Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cannabis startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in December 2024
Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
- Dogwood Green — Dogwood Green is a purpose-driven licensed dispensary that provides best-in-class service and high-quality products.
- BLKBRN Dispensary — BLKBRN Dispensary is a retail dispensary that offers cannabis products and wellness education.
As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Growlink — Growlink offers advanced software and hardware solutions to streamline your grow operations. Automate climate, irrigation, and nutrient delivery while gaining valuable insights to boost yields, reduce waste, and ensure consistent quality. Discover how our tools can transform your cultivation process.
- Prelude — Purpose-built to help cannabis dispensaries improve sales, profitability and cash flow by optimizing purchasing and inventory management
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
Phyto Partners is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Neurowellness and Brain Health
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
- HealingMaps — Find Ketamine Clinics and other psychedelic therapy providers near you. We are changing the way we treat mental health.
- Wonder Sciences — Science for the Soul
Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
- Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
- PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.
An Opportunistic Investment Manager focusing on sectors with outsized returns, limited competition and misunderstood risk. Distressed Real Estate, Legal Cannabis VC, Emerging Technology and Life Sciences Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
- Perfect Blends — A blend of terpene-rich sauce infused cannabis varieties formulated to help you feel the way you want to feel.
- Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
A founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fernway — At Fernway, we believe cannabis makes the good life even better. Good music, good food, good company, good scenery: cannabis elevates it all.
- Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
- Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
- Trait Biosciences — Trait Biosciences is an emerging cannabis biotechnology company harnessing the best-in-class research scientists in biotechnology and cannabis R&D to change the face of the industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
- Engin Sciences — Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited.Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
- TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in
AFI Capital Partners
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Biotechnology, Alternative Medicine
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- Compassionate Cultivation — Compassionate Cultivation is a medical cannabis company that grows, processes, and dispenses CBD medicine.The company provides patient consultations, physician outreach resources, and detailed information on their products and retail merchandise. Conditions including epilepsy, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, spasticity, ALS, autism,terminal cancer, CTE, and other incurable neurodegenerative disorder now have access to medically prescribed cannabis.
- Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Babel Ventures is an early stage VC fund backing driven, impact-oriented entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The firm typically invests in seed-stage consumer biotech, longevity, health & wellness, and F&B verticals.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
- Mellows — Mellows is a producer of cannabis-infused marshmallows intended to offer safe and unique confectionery alternatives for adults. Its low-dose and handcrafted marshmallows are medicated using coconut oil infused with solventless hash, enabling customers to enjoy sweets without worrying about dosage and portion splitting.The company was founded in2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Professional experience:
Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations
Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management
Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Merida Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on responsible investing across the cannabis ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Phylos — Phylos is a cannabis genetics company that empowers growers of all sizes to produce the highest-quality cannabis in the most cost-effective way.
- Pilgrim Soul — Pilgrim Soul is a mission-driven company focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge in business and life. We collaborate with top creative minds to create products and content that facilitate enhanced creative thinking - Including The Original Creative Thinking Journ
- Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Business Intelligence
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
- Katalys — Katalys is a partnership marketing technology platform that provides Brands and Publishers with a better way to generate revenue in the performance marketing channel. Formed out of the recent merger between RevOffers, a ‘cookieless’ graph attribution technology, and the embedded commerce innovation of 1o.io, Katalys is set on a course to disruptthe digital marketing landscape.Katalys' disruptive innovation in the performance marketing space is an embedded commerce technology that allows consumers to transact at any point of product discovery. This includes the ability to complete an eCommerce transaction inside a display advertisement, in-app, in-video, blog post, social media platforms, and even inside a VR/AR environment.
- Birchmount Network — Birchmount Network is a gift card and marketing services company that provides comprehensive revenue and brand solutions.
HALLEY is focused on building elite companies in the legal cannabis, hemp and traditional agriculture spaces and is investing early in these truly life-changing trends.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Cannabis, Health Care
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- springbig — BETTER TEXT EMAIL PUSH MARKETING THE LEADING MARKETING PLATFORM FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES Increase retention, boost revenue, build customer loyalty, and create smarter marketing campaigns with the highest deliverability for regulated industries. SCHEDULE A DEMO MARKETING GUIDE Proudly Serving Enterprise Clients with Excellence Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase
- Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
- Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
- humble+fume — humble+fume is Canada’s leading distributor of cannabis accessories. We offer the largest range of products and accessories to legal dispensaries, head shops and smoke shops of all sizes. We work with over 200 of the leading industry brands and offer more than 10,000 products and accessories. With distributions centres across North America, we arewell positioned to help grow your business. Our team believes pairing cannabis accessories is at the heart of contemporary enjoyment, we look forward to working with you and creating the perfect experience for your customers.
