Bridge

Name

Bridge

Website

https://joinbridge.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bridge is a Tampa-based technology company providing data-driven software solutions for the beverage alcohol industry, built primarily through acquisitions of TIPSI (wine-on-tap dispensing) and Drync (consumer wine discovery). It serves beverage producers, retailers, and consumers with a small team of 11–50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Beverage Alcohol Technology

NAICS

Beer, Wine, and Liquor Retailers (445320)

akta.pro primary industry

Online Alcohol Retail & Ship-to-Consumer (CRANAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Online Alcohol & Adult Beverage Delivery (CRAHAIAH)

Keywords

• Beverage alcohol technology
• Alcohol industry software
• Beverage distribution data
• Alcohol trade marketing
• Beverage analytics platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Bridge provides technology and data-driven solutions for the beverage alcohol industry. The company develops platforms that support beverage alcohol producers, distributors, and retailers with marketing, sampling, and consumer engagement capabilities, built around acquired assets such as TIPSI and Drync.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TIPSI
• Drync

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Tock: Reservation, event, and hospitality management platform (part of American Express). Comparable to Bridge at the intersection of hospitality operations and beverage/alcohol experiences, particularly relevant to TIPSI-style tasting-room and venue tools.
• Drizly: Online alcohol delivery platform connecting consumers to local retailers, now owned by Uber. Comparable to Bridge as a leading alcohol e-commerce and ship-to-consumer platform; significantly larger scale and broader feature set than Bridge's Drync-era consumer product.

Direct peers

• Bevinco: Beverage inventory management and analytics software for bars, restaurants, and retailers. Directly comparable to Bridge's data tools for alcohol operators (overlapping with TIPSI's hospitality-side functionality), serving the same buyer profile.
• Vivino: Consumer wine discovery app with label-recognition technology and a marketplace. Closely comparable to the consumer-facing piece of Bridge's portfolio via the Drync acquisition, addressing the same wine enthusiast and ship-to-consumer use case.
• Provi: B2B alcohol beverage marketplace connecting bars, restaurants, and retailers with distributors. Directly comparable to Bridge's alcohol-industry technology focus, with overlap in digital ordering and SKU-level data flowing from hospitality operators.
• ReserveBar: Online premium spirits retailer and e-commerce platform owned by Pernod Ricard. Comparable to Bridge's ship-to-consumer alcohol retail technology angle, though operating as a single retailer rather than as a software vendor serving the industry.
• WISK: Beverage inventory and analytics platform for hospitality operators, with AI-driven insights. Comparable to Bridge's TIPSI lineage as a data-driven tooling layer for alcohol-serving venues, competing for the same operational buyer.
• SevenFifty: Digital B2B platform and marketplace serving wine, beer, and spirits retailers, distributors, and brand owners. Highly comparable to Bridge as a vertical SaaS + data play in the beverage alcohol industry, overlapping on retailer/hospitality tooling similar to TIPSI.

Emerging players

• Untappd: Consumer beer check-in and discovery social network with adjacent data and venue tools. Comparable to Bridge's Drync consumer discovery model, though focused on beer rather than wine, and operates in the same social-data-meets-beverage intersection.

Others

• Etilize (NielsenIQ / product data): Product data and analytics for consumer goods retailers and brands, including alcohol categories. Comparable to Bridge as a data and category-intelligence layer serving the same alcohol brand-owner and retailer buyers that TIPSI-style tools address.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/joinbridge

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A2 records

Investments

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