This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Marketplace companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Marketplace industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Illinois Marketplace Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
The Mom Project
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The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace helping women remain active in the workforce.
G2
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G2 operates a software marketplace for business organizations to research, buy, and manage their software and services.
Avant
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Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Vivid Seats
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Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
GeoWealth, LLC
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GeoWealth is an end-to-end technology platform and turnkey model marketplace.
SpotHero
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Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Raise
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Raise is a marketplace (exchange) for gift cards that is the largest direct-to-consumer seller of digital gift cards in the world.
Cameo
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Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Grubhub
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Grubhub is a online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace dedicated to connecting diners with local restaurants.
BluePallet
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BluePallet is a market platform in the chemical industry that connects and communicates buyers and sellers and does business.
Reverb.com
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Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear.
Insureon
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Insureon is the number one independent marketplace for online delivery of small business
Leaf Trade
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Leaf Trade is the industry wholesale marketplace between cultivators/processors and dispensaries in the highly regulated cannabis states.
LandscapeHub
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LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.
Tillable
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Tillable is an online marketplace for farm landowners and growers to rent and manage farmland.
PartsTrader Markets Limited
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Online marketplace for auto parts trading more than $1.4B per annum with tens of thousands of business users in the US and New Zealand.
Quicklly
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Quicklly is an online marketplace that offers a wide range of Indian groceries and cuisines.
Machinio
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Machinio is a search engine for buying and selling new and used industrial equipment and machinery.
Purchasing Platform
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Purchasing Platform saves money and simplifies purchasing with negotiated pricing on millions of products for real estate operators.
StoryBolt
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The marketplace of storytellers for employee engagement solutions
Bolstr
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Bolstr is a marketplace where emerging consumer, retail, and manufacturing businesses can raise funding for expansion from real investors.
Gearflow.com
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Streamlining parts procurement for construction’s majority through the first parts marketplace built for construction.
OjaExpress
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OjaExpress is an ecommerce company that offers a digital marketplace for cultural groceries.
Dabble
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Dabble is a marketplace for people to discover, teach and host in-person classes, events & experiences in the community.
EVENTup
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EVENTup is the #1 destination to find and book venues.
Abe’s Market
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Abe’s Market is an online marketplace that provides natural product entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their products.
Supply Clinic
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Supply Clinic is an online marketplace for dental supplies.
Fusioner
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Online marketplace for music instruments and accessories
Improovy
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Improovy is on a mission to reinvent the way homeowners hire and work with painting contractors.
JESVARDO
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JesVardo is the most economical P2P RV Sharing Marketplace platform in the US providing you the opportunity with hassle-free vacations.
uBid
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Shop for trusted brands at the lowest price on the web.
ItemMaster
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ItemMaster’s cloud platform creates, manages, expands, & delivers structured product content for the $800B U.S. Food & Bev marketplace.
Cora
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Marketplace and software platform, leading consumerization of B2B purchases in the $91B furnishings industry for the first time
SplitPass
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SplitPass is a marketplace to buy & sell unused memberships, packages and subscriptions.
Cashrent
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Cashrent is a data-centric farmland marketplace and land management system.
MarkITx
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MarkITx is an online, B2B, transparent and disruptive marketplace for enterprises to purchase, trade and sell their IT infrastructure.
Growth Geeks
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Growth Geeks is an online marketplace for high quality, vetted marketing services.
Balodana
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E-commerce Marketplace Exclusively for Women’s Made-to-Measure and Bespoke Fashions
Shuttle Planet
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A 2 sided marketplace for long distance shared road transportation, where the traveller can join an existing ride or crowdsource a new trip.
Kettera Strategies
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Kettera Strategies is an online marketplace for accessing alternative investments.
FitBoomBah
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FitBoomBah is an online marketplace enabling consumers to purchase health and wellness products and services.
Brownfield Listings
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Brownfield Listings is a nationwide property marketplace & project workspace for real estate with reuse challenges.
Collaborata
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Collaborata is an online platform that enables the co-sponsoring of market-research projects.
TicketsNow
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TicketsNow is an event ticket resale marketplace where fans of live entertainment buy and sell tickets.
Bodaty
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Location based marketplace connects buyers, local stores and personal shoppers with an integrated payments system.
Pixels.com
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Pixels.com is an online marketplace with 10M+ visitors per month that has revolutionized the way that artwork is bought and sold globally.
Intentwise
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The Intentwise platform empowers Brands, Sellers and Agencies on Marketplaces such as Amazon & Walmart with automation, and expertise.
crowdSPRING
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crowdSPRING is an online marketplace that enables buying and selling of creative services, including logo design and industrial design.
Stylisted
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Stylisted is a proprietary platform enabling 1.4M beauty professionals to build & manage their freelance business.
MVMNT
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MVMNT is an end-to-end freight marketplace connecting North America’s shippers with a network of optimized carriers.
