YC-Backed Corvera Secures $4.2M to Power the Shift to Agentic Supply Chains

• The funding will scale the startup’s platform, which uses AI to automate outdated and human-reliant operational workflows

• Corvera CEO Christopher Kong (Forbes 30u30) previously built Better Nature into Europe’s leading tempeh brand

London/San Francisco: London-founded Corvera (corvera.ai), an agentic supply chain management platform backed by Y Combinator, today announces it has raised $4.2 million (£3 million) in seed funding to accelerate its expansion and automate end-to-end operational workflows for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands.

The round was led by 6 Degrees Capital, with participation from over 20 venture capital and angel investors including 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, and Multimodal Ventures. The raise follows Corvera’s participation in Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 cohort – selected from more than 30,000 applicants globally – where it also received backing from alumni founders.

The funding will be used to scale the startup’s platform, hire additional staff, and build the customer base.

After witnessing agentic developments across other industries, Corvera was founded to empower CPG brands whose workflows remain manual, fragmented, and inefficient. The platform solves these issues by sitting on top of existing solutions and ERP systems, giving AI agents the autonomy to execute tasks that would usually be undertaken by a human.

This means orders get recorded, sent to fulfillment, and invoiced, all automatically, from inbox to delivery confirmation. The result is faster decision-making, improved margins, and reduced operational overhead. By offloading responsibilities to agents, brands can spend more time building their business while retaining and benefitting from live visibility of their financial performance, cashflow, and logistics.

The company is led by CEO Chris Kong, who previously built Better Nature into Europe’s leading tempeh brand, scaling distribution to 5,000 stores before stepping back in 2025 and earning a place on Forbes ’30 Under 30′ Europe 2025 list. He is joined by CTO Dirk Breeuwer, former head of data and AI at Google; CPO Matthew Collins, former Head of Product at Rosemark (successor to Rosetta, acquired by Publicis for $575 million); and Founding Engineer Berk Güngör, an AI and machine learning specialist.

“Everyday CPG brands spend countless hours on back-office workflows that could otherwise be handled autonomously and flawlessly by AI agents. We’re here to make this a reality, enabling brands to invest more time into what truly makes them special and valuable” said Christopher Kong, CEO and Co-founder of Corvera. “Our objective isn’t to replace existing tools or force our customers to “lift-and-shift” systems. Instead, we act as the bridge between various systems and automate the manual work required to operate them. By reducing the reliance on human middleware, we enable more resilient, proactive supply chains with fewer errors and better service levels.”

Investor confidence in the platform reflects a broader shift toward AI-native operational tooling across the global CPG sector, which was almost $5.5 trillion in 2024, and is projected to reach $7 trillion by 2033.

“We’re thrilled to back Corvera and the exceptional team behind it, who bring rare firsthand experience building and scaling CPG brands. From day one, their clarity of thought and bias toward execution stood out. In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, speed of execution is the ultimate differentiator – and we believe Corvera has the team and product to lead this category.” – Christina Franzeskides, Principal at 6 Degrees Capital

“We’re excited to back Corvera and truly believe they will change the game for CPG Brands, allowing them to unlock more profit and maximize ease of doing business.” – Jared Heyman, Managing Director, Rebel Fund

“I’ve known Chris for seven years — from founding Better Nature to scaling it into Europe’s largest tempeh brand — and few founders combine his drive with his deep, scar-tissue understanding of how CPG operations actually break. That clarity is already showing in the market: within five weeks of closing their first customer, the team had signed more than a dozen brands, a level of pull that reflects both how acute the problem is and how sharply Corvera has built against it. Alongside co-founders Dirk (ex-Google Data and AI lead) and Matthew (ex-Head of Product at Rosemark, Princeton CS), this is the rare team to capture a generational shift: agentic AI moving beyond copilots into true systems of action that execute operations end to end. Corvera is uniquely positioned to become the command centre for the next generation of CPG brands, and we are proud to have been their first investor, and excited to see them close this Seed round on the back of the pace they set during YC.” – Lorcan Delaney, Principal at Firstminute Capital