Winter 2026

Corvera

The AI sales agent for CPG brands

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What they do

AI sales agent for CPG brands that ranks stores, drafts outreach, tracks results

How close to us

3, close

one context layer plus actions measured against goals, for CPG brands; two layers at 2, buyer is sales.

Wedges

  • W5 One layer for one type of small firm adjacent
  • W7 Find and fix margin leaks adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 2, clear
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 1, light
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 2, clear

Who buys

Firm size
mid-market
Buyer type
business
Role
VP of sales
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

Corvera (YC W26) is the AI sales agent 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!

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