Karan Wadhera
Managing Partner @ Casa Verde Capital
Los Angeles, United States
Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Karan Wadhera invests in
Stages Karan Wadhera invests in
Countries Karan Wadhera invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$7M
- Series A
- $8M–$87M
- Series B
- $23M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cannabis 13 (41%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (9%)
- Health Care 3 (9%)
- FinTech 2 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (38%)
- Series A 8 (25%)
- Series B 3 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 18 (56%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Growlink develops environment controls, irrigation controls, hardware and software products for the agriculture sector. | $2M / Seed / Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Prelude provides a supply chain platform to distribute cannabis to retailers. Its platform helps to keep the dispensary stocked with the products that customers want and reduces out-of-stock and overstocked products. | $5.2M / Seed / Nov 28, 2023 | ||
| Sanity Group is a holistic European Cannabis company focusing on health, wellbeing, and scientific research. To utilize the full potential of its health benefits, Sanity Group is investing in fundamental research of the cannabis plant and its active ingredients as well as in specific areas of application.It was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Berlin, Germany. | $37.6M / Series B / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Kompliant delivers end-to-end lifecycle compliance through a platform developed in partnership with the world’s leading payment processors and banks - bringing together proprietary technologies, purpose-built and configurable workflow, and integrations with best-in-class data providers to address the entire compliance lifecycle.Kompliant empowersrevenue through decisioning automation and compliant commerce. We help companies increase profitability by improving the efficiency of customer acquisition, underwriting decisioning and account activation. With enhanced verification, businesses can also improve customer conversion, decisioning cycle-time, business monitoring, and response to fraudulent activity.We offer a powerful set of platform services without requiring customers to spend money and time customizing their credit and risk policies. Using Kompliant services means they have more time to focus on driving revenue growth and portfolio expansion by making the onboarding, decisioning, activation, and monitoring of their customers a seamless experience. | $14M / Seed / Jul 29, 2022 | ||
| MoonPay is a financial technology company that provides payment solutions for cryptocurrency. Its on-and-off-ramp suite of products provides a seamless experience for converting between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies using all major payment methods including debit and credit cards, local bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. | $87M / Series A / Apr 13, 2022 | ||
| Dutchie is an all-in-one technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access, and supports the wave of positive societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon. | $350M / Series D / Oct 14, 2021 | ||
| Surfside is an end-to-end marketing technology that aggregates your 1st party data across all customer touchpoints. Allowing advertisers the ability to better understand, target and measure how to influence current and future customers. | $4M / Seed / Aug 10, 2021 | ||
| Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans. | $8M / Series A / Apr 19, 2021 | ||
| LEUNE is a California born lifestyle brand forged on the principle of transcending the narrative of cannabis culture. Honoring a 3.0 consumer who knows that ‘getting high’ only begins to tell the story of what the plant truly represents, we’re interested in elevating the conversation around cannabis. Through high aesthetic and uncompromisingquality standards, we aim to create the new ideals for the industry. | $5M / Seed / Apr 15, 2021 | ||
| Dutchie is an all-in-one technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access, and supports the wave of positive societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon. | $200M / Series C / Mar 16, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Casa Verde Capital
Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.Casa Verde Capital (CVC) maintains a view that the cannabis industry will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.CVC is a venture capital firm focusing on the ancillary cannabis industry.The ancillary ecosystem is commonly referred to as“not touching the plant;" this category includes, but is not limited to, agtech, health & wellness, financial services, technology, media, compliance and laboratory technology.
Casa Verde Capital Contacts
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Allie Denburg
Associate
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Calvin Broadus
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Carter Lewis
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David Colton
Associate
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Karan Wadhera
Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Karan Wadhera invest in?
Karan Wadhera invests primarily in Cannabis, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Karan Wadhera's check size?
Karan Wadhera typically joins rounds of $2M–$7M at Seed, $8M–$87M at Series A and $23M–$38M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Karan Wadhera participates in.
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When did Karan Wadhera last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Karan Wadhera closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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