ChowNow
chownow.com
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$10.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$5.4M
Venture round · May 2016 · 10 yr ago
Team
179
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Oct 2025 · -18% in a year
Hiring now
15
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Atento Capital, Bonfire Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
124 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 14, 2023
Partnership ChowNow Partners with Boostly to Provide Integrated SMS Marketing to Restaurants · businesswire.com
May 26, 2016
Raised a round Venture round $5.4M · SEC Form D
Oct 22, 2015
Partnership ChowNow Partners With UberRUSH To Bring Delivery To 3,000+ Restaurants · Food+Tech Connect
Aug 27, 2015
Raised a round Venture round $5.3M · SEC Form D
Nov 20, 2014
Partnership ChowNow partners with Yelp for online ordering · QSR Web
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2016 | $5.4M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2015 | $5.3M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ChowNow, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Eric JaffeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Christopher WebbExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Atento Capital 
Bonfire Ventures 
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Overview
ChowNow is a restaurant technology company that helps independent restaurants with branded websites and mobile apps, online ordering, menu management, delivery consolidation and targeted marketing. Its postings are mostly territory sales managers in US cities plus revenue operations leadership. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
News
SoundHound, ChowNow answering the (restaurant) call
SoundHound AI, a provider of voice artificial intelligence, is joining forces with ChowNow, an online ordering and marketing platform, to allow restaurants to answer and respond to every inbound customer call. Using SoundHound
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A food-tech CEO says he went 'cold turkey' after being 'addicted' to cheap venture capital and laid off 97 staffers to prep for a recession
ChowNow CEO Chris Webb told Insider he heeded the warning of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who told investors to prepare for an economic "hurricane."
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ChowNow sticks to zero commission orders as
ChowNow aims to strengthen the relationship with the restaurant and the diner themselves, by not "getting in the way."
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What is ChowNow? How the food-ordering service differs from its competition
ChowNow, a food-ordering app and subscription service for restaurants, doesn't receive a commission on orders like other popular delivery apps.
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What is ChowNow? How the food-ordering service differs from its competition
ChowNow, a food-ordering app and subscription service for restaurants, doesn't receive a commission on orders like other popular delivery apps.
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ChowNow, Instagram launch commission-free online food ordering
Online ordering platform ChowNow partnered with the social media platformto enablerestaurants to add "Order Food"buttons to theirprofiles and Stories.
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Instagram partners with LA's ChowNow to make food pics and stories shoppable
Instagram is partnering with the Los Angeles-based restaurant ordering platform ChowNow to make pictures and stories from local restaurants shoppable by
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The Power Of Purpose: How ChowNow Is Helping Restaurants Pivot And Succeed In A Time Of Crisis
Chris Webb: ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for over 14,000 independently-owned restaurants across the U.S. and Canada-via restaurants' own websites, on Facebook and Google, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow's website and app-wh
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at ChowNow over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
AI & ML
Claude
Practices & domains
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People
Eric Jaffe
Executive Officer, Director
Christopher Webb
Executive Officer, Director
Steven Dietz
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
15
6 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
90 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
71% ▲
Management
12% ▲
Product
6% ▼
HR
6% ▼
Marketing
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Columbus
Oct 2026
New location: Cleveland
Oct 2026
New location: Canada
Oct 2026
New location: Jersey City
Oct 2026
New location: Baltimore
Oct 2026
New location: Dallas
Sep 2026
Added Notion to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Aug 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for HR