Top Illinois Hardware Startups (35)

Silkline is the platform that top hardware buying organizations use to seamlessly: 1. Collaborate with suppliers 2. Track requests, RFQs, quotes, orders, and more 3. Monitor team and vendor performance We centralize activity across your suppliers, provide real-time status updates, and integrate cleanly into your existing stack—no supplier onboarding required.

We cybersecure your organization. LeadingIT provides fast+friendly cybersecurity and technology (unlimited) support for nonprofits, manufacturers, schools, accounting firms, religious organizations, government, and law offices with 10-200 employees across the Chicagoland area.

Locinox is leading manufacturer and designer of high-quality mechanical and electro-mechanical components for the fence & gate, and the access control market. We take great pride in developing the best products and bring innovation to our markets. We value customer service very highly and complement our product offering with logistic and packaging solutions.

Zenblen offers freshly blended smoothies via a tech-enabled smoothie bar. Today’s consumers are busier and more health-conscious than ever, and smoothies are a great way to fulfill this trend. But there are many hurdles to making a fresh smoothie: buying ingredients, cleaning the blender, etc. And no one wants to walk 15 minutes to the nearest smoothie bar. Enter Zenblen, we...

Total Technology Solutions Group (TTSG) is dedicated to providing a true end-to-end experience for our clients by ensuring total ongoing performance. We inspire greater productivity and efficiency through personal relationships and customized printing solutions.

Our company name underlines our leading position in the display market and our role as a complete display solutions company - NEC Display Solutions for more efficiency and individual productivity, for the best return on investment (ROI) and investment protection. Whatever your needs are, NEC Display Solutions has the right product.

Crosstown Fiber is a Chicago-based fiber optic infrastructure developer specializing in the custom development of wholly-owned fiber optic networks for school systems, large enterprise, data center operators, content providers, IoT services, carriers as well as municipal and other government agencies. Designed, managed and operated by a team of leading Chicago networking infrastructure specialists, Crosstown Fiber’s network infrastructure is secure, pervasive...

We are a team of young, but experienced entrepreneurs who believe in the future of smart urban mobility, and also in the advance of science in integrating the brain and body’s biomarkers with the mechanics and electronics of the most beloved mode of green transportation – the bicycle.

Advanced Edge Artificial Intelligence

Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes only minutes to deploy on any kind of machine....

Monument is an AI-centric software platform designed to create an easy and enjoyable way to back up, manage, and interact with our photos and videos. Developments in technology and social networks have now made content creation easier than ever which in turn has amplified the very real need for content organization.

Board Certified Otolaryngologist Dr. Sreekant Cherukuri founded MDHearingAid after encountering a number of patients suffering from hearing loss that negatively impacted their lives – many of whom could not afford hearing aids. Dr. Cherukuri set out to manufacture high- quality, medical-grade affordable hearing aids. Thus, MDHearingAid was born. More than a decade later, MDHearingAid continues to provide high-quality hearing solutions to...

rf IDEAS began in 1995 as an early pioneer of proximity-based authentication and identification solutions. Today, we continue to lead the way with an innovative portfolio of credential readers that are compatible with nearly every proximity, contactless smartcard and, now, mobile credential available on the market. We’re your go-to authority for access control, partnering with leading technology companies to provide authentication,...

We build telematics software and hardware that is used by the construction industry to optimize the delivery of products. We are a small team that believes in autonomy, transparency, and that rapid, continuous improvement (not just to our product, but to everything we do) is the best way to ensure that we are always delivering the best value to our...

FLI Charge creates convenient power delivery solutions that power your future. Our ecosystem of conductive charging products allow multiple devices to be charged quickly at the same time. We’re a leader in innovative, on-the-go charging solutions for hotels, schools, offices, and worksites.

Swing King is golf’s first fully digital gaming platform designed for everyday play. The current iteration of our proprietary technology solution is a cash entry fee hole-in-one contest that adds entertainment and new revenue streams to golf courses of any type and provides golfers with added excitement, meaningful cash payouts and an HD video of their ultimate golf experience. We...

PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with kiosks in convenient locations such as apartment buildings, retailers, co-working spaces, and more. Operating in all 50 states, PrintWithMe enables anyone to print securely from their digital device in seconds. Since 2014, over 10 million pages have been printed on sustainably sourced...

BallBox has developed a kiosk that allows people to rent sport, tech and leisure products at beaches, hotels and apartments. Items in the kiosk range from footballs and Bluetooth Speakers to VR sets and drones. Our kiosks provide retailers an awesome experiential marketing avenue and property managers an amazing amenity!

Merge let’s you hold and interact with digital 3D objects and travel anywhere virtually, enabling a fun and engaging new way to experience the world. #mergecube

HumanCentric creates products to help professionals optimize their workspace. With home offices becoming more common and potentially the new norm for some, it’s more important now than ever to invest in building a workspace that works for you. We aspire to empower people around the world to increase their creativity and productivity by providing them with everything they need to...