- HC Solutions Holdings — HC Solutions Holdings operates as a distributor of cannabis. HC Solutions Holdings formed as a Joint Venture between Green Acre Capital Distribution Corp. and Humble & Fume.
Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
- FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
- Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.
An SEC-registered investment adviser in New York City - investing primarily within the healthcare sector - with over $1B in assets under management.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Medical, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Allumia — Choose Allumia for your next energy efficiency upgrade to save yourself money and save the planet, too.
- Tyson 2.0 — Tyson 2.0 is a cannabis company producing cannabis products known for purity, precision, and wide accessibility. Providing consumers an outstanding selection of products, Tyson 2.0 is an extraordinary balance of premium and affordable, full-spectrum cannabis flower, concentrates, and consumables available at retailers nationwide. The company isformed by the legendary boxer, entrepreneur, and icon Mike Tyson.
- Pistil Data — Market Intelligence Cannabis Data | Pistil makes it easy for cannabis brands of all sizes to get into new stores, expand shelf space & get faster re-orders
The 7thirty Opportunity Fund is an early-stage growth equity fund targeting private cannabis-related technology investments around the world. The fund is closely partnered with the CanopyBoulder business accelerator for unparalleled deal flow and access to top-tier investments. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the fund is ideally situated tocapitalize on the 30% average compound annual growth in the legal cannabis industry. A highly disciplined investment approach allows the fund to build a diversified portfolio of exceptional investments poised to grow with the industry.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, AgTech
- Seed, Series C
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
- Apex Trading — Built for wholesale cannabis by cannabis industry professionals. Delivering all the software tools needed to simplify wholesale operations while creating an environment in which Buyers and Sellers interact directly ensuring the best value for all.
- The Blinc Group — Headquartered in New York City, The Blinc Group designs, develops, supplies and supports premium cannabis vaping hardware. The company offers a curated collection of proven cartridges, batteries, ready to use vaporizers and complete bespoke device development to multi-state operators, licensed producers, processors and brands. Blinc completes thevalue chain by providing its clients access to a suite of support services ranging from research and development, production, testing, standard operating procedures, training and all the way to go-to-market strategy and brand communications consulting. With full control of the supply chain, the company’s unique “Powered by Blinc” process enables clients to provide innovative, safe and quality controlled products to cannabis consumers worldwide. To learn more about Blinc, visit http://www.theblincgroup.com.
HPA operates in the financial services sector, focusing on early-stage investments. The company's People First model combines venture capital, a robust business network, and top-tier operating expertise to support the growth of its portfolio companies. HPA's services extend to all stages of a company's lifecycle, from seed to growthstages, providing financial and strategic support to help businesses thrive.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Paccurate — Paccurate is the smartest cartonization software for efficient shippers. Find the best way to pack every shipment to reduce supply chain costs and waste. Learn more.
- Alphathena — Empower your RIA with AI-enhanced direct indexing technology from Alphathena and take advantage of tax-loss harvesting tools and more.
- Digit — Digit is a simple yet powerful ERP designed for small manufacturers and distributors.
Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jupiter BioVentures — Jupiter BioVentures is a creation engine company that focuses on de-risking early-stage projects.
- Valora Therapeutics — Valora Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that provides engineering of chimeric antibodies .
- Autoimmunity BioSolutions — ABS is developing a next-generation, immuno-corrective therapy to restore normal immune function in a genetically-defined subpopulation of autoimmune disease patients.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
- Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
- Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.
The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cannabis, Software
- Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wurk — Wurk is the leader in HR, Payroll, and Payment technology servicing the fastest-growing emerging industry, cannabis! Wurk's proprietary Compliant Payment Cloud underwriters cannabis businesses enabling them to process payments for payroll, taxes, 401k, benefits, and more positioning Wurk as the largest payments processor in the industry. TheirSaaS HCM Cloud provides Modern HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Scheduling accessible on any device, including tablets and mobile. Wurk's Intralytics Cloud (integration meets analytics) connects the industries leading technology providers allowing operators to combine and analyze data to inform mission-critical decisions. Wurk is also assembling this data to provide industry benchmarks to help operators compare their KPIs to the trends of the industry. Wurk's unique platform is proving that Human Capital Management, Workforce Management, and Payment technology providers can add significant value to their customers by focusing on their vertical-specific needs.Wurk was founded in August 2015 by Keegan Peterson. And it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Israel, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- EnduroSat — At EnduroSat, we engineer, build and operate exceptional satellites. Our Mission is to make space universally accessible
- Cyberwrite — TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS One platform to accelerate value across the cyber insurance lifecycle THE LATEST FROM CYBERWRITE
- GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.
