With a record amount of money flowing into the packaged food and beverage industry, and with a lot more to come in 2018, cooperation, rather than competition, is the rising tide. Here are some reasons why we anticipate that 2018 will be a landmark year of “Coopetition."

As 2017 comes to a close, we recap the top five investments and acquisitions in the beverage market over the past year.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to break into the food and beverage business… but it doesn’t hurt. Just ask Vital Proteins founder Kurt Seidensticker; something’s BRUing in the trendy world of bone broth; is basil seed an ingredient to watch in 2018?

At BevNET Live Winter 2017 in Santa Monica, several entrepreneurs, some who sold stake in their company for private equity investment and some who left it on the table, offered their personal experiences dealing with the question of whether to stay independent or not.

Aloe vera water brand Aloe Gloe is launching a new low-calorie sparkling sub-line formulated with functional ingredients, including aloe, ginger and turmeric.

A year after launching functional iced tea brand Role Tea, Mike Johnson has a simple piece of advice for young beverage entrepreneurs guiding their own startup ventures: “Learn as much as possible, as quickly as possible.”

Purpose Tea launches in Albertson’s and Market Street stores; Humblemaker partners with Los Angeles Distributing Company; Soylent goes wide in California 7-Eleven stores; Sunniva Super Coffee grows presence in grocery

DRY Soda Co. founder and CEO Sharelle Klaus declined to reveal the size of the investment, but noted that it was 50 percent larger than the company’s previous funding round from earlier this year.