Duvo.ai

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Field	Value
Name	Duvo.ai
Tagline	AI-native automation platform for retail operations
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Founded	2025
Stage	Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry	E-commerce / Retail
Technology	AI / Machine Learning (agentic automation)
Geography	Eastern Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (Tomas Čupr, Martin Pecha, Marek Paris)
Funding Label	Seed
Total Disclosed	~$15,000,000 [Finsmes, Dec 2025]

Links

• Website: https://www.duvo.ai/
• Documentation: https://docs.duvo.ai/
• Blog: https://blog.duvo.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/duvo-ai
• Founder newsletter (Tomas Čupr): https://tomascupr.substack.com/p/why-i-co-founded-duvoai

What an Investor Needs First

Duvo.ai is a Prague-based, AI-native automation platform built for retail and FMCG operations. The company emerged in December 2025 with a $15 million seed round led by Index Ventures, alongside Northzone and Credo Ventures [Finsmes, Dec 2025]. The founding story traces back to Rohlik, the European online grocery operator built by co-founder Tomas Čupr. The thesis is that retail back-office work is dominated by repetitive, cross-system tasks that agentic AI can execute end to end [The Recursive].

The product is positioned as an "AI workforce" that ingests how a retail process is performed and runs it across ERPs, supplier portals, and ecommerce systems [Duvo.ai]. The company is automating processes inside multi-billion-dollar retail and FMCG groups, with paying customers on six-figure annual contracts, executed by a team of roughly fifteen people [Retail Technology Innovation Hub, Dec 2025] [Forbes]. Backers include Index Ventures [Duvo Blog].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Finsmes, The Recursive, Forbes, and Retail Technology Innovation Hub.

Inside the Company

Duvo.ai was founded in 2025 in Prague by Tomas Čupr, Martin Pecha and Marek Paris, with Čupr serving as co-founder and CEO [The Recursive] [Seedtable]. Čupr is the founder of Rohlik, a regional unicorn. His stated motivation is that retail teams spend a disproportionate share of their time inside spreadsheets and supplier portals doing work that agents can perform [Substack: Tomas Cupr, Why I Co-Founded Duvo.ai]. The company develops autonomous AI agents for managing repetitive workflows in enterprise systems [Wikipedia CS].

The company emerged from stealth in December 2025 with a $15 million seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Northzone and Credo Ventures [Finsmes, Dec 2025]. Forbes Czech Republic reported that the technology is being built by a team of fifteen people and that Duvo is automating processes inside large FMCG retail groups [Forbes]. Retail Technology Innovation Hub characterised early commercial traction as paying customers on six-figure annual contracts inside multi-billion-dollar retail groups [Retail Technology Innovation Hub, Dec 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Finsmes, Forbes, The Recursive, and Wikipedia CS.

Under the Hood

Duvo's product is an AI-powered assignment platform that automates repetitive business tasks across systems and tools [Duvo Docs]. The platform observes real steps, handoffs, and workarounds before automating them [Duvo.ai]. Agents monitor carrier portals, parse delivery exception notifications, update expected delivery dates in SAP, and handle competitor price monitoring across stores, ecommerce platforms, and marketplaces [Duvo Blog].

Duvo uses real filesystems combined with ephemeral, sandboxed environments as the execution substrate for its agents, providing deterministic state and native tool access [Duvo Blog]. Pricing is a fixed price per execution rather than a token-metered model [Duvo Blog]. The company publishes a security and privacy page within its documentation [Duvo Docs].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product positioning confirmed by Duvo.ai and Duvo Docs; performance claims rely on company-published material.

Market Research and Opportunity

Retail and FMCG operations are a target for agentic AI because the work is high-volume, cross-system, and rules-bound. Forbes Czech Republic frames the problem as the daily "slavery of spreadsheets" inside FMCG retailers, where merchandising, pricing and logistics teams keep data synchronised across ERPs, supplier portals, and ecommerce backends [Forbes]. Duvo's product addresses recurring pain points shared across mid-market and enterprise grocery, apparel and general-merchandise operators [Duvo Blog]. The Recursive notes the seed thesis is built around the gap between documented and actual processes inside large retailers [The Recursive].

Sizing claim	Value
Duvo seed round	$15M
Reported team size	~15 people
Reported manual-work reduction	40%
Reported early customer ACV	six-figure annual contracts

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Sizing is inferred from comparable categories; only company-cited figures are confirmed.

