# Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in June 2026 ## Casa Verde Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 25 - 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## Btomorrow Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth. ## 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 ## Gotham Green Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry. ## Evolution VC Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Ralph Gygax - Type: Angel - Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007. ## Green Acre Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## Navy Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Werner Hoffmann - Type: Angel - Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics Professional experience: Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force ## 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. ## RIV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, SaaS RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets. ## 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. ## Louis Beryl - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Neo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Maria Frances - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Fashion, Marketplace, B2B Maria Raga Frances is based out of London, England, and is the venture partner of Creandum. Maria previously worked at ITV as a digital advisory council member. Maria Raga Frances attended INSEAD. Maria Raga Frances has been nominated as a finalist for the Bold Woman Award. ## Entourage Effect Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## ensemble - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS ensemble helps brands operate & scale in a dynamic market while giving investors single-point access to an actively-managed portfolio of privately-held companies. ensemble is a highly experienced team with proven track records in marketing, technology, and natural products. ## 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. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Andrew Stokes - Type: Angel - Location: Denver, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Cannabis Andrew Stokes is an American software engineer, most notable for his research in anomalous network detection, particularly in the machine learning and artificial intelligence field. Andrew graduated from Western Governors University with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. In May 2021, Andrew founded Omega AI, Inc. as a counteroffensive cybersecurityAI. Andrew continues to act as the Executive Director and Chief Software Architect at Omega AI, Inc. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## WGD Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Software, Marketing WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies. ## 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. ## 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. ## Bruce Macfarlane - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cannabis, Insurance Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor. ## Christian Angermayer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain Christian Angermayer is based out of London, England and is the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Enhanced Games. Christian Angermayer attended the University of Bayreuth. ## 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. ## 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. ## Gregg Smith - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, SaaS Gregg Smith - Founder @ Evolution VC Partners ## Stanley Tang - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Finance, E-Learning Stanley Tang is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DoorDash. He attended Stanford University. ## Gron Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Newport Beach, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Cannabis, Sales We are backing businesses and brands with potential to be market leaders for decades to come. ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co