Abel Rodriguez

Updated on April 08, 2025

The fintech company reached the $1 billion valuation three years after launching.

With Chicago's history as a central trading and banking city, the biggest institutions have inspired a generation of talented, tech-minded financial professionals to build startups that use tech to solve the industry's biggest problems.

Andreas Rekdal

Updated on April 08, 2025

Chicago has its own stable of tech unicorns — half a dozen by our count. This is who they are, what they do and when they reached their mythical status.

Gordon Gottsegen

Updated on April 08, 2025

Avant has supplied over 1.5 million customers with $7.5 billion in loans and 400,000 credit cards since its inception in 2012.

Andreas Rekdal

Updated on April 08, 2025

Every tech company worth its salt has a robust data team, but what do the people on those teams actually do all day, and how does that work push their businesses forward? We reached out to eight Chicago data teams to find out.

Andreas Rekdal

Updated on April 08, 2025

We talked with nine Chicago companies that go above and beyond buying foosball tables and beanbag chairs to create spaces their employees can feel at home in.

Andreas Rekdal

Updated on April 08, 2025

"Sometimes people think machine learning and data science is kind of like magic."