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Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Cannabis investments
Poseidon Asset Management	25
Casa Verde Capital	24
Phyto Partners	14
Btomorrow Ventures	8
Silverleaf Venture Partners	7
Gotham Green Partners	6
Ralph Gygax	5
AFI Capital Partners	5
Merida Capital Holdings	5
RIV Capital	5
Babel Ventures	5
WGD Capital	4
Robert Stavis	4
JW Asset Management	4
Navy Capital	4
7thirty Capital	4
Delta Emerald Ventures	4
HALLEY Venture Partners	4
Werner Hoffmann	4
Green Acre Capital	4
Outbound Ventures	3
Neo Ventures	3
Arcview Group	3
Lerer Hippeau	3
Achari Ventures	3
Michael Lazerow	3
ensemble	3
Arcview Collective Fund	3
IA Capital Group	3
Bruce Macfarlane	3
Maria Raga	3
Jason Calacanis	3
Jon Oringer	3
Base Ventures	3
Entourage Effect Capital	3
iSelect Fund	3
Euclid Ventures	3
Alexandria Venture Investments	3
HPA (Hyde Park Angels)	3
Christian Angermayer	3
Tech Coast Angels	2
Mollitiam Capital	2
Chingona Ventures	2
Five Four Ventures	2
Max Ventures	2
Cosmic Venture Partners	2
Cresco Capital Partners	2
Intrinsic Capital Partners	2
Headline	2
Agritech Capital	2

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Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
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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.

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.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

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.
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

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.

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

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 leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.

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.

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

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.

AFI Capital Partners

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.

Merida Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on responsible investing across the cannabis ecosystem.

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.

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

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

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

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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.

WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.

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.

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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.

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

Navy Capital’s research-oriented, fundamentally-driven investment process focuses on identifying attractive opportunities within the legal cannabis space. Navy Capital seeks to find the best in class businesses within key verticals of the global cannabis industry. Those verticals include Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, Industrials, andAgriculture.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Trading.TV — Tech-driven, human-centric advice and services to help you prosper.
Sanity Group — Sanity Group is a holistic European Cannabis company focusing on health, wellbeing, and scientific research. To utilize the full potential of its health benefits, Sanity Group is investing in fundamental research of the cannabis plant and its active ingredients as well as in specific areas of application.It was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Berlin, Germany.
C3 Industries — Building a premier, vertically-integrated cannabis company with a national presence, high-quality products, and strong brand recognition. Learn more.

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.

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.

Founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Seed
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Cannabis, Health Care
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

springbig — Springbig is the leading provider of cannabis marketing platforms and dispensary loyalty programs. Give our team a call to learn more about our dispensary text messaging programs & cannabis referral programs.
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Expressable — Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas.
Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.

Achari Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cannabis & cannabis-related companies.

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.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Bermuda

Portfolio highlights

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.
Matic Insurance — Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price.

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Insurance
Seed
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.

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

Investment focus

Video, Mobile Apps, Transaction Processing
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Latvia

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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.

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.

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.

Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia

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MEND — Mend is the scientifically proven way to heal and enhance your body faster.
Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
Pluton Biosciences — The miniscule organisms Pluton Biosciences discover possess the power to create global change. Pluton quickly and inexpensively taps into the diverse world of bacteria, fungi and viruses to discover next-generation products for carbon sequestration, agriculture, pharmaceutical, biomaterials and bioremediation.Pluton Bioscience's discoveryprocess generates diverse commercialization options, including: Organisms (biological products), Small Molecule Chemistries (fermentable and non-fermentable) and New Traits (scale dependent).

We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Insurance, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
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.
Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, France, Canada

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Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
TwoStep Therapeutics — TwoStep Therapeutics is developing novel tumor-targeting therapeutics for solid tumors.
Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

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Blumira — Blumira helps lean IT teams protect their organizations against ransomware and breaches with an open SIEM + XDR platform.
Fuel Me — Fuel Me is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the procurement process for fuel, lubricants, and other related products and services within the transportation and construction industries, among others. Its primary objective is to simplify the ordering and delivery process for businesses requiring bulk fuel, making it more efficient,cost-effective, and transparent.
Alphathena — Empower your RIA with AI-enhanced direct indexing technology from Alphathena and take advantage of tax-loss harvesting tools and more.

