Bevi

What Bevi does

Bevi is a Boston-based manufacturer of IoT-connected smart water dispensers that produce filtered, flavored, sparkling, and functional beverages on demand while eliminating single-use plastic bottles from commercial environments. Founded in 2013 by Eliza Becton, Sean Grundy, and Frank Lee, the company invented the "Smart Water Cooler" category and serves more than 6,000 commercial customers including 25% of Fortune 500 enterprises. Core products are the flagship freestanding Standup 2.0 (accepting up to 8 flavor/enhancement cartridges) and the compact Countertop unit, both featuring 3M carbon filtration certified to remove 99.99% of microplastics, smartphone-based touchless dispensing via QR code, and IoT remote monitoring for automatic restocking notifications.

The company operates a subscription and per-drink service model: machines are placed at customer sites as part of multi-year contracts, and customers pay on a per-drink basis starting at $0.20 with consumables, maintenance, filter replacement, and flavor/enhancement restocking bundled in. The flavor portfolio spans 14 natural concentrates plus 4 BeviBoosts (Energy, Electrolytes, Vitamin, Focus), producing up to 48,000 beverage combinations, and 3M carbon filtration down to 0.2 microns underwrites a verified safety and taste proposition. Bevi sells through direct enterprise field sales, an inside-sales team, web-based quote requests for mid-market accounts, a formal Sales Partner referral program for resellers, and a coast-to-coast service-partner network that handles installation and maintenance across 45 US states, 5 Canadian provinces, London, and Dublin.

End markets span offices, hotels, retail, gyms and fitness centers, manufacturing and warehousing, airport lounges, healthcare facilities, universities, car dealerships, and corporate events, with marquee deployments at Apple, Netflix, Uber, Bank of America, Tesla, Lyft, Hyatt, Delta Sky Club, Amazon, DHL, and Greystar. As of December 2025, Bevi machines have cumulatively eliminated approximately one billion single-use plastic bottles, a marketing and ESG anchor that the company pairs with NSF/ANSI-certified filtration and quarterly Environmental Impact Reports.

Name

Bevi

Legal name

Bevi

Website

https://bevi.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Bevi manufactures IoT-connected smart water dispensers that deliver customizable flavored, sparkling, and functional beverages to enterprise customers across offices, hospitality, healthcare, retail, fitness, aviation, and industrial sectors in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland on a subscription and per-drink service model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Smart Water Cooler Hardware and Service: Bevi provides bottleless water cooler machines to commercial customers (offices, hotels, gyms, etc.). The revenue model involves providing the hardware with ongoing service, maintenance, flavor/enhancement supplies, and filtering. Customers pay per drink consumed (as little as 20 cents per drink).
2. Rental for Events: Temporary water dispenser rental for corporate events and gatherings. Bevi handles delivery, installation, and maintenance as part of the rental package.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Bevi designs, manufactures, and services IoT-connected bottleless smart water dispensers that connect directly to a building's water supply to deliver filtered still, sparkling, hot, cold, and ambient water with up to 48,000 customizable flavor, enhancement, temperature, and carbonation combinations. Machines are provided to commercial customers under multi-year service agreements with per-drink pricing starting at $0.20, and Bevi supplies ongoing maintenance, consumables (flavors/enhancements), and remote IoT monitoring.

Product overview

Bevi offers a portfolio of smart water cooler and dispenser products centered on its core Smart Water Cooler platform. The flagship Standup 2.0 is a freestanding dispenser with advanced filtration, while the Countertop model provides a compact alternative for smaller spaces. Both machines connect to a building's water supply and offer extensive customization with up to 48,000 beverage combinations through 14-18 natural flavors and 4 functional enhancements (Vitamin Boost, Energy Boost, Electrolytes, Focus Blend). A refurbished Standup 1.5 program extends product lifecycle. All machines feature touchless smartphone-based dispensing, IoT-enabled remote monitoring for automatic restocking notifications, and advanced carbon filtration removing 99.9% of microplastics. The company also provides event rental options and serves diverse commercial verticals including offices, hotels, gyms, airports, healthcare facilities, universities, retail, warehouses, and car dealerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Standup 2.0 Smart Water Cooler

Quantifiable outcome

• Saves 1 billion single-use plastic bottles (as of December 2025)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers28 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Avalon Water Coolers: Avalon manufactures and distributes bottleless hot/cold water coolers and point-of-use dispensers for offices and homes. It is a direct competitor in the countertop/point-of-use water dispenser category where Bevi also plays.
• Waterlogic Group: Waterlogic is a global manufacturer and distributor of bottleless office water coolers and dispensers with proprietary filtration. It owns Quench in North America and is one of the largest direct enterprise competitors to Bevi internationally.
• Elkay Manufacturing: Elkay is a leading US manufacturer of water coolers, drinking fountains, and bottle-filling stations, including the ezH2O line of touchless dispensers widely deployed in offices, schools, airports, and healthcare. It overlaps with Bevi in commercial and institutional hydration installations.
• Quench (Waterlogic): Quench is a leading US provider of bottleless water coolers and ice machines for offices, with a national service network. It is the most direct enterprise competitor to Bevi in the office hydration market, offering a similar subscription/recurring-service model.

Broad incumbents

• Primo Water Corporation: Primo is a major North American provider of bottled water, water dispensers, and exchange/refill services serving residential, office, and foodservice customers. It is a competitor in office hydration and bottleless dispensers with significant scale and route-based service infrastructure.
• SodaStream (PepsiCo): SodaStream makes countertop sparkling-water makers with flavor CO2 and syrup ecosystems, and is now owned by PepsiCo. It is the most direct consumer-facing analog to Bevi's on-demand flavored/sparkling water proposition, though it targets home use rather than commercial offices.
• Keurig Dr Pepper: Keurig Dr Pepper is a major North American beverage company with a dominant office single-cup coffee franchise and a portfolio of water/beverage brands. It competes for the same workplace beverage real estate as Bevi and is a potential strategic acquirer given the recurring workplace hydration market.
• Brita (The Clorox Company): Brita is the dominant consumer water filtration brand, owned by Clorox, and increasingly extending into connected filtration products. While primarily consumer-focused, Brita competes with Bevi at the intersection of filtration branding and sustainability messaging.
• Culligan International: Culligan is a global water treatment company offering bottleless coolers, point-of-use filtration, and water softening for residential and commercial customers. It competes with Bevi in commercial accounts via its dealer/service network and broad product portfolio.

Emerging players

• LIFESTRAW: LifeStraw is a purpose-driven water filtration company with strong sustainability branding, selling consumer and institutional filtration products. It is comparable to Bevi in mission-driven water/filtration positioning and overlap in the corporate sustainability buyer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bevi

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds13 records

Investors19 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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