We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- Worky — At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
- Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Insurance, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
- Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
- Bootup — Bootup creates a marketplace for tech talent. Bootup's goal is to build tools to help bridge the gap between those looking for economic upward mobility and technology companies looking for strategies to solve for the impending talent crisis. We are excited to support all of the individuals looking to break into tech, the educators fuelingtheir growth, and the enterprises who power the industry.
- Parade — Find and manage carriers, boost margins. Precise pricing, optimized bidding, shipper connectivity.
Achari Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cannabis & cannabis-related companies.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vangst — Vangst is the cannabis industry's top recruiting platform. We connect cannabis job seekers with employers and offer a wide range of recruitment solutions.
- Komplyd — Komplyd is an enterprise-class cannabis technology platform that manages risk and compliance easily. Komplyd’s API provides enriched data, increasing the team’s productivity. It provides real-time and accurate compliance updates. It is a common data model and a single endpoint that empowers the team to rapidly deliver cannabis compliance solutionsin days.
- Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Rose Capital is a leading investment firm in the emerging legal cannabis sector. We understand the intricacies of public and private investment as well as the challenges and complexity of this explosive market.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, AgTech, Consumer
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eaze — Get the best THC and CBD products delivered same-day with Eaze. Shop flower, vapes, edibles, and joints from legal marijuana brands. Free, fast weed delivery for first-time customers.
- Thrive Agritech — Thrive Agritech designs and manufactures advanced lighting fixtures for indoor agriculture. We have a patent pending LED lighting system that precisely targets various photosynthetic spectrums.Many thousands of our LED lighting fixtures have been installed in some of the world's leading indoor farms. Our products are saving millions ofwatt-hours of energy every day in vertical farms, greenhouses and cannabis production facilities.Agritech expands beyond lighting and so do we. Our R&D team is actively involved in creating advanced sensor and communications networks to work with both human and artificial intelligence to create the optimized farm of the future.
Arcview Collective Fund is an early-stage and opportunities for the cannabis industry. The Collective invests across subsectors where it leverages its members’ expertise, to make investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment.
The firm was founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- UbiQD — ADVANCED MATERIALS Quantum Dot Innovations in Agriculture, Clean Energy, and Security POWER THE FUTURE Enabling industry leaders to harness the power of sunlight
- Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
- Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
Entourage Effect Capital, LLC (formerly Cresco Capital Partners, LLC) is a private investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry. EEC’s mission is to actively leverage our sector and investment experience, networks, and investment process, and to identify, invest and accelerate high quality emerging growth companies. EECstands apart by taking an active role in adding value to the management teams of its companies. Some have called it a “Keiretsu”, but as we are in Cannabis, we call it “the Entourage Effect.” The Entourage Effect is a term used to describe a novel method of endocannabinoid regulation. It means that the compounds within the cannabis plant work in concert to create a sum greater than any of its individual parts.
This is the same strength they bring to investing. From early stage acceleration, to acquisition sourcing, to strategy, to creating exit opportunities, they believe in being the most valuable names on their founder’s cap tables.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cookies — Cookies Inc., is a cannabis brand, which currently has 7 dispensaries in California, 1 in Detroit.
- Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
- Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
- Enhanced Games — Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the ultimate demonstration of what the human body is capable of. The world's best athletes, enhanced.
Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile Apps, Transaction Processing
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Sweden
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- Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
- TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.
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- Cannabis, Insurance
- Seed
- United States
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- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Holobiome — Holobiome is an owner and operator of a therapeutic company intended to treat diseases of the enteric and central nervous systems. The company's platform delivers microbiome-based therapeutics to patients and the marketplace by treating depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems including our metabolism and the immune response,enabling patients to recover quickly from their diseases easily without any pain and suffering.Holobiome was established in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- MEND — Mend is the scientifically proven way to heal and enhance your body faster.
- Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital firm and manager of the Inter-Atlantic funds. Since 2000, IA Capital Group has partnered with entrepreneurs to shape the future of the financial services and insurance industries.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Insurance, Finance
- Series A, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, Canada, Bermuda
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- Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
- Summit — Summit provides the best Commercial Insurance, Liability, Business, Tech & Cyber Insurance in Canada. We are specialized in custom insurance Solutions.
