Karan Wadhera

In 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...

Frontier 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...

Cannabis 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...

Cannabis-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,...

The 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...

By 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...

Berlin-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...

Cannabis-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...

This 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...

Karson 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. “...

It 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...

It 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 ...

Back 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...