Top Illinois Social Impact Startups (68)

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.

Pangea is a digital money transfer platform that makes sending money abroad simple, reliable, and cost-effective. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, we’ve helped millions of people send money securely and efficiently, empowering financial freedom across borders. We serve a global customer base with a mobile-first platform that offers low fees, competitive exchange rates, and fast*, secure delivery. Our work...

Amp Americas owns and operates one of the largest carbon negative fuels producing portfolios in the U.S. Amp makes ultra-low carbon intensity renewable natural gas (RNG) from dairy waste at 7 facilities in 3 states processing manure from over 100,000 cows. Amp operates three business units: Amp Americas Development, Amp Americas Services, and Amp Americas RNG Marketing. Amp’s dairy RNG...

Vidmob is the creative data company. Its AI-based software improves creative and media performance by helping brands and agencies derive their own custom creative best practices, and ensure that those learnings are applied across all flighted media. Vidmob’s approach to using creative data drives brand consistency, reduces creative and media waste, and increases overall business performance across the funnel. As...

Operated by elected Supervisor, Danielle Chynoweth, Cunningham Township Supervisor’s Office (CTSO) is a government office providing a local safety net for low-income households since 1928. We provide General Assistance, Rental Assistance, Utility Assistance, Food Support, and referrals to services funded by Urbana residents serving Urbana residents. We provide Homeless Services to Champaign County residents funded through grants coordinated through our county’s Continuum...

STEAMe's digital and data platform powers workforce development pathways to employment, connects system partners, simplifies workflows, and helps get the right person, to the right training, and the right job, so people and communities can flourish.

Rang is building the rewards platform for schools. Our mission is simple: improve student outcomes. Rang helps schools reinforce positive academic behaviors by connecting students and families to digital rewards funded by corporate sponsors. Schools get a powerful tool to improve attendance and engagement. Sponsors get measurable social impact tied directly to student outcomes.

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...

Double Good is a company built on creating joy and helping others. By reimagining product-based virtual fundraising, we help expand organizations' missions by giving back 50% of every dollar sold. We make ultra-premium popcorn sold through our simple-to-use software. We've helped raise over $200 million to support organizations nationwide that tilt the playing field for all kids. Double Good is not...

Kaizen Health is a healthcare technology company dedicated to removing transportation as a barrier to clinical care, food access, social services, education, the justice system, and employment as well as delivering supplies, food and prescriptions so that everyone can live a healthy and happy life. Kaizen Health works with health systems, Federally Qualified Health Clinics, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage , non-profits,...

Flowers for Dreams is the artisan flower service. Made to order and crafted locally, all bouquets start at just $35 with free hand delivery in Chicago & to Milwaukee. Every purchase benefits an amazing local charity. Named one of Business Insider's 20 Most Inspiring Companies in America.

To deliver the world's leading and highest quality Social Wedia group sharing and collaboration platform centered around digital imagery.

Bridge is the mobile money app built to make you more money easily, every single day, stress-free. But how? We help our members monetize their data through our app and card products, enabling you to share your anonymized data with third party businesses and make money. All of this is done on a strictly opt-in basis. When users connect their favorite debit...

The Chicago Community Trust was founded in 1915 by Norman and Albert Harris, father and son duo of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank (now BMO Harris Bank). The Trust was the fourth community foundation ever created. There are now 750 community foundations in Canada and the U.S. As our region’s community foundation, the Trust unites generous donors, committed nonprofits and...

Trajektory helps the world's biggest brands evaluate their sponsorship impact. We're focused on solving a variety of data and reporting issues that plague teams, leagues, events, and agencies in the area most crucial to local revenue growth in sports: sponsorship. Our mission is to provide stress-free data management that visualizes, assesses, and accurately values your partnership data in real-time. Our...

The Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) is a member-driven non-profit​, nonpartisan organization that cultivates technology-based economic development throughout Illinois.​ Authorized by state statute in 1989 as Illinois’ technology adviser, we serve as a convener, catalyst, and champion for Illinois’ research, science, and technology communities. By providing our members and partners with a shared voice, the ISTC delivers measurable economic impact...

At Gannon Solutions, we design and develop beautifully tailored websites cunningly optimized for all devices. We are a full-service digital firm. That means we partner with you from inception thru analytics on every project to help you stay relevant to your current customers and attractive enough to attain new.

We are a documentary video production company specializing in producing videos for purpose-driven organizations. Our video services are full service- from creative concept to shooting interviews and day in the life footage as well as editing, music and sound. Our social enterprise is committed to employing young people at risk from gun violence.

GoodSport Nutrition is a Chicago based start-up whose mission is to provide highly effective sports nutrition products powered by natural ingredients and backed by science, and build a brand guided by the belief that greatness starts with goodness: Good For You, Good For Sport, Good for the Planet. GoodSport™ has recently launched, a first-of-its-kind natural sports drink made from the goodness...

HowToFund (HTF), previously known as HowDoWe, is a SaaS company that helps schools and nonprofits maximize their fundraising efforts. We build free donation pages that match the look of the organization's website, helping them to raise money for their fundraisers, track incoming donations, automatically send receipts and thank you's, and much more.