VEEV Spirits

ACCELERATING CONSUMER BRANDS ACROSS AMERICA! combines a multimedia platform with retail and corporate partners, digital experts, and prolific investors to create an ecosystem around growing consumer brands. delicious mixes of plant based, non-GMO, Courtney Reum is the co-founder of M13, a brand development and investment company accelerating busine... sses at the nexus of consumer products, technology, and media. Courtney and his brother Carter Reum are collaborators and brothers from Chicago. Both Courtney & Carter Hatched their careers at Goldman Sachs. Leaving investment banking with an idea to create a better way to drink, the Reums built VEEV Spirit, a 70 proof vodka alternative, from that idea into one of the pioneering artisanal alcohol brands in the spirits industry, helping to popularize the aa berry in the United States and into one of the fastest growing independent spirit brands in the country. Building on VEEVs success, they launched VitaFrute Cocktails by VEEV®, the first line of certified organic ready-to- drink cocktails. While growing both brands, the brothers began investing in other companies providing first hand experience, guidance and capitalization to many emerging businesses. Early investments include Bonobos, Birchox, Warby Parker, Pinterest, Lyft, Krave Jerky, Kevita, and numerous others. In 2016, Carter and Courtney sold a majority stake of VEEV Spirits to a larger company allowing them to found M13 and focus on their entrepreneurial stewardship of consumer brands. Both Carter and Courtney have been profiled by several entrepreneurial groups such as the 30 Under 30 list, the INC 500 fastest growing private companies in America, Richard Bransons best-selling book Screw Business as Usual and most recently the Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014 & again in 2015. They are also currently featured in the first year curriculum at Harvard Business School through the case study, VEEV on the Rocks. Courtney holds a B.A. with distinction from Columbia ...Read More