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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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.
Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States, possessing more than 300 members in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Its members provide funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other investment group.Members invest in companies in a wide range of industries, including the life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, consumer products, and tech startups. TCA as a whole gives companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring, and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been ranked by CB Insights to be among the Top 20 Angel Groups in the US; TCA was also ranked as #1 for Network Centrality, meaning we have more connections than anyone! If you are in the game-changing business, we are here to help.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Convertible Note, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reglagene — Reglagene is a therapeutics company that leverages its expertise in the design and development of brain penetrant medicines to create breakthrough therapies for the safe and effective treatment of brain diseases.
RealSeq Biosciences — RealSeq Biosciences’ core expertise includes innovative proprietary technologies for bias-free small RNA/miRNA NGS library construction.
Trio Pharmaceuticals — Trio Pharmaceuticals is a cancer therapeutics company that develops dual-action drugs for immunogenic tumors. These drugs directly stop tumor growth and selectively stop immunosuppression in the tumor without targeting the current immune checkpoint pathways. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Mollitiam Capital is a U.S.-focused cannabis private equity fund cultivating resilient brands and businesses. The firm was founded by industry veterans Ross Bevevino and Tyson Macdonald. Mollitiam Capital is headquartered in New York, New York.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce
Seed
United States

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Zyp Run — Get the best THC and CBD products delivered same-day with Zyp Run. Shop flower, vapes, edibles, and joints from legal marijuana brands.

Chingona Ventures, headquartered in Chicago, focuses on industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. Chingona Ventures' focus areas are in financial technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and futureof learning at the pre-seed/seed stage.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Hong Kong

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Hoop — Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.
Yeti Confetti Kids — Yeti Confetti Kids is the ultimate educational app that sparks creativity, learning, and endless fun for young minds. Sign up for an invite and get early access.

Five Four Ventures is an incubation and venture capital firm located in New York City and San Francisco. We build businesses and make early stage investments across digitally-powered consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

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Zygo — Patented technology for underwater streaming audio and live coaching, with an app of guided workouts for swimming, triathlon training, and more.
David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
House of Wise — Luxury, full-spectrum CBD products for women by women. All natural. gluten-free. and ethically sourced products from the U.S. A Wise Woman takes control of her sex, stress, sleep, strength, and wealth.

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.

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.

We're investing in the next generation of consumer platforms, products and services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

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GigFinesse — At GigFinesse, we're powering the people that power live music. Find out what this means for artists and venues on our platform.
Gooder Foods — Gooder Foods re-imagines Mac & cheese that's stealthily healthy and unbelievably delicious. It was launched in 2020 and operates in Santa Cruz, California.
Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.

Cresco Capital Partners, LLC is a United States private equity investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry out of the firm's two committed investment funds. We use our combined professional, political and community resources to source investment opportunities throughout the supply chain from genetics and farming toretail, branding and distribution.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Agriculture, Art
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cann — Cannabis Infused THC & CBD Social Tonic For a Light, Uplifting Buzz Without the Hangovers
PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
Future State Brands — Future State Brands is a consumer goods and marketing company that is bringing cannabis from the black market to the supermarket.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Cannabis
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Carewell — Are you a caregiver? At Carewell, find the best home health products with discreet packaging & the support you need with guides, articles, and 24/7 service. 30% OFF 1st Autoship!
Prescient AI — Industry-leading marketing & media mix modeling (MMM) & marketing attribution software powered by AI. Get actionable insights in 36 hours.

Agritech Capital is a strategy and investment firm specializing in innovation and technology in the agribusiness sector.

Investment focus

Agriculture, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Labby — Discover Labby's AI-enabled optical sensing for rapid, reliable, and affordable milk testing. Advanced technology provides instant results, enabling early mastitis detection and prevention, saving dairy farmers time and money.
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.

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