B rad Keywell is a Chicago-based technology entrepreneur who has co-founded a string of successful companies with his longtime business partner, Eric Lefkofsky. Keywell is perhaps best known as a co-founder of Groupon, the online daily deals marketplace that became a cultural phenomenon and had a high-profile IPO in 2011. He was also a co-founder of Echo Global Logistics, a freight logistics company, and Mediaocean, a provider of advertising software.

His most recent major success is Uptake Technologies, an industrial artificial intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things) software company he founded in 2014. Uptake provides predictive analytics software for major industrial sectors like energy, transportation, and manufacturing to help them predict and prevent equipment failures. The company quickly achieved unicorn status with a multi-billion dollar valuation. Keywell serves as Uptake's founder and executive chairman and is an influential figure in Chicago's tech scene, also running a venture capital firm, WNDR Alpine.