The European Investment Bank is providing Rohlik Group with a €30 million scale-up venture debt top-up for Veloq, the Prague online grocer's automation platform. The bank announced the facility on 2 June 2026.
The money is the EIB's second operation with Rohlik. It adds to €90 million of scale-up financing provided in 2024 and takes total EIB support to €120 million. The bank said the top-up will speed Veloq's commercial scale-up as the platform is offered to grocers in Europe and the United States. New EIB-financed activities will be carried out in the Czech Republic. The operation is backed by the European Union's InvestEU programme through an EIB window for Future Technologies. As in 2024, the support takes the form of scale-up venture debt, which the bank describes as long-term financing for fast-growing companies.
Rohlik, founded in Prague in 2014 by Tomáš Čupr, sells groceries online in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Romania. Veloq is the group's grocery automation platform. Rohlik launched it as a standalone company in June 2025.
"With this investment, we are supporting Rohlik in the next stage of its journey, turning proven, AI-driven fulfilment solutions into Veloq, a platform with the potential to benefit the wider European retail and logistics ecosystem," said EIB vice-president Marek Mora.
Čupr, Rohlik's founder and chief executive, said: "European customers want fresh, full-basket groceries delivered on their schedule. We've spent a decade building the technology that makes that work, profitably, across five markets. The EIB's continued backing helps put it into the hands of other grocers through Veloq."
The 2024 facility was the first operation under the EIB's Scale-Up Initiative, which the bank said is aimed at growth companies that sit between early-stage venture debt and conventional bank loans. The EIB published that transaction on 28 June 2024 and said Rohlik would use the credit to deploy digital technologies and automation and to expand in European markets. The operation benefited from an InvestEU guarantee.
The same day Rohlik announced $170 million (€160 million) of growth capital led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, with Sofina, Index Ventures, Quadrille and TCF Capital. Rohlik said the package was complemented by the EIB Scale-Up financing. The EBRD, which became a shareholder in 2021 and called this its third investment in the company, described the 2024 raise as a round of equity and debt. It said the proceeds would finance further automation in Rohlik's home market and expansion in Germany, Hungary and Romania.
In 2021 Rohlik raised a €100 million Series C led by Index Ventures, which the company said valued the business at €1 billion.