Chicago Inno (Jan. 19) -- Chicago food tech startup Maestro rebranded to Tovala, and just raised $500,000 to get their healthy food tech device on your kitchen counter. Company founder David Rabie connected with investors and his co-founder through a partnership with Illinois.Tovala is perhaps the most visible result to date of the partnership between the College of Engineering at Illinois and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.