Conveo Raises $50M to Help Fortune 500 Brands Understand What Consumers Want Next

Conveo, a qualitative research platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews, led by Dieter De Mesmaeker and Hendrik Van Hove, has 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 over 50 Fortune 500 brands such as Google, Unilever, AB InBev, and Canva, rely on Conveo to inform marketing, product, and strategy decisions with insights grounded in what consumers actually say and do.

The Biggest Risk is What Brands Don’t See Coming.

Global enterprises make billion-dollar bets on products, campaigns, acquisitions, and new business models. Many fail because consumer demand is misunderstood: products miss the market, campaigns fall flat, acquisitions disappoint, or competitors define emerging categories first.

The global insights industry is worth $153 billion, yet it sits upstream of trillions in corporate spending. In 2026, global advertising is expected to exceed $1 trillion, while the world’s top 2,000 corporate R&D investors deployed €1.44 trillion in 2024. Consumer signals shape what gets built, how it is positioned, and where capital flows.

Traditional research was designed for isolated questions, not a living view of the consumer. Surveys lack depth, focus groups are slow and expensive, and fragmented data often makes emerging shifts difficult to detect, and even harder to connect to business outcomes.

Conveo Gives Every Team a Live Picture of What Consumers Think.

Conveo uses an AI research interviewer to conduct in-depth video conversations with thousands of consumers in days instead of months. Its newest product, StoryLines, turns this into continuous research infrastructure, building a shared, living picture of consumer needs, behaviors, pricing, and brand.

Research can span 1,000+ consumers a month across markets, including in-home studies, MaxDiff, Price Sensitivity, and Diary Studies. Every conversation adds to a searchable consumer intelligence layer, accessible through dashboards, AI agents, and existing decision-making software.

“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

“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

Fortune 500 Brands are Buying an Early-Warning System.

Conveo works like radar, helping brands spot shifts in consumer behavior before they appear in sales data. As AI amplifies the impact of every decision, the cost of guessing rises. The brands that understand consumers first gain the advantage.

“The companies that win from here are the ones who have the greatest understanding of their consumers, and apply that understanding for the key decisions in the business. The pace, responsiveness, and research expertise of the Conveo team, on top of being the leading AI-moderated qual platform, has been invaluable to us in scaling brand advertising internationally.”

Matt Harris, Head of Research, Canva

Insight Only Matters if it Reaches the Person Deciding.

Conveo turns individual research studies into a shared source of consumer intelligence. Each new study expands that knowledge base, making relevant findings available to the teams and software involved in product, marketing, and strategy decisions.

“I had my doubts about AI moderation, but one project in and I was a convert. Conveo captures insights from clearly engaged respondents, and is a fast and powerful tool for persuasive business storytelling.”

Proof Pillar Mgr, Hard Beverages and Innovation, Anheuser-Busch

“Brands need AI that is deeply knowledgeable about their market and grounded in real-world data. We have built the infrastructure to gather, structure, and synthesize consumer data at unprecedented scale, using best-in-class research methodologies, vetted participants, and purpose-built data architecture. That infrastructure is already running across more than 50 Fortune 500 companies.”

Dieter De Mesmaeker, CEO and co-founder of Conveo

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