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Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cannabis startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in April 2025

Investor	Cannabis United States investments
Poseidon Asset Management	23
Casa Verde Capital	21
Phyto Partners	14
Silverleaf Venture Partners	7
Delta Emerald Ventures	6
Babel Ventures	5
AFI Capital Partners	5
Gotham Green Partners	5
Robert Stavis	4
7thirty Capital	4
HALLEY Venture Partners	4
JW Asset Management	4
Merida Capital Holdings	4
Base Ventures	3
Arcview Collective Fund	3
HPA (Hyde Park Angels)	3
Achari Ventures	3
Alexandria Venture Investments	3
iSelect Fund	3
Outbound Ventures	3
IA Capital Group	3
Bruce Macfarlane	3
Emles Venture Partners	3
Navy Capital	3
Arcview Group	3
Jason Calacanis	3
Lerer Hippeau	3
WGD Capital	3
Michael Lazerow	3
Rose Capital	3
Euclid Ventures	3
Brand New Matter	2
Agritech Capital	2
Fab Co-Creation Studio Ventures	2
Mollitiam Capital	2
Thirty Five Ventures	2
Intrinsic Capital Partners	2
Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater NY	2
Cosmic Venture Partners	2
Salveo Capital	2
Five Four Ventures	2
WelCan Capital	2
Samara Hernandez	2
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation	2
Duke Software Investments	2
RIV Capital	2
Justin Kan	2
SeedInvest	2
Floret Ventures	2
Tiger Global Management	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

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 Cannabis Dispensary, your go-to dispensary in West Orange, NJ. Visit us at 5 Central Ave or call (862) 704-2820
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.

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

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

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 founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based.

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.

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

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.

AFI Capital Partners

Investment focus

Cannabis, Biotechnology, Alternative Medicine
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Botanica Seattle — botanicaGLOBAL has an award winning catalog of cannabis brands with the most widely available cannabis edibles in the United States.
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.

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.

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.

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 — Blinc is the leader in cannabis vaping innovation, offering high-quality vape hardware, custom product design, supply chain management, and compliance.

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 — 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 Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase foot traffic, and boost sales for
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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 — UbiQD pioneers quantum dot technology to enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. Discover our innovative solutions in solar energy, agriculture, and advanced materials.
Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
Hoodie Analytics — Hoodie Analytics was founded on the belief that cannabis businesses need deeper, operational insights to better compete. Our team has decades of experience in cannabis as well as e-commerce intelligence & market measurement in markets like CPG & FMCG.With Hoodie Analytics, you get an indispensable partner tracking the movements of themarket. You get access to the best people, processes, and data which deliver an unfair advantage over the the competition. You can focus on running your business. We’ll deliver the insights needed to outgrow the pack.

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

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.

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.

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, Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Meiogenix — Meiogenix is a biotech company developing breeding technologies to unlock the unexplored genetic diversity of organisms. Meiogenix expands the natural biodiversity and helps developing new products to address global food and industrial challenges.
nChroma Bio — nChroma Bio's integrated product engine allows for safe, accurate, and targeted in vivo administration, addressing major shortcomings of current genetic medicine techniques.
Nuvig Therapeutics — Nuvig Therapeutics is advancing innovative and transformational therapies that are designed to induce natural mechanisms to restore immune homeostasis, rebalance immune function following inﬂammation, and improve the treatment options for patients. Nuvig is building a pipeline of novel immune therapeutics for chronic inflammatory and autoimmunediseases.

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

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.
Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
one.bio — BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States.

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

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, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Canada, Bermuda

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Canix — Seed-to-sale cannabis software and cannabis ERP for marijuana cultivators, manufacturers and distributors. Metrc approved inventory compliance tracking.
AirMyne — AirMyne is building a machine to remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air at industrial scale. Based in Berkeley, California and backed by Y Combinator and investors from around the world, our team is on a mission to make Direct Air Capture a reality.
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.

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 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.

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.

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

Air — Do you like your marketing and brand collateral scattered everywhere? Neither do we. Send productivity soaring with a flexible and powerful creative ops system.
Teal — Free tools and resources to run a faster and better job search so you can focus your time and energy on finding and landing a job you will love.
Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Insurance, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
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.

