Top 50 Cannabis Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder of Prior to SilverLake, Roger was a co-founder of [ntegral Capital Partners. Integral is a leading technology investor in late-stage venture and public company investments. Founded in 1991 by Roger, John A. Powell, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S. Roger serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a director of the Rex Foundation, Move, Forbes Media LLC and Palm. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

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Adam Zeplain is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mark Ventures. He focused on investing early-stage in areas such as Consumer Internet/Media, Consumer Packaged Goods, Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, and E-commerce. Adam serves on the Board of Advisors of Soma Capital (Ranadive's seed-stage YC focused fund), data. world, Umbel.Adam also serves on the Advisory Council of Andela.

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Kat Cole is Group President at FOCUS Brands and responsible for building FOCUS Brands revenues and profits through global licensing, manufacturing, and ecommerce. Previously, she was President of Cinnabon, Inc. accountable for leading and growing the multi-channel brand team that drove record comp sales growth, brand expansion and franchiseevolution during her tenure. Prior to her role with FOCUS Brands at Cinnabon, Inc., Ms. Cole was a Vice President at Hooters of America, Inc., a multi-channel brand which operates company and franchise restaurants. She received her MBA from Georgia State University, and sits on the advisory boards of Project Pie, a QSR Pizza Chain and Orpheus Brewing, an Atlanta-based Craft Brewery. Kat is presently the incoming Board Chair of the Women’s Foodservice Forum.Her story is often shared for inspiration as she moved up from working as a hostess at 17 years old to traveling globally to open new franchises. At 19, Kat dropped out of college, advanced to various management and leadership positions, and at the age of 26, became a Vice President at Hooters. She later completed her MBA at Georgia State University.She is widely known for legacy business model innovation, building brands, humanitarian work in the US and Eastern Africa and mentorship and development of emerging leaders.

Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.

Rick Thompson is the Co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director of Signia Venture Partners. He previously worked at Idle Games as a Chairman and Co-Founder. Rick Thompson attended the Wharton School.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.

Danica Patrick is a role model, transitioning from sports star to entrepreneurial powerhouse. Her historic achievements include being the only woman to have led laps at both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 races, a feat only 13 other drivers have accomplished. She’s also the only woman to have won an IndyCar race, the only woman to havewon the Pole in NASCAR's Daytona 500, and, this year, the first woman to host the ESPY awards. Danica has been on Time magazine's list of most influential people. She’s appeared in more Super Bowl commercials than any other celebrity, 13, all with tech giant GoDaddy, and was recently featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine. Danica is focused on entrepreneurial challenges these days, and she’s defying convention in business, as she did on the track. Danica owns Somnium, her expanding Napa vineyard; her own line of athleisure wear, Warrior by Danica Patrick; and has authored “Pretty Intense,” a health and fitness book. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy, her longtime sponsor.

Early Stage Tech Investor; LP; Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte

Shiva Rajaraman is currently advising companies. He previously held product leadership roles at Spotify, Google, YouTube, and WeWork.

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Patented.ai. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

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Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Super-­producer Timbaland has stamped his indelible imprint on the music scene since the mid-­1990s. His production has helped create career-­defining hits for artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay-­Z, among many others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip hop music,Timbaland, whose musical influences cross cultural lines, has also been sought by diverse superstars whose music similarly knows no boundaries, from pop star Justin Timberlake to avant-­singer Bjork. Released April 3, 2007 is his second solo album, Timbaland Presents Shock Value (Blackground/Interscope/Mosley Music Group). That LP follows his producing of the majority of the tracks, including the #1 “SexyBack,” on Timberlake’s #1 charting, multi-­platinum FutureSex/LoveSounds, which followed their work together on Timberlake’s previous smash, Justified.Born Timothy Z. Mosley in Norfolk, Virginia on March 10, 1972, Timbaland, so named by Jodeci member Devante Swing after the Timberland boot, has had many reincarnations -­from disc jockey DJ Tiny Tim to half of the hip hop group Timbaland & Magoo; from membership in Devante Swing’s Swing Mob crew known as Da Bassment to S.B.I. (Surrounded By Idiots), a production ensemble including Pharrell Williams, to being CEO of his own label, Mosley Music Group.

Jonathan Slimak was co-founder and COO of Alter (also known as Facemoji) acquired by Google in 2022. Before that, he co-founded Ready Makers and was head of Product. Jon is also the founder of Piictu one of the first social photo networks on the. iPhone. Jon has over 12 years of leading Data-driven Product and Design teams - creating consumersoftware specializing in gaming, mobile and social web. He attended Pratt Institute.

