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Guild Row is a new type of social club located along the Rockwell Corridor in Avondale, Chicago. Our 12,000 SF indoor/outdoor facility was designed as a place to meet new people and try new things. Guild Row opened its doors into the global pandemic this past August believing that togetherness is an essential good. Our growing community is currently comprised of approximately 220 active members with varied interests, diverse expertise, and assorted passions. Hailing from many different Chicago neighborhoods our members share a common respect of craft, desire for community, and love of a good time.
The Desire Company is the world’s only community of Experts who tell the truth about the products they actually use and trust. Our mission is to empower shoppers to make more educated, confident purchase decisions by providing credible, expert-driven product reviews, how-tos, and classes.
Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly fireside chats in 600+ cities and 100+ countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, & investors.
<p>ffocal is the easiest way to track and share upcoming events with the world. We let people bookmark all of the cool events they find on the web and store them in one place with the click of a button. Friends can see what's going on this weekend without emailing back-and-forth a dozen times.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Presently we are a social community where brides can engage and source ideas from other brides through pinterest like functionality. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Vendors are part of this community too and interact in our community, while finding targeted customers and targeted placement of their product. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">12 million people watched Kim Kardashians wedding, there are 7 national TV shows - weddings are now entertainment. We are the social network for weddings where these socially active people can interact around a topic they love. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Our next big step is to completely overhaul the planning process through social feedback and targeted vendor placement, this does not exist and the need has been expressed constantly to us.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-align: justify; float: left; width: 650px;">Our mission is to empower organizations and communities to be more socially active and nurture important relationships.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-align: justify; float: left; width: 650px;">After a sad exploration on how modern families and family-friendly organizations learn about or organize their social activities, we made a plan to build a safe, hassle-free solution that goes beyond party planning to help anyone connect and manage the chaos.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-align: justify; float: left; width: 650px;">We are dedicated to helping you easily discover, coordinate or showcase meaningful activities. We aim to make your planning seamless, and turn your ideas into activities. Join our neighborhood and please tell us what you like, or don’t like. We look forward to hearing from you and evolving to fit your needs.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-align: justify; float: left; width: 650px;">We're one big family, so cheers to simple collaborative activity planning! Try us out. We’ll always be growing with you... </p>
VIP Bidding is a real-time reservation platform connecting groups with unique experiences inside restaurants and nightclubs at exclusive prices.
With powerful, web-based automation, Evention solves the challenges long-associated with cash operations and gratuity management for the hospitality, restaurant, and retail industries. Say goodbye to spreadsheets, say hello to automation, and say hello to Evention.
Questival is the ultimate Chicago Event Map. Quit wasting your time with event lists - zoom in to your location and find events going on near YOU. Filter by date range, price, and event type so you never have to miss out on a festival, show, concert, or other event.
Agency EA (www.agencyea.com) is an award-winning, full-service brand experience agency, known for its strategic vision, inspired creative and seamless execution. EA connects brands with their target audiences through live, hybrid and virtual events, strategic marketing campaigns, digital engagements, and experiential activations. Named as Adweek’s “Fastest Growing Agency” in 2019, one of Ad Age’s “Best Places to Work,” and a “Top 10 Best Places to Work for Women” by Crain’s, EA is also a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Founded in 1999, EA has worked with a broad spectrum of esteemed clients across industries, including Google, Hilton, Intuit, Samsung, Molson Coors, Zoom, McDonald’s and the Obama Administration. Located in the heart of Chicago, Agency EA is a division of EA Collective, a group of connection experts who create brand identities (Storyhorse), content (Studio Sage) and experiences (Agency EA).
VENTURE UP (est. 1983) delivers FUN team building, CSR events & training programs to boost employee engagement and energize workplace culture. Thanks to 250k + clients, Venture Up is the leading team building provider worldwide. Top events include Amazing Race, Strategic Games, Bike Building for CSR & Minute-to-Win-it.
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Asrai Garden is a flower shop and retail space, founded in the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park in 1999. We’re a retail outpost known for stunning floral arrangements, fine jewelry, and a highly curated selection of home goods and apothecary. We have two locations in Chicago and an ever-growing online shop, as well as a full-service floral event business.
Industry leaders since 1983, BBJ | La Tavola is the largest specialty linen rental company in the nation. Prominent operating facilities in Napa, CA and Chicago, IL, we have sales teams, event designers, and showrooms in most major cities across the United States.
Fever is the leading global entertainment discovery platform, and has revolutionised the world of entertainment since 2015, inspiring over 45 million people every month to discover the best experiences in their cities. Fever empowers event organizers to create amazing experiences, with successful examples such as the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 1 million guests, the Los Angeles based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience”, or the “Mad Hatter G&T Party” in multiple cities across the world. Fever is a US company with a team of over 550 people, currently present in more than 80 cities, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid and Barcelona, and is backed by leading institutional investors, including Rakuten Capital, Accel, Fidelity and Atresmedia among others. Fever’s marketplace is composed of events and experiences hosted by organizers that we provide visibility to via our marketplace and media network. However, given that Fever and our Secret Media Network provide us with millions of data points and insights around how people consume offline entertainment, we are now able to go one step further in the value chain and create our own “Fever Originals” experiences, similar to how Netflix has begun to create their own shows. We believe there is a huge opportunity to create more of our own content, and continue to provide an amazing content offering to our users!
