Rohlik über die 2022er-Kapitalrunde in letzter Minute

Gerade hat Rohlik für Knuspr & Co. wieder große Ziele ausgegeben. 2022 allerdings war es – vor der letzten Kapitalrunde – richtig eng:

„When he started to fundraise, in January 2022, he “had a lot of interest” — after all, Rohlik was profitable already then. He was pitching hyper growth across Europe, something that investors loved at that time.

But as soon as the war in Ukraine started and interest rates went up, investors started to drop off. So, he changed his pitch.

“We redid the model, crossed out some countries we wanted to go to, and basically started presenting a much more conservative case,” he says. “It certainly wasn’t smooth sailing. Runway was getting shorter — we had money until pretty much the beginning of the summer.”

In April [2022], the Belgian investor Sofina came along: it could invest €100m but also calculated the whole round needed to reach €220m. “I still needed to raise €120m from others… So, I actually ended up personally borrowing €32m, which I put into the round.”

Čupr is laughing now, but probably didn’t laugh then — he closed the round with 17 days of runway left.

So oder so ähnlich lief es 2022 (und 2023) bei vielen, aber solche Einblicke gibt es selten.

Rohlik ist aktuell in 13 Städten vertreten. Bis 2030 sollen es 30 werden.

In Deutschland liefert Rohlik aktuell in München, in Frankfurt und in Berlin (mit Bringmeister). Hamburg und eine weitere Stadt sollen bis Ende 2024 folgen.

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