# Steve Schuman

> Steve Schuman is a seed investor at HALLEY Venture Partners backing Cannabis and Biotechnology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [HALLEY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/halley-venture-partners)
- Location: Lafayette, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-schuman-757112

Steve Schuman is a seed investor at HALLEY Venture Partners in Lafayette focused on Cannabis and Biotechnology. Steven J. Schuman is the Founder & Managing Director of HALLEY Venture Partners, L.P.He attend to the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business in 2000.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cannabis | 2 | 33% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 33% |
| CRM | 1 | 17% |
| SMS | 1 | 17% |
| Logistics | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Mexico | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Willow Industries | Willow Industries provides cutting edge technology for post-harvest microbial decontamination in cannabis. Based in Denver, CO, they provide state-of-the-art technology to clean and purify flower & trim. Their patent-pending machine, WillowPure, uses ozone-based oxidation to reduce mold, yeast, mildew, Aspergillus, Salmonella, E. Coli andother potential pathogens. All while protecting the medicinal properties, aroma, potency and visual appearance of the flower. | $2M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Lucid Green | Lucid Green enables the cannabis industry to communicate trust and transparency through a direct connection with the consumer. It gives brands a direct-to-consumer and direct-to-budtender marketing channel while incentivizing brands and their suppliers to provide accurate and timely product information. As a blockchain solution, all actions bydata uploaders and data consumers are governed and driven by a sophisticated, immutable ledger and a token economy. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $3.1M |  | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Lucid Green | Lucid Green enables the cannabis industry to communicate trust and transparency through a direct connection with the consumer. It gives brands a direct-to-consumer and direct-to-budtender marketing channel while incentivizing brands and their suppliers to provide accurate and timely product information. As a blockchain solution, all actions bydata uploaders and data consumers are governed and driven by a sophisticated, immutable ledger and a token economy. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $3.1M | Seed | May 11, 2021 |  |
| springbig | Springbig provides loyalty, digital communications, and CRM technology solutions to retailers in the cannabis industry. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. After years of experience in big-box retail, their founders saw tremendous opportunity in the underserved cannabis industry and decided to bring advanced loyaltyprograms, an essential marketing tool in such a competitive industry, to cannabis dispensaries and brands. | $11.5M | Series B | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| RICOVR Healthcare | RICOVR Healthcare is a medical device company that has developed a biosensor technology for rapid point-of-care testing. The company’s non-invasive portable testing devices will benefit not only employers and law enforcement but also the medical community and individuals. The novel patented technology is extremely sensitive and can quantitativelydetect disease biomarkers even present in low quantity. They are currently developing testing devices for THC (psychoactive component of Cannabis) and COVID-19. In addition, the platform has the potential to add accurate and quantitative testing for alcohol, other drugs of abuse, and infectious diseases. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 29, 2020 |  |
| springbig | Springbig provides loyalty, digital communications, and CRM technology solutions to retailers in the cannabis industry. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. After years of experience in big-box retail, their founders saw tremendous opportunity in the underserved cannabis industry and decided to bring advanced loyaltyprograms, an essential marketing tool in such a competitive industry, to cannabis dispensaries and brands. | $3.2M |  | Dec 19, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Silverleaf Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverleaf-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bravos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bravos-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Channel Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/channel-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Green Acre Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-acre-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KEY Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/key-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About HALLEY Venture Partners

VC Fund · Lafayette, United States

HALLEY brings together a diverse group of financial professionals, engineers, scientists, lawyers, media guru's, cultivators, sales specialists, software experts, and many others. We look to find the next crop of super companies and their visionary founders. We aim to nurture them when needed and stand aside when they are flourishing.

1 contacts available at HALLEY Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Steve Schuman | Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-schuman |

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Schuman invest in?

Steve Schuman invests primarily in Cannabis, Biotechnology and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Steve Schuman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Schuman closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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