Cala raised €5.5 million in a seed funding round led by Backed VC.

Cala, a Paris, France-based food robot company, announced the completion of a €5.5 million ($6.4M) financing round.

The equity was raised from investors led by Backed VC, and joined by Possible Ventures, Kima Ventures, Quiet Ventures and Acequia Capital.

Cala, founded in 2017 by CEO Ylan Richard, is building a restaurant businesses using a food robot that can make pasta and sauce. It runs a fast-food kitchen in Paris entirely powered by a 3m2 robot, which significantly reducing the space for operations as well as the need of additional staff, accounting for up to 60% of the operational expenses. The company has both a customer-facing operation as well as a delivery unit.

Cala previously raised $1.1 million in 2019.