Rohlik signs €30M EIB debt deal, posts first positive EBITDA quarter
What's the deal? Czech online grocery group Rohlík has signed a financing agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) worth 750 million Czech koruna (roughly €30M). The company did not specify how it plans to deploy the capital.
Alongside the EIB deal, Rohlík announced it reached positive EBITDA for the first time in its last fiscal quarter, posting 121.5 million koruna in gross operating profit.
"Today the strength of this model is fully visible — in growth, profitability, contribution to the state, and in the fact that we are exporting Czech know-how to other European countries," said founder and chief executive Tomáš Čupr.
Why now? Rohlík is on a steep growth curve. It grew group revenue by 35% year-on-year in 2025 to more than €1.45B (roughly 35.2 billion koruna). In its home market, revenue tripled from 6.9 billion koruna in 2020 to 21.7 billion koruna in 2025.
The company now operates in five European markets under the brands Rohlik.cz, Kifli.hu, Gurkerl.at, Knuspr.de, and Sezamo.ro. It serves over 700,000 active customers in Czechia alone and delivered more than 13 million orders in 2025.
What could go wrong? Rohlík hasn't disclosed what the EIB funds will be used for, which leaves open questions about capital allocation. Online grocery remains a notoriously thin-margin business, and while one quarter of positive EBITDA is a milestone, it doesn't yet prove sustained profitability across the group's five markets.
The signal: Rohlík's 35% revenue growth to over €1.45B, combined with its first positive EBITDA quarter, places it among a small cohort of European late-growth startups that are proving they can scale and edge toward profitability simultaneously. The EIB — a government and non-profit lender — stepping in alongside Rohlík's existing venture backers underscores a maturing funding landscape in which institutional debt financing increasingly complements equity for capital-intensive models like online grocery.
Read more: e15.cz