College Engine
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College Engine provides student applicants and academic institutions with a transparent online marketplace.
Chicago Board Of Trade
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Chicago Board Of Trade is an exchanged holding company and provides global investors cutting-edge trading and investment solutions.
Cureeo
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Cureeo is an online marketplace that offers original and limited edition artwork to collectors and novice art enthusiasts.
BookedOut
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BookedOut is a marketplace where brands, agencies and promotional contractors intersect to promote and capture consumer feedback.
LocalLux
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LocalLux is an online marketplace for shoppers to discover unique local designer fashion, accessories, and home decor all-in-one place.
HERE Mobility
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HERE Mobility Marketplace serves as a revolutionary central hub to connect mobility supply and demand, making mobility easy-to-use.
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The first and only real-time booking marketplace in Corporate Housing.
Here Here Market
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Here Here Market is a boutique marketplace connecting foodies to the next generation of culinary creators.
ZeroPercent.us
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Zero waste. Zero hunger. They keep good food from being wasted by using web & mobile apps to help it reach people who need it most.
Nomad Credit
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Nomad Credit is a financial marketplace for those under-served by other marketplaces.
EvoLux Transportation
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Regional Helicopter Charter Marketplace and Social ‘SkyShare’ Reservation Platform
Uvamo
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Uvamo is a marketplace that enables those seeking insurance and investment returns to interact with each other.
trainr.com
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Trainr.com is an online marketplace for personal fitness & training that allows consumers to search for and book trainers of all types.
Marketplace.city
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Marketplace.city connects government innovators with new technologies and solutions to make easier to find, verify and buy.
BrokerAssist
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BrokerAssist is a mobile-first SaaS marketplace product, connecting Realtors® on fractional assistance and referral networking gigs!
Piece & Co.
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Piece & Co. is a marketplace that connects retail brands with artisans in the developing world. We create collaborations that provide
Follett School Solutions
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Follett Corporation is a $2.7 billion privately held company that provides products, services and solutions to the educational marketplace.
Lihtec Funding
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A SaaS-enabled marketplace (SEM) for affordable housing development.
HiRise
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HiRise is a transactional marketplace for leasing office space online. Lease by the suite or by the seat.
LakeView Technology
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Lakeview Technology has lead the Data Replication marketplace for more than a decade.
Entrade
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Entrade specializes in developing B2B e-commerce marketplaces and infrastructure companies to bring industry to the Internet.
HaulHound
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Chicago-based tech company building logistics search engine and digital freight matching marketplace
RightFit Personal Training
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RightFit Personal Training is an online marketplace connecting consumers with independent personal trainers throughout the country
Grabio
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Grabio is a mobile marketplace that allows individuals to buy or sell goods and services with people and businesses nearby.
ajolla
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Ajolla is a social donation marketplace that helps businesses receive donations from family, friends, and followers for their businesses.
DealerSource.com
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DealerSource.com, a new business-to-business online marketplace for off-lease and used business equipment
ServiceLive
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ServiceLive is a true online services marketplace – a place unlike any other on the web, where people nationwide can find what they need to
Sculpey
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Sculpey is an online marketplace that offers bake polymer clay and polymer clay tools for all of the project needs.
Matchio
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Matchio is a marketplace geared to help students buy and sell between each other.
Connect Lending
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A marketplace connecting business and lenders across 42 different loan types
Unbranded Designs
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Unbranded Designs is an e-marketplace that funds, manufactures, and sells unique furniture from design-oriented communities.
Closest Closet
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Closest Closet is a circular marketplace for used fashion where members use their items as currency.
tix4cause
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Tix4cause is an e-marketplace that allows non-profit organizations to connect with their donors at no cost.
BillBoarder
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BillBoarder is a B2B marketplace for outdoor advertising.
Leasabl
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Leasabl is a marketplace for short-term commercial real estate.
gDine
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gDine is an online marketplace and yield management solution that enables its users to plan and book dining events.
Chi-X Canada
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Chi-X Canada is a high-performance alternative trading system (ATS) marketplace for the trading of TSX and TSXV-listed securities.
Adgem
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AdGem is a reward-based monetization SDK and marketplace that connects advertisers with active audiences all around the world.
Noblivity
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Noblivity is a B2B marketplace that gives direct wholesale access to specialty retailers and boutique owners.
Fastave
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FastAve is a provider of a dealer-centric auto loan marketplace intended to offer a digital, secure
Xoobies
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Xoobies is bringing the experience back to travel. We connect travelers local providers who can give them a once in a lifetime adventure.
Trendsetr
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TrendSetr is a social marketplace where you can shop, share your style, and get paid to refer your friends to the stores you shop from.
Hilo
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Hilo offers a rational marketplace for redeployment, outplacement and recruitment by integrating candidate personality data and credentials.
BEConnect
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Biggest Online Market Retailer for Black Owned Business
LP Marketplace
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LP Marketplace is an online platform that enables its users to buy and sell vinyl records.
