Corvera Raises £1.5m to Give Consumer Goods Brands a Hands-Free AI Supply Chain

Corvera, the London-based AI supply chain startup, has raised £1.5m in pre-seed funding led by Firstminute Capital, with additional backing from Y Combinator and angel investors Dom Maskell, co-founder of running app Runna, and Alex Bouaziz, co-founder of global payroll platform Deel. The raise follows Corvera's acceptance into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort — selected from more than 30,000 applicants globally — and will be used to drive commercial growth across the UK and US markets. Within weeks of going commercially live on its rebuilt platform, the company reported scaling to £180k in annualised recurring revenue.

Consumer packaged goods brands face a significant operational burden as they scale. Order processing, demand forecasting, inventory management, purchase order generation and logistics coordination are all handled largely manually, consuming founder and operations team time that would otherwise go toward growth. For fast-growing challenger brands that lack dedicated operations headcount, this friction is particularly acute — and existing ERP solutions are typically too expensive, too rigid, or require significant implementation time to be accessible at early growth stages.

Corvera addresses this with an AI agent workforce that sits on top of existing tools like Shopify and inventory systems, taking autonomous action across the full supply chain workflow. Its agents process sales orders end-to-end from inbox to fulfillment confirmation, forecast demand in real time, trigger replenishment automatically, and give brands live visibility into financial performance and logistics. The company positions itself as the last operations hire a CPG brand will need to make, with early customers reporting profit improvements of up to 40% through reduced wastage and better margin management.

The founding team brings strong founder-market fit. Chris Kong, CEO, spent seven years building Better Nature, the UK's leading tempeh brand, scaling it to over 4,000 stores before exiting in 2025 and earning a Forbes 30 Under 30 listing. CTO Dirk Breeuwer led data, analytics and AI at Google, building the first global data warehouse for Google Pixel and leading Google's Marketing AI Transformation Programme. Matthew Collins, CPO, holds a Princeton computer science MEng and was Head of Product at Rosemark, a tech business that succeeded Rosetta, acquired by Publicis for $575m.

Corvera is targeting the orchestration layer of the $5.4tn global CPG industry. Its differentiation lies not in surfacing insights — which many planning tools already do — but in executing autonomous operational tasks that previously required human intervention. As demand for AI-native operational tooling grows among CPG founders, the company's combination of deep industry experience, strong technical infrastructure and early revenue traction positions it well for its next phase of growth.

Sources

• Soapbox VC – Corvera raises £1.5m led by Firstminute Capital
• The Grocer – Corvera secures £1.5m for FMCG AI supply chain tool
• Vegconomist – Corvera raises £1.5m to launch UK-first AI for FMCG operations
• Y Combinator – Corvera company profile