Cala is a Barcelona-based startup building a verified knowledge graph and structured data API that gives AI agents and LLMs typed, source-traceable facts instead of raw web search results, covering domains like finance, legal, HR, and supply chain. Founded in 2026 by former Vilynx (acquired by Apple) co-founders Elisenda Bou-Balust and Issey Masuda Mora, it raised a €7M pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, reportedly Spain's largest pre-seed round ever and Lightspeed's first investment in Spain.
SectorsAI & Data, Enterprise Software, Developer Tools
Start-up MapAI & Data › AI data infrastructure
Founders
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Issey Masuda Mora
Co-Founder & CTO
Global models 5
PPerplexity
United States · www.perplexity.ai ↗
Delivers verified, cited answers over web-scale data for AI-driven queries, the closest large-scale comparable to Cala's trusted-answer model.
$1.72BComparable
GGlean
United States · www.glean.com ↗
Builds a structured knowledge layer and search/answer API that AI agents query for verified enterprise data, mirroring Cala's data-layer-for-agents approach.
$765MComparable
EExa
United States · exa.ai ↗
Provides a search API purpose-built for AI agents and LLMs to retrieve structured, high-quality web data, directly analogous to Cala's API model.
$352MComparable
HHebbia
United States · www.hebbia.com ↗
Turns unstructured data into verified, structured answers for AI agents in finance and enterprise workflows, similar to Cala's vertical data offering.
$161MComparable
BBright Data
Israel · brightdata.com ↗
Supplies structured, cleaned public web data via API for AI and LLM training/agent use, matching Cala's public-data-to-structured-facts pipeline.
$34MComparable
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KKfund
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KKibo Ventures
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MMasia
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LLightspeed Venture Partners
Funding rounds 1
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2026-05-11 | Pre-seed | €7M |
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| 2026-06-03 |
Building the verified knowledge graph: Your AI agents need better data ↗
The Infinite Loop
2026-06-03 |
| 2026-05-18 |
Dealflow.es #513: Embat raised €30M. Lightspeed makes 1st investment in Spain (Cala). Spain tech report 2026. ↗
Dealflow.es
2026-05-18 |
| 2026-05-02 |
Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch ↗
TechCrunch
2026-05-02 |
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2025-07-05 |