Brand New Matter is an early stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Selfr — A no-code modern data stack for your cloud data warehouse
Qonsent — Qonsent is a consumer-first platform for dynamic consent. For the first time, consumers will have direct access and control of their personal data that brands collect and store about them.
Futurestay — Futurestay's award-winning platform empowers anyone, anywhere to build a successful short-term rental business.

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.

We care for impact. We are purpose and data-driven people. We grow faster.

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
Kintra Fibers — Kintra Fibers has developed a proprietary bio-based and compostable polymer that offers apparel brands versatile and strong performance, while retaining plug-and-play manufacturability through the synthetic textile value chain. Kintra materials provide an alternative to fossil-fuel based textiles, which represent 70% of the global fiber market.With a compostable chemistry, Kintra fibers are designed to be digested to CO2 and water within a wastewater treatment facility, solving for clean, microplastic-free oceans and soil. To enable circularity, textiles made with Kintra can fit chemical and mechanical recycling schemes, or industrial compost.
Cleverman — Cleverman - #1 Rated Beard Dye & Hair Color for Men. Customized, Natural-Looking Results in 5 Minutes. Reusable & 100% Vegan. Try for $12.95

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Thirty Five Ventures is a startup founded by basketball star Kevin Durant that invests in tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.

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.

Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York is the largest angel group in the Northeast in membership, with 300 angel investors and growing.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Futurestay — Futurestay's award-winning platform empowers anyone, anywhere to build a successful short-term rental business.
Measure Studio — Measure Studio is a social media data intelligence and analytics suite for publishers, brands, and influencers. Connect Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and more!
Zylö Therapeutics — Patented technology that enables, for topicals, sustained release, increased druggability, a Patchless Patch concept, and enhanced targeting of pores and follicles

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Salveo Capital is a private investment fund that partners with leading entrepreneurs and management teams to build high-scaling successful companies within the legalized cannabis eco-system.Salveo is predominately focused on the ancillary sectors of the market, which include: software and data; financial payments and services; ag-tech and yieldimprovement technologies; biotech and pharma; and licensing and branding.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Agriculture, Farming
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Equilibria — Premium organic CBD & Supplements for Women, with Personalized 1-on-1 Support.
Coda Signature — Premium THC and CBD infused edibles hand crafted by Coda Signature. Pectin edibles, cannabis infused chocolate, bath bombs and more.
Front Range Biosciences — Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

University of California Irvine Malaria Initiative (UCMI) is a not-for-profit research collaborative whose mission is to contribute to the eradication of human malaria.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
C3 Industries — Building a premier, vertically-integrated cannabis company with a national presence, high-quality products, and strong brand recognition. Learn more.
Front Range Biosciences — Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Samara Hernandez

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.

BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to getting capital to our incredible Wisconsin entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DropCap — We are an innovative foreign rights literary agency that elevates exceptional books to the worldwide stage.
Midwest Games — Midwest Games is a video game publisher focused on creating opportunities for the abundant talent across the Midwest and other underrepresented regions.
CHILD Health Imprints — Child Health Imprints is engaged in the development and application of cutting edge informational and computational technologies including IoT, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to the practice of medicine in neonatal intensive care units across the world with the objective of making early diagnosis of critical diseases and improvingoverall quality of healthcare which is being provided to neonates.

Duke Software Investments is an investment firm.

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.

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.

Floret Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging technology companies. It has invested in over 20 companies through a combination of corporate and angel investments in areas such as robotics, media, and enterprise software. Floret Ventures has founded multiple companies and participated in exits worth over $10B in industries.The firm was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Cannabis, SaaS, Mobile
Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Canix — Seed-to-sale cannabis software and cannabis ERP for marijuana cultivators, manufacturers and distributors. Metrc approved inventory compliance tracking.
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.
Canndescent — Canndescent is the #1-selling flower brand for luxury cannabis in California. Our products include flower and pre-rolls in all our trademark signature effects

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Daki — Mobile delivery Daki is a subsidiary of JOKR.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Xihuang Technology — Xihuang Technology is a comprehensive internet technology service company that integrates software research and development, planning, advertising, innovative marketing, and training services to create individuals, businesses, and agents.

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