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Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 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
Gotham Green Partners	5
AFI Capital Partners	5
JW Asset Management	4
Merida Capital Holdings	4
Robert Stavis	4
7thirty Capital	4
HALLEY Venture Partners	4
Lerer Hippeau	3
Navy Capital	3
Michael Lazerow	3
Euclid Ventures	3
Rose Capital	3
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
Arcview Group	3
Jason Calacanis	3
Right Side Capital Management	2
Jon Oringer	2
Max Ventures	2
KEY Investment Partners	2
Mission and Market	2
AltaIR Capital	2
Fresh VC	2
Montage Ventures	2
Jack McCue	2
Chingona Ventures	2
Headline	2
Winnebago Seed Fund	2
Evolution VC Partners	2
Kingsley Advani	2
Greenhouse Capital Partners	2
32 Ventures	2
Entourage Effect Capital	2
Duke Software Investments	2
RIV Capital	2
Justin Kan	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, is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 premier talent resource for the cannabis industry. Built on a network of the industry’s best people and widest-ranging career opportunities, Vangst helps employers and employees succeed in cannabis. From temporary gig work to full-time career placement, the company is trusted by the biggest and most innovative brands in cannabis forfull-spectrum staffing needs and has successfully matched tens of thousands of cannabis professionals with leading cannabis companies, The Vangst team’s industry expertise and passion for the plant make us uniquely qualified to help companies match with the perfect candidate and successfully navigate a nuanced and ever-evolving regulatory landscape. At the end of the day, Vangst is about getting cannabis to work with smart technology, unmatched experience, and the industry’s best community of talent.
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.

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, SaaS
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.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.

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

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

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, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
Adonis — Adonis is the first revenue intelligence and automation platform that delivers AI-driven insights to help your medical practice, hospital, or digital health clinic beat revenue KPIs.
Hello Patient — AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon

KEY Investment Partners is a venture capital fund focused on providing growth equity to early-stage cannabis companies.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Advertising, Business Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Mission and Market is a micro-venture capital firm focused on seed investments in many areas, including big data, software-powered biotech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fove — FOVE offers an eye tracking head mount display. Dive into virtual worlds that know where you are looking, what you are looking at and react to it. Think Iron Man meets Oculus. By tracking gaze position in real time it is possible to interact with and control objects on the screen in new ways.
Akido Labs — At Akido, we collaborate with healthcare, government, and non-profit institutions to implement programs that tackle inequities in public health.
Cofactor Genomics — The Leaders in RNA-Seq

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
Substrata — Substrata.me | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Email Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

Fresh is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage software and consumer internet companies. We want to work with the freshest new startups changing consumers' behaviors. We are open to investments in all sectors but some areas we are excited about include mobile-focused disruption, developer platforms, on-demand marketplaces,consumerization of SaaS, and connected home. The team is based in N.Y and S.F but we are geographically agnostic.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Security
Seed, Series A, Angel
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.
Akido Labs — At Akido, we collaborate with healthcare, government, and non-profit institutions to implement programs that tackle inequities in public health.
Gyroscope Innovations — Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body. It was started by Anand Sharma in 2014 as a personal project called April Zero.

Montage Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm actively investing in financial services, e-Commerce, marketplaces and healthcare start-ups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.
Sollis Health — Meet your new emergency contact. Let Sollis Health be your 24/7 medical concierge - your first call for any medical need anytime, anywhere. Apply online!
CardiaTec Biosciences — CardiaTec is a digital biotechnology venture combining the power of AI and expert talent to redesign cardiovascular drug discovery to deliver the next generation of therapeutics

Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.

Investment focus

Women's, Cannabis, Wellness
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Chingona Ventures focus on investing at the earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Certiverse — Certiverse is an end-to-end exam development platform using industry-leading psychometric standards, intuitive machine learning, and an innovative, asynchronous, crowdsourced content-creation model.
Viva — Landlords use Viva to grow a property's online reputation, improve renter behavior, reward residents to increase renewals, create loyalty, drive more referrals, reduce vacancy, increase profits by up to 9%
Scout — Scout is a financial planning company that offers financial education, wealth management, and tax preparation services for athletes.

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

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.
Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.

The Winnebago Seed Fund is a newly-formed venture capital fund based in Neenah, Wisconsin with a focus on seed investments in startup companies primarily in the Fox Valley and secondarily through the state of Wisconsin. The Fund’s primary purpose is to generate investor return by partnering with talented entrepreneurs to rapidly grow theirbusinesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

AirDeck — Discover the power of narrated presentations. Use AirDeck AI to create and share clear, effective, and compelling documents.
RoddyMedical — SecureMove-TLC Confidence in Safety and Mobility | RoddyMedical | Wauwatosa
Sift Healthcare — Sift helps healthcare providers and revenue cycle managers prioritize RCM workflows & accelerate cash flow with analytics & optimizations around denials, payer behavior, patient payments and utilization trends.

Evolution VC Partners invest and partner with disruptive companies with a strong team, product, and market opportunity. They help entrepreneurs build great companies and consider themselves to be investment accelerators and will seek to be active creators of value for their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
HUNGRY — HUNGRY connects hundreds of local companies to top chefs & restaurants to provide amazing office food programs in a reliable and efficient way.
Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.

32 Ventures specializes in direct investments in early stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Portugal, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Strata Identity — Strata provides an identity orchestration platform built specifically for hybrid and multi-cloud environments for easy management of distributed identity systems

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

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

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