Corvera (YC W26) — The AI sales agent for CPG brands
Corvera (YC W26) is the AI sales engine for CPG brands. We turn the data a brand already has into the actions its sales team takes today.
Corvera is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The AI sales agent for CPG brands. The founders listed are Christopher Kong (Founder/CEO), Dirk Breeuwer (Founder/CTO), Matthew Collins (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 14, 2025).
Get an email when Corvera changes status, grows its team or files a funding notice. One email first to confirm; nothing else until you click it. At most one a day, one click to stop. Free for up to 3 companies.
Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “Target eliminated approximately 1,800 corporate positions, with around 1,000 employees receiving layoff notices and the remainder accounted for by eliminating open roles.” Source: NBC News
Corvera (YC W26) is the AI sales engine for CPG brands. We turn the data a brand already has into the actions its sales team takes today.
A CPG brand sells into tens of thousands of independent US stores through dozens of distributors, and works that base with a handful of people. CLEAN Cause, a $20M yerba mate brand, covers 21,000 stores through 46 distributors with a four-person sales team. The accounts worth a call are not capped by headcount. The team is.
CLEAN Cause now runs its daily sales decisions on Corvera: 5,000 queries in 40 days across 12 users, $250K of opportunities surfaced within days, and a 7x return on the analysts they would otherwise hire.
With Corvera in place, every sales rep starts the morning with:
- The stores to act on today, ranked and priced, with the reason on the row,
- The outreach already drafted to the right contact at the right distributor, and
- The follow-up booked, logged, and measured against the goal it was set to move.
All from the distributor feeds, retailer portals, and ERP data they already have, resolved into one context layer - without a data team, and without handing their sales to a broker.
We’re founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30), Dirk (ex-Google Data & AI Lead), and Matthew (ex-Head of Product at Rosemark; Princeton MEng in CS).
To date, we’ve raised $6.2M and are backed by YC, firstminute capital, 6 Degrees Capital, 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, and more. Our ICP is US CPG brands doing $20M+ in retail revenue through UNFI, KeHE and DSD distributors. We sell to VPs of Sales and CEOs.
The incumbents prove the scale. Brokers take 5-12% of a $350B US independent grocery market, and Advantage Solutions, a publicly traded company, does $3.5B in annual revenue.
Our mission is bold: to enable the next generation of unicorn CPG brands to be run by teams of less than 10 people.
Our vision is even bolder: to give every CPG brand the coverage of a full sales team at a fraction of the headcount, and displace the broker network that covers the US independent channel today.
Visit www.corvera.ai to learn more!
Christopher Kong
Founder/CEO
Dirk Breeuwer
Founder/CTO
Matthew Collins
Founder
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
Want the whole picture on Corvera?
Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “Target eliminated approximately 1,800 corporate positions, with around 1,000 employees receiving layoff notices and the remainder accounted for by eliminating open roles.” Source: NBC News
A Full Report on Corvera: verified, sourced, every claim cited, ready in a few minutes. See pricing.
What the Full Report on Corvera covers
The Short Answer
Which Company This Is
What They Do, And How The Money Works
Who Runs It, And How To Reach Them
The Money: Funding, Valuation, Runway
Who Pays Them, And Who They Are Up Against
Warning Bells
Sources
1 cited source found
Plus the sections for what you are deciding, which you pick after ordering.
You get an alert in MentionFox the next time this company shows up.
Is this you?
If you're behind Corvera: acceptance into a YC batch is one of the few weeks a young company gets looked up by people who matter — investors, other founders, press. FoxPlug turns the commits, deploys, and releases you're already making into that story automatically, so anyone who looks finds something current. GetFoxChat puts a guide on your own site so the people YC's own page just sent you don't read one line and leave.
