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Jeremy Porr

Updated on April 03, 2025

The latest raise, co-led by Qualcomm Technologies and Microsoft’s M12 Ventures, follows what has been an outstanding year of growth for the company. Last year, inVia grew its revenue by 600 percent.

With big names like Grubhub and Seamless merging and going public, the restaurant delivery industry is already changing and consolidating. But Venice-based ChowNow adds nuance to the crowded marketplace by not just serving as a delivery tool between restaurants and customers, but as a form of communication between the two.

Los Angeles is full of creative, driven and forward-thinking tech leaders. We talked to six of them to learn about how they are utilizing tech to surmount challenges, what products they are excited about and the future technologies they are keeping their eyes on.