Jun 2011Seed$25K
#12
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 14 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Offers eDiscovery document review solutions using machine learning algorithms and in-house vetted lawyers. It has built its community using US based contract attorneys. It works with existing eDiscovery platforms. Its reviewer profiles and up-to-the-minute ratings are updated, they are rated and incentivized to perform accurately. It has built-in communication tools to allow case managers and reviewers to communicate in real-time.
- Jul 2017Seed$710K
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