Since 1998, i.c.stars has been running an intensive 16-week technology and leadership bootcamp to break the cycle of oppression for inner-city adults. Our project based learning approach - rooted in systems thinking and problem solving - is core to how we develop Technology and Community Leaders. Our programs transform lives and strengthen communities. Our graduates’ earnings increase average is 300%, with an 83% placement rate and 90% industry retention rate after one year. Furthermore, many of our graduates go on to become homeowners and advocates for change. One of our 1,000+ alumni summed up the impact in this quote: “i.c.stars allows space for CREATORS to architect their career, their lifestyle, and even more deeply consider generational wealth…”
Techweek is a 7-day technology conference and festival that celebrates and enables innovation ecosystems in five cities across the country: Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.With Techweek as a conduit, a spotlight is able to shine on each individual technology community, providing entrepreneurs, innovators, influencers, and visionaries to share ideas, sparking game-changing conversations and inspiring action.Past speakers at Techweek include: Jonah Peretti (Founder & CEO, BuzzFeed), Karen Sumberg (Diversity Pod Leader, Google), Travis Kalanick (CEO, Uber), Reshma Saujani (Founder & CEO, Girls Who Code), Craig Newmark (Founder, Craigslist), Nyla Koncurat (Co-founder & Managing Partner, Karlani Capital), Barney Harford (CEO, Orbitz), Dan Gilbert (Founder, Quicken Loans), Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder, Reddit & Partner, Y Combinator), Rahm Emanuel (Mayor, Chicago), and Kathryn Minshew (Founder, The Muse).With more than 200 sponsors supporting the Techweek mission (including Uber, Microsoft, Yelp, Motorola, Groupon, Redbox, Wordpress, American Airlines, and more) and rapid national expansion, Techweek is uniquely positioned to provide a platform for all who are passionate about technology.
<p>FanFueled is a game-based marketing and social ticketing platform that measures word of mouth and rewards fan engagement. FanFueled has built a proprietary platform that incentivizes, tracks and rewards Fans for spreading the word on multiple degrees of separation</p>
<p>Jump Rope is a mobile platform where you can purchase preferred and priority access to places, products, events, and services. Jump Rope is available in the App Store and the Android Market</p>
TreaSolution is a treasury management consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. We provide treasury management consulting and treasury training services to corporations, non-profits and financial institutions.
<p> </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://tech.co"><strong>Tech Cocktail</strong></a> is a media company and events organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts. Since 2006, its goal has been to amplify local tech communities and give entrepreneurs a place to get informed, get connected, and get inspired. Tech Cocktail dedicates itself to covering news, how-to’s, up-and-coming startups, and industry trends online, and hosting events in over 20 cities in the US and abroad.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">From a simple community-building event, Tech Cocktail has transformed into a full-fledged media company with thousands of fans, followers, and supporters across the globe. Tech Cocktail has hosted local mixers, breakfasts, conferences, festivals, and other events around the country that have attracted thousands of attendees, educating entrepreneurs as they showcase their latest achievements and the local technology communities they live in.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">Working with Tech Cocktail has helped startups find employees, co-founders, funding, and even acquirers. Tech Cocktail has hosted events in Chicago, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boulder, Austin, and more. A better informed, recognized, and connected tech community is possible through Tech Cocktail. Check out the <a href="http://tech.co/2011-events-schedule" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(108, 164, 29); text-decoration: none;">full schedule of upcoming Tech Cocktail events</a>.</p><h3 style="border: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: normal; font-size: 26px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'League Gothic', sans-serif; text-shadow: rgb(221, 221, 221) 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">HISTORY</h3><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">The company was co-founded in 2006 by former Tribune and AOL product strategist, long-time tech blogger, and new media pioneer Frank Gruber and early Feedburner employee Eric Olson as a way to better and amplify the local Chicago tech startup scene. In 2010, after over three years as a passion project, Eric moved on to take on new endeavors and Frank teamed up with the leadership of expert technology producer and longtime AOLer Jen Consalvo as the company was reborn into a full-time media company.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_61140" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 10px 5px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); text-align: center; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; width: 586px;"><img alt="The Tech Cocktail executive team of Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber " class="wp-image-61140 " height="516" src="http://tech.co/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/JenConsalvo-FrankGruber-TechCocktail-ModernLuxuryPhoto-640x573.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;" title="The Tech Cocktail executive team of Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber " width="576"><p class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px;">The Tech Cocktail executive team of Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber</p></div><p> </p>
