Top Illinois HR Tech Startups (97)

Built In is helps professionals discover companies, understand what it’s like to work there, and find their next opportunity. For candidates, we bring together company information, workplace insights and open roles to provide a balanced view of the employee experience, including both the strengths and challenges of working at a company. For employers, Built In provides intelligence and tools to...

Over the last 15 years, we’ve grown from a startup to a market-leading organization with over 150 team members, and we’ve created an award-winning culture that makes this company an amazing place to work. We've been ranked on multiple best places to work lists including the 2026 BuiltIn Chicago rankings.

Hunt Club is a new category of search firm that leverages the power of relationships and technology.

We are an operations and consulting firm for plastic surgeons and dermatologists. We offer a number of service lines guided at letting our surgeons/doctors do what they love, while we handle the business end. We are building towards an all-in-on platform offering physicians a single solution to view their entire financial and operational snapshot

Not every candidate is a top performer—and neither is every hiring assessment provider. Wonderlic’s mission is to help HR professionals identify top applicants and predict on-the-job performance by providing them with the most trusted, scientifically validated assessments on the market. Since the company was founded in 1937, more than 200 million Wonderlic assessments have been administered to job candidates. Our...

HRBoost®, LLC. is Shared Services HR firm specializing in building HR from scratch and implementing practices that add value. Our Boosters are experienced and provide custom human resource solutions, systems, training and support to develop and optimize your investment in people. We provide a full service team for the price of one person. You can choose to work with us...

Fringe is the world’s first Wellbeing Marketplace. With Fringe, employers save money by consolidating their employee experience programs into one platform to recruit and retain talent. Fringe has hundreds of services and experiences intelligently designed to drive business outcomes and employee wellbeing. To learn more, check us out at fringe.us

Kudoboard is employee recognition and engagement software that helps organizations celebrate the moments that matter at work. Kudoboard is used to celebrate special occasions like birthdays, work anniversaries, and farewells. It also enables teams to come together for team and company-wide events and share shout outs.

At Havas People, we help organizations attract, engage and retain talent by creating meaningful employer brands and talent experiences. We're a global employer branding, talent communications and recruitment marketing agency within Havas, one of the world's largest communications groups. While many agencies focus on products, consumers or corporate audiences, we specialize in one thing: people. Our work spans the entire employee lifecycle,...

More than 15 Fortune 500 companies utilize the RIVS digital interviewing SaaS platform to find desired soft skills like attitude and communication at the beginning of the hiring process instead of toward the end (status quo). RIVS saves its customers millions of dollars a year in time and reduction in turnover.

Until now, having an employee with significant downtime was a strain on your startup’s resources. Pinch relieves the strain by facilitating short­-term employee leases between like­-minded startups. Now you’ll never be forced to lose a valuable employee again.

TransparentCareer is building the next-generation career management platform for job seekers and employers. We are collecting the most robust compensation and career path dataset in existence to help professionals and students understand their fair pay and plan their careers. Our first product is TransparentMBA, built for the MBA community.

Flank 5 Academy is a 10 week personal incubator that meets once per week to help you unlock your potential, change careers, or become self-employed.  Each cohort member discovers what their professional strengths are, dig in to understand ‘what’s holding you back’, and create a plan to make his/her next move.  Graduates start consulting practices, open restaurants, change industries, and restructure their...

We help clients define recruitment, and then source and screen top candidates to deliver people whose talents and characteristics align with their company, not just the job description. We believe to be successful in a job, the right person must match the culture of the company. We don't just find the right talent, we find the right people.

Laso Builds Stronger Businesses Strategically...One IT Person at a Time At Laso, we take search and recruitment seriously, but we’re more than a search firm. We succeed by helping people find work they are excited about while assisting in building stronger businesses, one person at a time.

We work on a collaborative basis with client management teams to help them locate the best talent available to fill their open positions. Through this process, we develop long-term partnerships with client companies and decision makers. Our success is proven by more than 25 years of consistently filling openings in a timely and cost effective manner. Vogrinc & Short, Inc. offers...

HowardSimon proudly serves companies nationwide in every size and business class as the premium source for comprehensive retirement planning, payroll solutions and HR technology. A leader in creative retirement plan design since 1981, we created our payroll services with the same forward thinking, industry-leading technology and unparalleled performance. Maintaining compliance at every level, we minimize your tax burden with proven...

hiredMYway.com is changing the game in online recruiting.  With more than 30 partnerships, our app platform allows you to post job openings to the top job boards, social media sites, universities and traditional media outlets through one, simple-to-use dashboard.  As your jobs receive exposure, our unique filtering system sorts the serious and qualified candidates from the rest, allowing you to...

We all work in a candidate short market with most company’s competing for the same skill set and expertise. The global war for the best talent is being fought out among ONLY 10% of active job seekers. The question for corporate America becomes, how do they ensure their share of the talent to remain competitive and more importantly RELEVANT? If...

Shortlist360 was formed in 2013. The technology is cloud based and helps small business employers or hiring managers posting jobs at Craigslist to surface the most qualified candidates. The application does this by scoring & ranking candidates based on how well they match the job opening.