From Rohlik to enterprise AI: Tomáš Čupr's Duvo raises $32M Series A

Duvo raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with support from Index Ventures, Northzone, and Credo Ventures. This brings the company's total funding to $48 million and will fuel its expansion, primarily targeting retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Tomáš Čupr, a Czech serial entrepreneur, serves as the co-founder and CEO of Duvo and the founder and Group CEO of Rohlik Group, a European online grocery company valued at approximately $2 billion. Čupr established Rohlik in 2014 and expanded it to multiple European markets.

Duvo is an enterprise operating system designed to integrate a company's processes onto a single platform, enabling automation of multiple tasks using unified software connections, approval rules, and monitoring tools. This approach avoids treating each automation as a separate project. The company's origins stem from the operational difficulties Čupr faced while building Rohlik, a platform that aims to serve as an enterprise super app, providing a single interface for managing tasks, making decisions, approving actions, and escalating issues.

Duvo utilizes AI to comprehend how work is conducted in practice, including exceptions and decisions that may not be formally documented. AI agents map these processes, pinpoint automation opportunities, and determine where human intervention is necessary. The platform interfaces with ERP systems, supplier portals, spreadsheets, and inboxes using APIs where available or existing software interfaces when necessary.

This methodology allows businesses to initiate their first automated process within weeks, without requiring extensive engineering teams or comprehensive systems integration projects. Čupr emphasizes that Duvo's primary objective is to boost employee productivity rather than reducing headcount through AI. He views AI as a means to extract more value from existing staff, enhancing the overall economic output of a company rather than merely reducing costs.