Mitch Baruchowitz
Managing Partner @ Merida Capital Holdings
Mitch Baruchowitz is a seed investor at Merida Capital Holdings focused on Cannabis and E-Commerce. Mitchell Baruchowitz is the Managing Partner of Cannabis private equity fund Merida Capital Partners. Mitchell has nine years of experience in the legal cannabis industry and is considered a national expert in the cannabis investing and the diverse licensing regimes governing each state. His cannabis career began in assisting Colorado-based legalcultivators to structure state compliant capital transactions and analyzing the legal cannabis market in order to develop an optimal business strategy for their operations. After several years of work with Colorado companies, he co-founded Theraplant, LLC where he architected the highest scoring application in Connecticut’s highly selective licensing process. In 2014, he co-founded LeafLine Labs, LLC, which was one of only two Minnesota companies to win a license to cultivate and dispense cannabis in extracted form. Mr. Baruchowitz is also a founder of Maryland-based Grow West MD, one of 15 companies selected for a cultivation and dispensing license. He has also founded a Pennsylvania-based cultivator that is in the pre-operational licensing stage.Overall, Mr. Baruchowitz has approximately 20 years of experience in the legal and finance fields. He is the former Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of publicly traded MarketAxess. He was also the General Counsel of investment banking boutique Pali Capital, which had revenues of nearly $200 million and 200 employees when he was appointed in late 2009 by the Board to lead the restructuring and wind-down of the company. Since 2010, he has led numerous public and private offerings, assisted in the formation and funding of several credit funds and a $60 million REIT while the Head of Investment Banking of ACGM, Inc. and at Cavu Securities. Mr. Baruchowitz is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bars and holds FINRA 7, 24, 63 and 79 licenses. He currently sits on the Boards of New Frontier Data, Valley Agriceuticals, Simplifya and Manna Molecular Sciences.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
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Industries Mitch Baruchowitz invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cannabis 6 (50%)
- E-Commerce 3 (25%)
- Information Technology 3 (25%)
- Software 2 (17%)
- Consulting 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (17%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Series B 2 (17%)
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 8 (67%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
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| Pilgrim Soul is a mission-driven cannabis brand focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge. | $2M / Seed / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Simplifya develops a cloud-based Software-as-a-service application for Web, mobile, and tablet use to help ensure the cannabis business is legally compliant. Its application enables users to verify and monitor licensee operations for compliance with state and local regulations; monitor their business’s compliance health; and add multiple users,locations, and licenses as their business grows. The company assists cannabis businesses, law firms, consultants, financial institutions, and regulatory agencies with monitoring licensee operations for compliance with state and local regulations | $6M / Series B / Jun 18, 2021 | ||
| Petalfast is a sales and marketing agency for the cannabis industry. Their sales accelerator consists of 6 components that can be activated separately or together for exponential growth. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Irvine, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom. | $2.8M / Series A / May 19, 2021 | ||
| tökr believes that shopping for cannabis should be simple. Based in Venice, California, tökr uses data-driven technology to build connections between consumers and brands. It allows consumers to design a cannabis experience that is customized to fit their lifestyle while providing brands with an efficient tool to market products, drive traffic, andincrease sales. tökr prides itself on bringing a modern tech solution to the cannabis space and is redefining how people shop within the industry. | $1M / Seed / Jul 17, 2019 | ||
| GrowGeneration is a private company, whose plan is to open and operate hydroponic and specialty gardening stores and capitalize on the rapid growth from the legalization of marijuana and home gardening. The company is a marketer and distributor of nutrients, growing media, advanced indoor and greenhouse lighting, ventilation systems, andaccessories for hydroponic gardening. | $12.8M / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 26, 2019 | ||
| MainStem is a technology-based ancillary product distribution company in the regulated cannabis industry, is the leading comprehensive marketplace in the industry, with over 10,000 products for cannabis businesses to select. The company integrates its platform into popular industry software to maximize its customer reach and simplify theprocurement process. | $2.2M / Series B / May 22, 2018 | ||
| GrowGeneration is a private company, whose plan is to open and operate hydroponic and specialty gardening stores and capitalize on the rapid growth from the legalization of marijuana and home gardening. The company is a marketer and distributor of nutrients, growing media, advanced indoor and greenhouse lighting, ventilation systems, andaccessories for hydroponic gardening. | $10M / Post-IPO Equity / May 09, 2018 | ||
| VividGro is the groundbreaking horticultural LED division of Lighting Science Group (“LSG”) and a pioneer in the Agricultural Technology (AgTech) sector. Utilizing state-of-the-art hardware and software, VividGro implements solutions that improve growers’ profitability by lowering operating costs, increasing efficiencies and yields, and decreasingcycle times. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 20, 2018 | ||
| Kush Bottles is proud to be a part of the fastest growing industry in North America – legalized cannabis. Founded in 2010, they began with the mission of providing innovative packaging solutions for a new budding industry (excuse the pun). By delivering excellent service to thousands of dispensaries, growers, retail shops, and consumers for almost5 years, they have learned the specific needs of those they serve, and have become the premier packaging supply and services company to exclusively serve the cannabis industry. | $6M / Post-IPO Equity / Feb 14, 2018 | ||
| Simplifya develops a cloud-based Software-as-a-service application for Web, mobile, and tablet use to help ensure the cannabis business is legally compliant. Its application enables users to verify and monitor licensee operations for compliance with state and local regulations; monitor their business’s compliance health; and add multiple users,locations, and licenses as their business grows. The company assists cannabis businesses, law firms, consultants, financial institutions, and regulatory agencies with monitoring licensee operations for compliance with state and local regulations | $1M / Series B / Jan 12, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Merida Capital Holdings
Merida Capital Partners is a private equity fund targeting fundamental growth drivers underpinning the rapid development of the cannabis industry. Our investment emphasis focuses on cultivation technologies, products and services associated with the evolution of cannabis as an agricultural product, a natural plant-based medicine, a constituent inpharmaceutical formulations, and a recreational consumer product.
Merida Capital Holdings Contacts
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Mitch Baruchowitz invests primarily in Cannabis, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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