Funding and advertised pay are reported in USD; filed accounts retain their stated source currency and basis.
Exchange-rate basis
Indicative conversions use ECB reference rates dated 2026-09-14, applied consistently across all periods. They are not historical exchange rates. Indian rupees may use crore (1 crore = 10 million); other currencies use K, M and B. CSV downloads, source documents and quoted news headlines retain their original currencies.
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THE CHICAGO EDITION 2026
Chicago’s adtech industry, in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping adtech in Chicago. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
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Recorded evidence only
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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
5 August 2026
Hiring participation6.8%
25 of 369 tracked companies have open roles.
Funding participation15.4%
57 of 369 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Top 3 funding share38.8%
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Median disclosed round$5.22M
Midpoint of 65 rounds with a disclosed amount.
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Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 38.8% of disclosed capital, while 84.6% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
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Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 2 eligible matches.
Revenue in covered accounts—
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Chicago market sales.
Net profit / loss—
Combined result for the same cohort.
Aggregate net margin—
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
Median company revenue—
The middle covered reporting entity.
Profitable entities—
None of 1 covered entities.
Top-five concentration—
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Annual account trend
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
Profitability has two perspectives
FY2025 · 1 reporting entities
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FY2025 consolidated annual accounts · amounts in USD · millions
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Revenue total
Median revenue
Net profit / loss
Aggregate margin
Profitable share
Overlap
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Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the Chicago companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Busiest websites
14 of the 369 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.8%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 746,992 visits.
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q1).
Segment
Apps
Installs
Leading app
Release trend
Adtech
3
5.5M
Make Money & Earn Cash Rewards 5.5M
Marketingtech
38
2M
Dscout 729.7K
Customer Success Management
4
847K
ActiveCampaign 103K
Sales Force Automation
6
146.5K
Auto Dialer - Power Dialer CRM 35K
Pr Tech
5
94K
Mavely – Affiliate App 87.9K
Customer Service Software
3
53.1K
SMS-Magic 14.1K
Hrtech
2
41.8K
BookedOut 41.1K
Chatbots
2
39K
BotPenguin 4K
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
Release cadence by quarter
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 43 of 43 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRY
The Chicago adtech market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
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Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Enterprise tech256
Enterprise software206
Saas166
Commerce enablers21
Lead management20
Lead generation18
Consumer digital18
Retail saas16
Gtm software16
Market research tools14
E-commerce saas13
Conversion rate optimization11
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
SEGMENT TO EXPLORE
Enterprise tech
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
Later –the world's most intelligent influencer marketing company, today announced new growth milestones and expanded client momentum one year after acquiring and fully integrating Mavely , the leading Everyday Influencer Platform®.
Monterail, a full-service software development company, has acquired Lakeview Labs, a boutique software developer, to strengthen its global engineering and product design capabilities.
E.tv owner eMedia has acquired a 30% stake in Pristine World Holdings, a specialist provider of visual effects services to global film and television markets, for R119-million.
Global FinTech giant Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired Cheltenham-based customer communications specialist Signal as it looks to expand its European presence.
Sprout Social, a US company that offers cloud-based tools for managing social media, has acquired NewsWhip, an AI-powered media intelligence company based in Dublin.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 5 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
