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Cala
Bespoke pasta restaurant driven by automated robots
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Food
- Robotics
- SaaS
- Automation
- Saint Victor, Paris, France
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Company mission
Cala's mission is to lead the technology revolution of the food industry, using advanced robotics technology to provide customizable, personalized and high-quality meals accessible to everyone.
Our take
Everybody has a different food palate and dietary requirements, leading some people to envision an idealistic restaurant in which customers could get creative and order exactly what they wanted. However, facilitating this comes with significant challenges, with most boiling down to human chefs being limited to the number of ingredients, utensils, and dishes that they can manage in a kitchen.
Cala operates a pasta restaurant in Paris that allows customers to create their ideal dish from a list of ingredients, with advanced robotic chefs preparing each bespoke meal to order. The company saves significant funds in staffing through its robotic chefs, allowing it to reinvest these savings into purchasing the highest quality ingredients possible.
Several restaurant startups are claiming to host “the world's first robotic chefs”, but only Cala has taken the smart move to reinvest staffing savings into stocking expensive and high-quality ingredients. Furthermore, existing attempts at robotic restaurants generally still work with a fixed menu, whereas Cala recognizes the extent of individual diets, encouraging customers to order exactly what they want and need.
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Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- BSPCE Stock Options
Company values
- We optimize for Long term, Positive, Measurable impact - we shy away from bullshit metrics and virtue signaling and instead focus on having an impact
- We practice proactive transparency - we use transparency as the cornerstone of trust we build with our customers and the responsibility we build with our team.
- We use rational thinking - we use first-principle thinking to make informed decisions and deconstruct the status quo
- We move step by step - we take Gall's law to heart: "All complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked" and build failure and iteration as part of the process
- We get hands-on - we move exceptionally fast by doing by approaching every problem asking "Can we do it ourselves?"
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$5.8m
SEED
Sep 2019
$1.1m
SEED
Total funding: $6.9m
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Leadership
Ylan Richard
(CEO)Graduated ESME Sudria in 2018. Founded Cala as CEO in 2017.