Top Illinois Financial Services Startups (145)
Bloom Credit helps companies launch lending products, report consumers' payments, and create innovative credit experiences. We do this by providing our clients with the data they need from all three credit bureaus, the expertise they are looking for to launch seamlessly, and the proprietary analytics to supplement credit insights - all delivered through Bloom’s developer-friendly API. Over 12 million US consumers...
Halo Investing is an award-winning technology platform that disrupts how protective investment solutions are used worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago, with employees worldwide, we’re on a mission to change the world by democratizing access to investment solutions that were previously unavailable to most investors. Our marketplace connects financial advisors and investors to protective investment products – including structured notes and annuities...
NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them...
Geneva Trading LLC is a leading proprietary trading firm with a history of consistent success in the listed derivatives markets. Over the past 20 years, we’ve grown significant capital, developed proven technology, and maintained an appetite for diversified trading strategies. We foster innovation and look for people who can solve complex problems that drive immediate results. We've built a culture of...
Energy CX is a family-founded energy broker redefining how businesses buy energy. Powered by ABEL™, a proprietary platform, the company uses math-based trading methodologies to help customers treat energy like an investment, not a line item. Energy CX replaces fragmented tools and legacy broker models with a centralized, technology-led approach—reducing risk, controlling spend, and bringing clarity to complex energy markets....
YCharts was founded in 2009 to democratize investment research. As we build an increasingly powerful and intuitive tool that our clients use daily, we might be outgrowing our name—but not our mission. From humble beginnings, YCharts has grown to become an all-in-one platform for investment research and client communication. Our guiding principle has always been to create software that elevates and...
CRSP provides data of the highest integrity and transparency to ensure the strongest foundation for economic forecasting, stock market research and financial analysis conducted by academic organizations, investment banks, brokerage firms, corporations, and government agencies. Our data has led to the transformation of the world of finance.
EDGE is a data and analytics platform that harnesses bank transaction data to measure consumer credit risk. Founded in 2021, EDGE is part of a larger family of FinTech brands that sits underneath our parent company, NinjaHoldings (www.ninjaholding.com). NinjaHoldings’ brands also include CreditNinja, an online consumer lending business, and NinjaCard, a neobanking platform focused on consumers in the emerging credit...
Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto infrastructure for embedded wallets and onchain transaction automation. Designed by the team that scaled Coinbase Custody past $100B in assets, and backed by Sequoia, Bain Crypto Capital, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy, and Coinbase Ventures, Turnkey provides low-level wallet infrastructure primitives that can be mixed, matched, and configured for any use case. Trusted by Moonshot, Alchemy,...
At Curi Capital, our goal is to create value for our clients. Leveraging our team’s insight and expertise, we deliver financial advice and investment solutions that are designed to preserve and grow assets for individuals, families, institutions, and employers. Wealth Advising | For individuals and families, our advisory and investment professionals work together to craft and deliver an integrated wealth plan...
Mozaic.io is a global payment platform for multi-party payouts. Based in Chicago and Nashville, Mozaic is the world's only split payments API providing smart contracts that automates split income among creative teams on any project, anywhere. It's Mozaic's mission to make compensation as equally distributed as talent is.
3Red is a global trading firm committed to leveraging technology and quantitative research to implement a diverse set of trading strategies while managing risk and responding to dynamic market conditions. We hire extremely bright, talented, and motivated individuals to collaborate with each other and compete in the world’s financial markets. Our team has extensive, global experience in a wide variety of...
Valkyrie Trading, LLC was formed in Chicago in 2011 with the intent of embracing trading opportunities and technology in a modern marketplace. Positioned in the heart of the derivatives trading capital of the world, our firm is dedicated to tackling the complex and practical challenges offered by today’s dynamic financial markets by building high-performance automated trading systems.
Teza Technologies is an innovative quantitative asset management firm founded in 2009 by high-frequency trading expert Misha Malyshev. Our multi-strategy, multi-PM platform is founded on microstructure data and signals. Quantitatively-informed digital assets strategies complement our core global futures and stat arb strategies. We pride ourselves on attracting and retaining top talent, developing strategies with a data-driven and science-backed methodology, and...
Edgehog is a performance-driven trading firm where traders and engineers build and operate automated market-making systems. We work as a lean team focused on execution, iteration, and continuous improvement. Our work sits at the intersection of trading, engineering, and quantitative research. Ideas move quickly from investigation to production, and contributions are visible across the firm.
TradingBlock was recently named the 2025 Best Brokerage for Options Trading by Benzinga based on our commitment to providing investors, active traders, and investment professionals intuitive, fully customizable brokerage and trading solutions.
Universal Processing was founded in 2003 with a mission to provide clients with open and honest communications, minimal rates and fees, efficient and simple credit card processing, and the highest quality of customer support. We treat our clients as our partners, and work to ensure that they receive the same technologies and business opportunities as larger companies. We fight for,...
Qumis is generative AI built for the hardest part of insurance: understanding the policy. Built by attorneys. Made for scale. Used by the people who make insurance work.
tastyworks is a retail brokerage that provides professional-grade, world-class technology to retail traders at industry-leading prices. We focus on derivatives trading and offer equities, equity options, futures, and futures options. Built from the ground up by a team with decades of experience in the financial industry, we’re a modern brokerage for the current financial climate. *tastyworks is a wholly owned subsidiary...