Competition and Substitutes

Duvo is positioning itself as a vertical, agent-native alternative to horizontal RPA and ERP-embedded automation.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding
Duvo.ai	Agent-native automation purpose-built for retail and FMCG operations	Seed, $15M (Dec 2025)
SAP Build Process Automation	Low-code workflow and RPA inside the SAP ecosystem	Public company product (SAP SE)

Duvo's defensible edge comes from founder access to retail buyers via Tomas Čupr's Rohlik network [The Recursive], a narrow vertical surface area for high-frequency retail tasks [Duvo Blog], and an investor syndicate (Index, Northzone, Credo) that provides hiring and follow-on credibility [Leads on Trees].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Subject row confirmed by Finsmes and Duvo materials; competitor row drawn from a single Duvo-published comparison.

Opportunity

Duvo aims to become the default agentic operations layer for European retail and FMCG. The founding team has direct operating experience inside one of Europe's largest online grocers [The Recursive]; the seed syndicate has the scale to fund a multi-year category build [Finsmes, Dec 2025]; and the company is live inside multi-billion-dollar retail groups on six-figure annual contracts [Retail Technology Innovation Hub, Dec 2025].

Scenario	What happens
European grocery standard	Duvo becomes the named automation layer for two to four top-20 European grocery groups
FMCG horizontal expansion	Platform extends from grocery into broader FMCG (beverages, household, personal care)
SAP-adjacent wedge	Duvo is positioned as the cross-system layer that picks up where SAP Build Process Automation stops

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Scenarios anchored to confirmed seed funding, founder background, and reported early traction; outcome sizing is explicitly scenario-based.

Sources

1. [Finsmes, Dec 2025] Duvo Raises $15M in Seed Funding | https://www.finsmes.com/2025/12/duvo-raises-15m-in-seed-funding.html
2. [Retail Technology Innovation Hub, Dec 2025] AI tech powered workforce Duvo raises $15 million in Index Ventures led seed funding round | https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/12/1/ai-tech-powered-workforce-duvo-raises-15-million-in-index-ventures-led-seed-funding-round
3. [The Recursive] Rohlik Executives' New Venture: Duvo.ai Raises to Rewire Retail Operations | https://therecursive.com/rohlik-founders-new-venture-duvo-ai-seed-funding-retail-operations/
4. [Forbes] Konec otročiny v tabulkách. Čuprův nový retailový AI startup získal 340 milionů | https://forbes.cz/konec-otrociny-v-tabulkách-cupruv-novy-retailovy-ai-startup-ziskal-340-milionu/
5. [Duvo.ai] Duvo, AI agents that run operations end to end | https://www.duvo.ai/
6. [Duvo Docs] WELCOME | Duvo Guide | https://docs.duvo.ai/
7. [Duvo Blog] We have raised $15 million Seed round to give retail teams an AI workforce that goes live in weeks | https://blog.duvo.ai/duvo.ai-raises-15-million-to-give-retail-teams-an-ai-workforce-that-goes-live-in-weeks-cutting-manual-work-by-40
8. [Duvo Blog] SAP Build Process Automation vs Agentic AI: Which Approach Wins for Retail | https://blog.duvo.ai/sap-build-process-automation-vs-agentic-ai-retail
9. [Duvo Blog] Transparent, Predictable Pricing Is Duvo's Differentiator | https://blog.duvo.ai/transparent-predictable-pricing-duvo-differentiator
10. [Duvo Blog] Enterprise Automation for Retail: Scaling Operations Without Scaling Headcount | https://blog.duvo.ai/enterprise-automation-retail-scaling-operations-without-headcount
11. [Duvo Blog] How to Automate Competitor Price Monitoring Across Stores, E-Commerce, and Marketplaces | https://blog.duvo.ai/how-to-automate-competitor-price-monitoring-stores-ecommerce-marketplaces
12. [Duvo Blog] Best Enterprise AI Workflow Automation Platforms for Retail and FMCG in 2026 | https://blog.duvo.ai/best-enterprise-ai-workflow-automation-platforms-retail-fmcg-2026
13. [Leads on Trees] AI Retail Automation Platform duvo.ai Raises $15M Seed Funding | https://www.leadsontrees.com/news/ai-retail-automation-platform-duvoai-raises-15m-seed-funding
14. [Wikipedia CS] Duvo.ai | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvo.ai
15. [Substack: Tomas Cupr] Why I Co-Founded Duvo.ai | https://tomascupr.substack.com/p/why-i-co-founded-duvoai
16. [WIRED CZ] Tomáš Čupr založil vlastní AI startup Duvo.ai | https://www.wired.cz/news-beat/tomas-cupr-zalozil-vlastni-ai-startup-duvoai
17. [TCF Capital] Duvo have raised $15 million Seed round to give retail teams an AI workforce that goes live in weeks | https://www.tcfcap.com/en-us/stories/duvo-have-raised-15-million-seed-round-to-give-retail-teams-an-ai-workforce-that-goes-live-in-weeks