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'What This Industry Needs' Says Snoop Dogg's Casa Verde, As Prelude Secures $5.2M For AI Cannabis Supply Chain
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 4:51pm | 917In a notable advancement for the cannabis industry, innovative startup Prelude has successfully closed its $5.2 million seed funding round. This investment, a joint effort from venture capitalists with deep roots in both artificial intelligence (AI) and the cannabis sectors, is allocated for...
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Snoop Dogg's VC Fund Casa Verde Backs Cannabis Insurance Tech Co.: 'Exciting Opportunity To Disrupt Antiquated Industry'
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 12:11pm | 348Frontier Risk, a digital brokerage and insur-tech platform dedicated to servicing the cannabis sector, announced the closing of its Seed fundraising round, led by Snoop Dogg’s venture capital firm Casa Verde. The round also saw participation from Euclid VC, Inter-Atlantic Capital Group and...
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From Carlos Santana To Nicole Kidman: Why Celebrities Keep Jumping Into The Cannabis Industry And Why We Love It
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - 10:33am | 2335Cannabis and celebrities seem to go hand in hand. Some celebs have decided to become part of the industry as brand ambassadors, while others have launched their own brands. Musicians, actors and athletes have expressed their love for the plant. But why now? Is it because the stigma around...
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Cannabis Commerical Lender Bespoke Financial Raises $8M From Snoop Dogg's Casa Verde Capital, Sweat Equity Ventures, Others
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 11:56am | 480Cannabis-focused commercial lender, Bespoke Financial, confirmed Monday it has completed an $8 million Series A funding round, co-led by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital and Sweat Equity Ventures. What Happened The round was also supported by Ceres Group Holdings, Greenhouse Capital Partners,...
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Cannabis Brand Leune Raises $5M With Backing From Carmelo And La La Anthony, Casa Verde's Meyer, Wadhera
Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 9:00am | 389The California-based cannabis brand Leune announced a $5-million capital raise Thursday supported by celebrity investors like professional basketball player Carmelo Anthony, his wife and TV personality La La Anthony and sports agent Rich Paul, who's known for representing...
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Cannabis Recruiting Platform Shares 8 Predictions For The Industry In 2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 12:24pm | 959By Karson Humiston Founder & CEO of Vangst. With attitudes changing about the legalization of cannabis, 2020 is looking bright for the cannabis industry, even though it faced many uphill battles in 2019. According to projections in the 2019 edition of the Marijuana Business Factbook, retail...
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Berlin-Based Cannabis Startup Sanity Group Closes $22M Series A With Support Of Snoop's Money Man
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 8:32am | 236Berlin-based cannabis startup Sanity Group announced Monday the closing of a $22 million Series A funding round, with investments from entertainment mogul Scooter Braun, Berlin’s Cherry Ventures, and a personal investment from Snoop Dogg’s money man, Karan Wadhera of Casa Verde Capital...
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Eaze Releases Annual State Of Cannabis Report, Shows Increase In Demand, Use
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 2:59pm | 290Cannabis-focused online marketplace Eaze published Wednesday its fifth annual Ease Insights|State of Cannabis 2019 report, which examines a collection of consumer trends in the biggest cannabis market. Accumulated purchase data of more than 500,000 Eaze consumers in California was analyzed in the...
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The Week In Cannabis News: Curaleaf Buys Cura Partners, Canopy Buys C3, Organigram Applies For Nasdaq Listing
Sunday, May 5, 2019 - 2:15pm | 4391This week, cannabis news was dominated by two big acquisitions. The largest was announced by U.S. vertically integrated multistate cannabis operator Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CURLF), which said it would buy Cura Partners, owners of the Select cannabis brand, for approximately $950 million in...
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Cannabis-Focused Recruiting Company Vangst Closes $10M Series A Financing Round
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 2:45pm | 389Karson Humiston, founder and CEO of the largest staffing and recruiting agency in the cannabis industry, made it on Benzinga’s list of 20 women set to dominate the space in 2019. After all, her company Vangst has helped thousands find jobs in the nascent legal marijuana industry. “...
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Pot Stocks, ETFs, Top News And Data From The Cannabis Industry This Week
Friday, June 29, 2018 - 3:48pm | 3502It was another extremely busy week for the cannabis industry. Voters in Oklahoma chose to legalize medical marijuana, becoming the 30th U.S. state to do so; GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) got the first-ever FDA approval for a cannabis-based drug; Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league...
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Pot Stocks, ETFs, Top News And Data From The Cannabis Industry This Week
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 5:14pm | 2067It was a turbulent week for cannabis stocks in the U.S., however, it was Canadian equities that experienced the most volatility, largely due to the publication of Health Canada’s document on legal cannabis packaging, marketing and retail, and the later vote of Bill C-45, also known as ...
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Discussing Snoop Dogg's Marijuana-Focused VC Firm: 'Beyond Wearing The Investor Hat, We Differentiate With A Broad Internal Ecosystem'
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 2:17pm | 1837Back in May, while chatting with Andy Williams, co-star of MSNBC's “The Pot Barons of Colorado” and founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver, Medicine Man Technologies Inc (OTC: MDCL) and several other companies, Benzinga asked which were the largest challenges entrepreneurs in the...