Top 50 Cannabis VC (Venture Capital) Funds in January 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cannabis startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Cannabis VC (Venture Capital) Funds in January 2025
Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.
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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 is a purpose-driven licensed dispensary that provides best-in-class service and high-quality products.
- 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.
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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
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
- HealingMaps — Find Ketamine Clinics and other psychedelic therapy providers near you. We are changing the way we treat mental health.
- Wonder Sciences — Science for the Soul
Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
- Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
- PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.
An Opportunistic Investment Manager focusing on sectors with outsized returns, limited competition and misunderstood risk. Distressed Real Estate, Legal Cannabis VC, Emerging Technology and Life Sciences Venture Capital
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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.
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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.
A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.
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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.
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.
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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
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Biotechnology, Alternative Medicine
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- Compassionate Cultivation — Compassionate Cultivation is a medical cannabis company that grows, processes, and dispenses CBD medicine.The company provides patient consultations, physician outreach resources, and detailed information on their products and retail merchandise. Conditions including epilepsy, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, spasticity, ALS, autism,terminal cancer, CTE, and other incurable neurodegenerative disorder now have access to medically prescribed cannabis.
- Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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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
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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, AgTech
- Seed, Series C
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
- Apex Trading — Built for wholesale cannabis by cannabis industry professionals. Delivering all the software tools needed to simplify wholesale operations while creating an environment in which Buyers and Sellers interact directly ensuring the best value for all.
- The Blinc Group — Headquartered in New York City, The Blinc Group designs, develops, supplies and supports premium cannabis vaping hardware. The company offers a curated collection of proven cartridges, batteries, ready to use vaporizers and complete bespoke device development to multi-state operators, licensed producers, processors and brands. Blinc completes thevalue chain by providing its clients access to a suite of support services ranging from research and development, production, testing, standard operating procedures, training and all the way to go-to-market strategy and brand communications consulting. With full control of the supply chain, the company’s unique “Powered by Blinc” process enables clients to provide innovative, safe and quality controlled products to cannabis consumers worldwide. To learn more about Blinc, visit http://www.theblincgroup.com.
An SEC-registered investment adviser in New York City - investing primarily within the healthcare sector - with over $1B in assets under management.
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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
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.
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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 Proudly Serving Enterprise Clients with Excellence Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
- humble+fume — humble+fume is Canada’s leading distributor of cannabis accessories. We offer the largest range of products and accessories to legal dispensaries, head shops and smoke shops of all sizes. We work with over 200 of the leading industry brands and offer more than 10,000 products and accessories. With distributions centres across North America, we arewell positioned to help grow your business. Our team believes pairing cannabis accessories is at the heart of contemporary enjoyment, we look forward to working with you and creating the perfect experience for your customers.
- HC Solutions Holdings — HC Solutions Holdings operates as a distributor of cannabis. HC Solutions Holdings formed as a Joint Venture between Green Acre Capital Distribution Corp. and Humble & Fume.
Merida Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on responsible investing across the cannabis ecosystem.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Autoimmunity BioSolutions — ABS is developing a next-generation, immuno-corrective therapy to restore normal immune function in a genetically-defined subpopulation of autoimmune disease patients.
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Insurance, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- 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.
- Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity
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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 founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
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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.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
- Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
- Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.
WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- UbiQD — ADVANCED MATERIALS Quantum Dot Innovations in Agriculture, Clean Energy, and Security POWER THE FUTURE Enabling industry leaders to harness the power of sunlight
- Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
- Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Israel, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- EnduroSat — At EnduroSat, we engineer, build and operate exceptional satellites. Our Mission is to make space universally accessible
- Cyberwrite — TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS One platform to accelerate value across the cyber insurance lifecycle THE LATEST FROM CYBERWRITE
- GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.
The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
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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.
Achari Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cannabis & cannabis-related companies.
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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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Cookies — Cookies Inc., is a cannabis brand, which currently has 7 dispensaries in California, 1 in Detroit.
- Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
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.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Komplyd — Komplyd is an enterprise-class cannabis technology platform that manages risk and compliance easily. Komplyd’s API provides enriched data, increasing the team’s productivity. It provides real-time and accurate compliance updates. It is a common data model and a single endpoint that empowers the team to rapidly deliver cannabis compliance solutionsin days.
