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Linxin Wen is a Chinese-American entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Chowbus, a Chicago-based restaurant technology company best known for its previous Asian food delivery marketplace and now its all-in-one point-of-sale and operations platform for restaurants. Under Wen's leadership, Chowbus has raised more than US$209 million in venture capital^[1]. In September, 2025, Chowbus SaaS and POS business generated over $120 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), driven entirely by its tech platform launched less than two years ago. In that time, the company has also surpassed $4 billion in processed transaction volume ^[2]

Wen was born and raised in China. He has said in interviews that he aspired to start his own company from a young age and was influenced by the rise of consumer-internet companies in China, including Alibaba, during his university years. ^[3]

Wen earned a bachelor's degree in finance and economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He then moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies, completing a master's degree at the Stuart School of Business of the Illinois Institute of Technology ^[4]in Chicago. ^[5]

It was as a graduate student in Chicago that Wen first encountered the problem that would later become the basis of his company: he found it difficult to discover authentic Asian restaurants outside of Chinatown, and was frustrated by the high delivery fees and limited menu coverage on existing food-delivery applications.^{[6] [3]}

Wen founded Chowbus in 2016. The company launched as a delivery marketplace focused exclusively on authentic Asian cuisine, working directly with independent restaurants rather than national chains. Its early differentiators included a curated, "scroll-through" menu interface designed for discovery rather than search, and a "bundled delivery" model that allowed customers to order dishes from multiple restaurants in a single drop-off, lowering the per-order delivery fee.^{[6] [3]}

Headquartered in Chicago, Chowbus expanded across the United States and into Canada and Australia in its early years, with a particular focus on cities with large Asian-American populations. The company has reported that it has worked with thousands of independently owned restaurants, many of which had not previously offered delivery through major third-party platforms.^[7]

Under Wen's leadership, Chowbus has raised more than US$200 million in venture capital. A US$33 million Series A in 2020, led by Altos Ventures and Left Lane Capital, drew industry attention and was followed by additional growth-stage funding rounds. ^[7][8]

As the food-delivery market consolidated in the early 2020s, Wen led a strategic pivot that broadened Chowbus from a consumer-facing delivery app into a restaurant-technology company. The current platform combines a point-of-sale system, online-ordering and marketing tools, and it has raised $81m Series-E funding from Prysm Capital^[9], Left Lane and Fika Ventures to expand it's AI-driven features such as a marketing AI agent, a phone-ordering voice AI agent and front-of-house automation. ^[10][11]

Wen has spoken publicly about Chowbus's mission to "preserve and promote" the cultural identity of independently owned Asian restaurants in North America, and has described the company's product strategy as building software that helps small operators compete with national chains.^[11][3][12]

Wen has been recognized in industry and community honor lists, including:

• Crain's Chicago Business — Rising Stars in Tech (2020), which named him among Chicago's emerging technology leaders.^[13]
• 1871 Momentum Awards, In 2020, Chowbus was recognized with the Rising Star Award at the Momentum Awards^[14][15]
• Gold House A100, an annual list compiled by Gold House highlighting the most impactful Asians and Pacific Islanders in business and culture.^[5]
• Harvard College China Forum Speaker, 2026 Conference ^{[16] [17]}