Rohlik founder raises $32M for AI automation startup Duvo
What's the deal? DuvoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an automation platform that gives teams an AI workforce for day-to-day operations, has raised a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital. Existing investors Index Ventures, Northzone, and Credo Ventures also joined, bringing total funding to $48 million.
Who's behind it? The company was founded by Tomáš Čupr, who also leads European online grocer Rohlik Group. Čupr built Duvo around operational problems he hit while running Rohlik, where planners once checked only about eight at-risk products a day per market for shortages.
What does it do? Duvo captures how work actually happens inside a company, then automates repetitive processes in the same system. It claims to have unlocked more than $100 million for clients across finance, supply chain, customer care, marketing, and HR.
How it works: Duvo's discovery product, Duvo Clarity, maps how a process actually runs through AI-led interviews with the people who do the work, screen recordings, and existing documents. Its agents then execute the approved steps across a company's ERPs, supplier portals, spreadsheets, and inboxes — via APIs where they exist, and via the same screens people already use where they don't — which the company says gets a first process live in weeks rather than requiring a major systems-integration project. Decisions and exceptions route to whoever owns them, with operating cockpits showing what's awaiting a decision and what each process has delivered.
Show the numbers: At European beauty retailer NotinoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the reconciliation of about $45 million a year in supplier bonuses dropped from 70 days to 15, and from roughly 120 specialist hours per cycle to under 10.
Another client view: "Our business processes have evolved over decades, and Duvo gives us a way to understand them in detail, and quickly," said Gordon MacPherson, group productivity director at UK supermarket chain MorrisonsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. He said it gives the retailer "a much clearer path from identifying AI opportunities to putting them into operation."
Why it matters: "For a while I measured AI in heads, counting how many people an agent could replace. It's the wrong unit," says Čupr. "We think of it as raising the GDP of every employee: more value from the people a company has, not the same value from fewer of them."
The talent play: Duvo has added senior operators to drive expansion. Michael Green joins as chief commercial officer from Databricks, having previously served as a senior vice president at Salesforce. Spencer Insolia — formerly president at Kmart and a managing director at Accenture — comes on as managing director for the US, and Christoph Schwaiger, former chief executive officer at Aldi South HoldingsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, signs on as senior advisor for Europe.
What's the money for? The round funds Duvo's expansion, starting with retailers and consumer goods companies in the US. "We're starting in the US with retailers and consumer goods companies, because that's the work we know best," Čupr says, adding that processes like freight and invoice audit "aren't unique to retail."
The investor view: "Getting AI agents to work reliably across the enterprise remains incredibly difficult," says Rob Moffat, partner at Balderton Capital. He credits Čupr's operational background and "off the charts positive" customer feedback as reasons the firm backed the company.
The partner view: "Our clients don't need more AI pilots. They need operations that actually change," said Jan Hejtmánek, partner and AI Institute leader at Deloitte Central Europe, on the firms' alliance combining Deloitte's transformation expertise with Duvo's platform.
Built for enterprise trust: Duvo is model-agnostic — companies can run open-weight models on dedicated GPUs, connect a model in their own cloud or on-premises, or use an AI endpoint they've already approved, and every approval and system write-back is recorded. The company is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certified, and US customers can buy it through Microsoft's Azure Marketplace.
The customer base: Founded in 2025 by the team behind Rohlik Group, Duvo has close to 60 employees and counts Morrisons, Holland & BarrettDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, BodenDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Notino, and Allegro among its clients.
Market backdrop: Gartner projects spending on business-orchestration and automation technology will top $21 billion by 2029 as companies consolidate fragmented automation tools onto single platforms — but the firm also expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 over escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls. In a separate Gartner survey of 350 executives at companies with $1 billion or more in revenue, those reporting higher returns from AI agents and automation cut staff about as often as those with modest or negative results — a pattern that lines up with Čupr's framing of Duvo's value proposition.
The signal: At $32 million, Duvo's round sits in the top 4% of all-time Series A deals for big data companies in Czechia, underscoring investor appetite for enterprise AI that can show concrete operational returns rather than headcount cuts.
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