- Genetica — Elevate your cannabis & hemp experience with our AI product recommendation tool. Uncover ideal matches with AI in retail. Request a demo now!
- Nugget — The leader in competitive cannabis data.
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.
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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
Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.
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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.
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.
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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.
KEY Investment Partners is a venture capital fund focused on providing growth equity to early-stage cannabis companies.
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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 Proudly Serving Enterprise Clients with Excellence Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase
- Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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.
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- Health Care, E-Commerce, Security
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
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- 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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden, Canada
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- 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 — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients
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.
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- Cannabis, Health Care, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- AEXLAB — AEXLAB is a virtual reality technology studio creating meaningful technologies for gaming, training, simulation and more.
- Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
- Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
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.
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- Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce
- Seed
- United States
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- Zyp Run — Get the best THC and CBD products delivered same-day with Zyp Run. Shop flower, vapes, edibles, and joints from legal marijuana brands.
An emerging market fund, focused on the legal cannabis market, which as of 2015 was the fastest growing industry in the U.S.
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- Cannabis, B2B, SaaS
- Seed
- United States
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- Tradiv — Tradiv is the cannabis industry's online wholesale marketplace. Tradiv's marketplace connects cultivators, MIPS, and dispensaries conducting wholesale trade, online.
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
We are investors advocating for positive action, and are searching for like-minded founders. Is this you?
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- Cannabis, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg
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- Ziggu — Ziggu is the gold standard for streamlining your homebuyer journey in residential projects. Discover how property developers and homebuilders deliver homes 10x more efficiently.
- Magnax — Magnax develops yokeless axial flux electric motors for eMobility and Aerospace
- Thankyoujane / Cantura — Started in 2017, we are one of the first German CBD companies and one of the leading CBD and Cannabis players in Europe. In 2019 we launched Cantura Organics, the leading CBD brand for organic and sustainable CBD products. At Thankyoujane we believe that CBD and cannabis should be freed from its stigma and should be placed back at the center of oursociety, so that everyone can benefit from the healing power that the hemp plants provides us with. Since our customers share that vision, we grow our company significantly and are always open for further partners that want to join our journey.
Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- ALLCITY Network — Welcome to the ALLCITY Network - where we make it more fun to be a sports fan! Check out our national coverage on NFL, NBA, hockey and more.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
Macdonald Ventures is a tech angel investment company dedicated to building leaders for a better tomorrow.
The firm was founded by Steven MacDonald in 2020.
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- Cannabis, Marketplace, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
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- Kush — Kush is an online retailer for producers, processors and retailers of CBD and cannabis products.
- HealthSnap — Manage chronic conditions, improve outcomes, and incorporate new guidelines for remote patient monitoring at scale - all on one platform! Schedule a demo to learn more.
- Kush Marketplace — Wholesale Marketplace for the Legal Cannabis Industry
Sinai Ventures invests in internet and software founders at all stages
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, India
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- Stride Funding — There's a better way to fund your education.
- Black Oak TV — Subscribe to BlackOakTV, your new home for some of the best emerging black TV shows, movies and films on the planet.
- Esusu — Esusu: We report rent payments to major credit bureaus to help renters build credit while maximizing property outcomes for managers & owners.
Mission and Market is a micro-venture capital firm focused on seed investments in many areas, including big data, software-powered biotech.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Israel
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- 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
Championing the next generation of B2B technology startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- 8seats — 8seats offers secure and effortless messaging for teams of any size. Boost productivity with real-time chat, team collaboration, and powerful tools designed for businesses.
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- Altai — Altai is a bespoke casting platform which offers unparalleled collaboration between Artists, Agents, Casting Directors and Clients.
Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.
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- Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, The Netherlands, Canada
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- MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
- EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
- Full Harvest — Waste less, profit more. Source imperfect and surplus fruits and vegetables up to 10-30% off.
Actual contact with an alien is a Close Encounter of the Third Kind
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- Software, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Macro — Macro is the platform professionals use to review, draft, collaborate, and compare documents faster and wiser.
- Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
- Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to getting capital to our incredible Wisconsin entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore
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- 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.
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.
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- Cannabis, SaaS, Mobile
- Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- 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 a state compliant cultivator of premium cannabis. Canndescent's services include a combination of quality management and deep cultivation expertise and abandons traditional strain names, allowing customers to get cannabis flower produced, packaged, and distributed in accordance with all state and local laws.
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