Huuva secured €1 million in a round led by Lifeline VC.

Huuva, a Helsinki, Finland-based SAAS developer for the restaurant business, announced closing in a €1.05 million ($1.2M) seed funding round.

The money was raised from investors led by Finland-based Lifeline Ventures, and joined by Laurel Bowden from 83North as well as Supercell’s CEO Ilkka Paananen and Aiven’s CFO Julian Lange.

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 physical kitchen locations gathers 3-10 well-known restaurant brands under one roof, enabling consumers to order 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 says it partnered with three restaurant brands from Finland - Pupu, Story and Bites Burgers - which are all joining Huuva’s first virtual food court called Tapiola Food Court by Huuva.