SwipeSense

SwipeSense is a healthcare technology company on a mission to eliminate harm and waste in medicine. Hospitals use our platform to prevent infections, make better use of their equipment, and improve the patient experience. We believe in the power of data and partner with hospital teams to provide them with insights to sustain positive behavior change and deliver a predictable patient journey. We value relentless experimentation, a locked-arms attitude, and a shared purpose to improve the future of healthcare. Our vision is to be the safety platform for hospitals with a growing number of applications such as hand hygiene compliance improvement, asset tracking, and nursing insights.

CartoFront

CartoFront is big data meets mapping software for the real estate industry. Our users enjoy access to and filtering of millions of data points through an easy to navigate mapping platform. First launched in the highly regulated cannabis industry (HerbFront), we offer unparalleled site selection and search functionality across major metro areas.

VivaKi

Part of Publicis Groupe (Euronext Paris Exchange: FR0000130577; CAC 40 index), the world’s third largest communications group, VivaKi was established in 2008 to propel the digital transformation and expertise of the Groupe and its agencies. Today we are the global leader in digital advertising solutions, working with the world’s leading organizations to help them navigate the evolving and chaotic media landscape. Across the globe, VivaKi employs more than 400 engineers, technology experts, product designers, analysts and digital marketing professionals. Visit us online at www.vivaki.com or follow us on Twitter: @VivaKi

Webitects

<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Webitects, a web design and development firm, started in 1995 with belief that the web would be more than just a flash in the pan. It took several years for business leaders to become convinced that this was the case.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">We are also the Chicago node of the Tim Berners-Lee founded, UK-based,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.opendatainstitute.org" style="font-size: 13px;">Open Data Institute</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></p><p class="heading-subtitle"><strong>A few organizations with which we've partnered</strong></p><p><strong>Obama 2008 campaign</strong>—We redesigned <strong>my.barackobama.com</strong>, the campaign's social networking site, and conducted user research in swing states on the software used to run the field campaign (five weeks of warm beer and cold pizza). You can download a PDF of a paper <u><a href="http://webitects.com/content/images/files/Improving_Obamas_software_Belchev_Baker.pdf">Improving the Obama campaign software by learning from users</a></u>, which accompanied our presentation at the Agile 2009 conference.</p><p><strong>Wikipedia</strong>—We helped double annual fundraising through user research, user testing, designing 20 variations of fundraising pages and rating the effectiveness of each design based on site analytics. We discovered a couple of factors that significantly affect whether people will give to Wikipedia. To learn more about our methods and what we learned, watch our <u><a href="http://livestream.com/techweek/video?clipId=pla_8e8a5179-31ce-4852-abc0-48c9b3757eff">2011 TechWeek presentation</a></u> (livestream starts about 13:30).</p><p>The <strong><u><a href="http://artinstituteshop.org">Museum Shop</a></u></strong> of The Art Institute of Chicago—We designed and developed their high volume ecommerce site that sells many products based on items in the museum. We also run their very successful AdWords campaigns, create customized tools for sending segmented emails based on buyer purchasing behavior, sift through analytics data, and suggest strategies for increasing sales. Museum Shop staff can control most aspects of their site appearance, inventory, sales, promotions, and pricing through our content management tools.</p><p><strong><u><a href="http://benevolent.net">Benevolent</a></u></strong>, a nonprofit startup that makes it easy for people to give to individuals who have needs that make it difficult for them to overcome hurdles on the way to self-sufficiency—We brainstormed with founder Megan Kashner for several months about possible site functions and strategies before creating a site using a minimally viable product (MVP) approach. Megan presented about Benevolent at the White House in winter of 2012 and has been the subject of several stories in Chicago media, and has received foundation funding.</p><p><strong style="font-size: 13px;"><u><a href="http://casi.cjcj.org/">California Sentencing Institute</a></u></strong><span style="font-size: 13px;"> is a project of the Center on Juvenile and criminal justice in the Bay Area—We created data visualizations in order to demonstrate that the more you spend on locking people in jail the less effective you are at reducing crime and the more damage you do to low income communities. We compare counties based on factors such as prison population, costs, incarceration rate, and new felony admissions. In a time of decreased tax revenue, criminal justice reform is a hot topic. The site has received much press coverage and seems to be influencing the thinking of legislators and the public.</span></p><p><strong><u><a href="http://modelsforchange.net/index.html">Models for Change</a></u></strong> sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation—We interviewed many juvenile justice experts in order to design and develop the leading US-based juvenile justice reform website. The design is clean, modern, and responsive—it displays well on multiple devices.</p><p><strong>Children's Memorial Hospital</strong>—Early 2003-June 2012. We conducted design research with parents, doctors, and staff; designed a new website and mobile site; and provided an easy-to-use content management system that enabled doctors and staff to write about the innovate treatments they were providing children. Pursuing a "long tail" strategy, the site greatly increased traffic and hospital admissions and won many national design awards.</p><p class="heading-subtitle">How we are active in the open data movement</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">We have worked in open data since 2007, including co-sponsoring the first Chicago City Camp at which Tim O’Reilly launched Code for America. To help keep the OpenGovChicago meetup going through a dry patch in 2010, we hosted, programmed, and organized meetings in our office.</span></p><p>In early 2011, CEO Paul Baker came up with the idea for <em>ChicagoLobbyists.org</em> and put together a team to build the&nbsp;site at the first Google/City of Chicago hackathon. Former&nbsp;Chicago CTO John Tolva frequently used it as an example of designer/developer/government collaboration around open data. Four people in this group, including three from Webitects, went on to form <em>Open City,</em> which organizes Tuesday hack nights at 1871.</p><p>Last year, our employees provided design and technology, and wrote some of the blog posts, for <em>SchoolCuts.org,</em> which was nominated for a Moxie award and is considered by many in the open data movement the most influential open data website of last year in Chicago.</p><p>Last summer, Webitects alum Demond Drummer created <em>Englewood Codes!</em> to train high school students in web technologies, financing it through a Kickstarter campaign. &nbsp;</p><p>For more than 10 years we worked with Local Initiative Support Corporation, creating websites to support the <em>New Communities Program</em> in 16 underserved Chicago communities and, in 2009, created a demonstration web portal in Pilsen which helped the City raise about $7 million in Federal stimulus funding, much of it matched by local foundations. This led to the creation of the <em>Smart Communities program,</em> for which we created community websites that encouraged residents in many Chicago communities to tell their own stories and get interested in, and involved with, Web technologies.&nbsp;</p>

