ZX Ventures

Our mission is to bring the Danone Manifesto to life by partnering with a tribe of disruptive entrepreneurs. We are a corporate venture group located in New York City and Paris that is part of a global food and beverage company with a unique manifesto and world-class expertise and resources. Together with our portfolio companies, we aim to create a healthy and sustainable future of food.

We embrace the unique perspective and energy that startups bring to the world. We complement those elements with our deep food industry experience to help emerging companies reach their goals faster. Areas of FocusFunctional: Better-for-you alternatives and nutritional powerhouses Sustainable: Takes care of people and planet Experiential: Next level indulgence, immersion, and engagement Value Add: How We Can HelpSales & Product Strategy: Support on channel & category strategy, portfolio planning, trade & marketing design to scale your brand. Supply Chain & Operations: Guidance on the product journey, from sourcing to manufacturing and distribution, to achieve efficient growth. Insights & Thought Leadership: Market analysis and corporate function advice leveraging Grupo Bimbo's global resources.

Adult beverage is a growth sector. Since Prohibition, Adult Beverage has remained a recession resistant, low-volatility sector that is uncorrelated to the general macro economic environment and has consistent growth dynamics. We bring deep industry expertise and connections to our partners Upstream of Trends: We identify category creators and disruptors that are positioned for substantial scale and growth. Added Value Relationships: Our team has deep domain expertise and an unmatched breadth of experience and relationships in the adult beverage industry. Proven Track Record: Our consistent and diverse investment strategy has delivered strong returns over four funds.

Notus Technologies a été créée par Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, entrepreneur et actuel président du MEDEF, ayant fondé The Phone House et Virgin Mobile. La société a trois types d’activités : Investissements majoritaires dans des PME au sein de deux secteurs : Gastronomie : regroupe les sociétés Oliviers&Co et Le Fondant Baulois, avec pour objectif de rassembler des marques emblématiques alimentaires premium, fabriquées en France, afin de de les exporter dans le monde entier Outdoor : regroupe les sociétés Chullanka et Approach, Chronoloisirs, Amsterdam Air et Nihola (distributeurs multicanaux de produits pour le sport et les loisirs outdoor) et compte rassembler d’autres fabricants et distributeurs dans ce domaine, avec un intérêt particulier pour les mobilités douces Investissements minoritaires dans des PME Venture : participation à des levées de fonds de startups, soit à travers le fonds ISAI dont Notus est cofondatrice, soit en investissement direct dans sociétés comme Studapart, Monisnap, Greenly, Okarito, Flatsy, etc L’ensemble des participations majoritaires comprend environ 250 collaborateurs et réalise près de 70M€ de CA.

Mercato Partners is a private equity firm, investing across multiple alternative asset classes to provide both capital and guidance to founders and companies in a range of stages and a variety of industries. Mercato built four distinct practices – Traverse, Prelude, Savory, and MPAC under the Mercato Partners umbrella. Traverse is Mercato Partners’ growth-stage fund. Traverse offers growth-stage companies incomparable leverage, capital for strategic deployment, and knowledge gained from decades of performance across multiple industries, geographies, and economic conditions. Prelude is Mercato Partners’ venture fund. Prelude partners with founders building technology companies that are critical to their customers operations. Savory is Mercato’s food and beverage fund. Savory partners with restaurateurs to expand unique brands that target unique, new and undiscovered parts of the food & beverage industry. MPAC (Mercato Partners Acquisition Corporation) is a newly launched SPAC under the Mercato umbrella. The new SPAC is a $200M vehicle.

We're the world's first independent drinks accelerator, dedicated to helping founders build, scale and sell the drinks brands of the future. We look for ambitious founders with great alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks brands who want to take their business to the next level and become successful in both their home market and on a global scale. Our mission is to support founders of both early-stage drinks companies and mature brands in four key ways: providing investment for drinks startups and rapidly scaling businesses, accessing expertise, partner networking and support accessing the North American market. Investment We arrange investment from Diageo into companies that are scaling fast, as well as those that are just starting out. Our investments to date range from £250k to a pre-launch start-up to over £10 million to fundamentally transform a whiskey business. Expertise & partnering Once an investment is made, the Distill Ventures acceleration team works closely with the founding team to identify areas of focus and help build a solid plan for growth. As all entrepreneurs have different strengths and weaknesses, the support we give is both bespoke and broad-ranging. Partner networking The Distill Ventures team have a wealth of experience and knowledge from working in drinks and with independent businesses for many years. By drawing on our in-house expertise, our unbeatable global network of experts and the wealth of know-how within Diageo; we're confident in our ability to tackle all challenges that come your way. Access to North American market We created Redwood Brands, a sales platform based in the US to help mitigate the inefficiencies and struggles that craft brands often face when entering the market.