ABOUT

Coca-Cola HBC Ventures is the venturing arm of Coca-Cola HBC. We are a strategic investor in and partner to disruptive startups in our geographic footprint and beyond.

  • We want to access disruptive innovation from the startup ecosystem.

  • We offer implementation support to startups, leveraging our resources, brands, and channels.

  • We partner with startups with or without an investment.

  • Coca-Cola HBC Ventures executes Coca-Cola HBC’s business strategy in these focus areas.

  • We only invest in startups that are relevant to our business. We do not invest in unrelated industries.

  • With the investment we have a vested interest in the growth of the startup.

  • We do not invest for financial return only.

  • We help the startups grow and scale through cooperation with our business units, bringing 70 years of CPG experience.

  • Our investment is combined with a commercial agreement that makes us a strategic partner to the startup.

Our Focus Areas

Our focus areas are shown below. If you are interested in partnering with Coca-Cola HBC, please contact us.


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Last Mile

B2B, DTC, logistics, customer connections

E-commerce is one of our most dynamic channels, with great growth potential. It includes both Business-to-Business (B2B) platforms connecting us with our distributors / customers and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) platforms connecting us with shoppers. Logistics is a core capability of Coca-Cola HBC  and we aspire to utilise cutting-edge technologies in our customer connections.

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Vending technology & touchless assets

 

Vending is an increasingly important sales channel, made more so by considerations related to the pandemic. Our vending assets and technologies facilitate automated and touchless purchases, increasing convenience and safeguarding personal hygiene, both of which are priorities for us.  

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Coffee technology & equipment

 

As part of our vision to become the leading 24/7 beverage partner, with a beverage for every occasion around the clock, we launched Costa Coffee in 2020 and acquired a minority stake in Caffé Vergnano in 2021. We aspire to support our coffee sales through state-of-the-art coffee technologies for our coffee machines and the latest coffee equipment.  

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Sustainable Packaging & Climate

 

Sustainability is fundamental to our future growth and our sustainability commitments (known as “Mission 2025”) are an integral part of our growth agenda. To ensure that our packaging is as sustainable as possible and that we meet our commitments on recycled content, collection, and net zero emissions across our value chain by 2040, we are actively looking for the latest innovations in sustainable packaging and packaging recovery, emissions reduction, and water reduction & stewardship.  

Partnerships

We have already partnered with more than 20 startups, together piloting and scaling solutions for our mutual benefit. 

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Republic of Ireland

Bounce builds app-based communities for brands. It provides companies with the platform to access these communities, enabling them to get instantly the consumer and customer insights they need to improve their decision-making.  

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Italy

JoJolly is an open professional network, where freelance professionals and businesses meet. JoJolly helps freelancers engage directly with their employers instead of working through middlemen like temp staffing firms.

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Italy

Comehome has developed a platform for socialising. Hosts create events organized in public or private locations and the Comehome community can choose to participate in these events. Comehome builds communities for brands that can associate their products with positive experiences.

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Switzerland

A BaaS (Bottle-as-a-Service) platform using IoT to capture every bottle opened and connect bartenders directly to beverage companies. Using image recognition, WECHEER’s patented “Smart Bottle Opener” can instantly identify the act of consumption (time, location, and brand) of any crown-capped bottle while it’s being opened.

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Switzerland

AI Retailer Systems has built cashier-less-stores' technologies, featuring a checkout-free solution that allows shoppers to just “grab and go”.

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Switzerland

Drinkotec digitalises beverage dispensing with a new generation of beverage equipment, offering capabilities such as contactless selection and payments, touchless dispensing and connectivity. 

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Switzerland

Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate and manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform.

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Czech Republic

Manifesto designs, develops, and operates food hubs transforming underused real estate into sustainably operated food courts, while providing gastronomic and cultural experiences for guests and enabling restaurants and dark kitchens to reach more customers online and offline.

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Hungary

QC makes energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, compact, smart water dispensers and purifiers. 

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Hungary

V-Chiller makes small cooling devices, providing rapid on-demand chilling for beverages at the point of sale offering lower energy consumption, with no environmental impact.

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Greece

Bibe Coffee is an IoT real-time monitoring solution that transforms every professional coffee machine to a smart connected terminal. 

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Poland

Eco-crowdfunding platform that connects people who clean-up the planet and enables others to send them donations.

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Poland

Consumer intelligence and customer satisfaction platform enabling brands and outlets to build engagement with their customers and collect data about them.

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Italy

ShopFully is a mobile-first marketplace helping shoppers to find the best deals from nearby stores and all the information they need for a frictionless shopping experience.

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Italy

Dishcovery creates digital, interactive and multilingual menus for restaurants.

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Republic of Ireland

Online ordering system for restaurants & takeaways

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Austria

Marktguru is an online platform for offers and leaflets from Austrian retailers.

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France

Shippeo is a supply chain real-time and multimodal transportation visibility platform that provides shippers instant access to predictive information for all deliveries.  

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Germany

xPick is a patented and award-winning “pick-by-vision“ solution. It supports manual order picking, incoming, outgoing, and sorting of goods, inventory control, sequencing, and many more processes in logistics and warehousing.

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USA

Supply chain network design tool aiming at identifying opportunities for optimisation of cost and improvement of customer service.

Contact US

If you are interested in partnering with Coca-Cola HBC, please fill in this form and send it to ventures@cchellenic.com.