Naarden-based Founteyn, an all-in-one beverage system, has raised €19.3 million ($22.8 million) for its oversubscribed Collection A spherical to develop its chilling, carbonisation, and capsule based mostly beverage allotting.
The spherical drew funding from APG, on behalf of ABP, alongside Flying Fish and Leysern Aquacore.
Boyd Mulder, Founder and CEO of Founteyn, says: “This funding validates that the beverage business is prepared for a fire up. Our patented system delivers freshly made drinks with no compromise on style, whereas offering an alternative choice to ordering, stocking, and storing cans and bottles. As a sustainable choice that cuts single-use packaging by as much as 80%, we’re serving to companies simplify operations and serve folks higher.”
Within the context of European beverage and FoodTech funding in 2025, Founteyn’s Collection A stands out as one of many bigger single rounds within the sector this 12 months.
Different current funding exercise reported by EU-Startups factors to a extra fragmented panorama: London-based Goodrays raised €5.7 million to scale its CBD-infused drinks model; Amsterdam-based Aquablu secured €7 million to develop its good water dispenser platform for workplaces; and UK pure vitality drink firm MISSION raised €2.3 million to develop distribution and develop its practical drinks portfolio.
Taken collectively, these bulletins recommend roughly €13 million swimming within the ecosystem this 12 months.
“With assist from APG, on behalf of ABP, and partnerships with PepsiCo and EuroCaps, we’re reworking how beverage manufacturers attain customers and the way companies serve & delight their workers and clients. We’re additionally in energetic discussions with forward-thinking companions as we construct towards our Collection B in late 2026,” provides Mulder.
Based in 2015, Founteyn is innovating a brand new method of consuming in beverage supply with a sustainable capsule system combining style, selection and comfort for away from dwelling areas.
Founteyn brews scorching, chilly, nonetheless and glowing drinks in lower than 15 seconds by way of the capsule system, reportedly decreasing weight, quantity and packaging of single-serve drinks by as much as 80% and CO2 emissions by greater than 50%.
That is backed by notable partnerships with main manufacturers:
- The Business Partnership with Sodastream and PepsiCo will speed up Founteyn’s mission to redefine the way in which folks drink by offering entry to all kinds of standard beverage manufacturers.
- Founteyn’s Enterprise Accomplice and Co-Packer Euro-Caps – a frontrunner in personal label capsules, manufacturing 3 million Nespresso and 1 million Dolce Gusto appropriate capsules day by day – will guarantee manufacturing and filling of capsules at scale on the desired product high quality.
- Founteyn can be partnering with Culligan Quench for its first pilot launch distribution, drawing on Culligan Quench’s 85 years of water know-how experience and international attain to strengthen the beginning‑up’s preliminary market entry.
Concentrating on the worldwide workplace and SME beverage supply companies market (market dimension for coffee-focused supply and broader beverage classes in 2025 ranges from roughly €1.7 billion ($2 billion) to €4.5 billion ($5.4 billion)), Founteyn goals to deal with rising company sustainability mandates and workspace effectivity calls for.
The corporate will launch initially within the US, the world’s largest smooth drinks market, and anticipates opening Collection B funding in late 2026/early 2027 to speed up international enlargement.