Michael Auerbach is the Chairman at The Parent Company.

Ben Lamm is the Founder & CEO of Form Bio. He previously worked at Adweek as an Advisory Board Member. Ben Lamm attended Baylor University.

Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo.

30 year investigative experience with 22 years of management experience.

Four years after he helped Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter launch his Roc Nation imprint, president Jay Brown, 38, is still hungry for success. Alongside Jay-Z, John Meneilly and Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith, Brown has built a tiered company with branches in management, touring and publishing for a roster that includes Jay-Z, J. Cole and Rita Ora.Even though Roc Nation partnered with electronic dance music management company Three Six Zero Group and established the StarRoc label with production duo Stargate, the former senior VP of A&R at Def Jam still doesn't feel like he's made it yet. "That's why I keep working as hard as I do," says Brown, who started out as a music publisher at Quincy Jones Music Publishing/Qwest Records. "Once I start thinking that I made it, I'm going to put up a ceiling and can't get no higher."Recent signees to the management division include M.I.A. and Meek Mill. There also are rumblings of a new album by Jay-Z and a sequel to his and Kanye West's Watch the Throne. For Brown, it's not about learning on the job but rather from other executives. "We grew up looking up to people like Berry Gordy, Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen and watching those guys do what they were doing," he says. "We're respectfully moving through their footprints."

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Mike Dowdle is the Founding Partner at Circadian Ventures.He holds a BA in Communications from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Josh Abramson

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.

Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM. Tom has an investment portfolio that spans multiple industries including technology, logistics, beauty, fashion, health, and medical cannabis. He invests in committed founders and experienced management teams to grow disruptive mission-driven businessesthat leverage technology to deliver a better service to consumers and transform the way the world works. Tom's recent investments include disruptive beauty brand HEYDAY, a one-stop shop for personalised skincare treatments; size-inclusive womenswear brand Universal Standard; Caliva, California's largest fully licensed integrated cannabis dispensary, retailer and distributor; by Humankind, a personal care brand seeking to eliminate single-use plastic; Convoy, which connects truckers with shippers to fill unused trucking capacity, reducing the environmental impact of freight; feminine health brand, OHNE; baby food business, Cerebelly; medical cannabis startup, Plena; and the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to the IPO and trading of commercial real estate assets, IPSX. Tom's work as an investor builds on his experience founding MATCHESFASHION.COM, operating at the forefront of the changing face of retail for more than 30 years. With his wife Ruth, they grew the company from a single bricks-and-mortar store to a global luxury fashion brand with a reputation for supporting and nurturing new and emerging talent, and are credited with introducing designers such as Versace, Prada and Bottega Veneta to the UK. Under Tom's leadership, MATCHESFASHION.COM invested heavily in technology across all areas of the business, enabling the company to better understand the lives of its customers and provide them with a fast, convenient and highly personalised service. MATCHESFASHION.COM was one of the first luxury brands to go online in 2005; one of the first businesses to launch 90-minute delivery in 2016; and one of the first retailers to build a platform to provide a single truly unified view of customer's shopping across both online and physical channels.It was, however, his understanding of how digital could radically transform how companies engaged with their customers and his appetite for challenging traditional practices that led to him being inducted into the Business of Fashion’s Hall of Fame in 2018 and being described as a “retail innovator”. Tom recognised that MATCHESFASHION.COM could use digital not only to reach a global audience quickly but to build highly personal, intimate customer relationships, engaging shoppers with rich, resonant content and storytelling. Paired with his challenger mentality, this insight saw Tom transform the company from a 14-store physical retailer into a leading global luxury e-commerce giant. From the launch of their website in 2007, MATCHESFASHION.COM grew at a rate of up to 100 per cent per year, raising £20 million in 2012 for a minority stake in the business.In 2013, Tom's commitment to digital saw him rebrand all Matches' physical stores as MATCHESFASHION.COM. These decisions collectively enabled the business to accelerate from a valuation of £76m in 2012 to an acquisition price in excess of $1 billion just five years later. In 2017-18, the business had 95 per cent of sales online and 85 per cent internationally. MATCHESFASHION.COM is also credited with pioneering blended retail, seamlessly bringing together physical and digital commerce to connect with customers over multiple touchpoints – whether that be through the company's events, magazine or private shopping experiences. Before the sale of the business, Tom conceived of 5 Carlos Place, a five-storey townhouse combining luxury private shopping in a home environment with a purpose-built broadcasting hub and events space focused on creating engaging content for MATCHESFASHION.COM's 100 million annual online visitors. Carlos Place was an extension of the private-shopping concept behind No.23, which reinvented retail service along the lines of private-client banking, delivering a highly personalised, intimate, bespoke shopping experience. Throughout the growth of MATCHESFASHION.COM, Tom has focused on keeping customers and their lifestyles at the centre of all company decisions, recognising that top-class service is the foundation of all consumer-facing businesses and that technology investment should always enable a business to connect better with the consumer and support them. Like MATCHESFASHION.COM, many of Tom's investments both challenge the status quo and have strong brands that build deep, personal relationships with customers by connecting with them across both physical and digital touchpoints, and place special importance on social responsibility, inclusiveness and environmental impact. Having been described as "trailblazers" by The New York Times and "pioneers" by VOGUE, Tom and Ruth Chapman were awarded Draper's Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to fashion retail in 2017. In the same year MATCHESFASHION.COM won British Luxury Brand of the Year at the prestigious Walpole British Luxury Awards. Tom Chapman, along with his wife Ruth Chapman, were awarded OBEs in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to the international fashion retail industry. An advocate of arts, sustainability and cultural causes, Tom is a member of the Innovation Circle at the Serpentine Gallery.

Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).

Steve Sacks is Chairman at Sonnant. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Steve Huffman is the CEO of Reddit. He is a former co-founder and CTO at Hipmunk. Prior to founding Hipmunk, Steve founded the social news site Reddit in 2005 with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. Reddit has since grown into the largest social news site and one of the largest communities on the Internet. In 2010, Adam pulled Steve out ofretirement to start Hipmunk.

Yoni Meyer is a Board Member at LEUNE.

Assia Grazioli-Venier is the Co-Founder at Muse Capital.

David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

Rachel Springate is the Founding General Partner at Muse Capital.

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Co-Founder of Freshly.com

Steven founded myMatrixx in 2001 to originally serve the needs of one client seeking a better solution to manage its workers’ compensation pharmacy benefits. This led to the creation of one of the first online tools for the industry. Since then, he has been instrumental in the development of new myMatrixx solutions designed to take the complexityout of workers’ compensation and to provide better outcomes for injured workers.A serial entrepreneur, Steven previously co-founded and served as the CEO of TechHealth where he was instrumental in developing a proprietary web-enabled technology for ancillary medical services. Additionally, he partnered with The Christopher Reeve Foundation to promote research for a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other central nervous system disorders. Steven has focused the majority of his career in workers’ compensation and formerly served in numerous leadership positions with PMSI and Pharmerica. He also served in the Air National Guard.Over his career, Steven has combined an innovative approach with technology and a passion for “doing the right thing” to address the numerous challenges facing a complex market. The end result has been numerous technological advances which have significantly impacted the clients he has served.Steven was named the 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Observer and was a finalist in the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He is active in Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Society of International Business Fellows and Young Presidents’ Organization. He graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and attended the School of Management at the University of Texas.

Carmelo Kiyam Anthony, of the New York Knicks, is a nine time NBA All-Star and has been an All NBA team member six times. He has been a member of the United States Olympic men's national team three times, winning a bronze medal in 2004 and gold medals in 2008 and 2012. In 2012, Carmelo set the USA men's Olympic team record for most pointsin a single game when he scored 37 points against Nigeria.Carmelo was born in the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, New York. He was born to a Puerto Rican father and an African American mother. His father, after whom he is named, died of cancer when Carmelo was two years old. When he turned eight, his family moved to Baltimore, where he honed not only his athletic skills, but also his survival skills. Sports would serve as an important diversion from the violence and drug dealing that were pervasive in the housing projects a few blocks from the homes of Carmelo and his friends.Carmelo attended Syracuse University. In his freshman year, he led the Orangemen to their first ever National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.Carmelo also has a broad array of business interests. With Stuart Goldfarb, he is co-founder and partner of Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC, which invests in and develops opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures. Stuart and Carmelo have also partnered in other ventures, including the award winning Vice Sports Clubhouse. Carmelo is the owner of Puerto Rico’s only professional sports team, the Puerto Rico Football Club (PRFC), which plays in the North American Soccer League (NASL). Carmelo is one of only three current NBA players who have a Jordan Brand signature shoe line.