ZX Ventures is the global investment and innovation group of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer.
We partner with and build ventures that allow us to meet the needs of tomorrow – and turn entrepreneurs’ dreams into reality. We are here to invest ahead of the curve: seeding, launching, and scaling new products that deliver exceptional consumer experiences and bring (more) people together. We partner with devoted founders and best-in-class business builders and operators to help them grow their businesses.
We invest from seed to series D in key industries and investment areas including beverage, direct to consumer, circular ventures, future of socializing and agile industry.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded date: 2015
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 32
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| - | Cervejaria... | cervejariacolorado.com.br | - | - |
| - | Energy Sel... | hiball.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Saveur-Bie... | saveur-biere.com | - | - |
| - | Brouwerij ... | bestbelgianspecialbeers.be | - | Belgium, F... |
| - | Starship T... | starship.xyz | $287.97M | United Sta... |
| - | Sempre Em ... | sempreemcasa.com.br | - | - |
| - | Catalant | gocatalant.com | $76M | United Sta... |
| - | Hoegaarden | hoegaarden.com | - | - |
| - | Hand &... | thehandandmalt.com | - | - |
| - | hopt.com | - | - |
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News 27
| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.04.2021 | ZX Ventures Partners with Clara Foods to Unlock Precision Fermentation's Potential to Meet Global Food Challenges | ZX Ventures Partners with Clara Foods to Unlock Precision Fermentation's Potential to Meet Global Food Challenges New partnership to focus on unlocking scaled production for more sustainable, animal-free protein ingredients Today, ZX Vent... |
| 07.01.2021 | EverGrain Introduces Sustainable and Innovative, Plant-Based Barley Ingredients | EverGrain Introduces Sustainable and Innovative, Plant-Based Barley Ingredients Backed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, EverGrain transforms barley into high-quality, sustainable ingredients to create nutritious food and beverages Today marks the... |
| 26.08.2020 | Gin Comunal: Building Community in a Time of Crisis | Victoria Gentili is the Retail PPM & Logistics Manager for ZX Ventures in Argentina. Below, she explains how Patagonia®, our microbrewery in Bariloche, brought local craft breweries together to create a special, sustainable, collabora... |
| 01.07.2020 | How Startups are Adapting to the COVID-19 Crisis | How Startups are Adapting to the COVID-19 Crisis As the pandemic continues to impact our industry and the world, we’ve worked closely with our portfolio companies to help them adapt to the new reality. As we’ve supported these teams, we’ve... |
| 11.06.2020 | Meet David Kestenbaum, Vice President of Venture OS | David Kestenbaum is the Global VP of Venture OS, ZX’s validation engine for new businesses. After working in finance and securing an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, David began his career at AB InBev as a Global MBA. Read on... |
| 09.06.2020 | 7 Best Practices to Keep Your Team Connected | 7 Best Practices to Keep Your Team Connected BY JACKIE SENNER, VP OF PEOPLE Companies around the world are mobilizing to accommodate new styles of work and help those affected by the disease. By now, you know about Zoom. You know about Sl... |
| 11.05.2020 | Craft Beer Comes Together Around the World | Craft Beer Comes Together Around the World Across our breweries, in various locations around the world, our colleagues are going above and beyond to support people in impacted communities. We are heartened by—and incredibly grateful for—... |
| 30.04.2020 | Trust & Transparency: Advice to eCommerce Businesses in the Midst of COVID-19 | It’s hard to think of one industry that hasn’t been impacted in some way due to COVID-19. It’s brought significant changes to the way we work, live and operate. It’s changed consumer preferences and shifted the way that we make purchases.... |
| 15.04.2020 | Bringing Community to Craft Beer | “DRINK LOCAL” – The craft beer industry’s rallying cry, emblematic of local community, adopts a new financial imperative in quarantine. This is especially true for smaller breweries, who relied on keg distribution, taproom sales, and near... |
| 09.03.2020 | What "Leading Like a Woman" Means to Me | What "Leading Like a Woman" Means to Me “You run like a girl! “ I was asked many times recently what it meant to me leading as a woman and I immediately thought of this phrase. I don’t wake up thinking today I’m going to lead ... |
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Mentions in press and media 21
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.05.2024 | Unilever brand The Vegetarian Butcher partners with ‘animal-free’ egg protein pioneer The EVERY Co | The EVERY Company—the first player to commercialize egg proteins produced by microbes instead of chickens—has teamed up with Unilever-owned brand The Vegetarian Butcher to incorporate its animal-free egg whites into select meat alternative ... |
| 15.03.2024 | Fyllo | Semasio’s new CEO appoints his first executives | Fyllo | Semasio, the leading provider of next-gen contextual targeting solutions powered by advanced semantic technology, announced today that newly appointed CEO, Jeff Ragovin, has chosen Ying Miao to serve as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)... |
| 02.02.2024 | The EVERY Company to ‘launch with multinationals’ this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity for animal free egg proteins | The EVERY Company—which pioneered the tech to make egg proteins via precision fermentation—says it will be launching with multinational food companies this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity to meet demand. The startup—founded by Ar... |
| 29.03.2023 | Cauldron raises $7m to expand precision fermentation platform using ‘smaller, smarter, cheaper’ continuous process | Australian startup Cauldron has raised A$10.5 million ($7 million) in a seed round led by Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures to scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-value ingredients via precision fermentati... |
| 06.05.2022 | Europe’s top investors will pitch to startups at next week’s EU-Startups Summit! | At this year’s EU-Startups Summit, taking place on May 12-13 in Barcelona, you will have the chance to meet plenty of exciting and innovative startups, inspiring speakers, influential investors and well-connected media reps. For us, startup... |
| 05.08.2021 | Back from the dead, Brandless moves into the creator economy and e-commerce rollups | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Paid Content The art of swapping cars—for art From Polestar Brandless, an e-commerce company that... |
| 05.08.2021 | Back from the dead, Brandless moves into the creator economy and e-commerce rollups | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Brandless, an e-commerce company that once sold sustainable household goods for about $3 a piece,... |
| 26.04.2021 | Clara Foods Partners With ZX Ventures to Produce Animal-Free Egg Protein on a Large Scale | Animal-free protein producer Clara Foods has announced a collaboration with global investment and innovation group ZX Ventures. The partnership will work on scaling precision fermentation to produce more animal-free egg proteins. The news c... |
| 22.04.2021 | Will Budweiser brew eggs and will Post cereal make meat? | Corporations are quickly waking up to the market potential of alternative proteins, with the nation’s biggest consumer brands continuing to make investments and create partnerships with startup companies helping consumers transition to heal... |
| 21.04.2021 | Egg proteins… without chickens: Clara Foods teams up with innovation arm of world’s largest brewer | Precision fermentation – using yeast and other microorganisms as tiny food factories to produce proteins that have historically been sourced from animals (whey, casein, albumin, collagen etc) – is a potentially exciting because it can be gr... |
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