Omar Mohamed departs Boston Consulting Group to take on Head of UK and Ireland role at Duvo

Omar Mohamed has joined Duvo as Head of UK&I. He was previously at Boston Consulting Group, where he served as Project Leader, and has also worked at Procter & Gamble.

Co-founded by Tomas Čupr, founder of the European grocery unicorn Rohlik, Duvo is an AI workforce solution which streamlines retail operations, closing the gap and the information flow between systems to speed up execution.

Funding

Duvo recently raised $15 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures, backers of Figma, Revolut and Wiz.

Credo Ventures, Northzone and Puzzle Ventures also participated in the round, along with angels Roy Reznik (co-founder of Wiz), David Singleton (former CTO of Stripe) and Kieran Flanagan (former CMO Zapier).

“At Rohlik we saw teams spending hours every day copy-pasting between SAP, supplier portals, email and spreadsheets just to close the books or launch promotions,” said Čupr. “Across the industry, millions of hours of bottom-up, exception-heavy work remain untouched because traditional IT automation takes years and cannot handle the messy reality of retail systems.”

“Duvo is democratising automation: giving every retail team an AI workforce they can deploy in weeks, not years, to finally eliminate the operational bottlenecks holding them back. With this funding, we’re accelerating our product roadmap and bringing assistants to more enterprises worldwide – helping retailers eliminate errors, reclaim time and gain a decisive advantage over competitors still relying on manual processes.”

2026 RTIH Innovation Awards

AI will be a key focus area at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards.

The awards are now open for entries and celebrate global retail technology innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.

Our winners will be revealed at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards Ceremony, taking place at The HAC in Central London on Wednesday, 4th November.

Check out our 2025 winners here.

Our 2025 hall of fame entrants were revealed during a sold out event which took place at The HAC on 16th October and consisted of a drinks reception, three course meal, and awards ceremony presided over by award winning comedian, actress and writer Tiff Stevenson.

In his welcome speech, Scott Thompson, Founder and Editor, RTIH, said: “This is the awards’ fifth year as a physical event. We started off with just 30 people at the South Place Hotel not far from here, then moved to London Bridge Hotel, then The Barbican, and last year RIBA’s HQ in the West End.”

“But I’m conscious of the fact that, to quote the legend that is Taylor Swift, You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby. So, this year we’ve moved to our biggest venue yet, and also pulled in our largest number of entries to date and broken attendance records.”

He added: “This year’s submissions have without doubt been our best yet. To quote one of the judges: The examples of innovative developments across both traditional and digital retail spaces were truly remarkable.”

Congratulations to our winners, and a big thank you to our sponsors, judging panel, the legend that is Tiff Stevenson, and all those who attended our 2025 gathering.