From Rohlik to enterprise AI: Tomáš Čupr's Duvo raises $32M Series A
Tech.eu Cate Lawrence ● Covered by 2 sources
Duvo just raised $32M to sell AI that maps and automates company work. It grew out of Rohlik’s messiest operations, and now it’s aiming at retailers first.
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Duvo has closed a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, with support from Index Ventures, Northzone and Credo Ventures. The round takes total funding to $48 million and will help the company push into retailers and consumer packaged goods first.
The company comes from Tomáš Čupr, the Czech founder behind Rohlik Group. He built Rohlik from 2014 and turned it into a European online grocery business valued at about $2 billion. Duvo grew out of the frustration he ran into while trying to automate a business that already had years of messy systems, manual handoffs and knowledge trapped in people’s heads.
That frustration shaped Duvo’s product. Instead of asking customers to rip out their software, it sits on top of what they already use and pulls work into one interface. Duvo Clarity interviews employees, watches screens and reads documents to figure out how work really happens, including exceptions. Then the platform maps the process, finds what can be automated, and builds the workflow across ERP systems, supplier portals, spreadsheets and inboxes.
Čupr’s pitch is that the real win is productivity, not just headcount cuts. He points to Rohlik planners who once checked about eight at-risk products a day per market and now check every signal around the clock. Duvo says customers have used the system across finance, supply chains, customer service, marketing and HR, and that it has created more than $100 million in value. At Notino, it says a yearly supplier-bonus reconciliation process worth about $45 million has been cut from 70 days to 15.
The company is also leaning hard on the boring stuff that usually gets ignored until procurement asks about it. Duvo is model-agnostic, can run open-weight models on dedicated GPUs or use approved AI endpoints, and has SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications. It is available to US customers through Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace, employs around 70 people and plans to spend most of the new money on sales, marketing and partnerships as it expands in the US and starts eyeing Asia.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the more believable kind of enterprise AI: show the workflow, keep the audit trail, and don’t pretend every company wants a brand-new stack. The market is full of agents promising magic; the ones that survive will look boring, expensive to build, and very hard to fool. That’s usually a good sign.
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