The online supermarket Rohlík managed to achieve a positive EBITDA of approximately 120 million crowns in the past fiscal year. It increased its revenue to 35 billion crowns, surpassing the milestone of one billion euros in sales. Moreover, for the first time in its history, the company managed to generate a positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) despite high costs related to expansion and logistics. This year, profitability is expected to rise further into the high tens of millions of euros. According to Rohlik Group CEO Tomáš Čupr, the company is now the only profitable online supermarket in Europe.
In addition, the company has just signed its second expansion loan from the European Investment Bank in the amount of 30 million euros, which confirms the confidence of Europe’s largest institutions in its business model. Jakub Havrlant’s Rockaway Capital investment group joined Rohlík as a strategic partner back in the fall of 2023. Rockaway is also one of the few investors in the market that offers the opportunity to invest directly in Rohlik Group equity through its Rockaway Alpha and Rockaway Fund funds.
“One of the fundamental investment principles and key criteria we apply when investing in selected companies is a simple question: ‘If, for some reason, this business or company were to cease to exist in the market, would anyone even notice?’” says Robert Chmelař, managing partner of the private equity fund Rockaway Alpha. In the case of Rohlík, the answer is clear: its absence would be felt by both individuals and corporations across the market. “And Rohlík has also met the second, equally important criterion, which is profitability. Given the combination of the model’s scalability and economies of scale, we believe that Rohlík will become one of the most compelling investment stories of the coming years,” adds Chmelař.
The Czech online supermarket also operates outside the Czech Republic in Hungary (Kifli.hu), Austria (Gurkerl.at), Germany (Knuspr.de), and Romania (Sezamo.ro). The Czech Republic accounts for about half of its revenue, German-speaking countries for roughly thirty percent, and Hungary and Romania for the remaining twenty percent. In 2025, the group reached a turnover of 1.45 billion euros. It achieved unicorn status in 2021.