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Investors get high on marijuana
The business of legal weed is entering a new stage, as a broad infrastructure of related services, particularly financial, develops. Last year former videogame …
Marijuana incorporated: cannabis eases into a billion-dollar business high
Four years ago Cassandra Farrington couldn’t find any venue in the country that would host her idea for a conference on the business of …
10 Cannabis Startups That Have Raised Over $1 Million (Besides Privateer)
Legal cannabis gained a higher profile recently, after Seattle pot-investment firm Privateer Holdings closed a $75 million funding round. The deal included the first …
Oldest medical marijuana collective is crowdfunding to save operation
The Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana a.k.a WAMM has been operating out of Santa Cruz, California for over two decades, but the collective is …
Delusional Confidence? A Report from the Marijuana Investor Summit
“When we want to raise capital,” Dooma Wendschuh, the thirty-eight-year-old co-founder of a cannabis company called ebbu, said, “I go up to someone and …
The End Of The War On Drugs And The Emergence Of The Venture-Backed Cannabis Industry
When news broke that Founders Fund, the proudly contrarian venture firm helmed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, was going to invest a major $75 …
Venture Funders Talk Up Cannabis Startups
The impending de-criminalization of cannabis means money. And where there’s money, there’s venture capital: private funds that invest in startups, hoping to magnify their …
‘Uber For Weed’ Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures
Uber For Weed’ Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures There’s an Uber for everything nowadays, so why not an …