- PayGround — PayGround provides healthcare businesses of all sizes a modernized payment solution in which they can easily upload their A/R and trigger digital-first requests for payment (via a mix of email/text/U.S. Mail). Patients can make payments in just a matter of a few seconds.
ensemble helps brands operate & scale in a dynamic market while giving investors single-point access to an actively-managed portfolio of privately-held companies. ensemble is a highly experienced team with proven track records in marketing, technology, and natural products.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- Komplyd — Komplyd is an enterprise-class cannabis technology platform that manages risk and compliance easily. Komplyd’s API provides enriched data, increasing the team’s productivity. It provides real-time and accurate compliance updates. It is a common data model and a single endpoint that empowers the team to rapidly deliver cannabis compliance solutionsin days.
- Genetica — Elevate your cannabis & hemp experience with our AI product recommendation tool. Uncover ideal matches with AI in retail. Request a demo now!
- Nugget — The leader in competitive cannabis data.
Duke Software Investments is an investment firm.
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- B2B, CRM, Cannabis
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
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- Leaf Trade — Leaf Trade simplifies the entire wholesale cannabis process by providing a cannabis wholesale marketplace that makes ordering, fulfillment, and payments easier.
32 Ventures specializes in direct investments in early stage companies.
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- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Strategic Worldviews — Cutting edge insights at the intersection of economics, public policy and geopolitics.
- Eco Farm / Thrive Society — Eco Farm Holdings is a California-based Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and technology company engaged in sustainable agricultural, distribution, and manufacturing services.
- Weaver Interactive — Weaver is a firm that specializes in interactive storytelling.
Intrinsic Capital Partners is an investment firm focused on life science and technology businesses within the legal cannabinoid market. The Intrinsic team brings institutional investment discipline and world-class operating experience to build and scale industry-leading companies that address unmet needs across the supply chain.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Cannabis
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Denmark
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- Nalu Bio — Nalu Bio is the leading innovator in the discovery and production of next generation cannabinoid ingredients.
- QNTM Labs — QNTM Labs provides research, development, and regulatory compliance services for pharmaceutical companies. They improve transparency and access to robust scientific analysis, working with global researchers, API manufacturers, and pharmaceutical industry stakeholders through analytical testing, contract research, and clinical trial support. Theyoffer R&D testing, quality control testing, and contract research.
- Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
Agritech Capital is a strategy and investment firm specializing in innovation and technology in the agribusiness sector.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, B2B, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany
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- Labby — Discover Labby's advanced on-farm milk testing solutions with our cutting-edge milk analyzer. Get accurate milk data, including SCC and mastitis detection in dairy cattle, seamlessly integrated into your milking system for enhanced dairy test results.
- Harvesto — ag.supply is the largest marketplace for farmers and contractors. A one stop shopping platform for everything you need on the farm. Original and aftermarket ag machinery parts and seed, crop protection chemicals and animal husbandry and other product groups. Go live with more than 3 Million SKU´s . Changing the supply chain and saving CO2.
- Harpe Bio — Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions is a Raleigh-based company that provides sustainable weed-management solutions for organic and industrial agriculture. The company was founded in 2020 by Chad Brommer and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden, Canada
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- UnityAI — UnityAI uses AI to enhance the management of hospital beds, optimize resource allocation, and elevate the quality of patient care.
- IberianTax — File Spanish tax form 210. Non-resident income tax for property owners in Spain. File Modelo 210 with step-by-step guidance and online payment.
- K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Samara Hernandez
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Investment focus
- B2B, CRM, Cannabis
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf Trade — Leaf Trade simplifies the entire wholesale cannabis process by providing a cannabis wholesale marketplace that makes ordering, fulfillment, and payments easier.
Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Cannabis
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Canix — Seed-to-sale cannabis software and cannabis ERP for marijuana cultivators, manufacturers and distributors. Metrc approved inventory compliance tracking.
- Seabound — Seabound's carbon capture method allows professionals to process carbon dioxide on land. The limestone produced by the reaction can be sold directly, or it can be heated to separate carbon dioxide to generate calcium oxide for secondary recycling, and the carbon dioxide will be stored or sold.
- HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.
Actual contact with an alien is a Close Encounter of the Third Kind
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Macro — Macro is the platform professionals use to review, draft, collaborate, and compare documents faster and wiser.
- Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
- Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.
An emerging market fund, focused on the legal cannabis market, which as of 2015 was the fastest growing industry in the U.S.
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- Cannabis, B2B, SaaS
- Seed
- United States
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