Top Illinois Hardware Startups (35)

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hale Devices, Inc., formerly known as Sonr Labs, Inc., is a consumer electronics startup with a focus on bringing smart accessories for Android devices to market. Founded in 2011, Hale Devices made a successful entrance into the Android audio accessory category with the world’s first universal speaker dock for Android with a remote. Hale deliver

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!

At Drift Net Securities, our mission is to create and provide the most innovative technical solutions to keep communities safe— disrupting not only the world security but also of artificial intelligence based technology. With the KnowWhere Safety System, schools, businesses, and individuals can be better prepared to identify any threats early, res

TEEPTRAK is a leading provider of manufacturing monitoring solutions across Europe and Asia, specializing in turnkey digital solutions that enable factories to optimize performance in a cost-effective, innovative way. As we expand our footprint into the U.S., we are seeking an experienced, driven Country Manager to lead and grow our operations in this new market.

At eMeasurematics, we specialize in industrial autonomous solutions, digital warehouses and yard management systems. Our solutions encompass an advanced software suite which is seamlessly integrated with advanced digital devices. We are industry leaders in our field of technology. As we continue to grow, build better solutions, and add new modules to our software platform, involving A.I, Computer Vision and other...

AMS is currently a small team, comprised of independent thinkers, working to solve challenges in software development, data analysis, mechatronics, electrical engineering, and computer engineering. We are a cross-disciplined group and are excited to be pioneers in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and machine learning for 3D printing.

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.

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...

We build and market indoor gardens for consumers. Our experiential products foster health and happiness by enabling people to grow food, plants and flowers year-round. We are mission-driven as we work to improve education and awareness of the benefits of real food through schools - see the video of a recent collaboration.

BiomeSense is developing an integrated biosensor and bioinformatics platform to enable time-series collection and analysis of human gut microbiome data during clinical research. Our technology provides exponentially more data to scientists than current tools, dramatically accelerating clinical translation of microbiome research.

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...

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...

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...

FloWaste’s food analytics platform uses proprietary image recognition technology to empower food service providers and industrial food producers to reduce food waste automatically. Using kitchen data, FloWaste allows foodservice providers to optimize meal preparation, ingredient combinations, and portion sizing, while reducing labor costs, to maximize profits and minimize excess. FloWaste has 3 live paid pilot customers, who have just signed...