Some people only pursue their passions outside of work hours. These women decided to take a different path and built careers out of doing what they love.

Zach Baliva

Updated on January 22, 2024

Temperatures may be dropping, but these Chicago tech companies are warming up for an exciting new year. Here are the ones to watch.

Some people only pursue their passions outside of work hours. These women decided to take a different path and built careers out of doing what they love.

These organizational principles empower employees to perform at their best.

If you’re ready to stop job hopping and start building a career then these are the companies you need to know.

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.

Anderson Chen

Updated on July 25, 2022

Data scientists are essential support for their companies. In turn, these Chicago companies are supporting them with proper tools, intellectual challenge and a clear mission.

Abel Rodriguez

Updated on April 27, 2022

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

Chicago’s women in tech look to these professionals for career inspiration.

These nine local companies are growing their teams.

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.

Tyler Holmes

Updated on August 25, 2021

At these 5 Chicago tech companies, connection is key.

CardX, Peapod Digital Labs and Analytics8 are just some of the companies seeing massive growth — and hiring in droves to keep up the pace.

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

While there is no established best practice, Chicago’s data community does have advice regarding how to approach the process along with what technologies are worth investing in. We recently spoke with three of these local data professionals to learn more about their best practices for managing and organizing data lakes.

Here’s a survey of what the Big Data landscape in Chicago looks like right now. When you’ve got players like these on the field, it might soon be time to crown Chicago as the reigning Big Data champ.

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.

If you’re looking to break into the Chicago tech scene and join a data team, these open roles would be a good place to start.

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.

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

MARCH 2018: Chicago tech companies are always on the lookout for top talent, so what are you waiting for?

To round off 2016 with a bang, we decided to revisit 10 of the coolest offices we saw during the year. They say curiosity killed the cat, but a quick peek couldn't possibly hurt, could it?

In a recent report, The New York Times named 50 startups poised to receive a valuation of at least a billion dollars. Run by CB Insights, the data screen alone names a whole herd of companies that fit the bill.

Chicago-based online lending platform Avant announced today the launch of Avant Institutional Marketplace. The program allows institutional investors to buy loans created by the Avant tech platform.

After launching just more than two years ago, Chicago-based Avant announced today that its online lending marketplace has hit $1 billion in loan originations.

As one of the three co-founders of Avant, Paul Zhang, has been building their technologies from day one. Zhang had experience working with financial services technology startups previously, and now manages a team of more than 60 tech and analytics employees in Chicago.

One of Chicago's fastest growing startups is leaving River North. But, they're not moving too far. Avant has signed a new, 80,000 square foot office space at 222 N. Lasalle, just across the River.

Lending platform Avant announced today is has closed two new debt-financing solutions that total $339 million.

By almost anyone’s definition, Avant had a pretty rockstar year. And they’re gearing up to make an even bigger splash in 2016. According to Crain’s, the Chicago-based online lender has opted to add an additional 40,000 square feet to the 80,000 square-foot lease they signed back in June for their new headquarters at 222 N. Lasalle St.

Avant, the online lending platform, which has previously made headline after headline after headline for reaching milestones few other tech companies ever achieve, today announced that it has surpassed $3 billion in loan originations.

Avant is winning the race to become Chicago’s fastest growing startup, but those aren’t horses pulling its chariot.