The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Evanston, Illinois. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

1. Revenue potential
2. Leadership team
3. Brand/product traction
4. Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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1. BloXroute Labs

Founded: 2017

“Scaling all cryptocurrencies to thousand of on-chain transactions per second!”

2. BriteCo

Founded: 2017

“BriteCo provides an innovative cloud-based Appraisal Management System for jewelers to create, track and manage appraisals saving time and effort. Once appraised, BriteCo sends an insurance quote directly to the customer via text or email to get immediate coverage backed by an A.M. Best A rated global reinsurance carrier.”

3. Evati

Founded: 2017

“Evati is a financial services company built from the ground up to help people find their path to financial fitness. The company was founded on the belief that when half of our society is living paycheck-to-paycheck with no safety-net, the financial services industry isn’t working right.

To solve this problem, Evati is focused on becoming the country’s leading personal-finance app and is dedicated to simplifying saving and investing for everyone. With the Evati mobile app, customers can effortlessly create an investment account with identified financial goals, transfer funds into that account from their bank account, and automatically invest those funds in diversified securities portfolios.”

4. Avansa

Founded: 2018

“AVANSA is the fastest algorithmic trading platform that maximizes your cryptocurrency portfolio.”