Conveo

Conveo is a qualitative research platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to conduct and analyze in-depth, AI-moderated video and voice interviews. Founded in April 2024 by Dieter De Mesmaeker, Hendrik Van Hove, and Ben De Smet, the Antwerp, Belgium-based company aims to merge the depth of traditional interviews with the speed and scale of surveys. The founding team's background includes experience that directly highlighted the need for a new research solution. CEO Dieter De Mesmaeker previously co-founded an edtech platform and saw companies make high-stakes decisions with insufficient research. CPO Hendrik Van Hove witnessed firsthand at McKinsey how slow, manual, and expensive traditional research methods were for gathering insights at scale. This led them to develop Conveo, which participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch.

The platform operates as an "AI coworker," automating the entire research process from study design to analysis. Users can upload an interview guide or have the AI generate one based on research objectives. Conveo then conducts and moderates hundreds of asynchronous video and voice interviews in parallel, available in over 50 languages. The AI interviewer probes for deeper insights and can ask follow-up questions, with the company stating that over 70% of final insights come from these AI-driven follow-ups. The platform analyzes responses across audio, video, and text, identifying themes, charting emotions, and generating summaries, highlight reels, and shareable insight decks within hours. This process is designed to be 100 times faster than conventional methods, delivering insights in days rather than weeks.

Conveo serves a client base that includes in-house teams of marketers, product managers, and researchers, as well as market research and creative agencies. The company has secured clients such as Unilever, Google, Procter & Gamble, and Orange. After participating in Y Combinator, Conveo raised a $5.3 million seed round from investors including 6 Degrees Capital, Entourage Capital, and Pitchdrive to expand its operations in the US and Europe. The company operates within the $120 billion global market research industry, targeting the $30 billion segment for qualitative solutions.

Keywords: qualitative research, AI-moderated interviews, market research platform, consumer insights, video interviews, voice interviews, automated analysis, customer feedback, Y Combinator, research automation, multimodal AI, AI coworker, respondent engagement, insight generation, user research, product management, marketing research, brand insights, concept testing, multilingual research