Built for the Saint Charles Community Since 2015

OPO Startups was founded in 2015 by Randy Schilling, a St. Charles native who had spent decades building technology companies on and around Historic Main Street. After growing Quilogy, a national IT consulting firm with hundreds of employees, and founding BoardPaq, a software company serving boards and leadership teams, Schilling turned his focus to something bigger: giving the Saint Charles business community the infrastructure it needed to grow.

His first step was converting the abandoned 1909 Old Post Office building at 119 S Main St into a coworking and innovation space. The response from the local business community was immediate. That original building has since grown into an 8-building, 50,000+ square foot campus spanning a full city block on Historic Main Street, home to dozens of startups, remote workers, and small businesses.

Randy's vision was never just a coworking space. It was a community anchor, a place where a software startup, a digital marketing firm, a solo remote worker, and a local retailer could all share a building and make each other better. That vision is what OPO is today.