Recently Funded Startups in Chicago

FundedIQ tracks 582 funded startups in Chicago. This page lists the 100 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.

Startups in Chicago tracked by FundedIQ have raised $5.3B in disclosed capital across 228 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 109 rounds in the last 12 months. 175 of those 228 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.

Financial Services has the most, with 73 companies, followed by Artificial Intelligence (54), Commerce and Shopping (50) and Health Care (48). Sector counts include every company assigned that industry, and a company can carry more than one.

The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $4.3M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $1.4M and $24M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.

Seed is the most common labelled stage, with 49 rounds in the last 24 months, ahead of Series A (21) and Pre-Seed (15). A further 127 rounds were announced without a stage label and are not counted here.

The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded startups in Chicago is dated Aug 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.