Brussels-Based Dripl Raises €4M Funding Round

The funding round was led by Abacus Investments, with continued backing from Spadel, Faraday Venture Partners, and the Meert Family.

“Real behaviour change only happens when the healthy and sustainable option is simply better than the alternatives on every level. This funding round allows us to make healthy refilling the norm worldwide. We’re building for the long term, reshaping how people hydrate at work. That requires partners who share that ambition, which is why we’re proud to partner with Abacus Investments as the lead investor in this round,” says Colin Deblonde, co-founder of Dripl.

In the European funding landscape of 2025, Dripl’s €4 million round aligns with a limited but growing number of investments in smart hydration and sustainable beverage infrastructure.

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A notable comparison is Amsterdam-based Aquablu, which raised €7 million to scale its smart water dispensers, expand internationally and further automate its hydration platform, highlighting sustained investor interest in tech-enabled alternatives to bottled water in workplaces and public spaces.

EU-Startups previously featured Dripl in 2023 following its €2 million funding round.

“Dripl fits perfectly with our philosophy of impact-driven investing ” adds Wim Flo, CEO of Abacus Investments. “Their sugar-free drinks promote healthier hydration while their dispensers significantly reduce the use of single-use packaging. We’re excited to support Dripl in the next chapter of their journey and proud to join the Refillution.”

Dripl was founded in 2020 to rethink workplace hydration and reduce single-use packaging. Through smart Refill Points the company offers water and functional flavours without added sugar or unnecessary CO₂e emissions, providing a zero-waste alternative to bottled drinks.

The idea emerged when co-founders Colin and Lucas noticed that flavoured beverages were still tied to disposable packaging. What began as garage-built prototypes using second-hand vending machine parts has since grown into a scalable solution for offices.

Today, Dripl serves more than 500 customers, including Moore, Cordeel, Visma, and PostNL and has helped eliminate over 15 million single-use packages roughly one every second of the workday. Its long-term goal is to remove one billion single-use packages and transform how people hydrate at work.

“Over the past few years, we’ve already achieved something special: building a profitable, fast-growing hardware and drinks scale-up that’s helping make healthy, sustainable hydration the norm,” adds Colin. “But the road ahead is still long. Large corporations continue to dominate the market and push single-use, sugary drinks at scale. We’re here to fix that.”