# Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## Poseidon Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

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

## Casa Verde Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Software

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.

## Phyto Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boca Raton, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

Phyto Partners is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Neurowellness and Brain Health

## Delta Emerald Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

A founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based.

## Silverleaf Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

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

## Babel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Health Care

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.

## Gotham Green Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce

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

## AFI Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Biotechnology, Alternative Medicine

AFI Capital  Partners

## Merida Capital Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical

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

## Robert Stavis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Robert Michael Stavis is based out of Larchmont, New York and is the Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners.  Robert previously worked at NewSchools Venture Fund as a Director. Robert Stavis attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## HALLEY Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lafayette, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical

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.

## 7thirty Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, AgTech

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.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## JW Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Cannabis, Medical, Pharmaceutical

An SEC-registered investment adviser in New York City - investing primarily within the healthcare sector - with over $1B in assets under management.

## Arcview Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Cannabis, Software

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.

## IA Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech

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.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Michael Lazerow
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising

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

## Base Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

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

## Emles Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.

## Navy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage

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.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Rose Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, Consumer

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.

## Achari Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

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

## Alexandria Venture Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pasadena, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Arcview Collective Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Bruce Macfarlane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Insurance

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

## Euclid Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Insurance

We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.

## iSelect Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture

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

## HPA (Hyde Park Angels)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Outbound Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, FinTech

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.

## AltaIR Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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

## Subversive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Consumer Goods

Subversive Capital is dedicated to investing in radical companies whose core missions subvert
the status quo and require sophisticated government and regulatory strategies for success.

## Mollitiam Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce

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.

## Intrinsic Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Cannabis

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.

## Salveo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Agriculture, Farming

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.

## Five Four Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Wellness

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.

## WelCan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Clark, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Bullpen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.

## Obvious Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

## Rick Thompson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Software

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

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## C2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.  


## Duke Software Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, CRM, Cannabis

Duke Software Investments is an investment firm.

## Chingona Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

Chingona Ventures focus on investing at the earliest stages.

## Sugar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Sugar Capital invests in early stage companies across the commerce ecosystem.

## Kingsley Advani
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Biotechnology, Financial Services

Kingsley Advani (born October 24, 1993, in London, United Kingdom) is a British tech entrepreneur, investor, and author based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the Founder and CEO of Allo, an exchange for tokenized stocks managing over $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets, and the founder of Allocations, a fintech platform that has grownto administer more than $2 billion in assets across 30,000+ high-net-worth clients.Advani began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 13, launching a digital commerce business on eBay, before discovering Bitcoin in 2011 while studying finance and economics. In 2013, he allocated his IBM internship savings into Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies, becoming an early investor in what later became a multi-billion-dollar asset class. By his mid-twenties, he had invested in more than 200 companies, including unicorns such as SpaceX, Solana, Coinbase, Robinhood, and eToro.In 2017, he co-founded a global investor syndicate that collectively managed more than $4 billion in assets. Two years later, he launched Allocations, a platform providing infrastructure for fund administration, SPVs, and private market investments. CNBC recognized him as the “Blockchain Oracle” for his early insights into cryptocurrency adoption and market trends.Through his ventures, Advani has become a leading voice in fintech, blockchain, tokenization, private markets, and Web3, with frequent speaking engagements at global conferences including the SF Blockchain Summit, Beyond Blocks, Coinfest Asia, and the Ritossa Summit in Dubai. His commentary emphasizes how blockchain and emerging technologies can democratize access to alternative assets and reduce the barriers to launching micro-funds.Advani is also the author of The Blockchain Oracle: How Technology, Finance, and Vision Shape the Future of Global Investing (2025), a book that explores the intersection of blockchain, fintech, and global finance.

## Evolution VC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS

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.

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