BeatBox’s 2022 crowd round: a $490m sale, and no published return

The round

BeatBox makes ready-to-drink party punch, under a company called Future Proof Brands. It raised from the public on Wefunder, where the campaign page ↗ (opens in a new tab) shows $4,089,811 from 2,312 investors, with the last money in June 2022.

The Form C/A ↗ (opens in a new tab) filed in April 2022 describes what those investors bought: not a share, but an interest sold in increments of $1, each investment convertible to stock on the terms in the offering document. It gives a target of $50,000 and a maximum of $5m, and a fee to Wefunder of 6% of the amount raised.

What happened

In December 2025 Food Dive ↗ (opens in a new tab) reported that Anheuser-Busch would buy 85% of the company for up to $490m, with a route to 100% after five years. BeatBox was then projecting $225m in revenue for 2025 and more than $340m in US retail sales for the year to 23 November, up over 50%.

The purchase closed on 27 February 2026 ↗ (opens in a new tab), the company says, and Supermarket News ↗ (opens in a new tab) reported it on 2 March.

What the figure does and does not say

There is no multiple on this page because we could not find one. $490m ↗ (opens in a new tab) is what the buyer paid for a stake in the company, not what the crowd received, and "up to" means some of it may depend on later conditions. The price of a company tells a holder nothing without the number of shares, the debts and investors ranking ahead, and the terms on which their interest converts, none of which were in what we read.

The Wefunder page ↗ (opens in a new tab) carries comments from investors, after completion, asking when the first distributions would come. Those are questions from investors and not statements from the company, so we do not draw a conclusion from them, but they suggest that the payout had not been published where those investors would see it first.

One claim attached to this case is that it is the largest crowdfunding exit in US history. We looked for a source that says so, beyond the reports of the sale ↗ (opens in a new tab), and for a list of US crowdfunding exits to measure it against, and found neither, so we do not make it here. When the return to Wefunder investors is published, it will go in the table at its own figure. Until then this case is listed so that a reader can see what is known and what is not.