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.
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.
What data teams actually do varies from company to company. Jobs descriptions provide some insight into what a team does, but they don’t paint a complete picture.
Working for one of Chicago’s fastest-growing startups comes with a lot of perks, but for Catherine Phee, one of them stands out above the rest. “I love breaking applications, which is my day-to-day job here,” she said.
To Uptake's director of organization development, the key to keeping the right talent around is to offer learning opportunities that are too good to pass up.
Uptake collects messy machine data and uses it to build AI solutions for industrial companies. Behind the scenes, Uptake also is scaling its strong culture of collaboration, transparency, and continual learning to challenge and reward team members.
When it comes to November’s tech funding, there’s Uptake and everybody else. The industrial data analytics provider’s $117 million Series D was easily Chicago tech’s biggest round in a month otherwise characterized by smaller seed and Series A rounds.
Ranked fourth on Inc. Magazine's list of the country's top 10 startup cities, Chicago's tech scene is positively booming. In fact, if you're looking to get in on the action, there are so many innovative companies out there that it can be hard to know where to even begin the job search.
Two weeks after announcing a renegotiation of its partnership with Caterpillar, Uptake just brought in a $117 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $2.3 billion — its highest to date
Tech unicorn Uptake just raised another $40 million from Washington, D.C.-based Revolution Growth. The new funding will help the fast-growing company continue providing predictive analytics across six major industries.
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Uptake, one of Chicago's fasted-growing companies, announced on Tuesday that the startup has raised a $45 million round of financing. The new round has pushed the data analytics software provider past the billion-dollar valuation line, according to the New York Times, who spoke with someone familiar with the terms of the transaction.
