Let the games begin.
Chicago Inno is now accepting nominations for Inno Madness, our annual bracket competition designed to generate awareness of Chicago's startup ecosystem — and the people and companies that are driving it forward.
How does Inno Madness work? It's easy. We're building a bracket — and we want your input.
Here's how you can take part: Nominate a local startup. We’re looking for private startups and tech-enabled companies based in Chicago. The Chicago Inno team will assemble brackets using the input you provide, and we'll share the resulting bracket matchups in early March.
At that point, companies will go head-to-head throughout subsequent rounds of voting with you, our readers, determining who moves on from every matchup. At the end of all the matchups after the weekly rounds of voting, we'll announce our Inno Madness winner.
This is the ninth year for our Madness competition. Last year, Doorage, a tech-enabled storage and moving startup, took home the top honors, outlasting Every Body Eat.
Previous winners were Choobs (2021) Leaf Trade (2020), 2ndKitchen (2019), SpringCM (2018), GetSet (2017), SpotHero (2016) and Kapow Events (2015).
Nominations can be submitted here.
But don't wait! The nomination period for Inno Madness ends on Feb. 25.