Thoughtly

Thoughtly is a machine learning startup whose core capabilities help clients understand large amounts of text in real time. Ellipse (the core platform) analyzes, visualizes and summarizes text. It allows non-technical professionals and researchers to upload hundreds of documents to quickly assess and summarize content that may be relevant.

Cultivate Labs

Cultivate Labs uses crowdsourcing techniques to harness the insights of an organization's employees to help inform strategic decisions and give decision makers real-time and ongoing predictions.

LegitLead

<p>We turn lean data into actionable insight. Today, online lead generation is inefficiency. Less than 1% of all leads turn into paying customers. The sources of this inefficiency are bad leads, buyer-supplier technology imbalance, lack of source transparency and fragmented lead data. LegitLead's Actionable Insight (AI) Platform solves these problems enabling lead buyers to dramatically improve lead performance.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

FormSite

Formsite is a leading online forms and survey building platform with year over year growth for over twenty years. We have current openings for senior personnel with SaaS experience to help accelerate our growth. Join a pure internet company where you can make a difference. Currently all personnel are working 100% remotely. When it is safe to do so, we hope to return to having some on-site meetings for our Chicagoland personnel in our Downers Grove office located just one block away from the Metra station. You’ll be surrounded by talented staff that are smart, experienced, and passionate about internet technologies.

Market6

<h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3.07692em; line-height: 1.275em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.53125em; color: rgb(51, 70, 81); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;">What is Market6?</h1><div class="region region-content row" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px -10px; position: relative; z-index: 1; padding-bottom: 2em; color: rgb(117, 138, 151); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 16.984375px;"><div class="columns twentyfour" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 10px; position: relative; width: 679.984375px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0em 0px 1.30769em;"><span class="semi-large-font-size primary-brand-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 95, 151) !important; font-size: 1.23077em; line-height: 1.32813em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em;">Retailers today have access to massive amounts of data. But is all this data really helping improve day-to-day operations in tangible ways? Is it delivering real business impact?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0em 0px 1.30769em;"><span class="semi-large-font-size primary-brand-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 95, 151) !important; font-size: 1.23077em; line-height: 1.32813em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The problem:</strong>&nbsp;Until Market6, there hasn’t been a retail analytics solution designed for the realities of everyday retail operations. One that allows retailers and their supplier partners to quickly see, interpret and respond to fast-changing supply and demand dynamics for every product, in every store, every day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0em 0px 1.30769em;"><span class="semi-large-font-size primary-brand-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 95, 151) !important; font-size: 1.23077em; line-height: 1.32813em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em;">Traditional approaches to analytics are too complex and cumbersome to provide the time-sensitive critical data the fast-paced world of retail operations requires. What’s more, analytics are not delivered in a way that helps optimize daily retail operations. What has been missing is an analytics solution that truly aligns with the workflow and business needs of the operational decision-makers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0em 0px 1.30769em;"><span class="semi-large-font-size primary-brand-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 95, 151) !important; font-size: 1.23077em; line-height: 1.32813em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Enter Market6.</strong>&nbsp;We offer a different approach—and a new relationship with analytics—where retail data is current, easily accessed and, more important, actionable.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0em 0px 1.30769em;"><span class="semi-large-font-size primary-brand-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 95, 151) !important; font-size: 1.23077em; line-height: 1.32813em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em;"><span class="light-font-weight" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Market6 provides web-based retail applications with advanced analytics built in to effortlessly guide business users to smarter, faster proactive decisions and actions for improved performance every day. These retail-focused applications are designed with a deep understanding of retail workflows and the time-critical situations the world of retail dishes up every day. Market6 is the perfect solution for frontline category management, supply chain, promotion and CPG key account teams that need to optimize execution and act on data with complete confidence.</span></span></p></div></div><p>&nbsp;</p>

