Conveo Raises $50M Series A to Expand AI Video Research Infrastructure
Conveo has raised $50 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered qualitative market research platform and grow its teams across New York, San Francisco, London, and Antwerp. Led by DST Global Partners alongside Balderton Capital, Visionaries, 6 Degrees Capital, and Y Combinator, the round brings the startup's total funding to $55.8 million following a $5.3 million seed round in March 2025.
The startup, founded in 2024 out of Y Combinator's S24 batch, automates qualitative customer interviews using multimodal AI. Its platform conducts video, voice, and text conversations with consumers at scale, allowing enterprise insights, marketing, and strategy teams to analyze open-ended feedback without waiting weeks for manual scheduling and synthesis.
Automating qualitative research at scale
Traditional market research forces brands to choose between the breadth of quantitative surveys and the depth of qualitative video interviews. Conveo addresses this trade-off by deploying an AI video moderator capable of running over 1,000 adaptive interviews per month per project across more than 50 languages.
The software builds topic guides, conducts follow-up probes based on respondent answers, and automatically transcribes, translates, and codes video responses into structured insights. Every data point and chart links directly back to the original transcript quote and timestamp to eliminate hallucinations and allow researchers to verify findings.
In 2026, the company introduced StoryLines, an ongoing research product designed to continuously run qualitative studies across strategic brand themes, as well as an integrated MaxDiff methodology that pairs quantitative preference ranking with immediate AI video follow-ups.
More than 400 enterprises currently use Conveo, including P&G, Nestlé, Google, Canva, and Unilever. According to Pulse 2.0, StoryLines has already generated multi-million-dollar enterprise deals.
Leadership rooted in research and scale-ups
Conveo was co-founded by Dieter De Mesmaeker and Hendrik Van Hove.
Before starting Conveo, Dieter De Mesmaeker served as co-founder and CTO of edtech platform DataCamp, which he helped scale past $75 million in annual recurring revenue. Hendrik Van Hove previously worked on corporate AI and private equity due diligence projects at McKinsey & Company, where he experienced the operational delays of conducting hundreds of manual interviews.
To bridge commercial software engineering with academic research rigor, the company brought on Niels Schillewaert—founder of global insights agency Human8 and marketing professor at Vlerick Business School—to lead its research methodology efforts.
Scaling operations across North America and Europe
Following its Series A raise, Conveo scaled its workforce from 15 employees in late 2025 to 80 people across four cities, as reported by Fortune. Co-founder Hendrik Van Hove relocated to Manhattan to manage the company's US commercial expansion, while technical and product operations remain anchored in Antwerp and London.
Conveo's tech stack centers on a Remix application (React Router v7, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui) backed by PostgreSQL on Google Cloud Platform, using Inngest for background execution and Sentry for error tracking. Its AI layer integrates models and processing pipelines from OpenAI, Deepgram, LangChain, and LangSmith.
To support its U.S. and European growth, Conveo is actively hiring for technical, commercial, and operational roles. Engineers looking to build complex AI systems can apply for roles like Senior Product Engineer ($200k-$260k + Equity) - NYC in New York, Senior Product Engineer (£80k-125k + Equity) in London, or Senior Product Engineer (€90-€110k + Benefits +Equity) in Antwerp.
The company is also building out go-to-market and strategic teams, listing positions such as Sales Director in New York or San Francisco and Head of Product Marketing in New York.
Open roles at Conveo
Below are the positions currently listed at Conveo:
| Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Product Engineer (£80k-125k + Equity) | London | Onsite | £80,000 – £130,000 |
| Senior Product Engineer ($200k-$260k + Equity) - NYC | New York | Onsite | $200,000 – $260,000 |
| Senior Product Engineer (€90-€110k + Benefits +Equity) | Antwerp | Onsite | €90,000 – €110,000 |
| Head of Video Content | New York | Onsite | $150,000 – $190,000 |
| Sales Director | London | Onsite | £100,000 – £120,000 |
| Sales Director | New York / San Francisco | Onsite | $150,000 – $200,000 |
| Design Lead | New York / Remote (US) | Remote | $150,000 – $190,000 |
| Product Engineer (Internal tools & apps) | London / Antwerp | Onsite | £90,000 – £110,000 |
| Finance & Strategy Associate | London / Antwerp / Remote (US) | Remote | £50,000 – £90,000 |
| Head of Product Marketing | New York | Onsite | $130,000 – $160,000 |
| Strategy & Ops Associate | Antwerp / London / Remote (US) | Remote | Not listed |
| Events Manager US | New York | Onsite | $110,000 – $140,000 |
| Research Impact Lead - SF | San Francisco | Onsite | $80,000 – $150,000 |
| Paid Marketing Associate | New York | Onsite | $70,000 – $90,000 |
| GTM Associate - Internship | Antwerp | Onsite | Not listed |
| Finance & Strategy Associate | London / Antwerp / Remote (US) | Remote | Not listed |
| Business Development Representative (BDR) - NYC | New York | Onsite | $60,000 – $80,000 |