NEW YORK, September 2, 2026: Conveo, the company building consumer understanding infrastructure for the world's largest brands, today announced a $50 million Series A funding round from DST Global Partners, Balderton Capital, Visionaries, 6 Degrees Capital and Y Combinator. The round brings total funding to $55.8 million and will drive its U.S. expansion as Conveo evolves from a research tool into infrastructure the entire enterprise runs on. More than 400 enterprises, including more than 50 Fortune 500 brands such as Google, Unilever, AB InBev, and Canva, use Conveo to make marketing, product, and strategy decisions grounded in what consumers actually say and do.
Global enterprises make billion-dollar bets on products, campaigns, acquisitions, and new business models. Some go wrong because companies misread what people want: products fail, campaigns miss, acquisitions disappoint, and new ventures never find a market. Other losses are less visible - the behavior shift spotted too late, the unmet need left undiscovered, or the category a competitor defines first.
The global insights industry is worth $153 billion, but it sits upstream of trillions in corporate spending.[1] In 2026, brands will invest more than $1 trillion in advertising; the world’s top 2,000 corporate R&D investors deployed €1.44 trillion in 2024.[2][3] The quality of the consumer signal shapes what gets built, how it is positioned, where it launches, and which opportunities receive capital. Traditional research was built to answer isolated questions, not maintain a living view of the consumer. Surveys offer breadth but limited depth; focus groups provide depth but are slow and expensive. Insights arrive too late, knowledge remains trapped in individual studies, and fragmented data sources—from sales and product data to syndicated market research—make it difficult to connect consumer shifts to business outcomes.
Conveo started with an innovation on a key data collection method: an AI research interviewer that holds in-depth video conversations with thousands of real consumers in days instead of months. Its newest product, StoryLines, moves Conveo from a research tool to infrastructure. It keeps research running continuously on a brand’s strategic topics, feeding the company's shared picture of its consumers, and has already secured multi-million-dollar enterprise deals.
"I haven't been as impressed by a platform in the speed that's been developing other than Conveo. Now that the internal stakeholders have gotten a sense of the speed and the possibilities, I can barely fend off all the requests - "Can we run a Conveo for this? Can we run a Conveo for that?"
— CMI Manager, Unilever Europe
Its AI research interviewer holds in-depth video conversations with real consumers, at a scale and speed no human team could match:
Every conversation adds to a shared, living picture of the consumer that teams can search in plain language - through tailored dashboards, AI agents grounded in real consumer data, and integrations with the software they already use to make decisions.
"With AI-moderated interviews at this scale, you have hundreds of hours of consumers talking about your product, your brand, your competitors. The platform structures all of it automatically, giving teams a constantly updated answer grounded in the original sources before anyone asks the question.”
— Niels Schillewaert, head of research at Conveo and former president of ESOMAR
Conveo works like radar: you see the shift before it shows up in your sales numbers. In the age of AI that radar matters more, because AI multiplies the impact of every decision, good and bad. That raises the price of guessing. Whoever understands the consumer first and best has a competitive advantage.