Huuva in a €4.9 million seed round led by General Catalyst.

Huuva, a Helsinki, Finland-based SAAS developer for the restaurant business, raised a new funding round closed at €4.9 million ($5.2M), dubbed seed.

The money was raised from investors led by the US-based venture capital General Catalyst, joined by the Finland-based Lifeline Ventures, and angel investors Laurel Bowden from 83North and Supercell’s CEO Ilkka Paananen.

The proceeds will be used to ramp up its expansion in Central Europe, recruit +100 new team members with a heavy focus on business and operations talent and better serve the market with a neighborhoods-first focus.

Huuva, founded in 2021 by Ville Lehto and CEO Ville Leppälä, developed what they call a food court software solution managed as a dark kitchen aggregator operation.

Each of Huuva’s kitchens gathers 3-6 well-known restaurant brands under one roof, enabling consumers to order their favorite dishes from multiple brands in one delivery. The business is handled via a software tool provided to restaurant businesses as a SAAS for scaling the brand to new markets and is made freely available to the end consumers, via a virtual food court marketplace connected within existing food delivery applications.

Huuva currently runs 6 kitchens and 12 restaurant partners, supported by 45 employees. It previously raised $1.2 million in 2021 in a round also dubbed as seed.