Edgeflip

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We are building analytics tool for non-profits and social-good organizations that allow them to better use social networks and analytics to increase their reach, raise more money, recruit/mobilize volunteers, and do targeted outreach and advocacy.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We are creating the next version of the targeted sharing tool we built in the Obama campaign that allowed the campaign to use Facebook to reach millions of voters through real-time social network targeting. We provide out clients with insights about their audience that allow them to design better marketing campaigns and reach the right audience more effectively.</p>

The Kini Group / KiniMetrix

The Kini Group provides easy access to advanced business analytics and reporting through its award-winning flagship solution, KiniMetrix. Applying the cloud-based SaaS, companies of all shapes and sizes leverage their sales transaction data to find insights for margin improvement quickly and intuitively. Our customers identify critical issues and opportunities related to sales performance, price/volume/mix, customer churn, price realization, and any other metric area they deem important to their business objectives.&nbsp;Our approach blends proprietary metrics and frameworks, smart Business Intelligence software, insightful analytics, and creative problem-solving to help businesses achieve their bottom-line goals. Our working model differs significantly from other software and business consulting firms: we provide structure, guidance, and cloud-based software tools as a supportive partner who follows the lead of your internal team in a joint effort to achieve profit growth.

Deck Technologies, Inc.

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Deck Technologies, Inc. is a technology and analytics provider in the peer-to-peer lending space. Our flagship software is the AutoNote tool for Prosper, which enables p2p investors to purchase notes via the Prosper Marketplace loan platform. We also offer a full range of analytics and consulting services, including advanced portfolio analysis, strategy development, and algorithm testing.</span></p>

SavvyIntel

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">SavvyIntel allows organizations to utilize data to fuel growth and make informed decisions without having to invest in software, hardware or adding additional staff. SavvyIntel provides outsourced data analytics and business intelligence reporting through the cloud. With over 20 years of data analysis experience let SavvyIntel help you make sense of your data while saving time and money.</span></p>

Global Turnarounds

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Add credibility to your ambitious startup story by adding us to your team. We help you construct the best pitch supported with a financial model and then continue to help execute your plan to ensure the best growth of your equity value. And our fees are aligned with your goals - based only on success.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We are experts in operations, sales and marketing processes with more than 15 years track record in results-based growth partnerships.</p>

CountBOX

At ICSC Recon 2015 the CountBOX Corporation has launched a new Platform created especially for the Small and Medium Businesses! The new platform include in itself CountBOX2D device and CountBOX Deluxe Cloud Platform! Start control your marketing and business expenses right now! Count each penny with the CountBOX Smart Platform!

24Wave

24Wave is the industry leader in predictive wireless analytics. We are changing the paradigm by using advanced statistical analysis routines to predict and pinpoint trouble spots in wireless networks before they occur, instantly shifting technical teams from chasing problems to preventing problems.

VectorScient

We predict the Leads and Prospects that are most likely to become your Customers. We also predict the Leads that are not likely to buy from you. We provide the reasons behind our predictions, so that you can take actions to improve the likelihood.

Fetch

Fetch Rewards is a mobile app that connects and rewards everyday shoppers for buying the brands they love. Fetch gives users the easiest way to save on their purchases by simply scanning any grocery receipt, from any store. For our brand partners, Fetch helps them build long-term loyalty, and understand a true 360 degree view of purchase behavior.

Red Fog LLC

Cryptocurrency is a modern alternative to money, with many unique advantages. But to start learning these benefits is risky if your first step is buying it. Red Fog offers free-to-play crypto games within a diverse social community. Expand your knowledge as you rise to higher skill levels, progressively unlocking new coins and prizes.