London-founded Corvera, 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, where it also received backing from alumni founders.
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 otherwise be performed by humans. This means orders get recorded, sent to fulfilment, 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 live visibility into their financial performance, cash flow, and logistics, and benefiting from it.
The company is based in San Francisco and led by CEO Chris Kong, who previously built the tempeh brand Better Nature, scaling distribution to 5,000 stores before stepping back in 2025. 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 Chris 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.”
According to Christina Franzeskides, Principal at 6 Degrees Capital, the Corvera team brings 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.”
"We're excited to back Corvera and truly believe they will change the game for CPG Brands, allowing them to unlock more profit and maximise ease of doing business, ” shared Jared Heyman, Managing Director, Rebel Fund.
The funding will be used to scale the startup’s platform, hire additional staff, and build the customer base.
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