# Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

## Poseidon Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.

## Casa Verde Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Information Technology

As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.

## Phyto Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boca Raton, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Health Care

Phyto Partners is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Neurowellness and Brain Health

## Silverleaf Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

An Opportunistic Investment Manager focusing on sectors with outsized returns, limited competition and misunderstood risk.  Distressed Real Estate, Legal Cannabis VC, Emerging Technology and Life Sciences Venture Capital

## AFI Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Biotechnology, SaaS

AFI Capital  Partners

## Babel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Health Care

Babel Ventures is an early stage VC fund backing driven, impact-oriented entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The firm typically invests in seed-stage consumer biotech, longevity, health & wellness, and F&B verticals.

## Gotham Green Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce

A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.

## Robert Stavis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

## Delta Emerald Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

Founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based in New York City.

## Merida Capital Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

Merida Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on responsible investing across the cannabis ecosystem.

## JW Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Cannabis, Medical, Pharmaceutical

An SEC-registered investment adviser in New York City - investing primarily within the healthcare sector - with over $1B in assets under management.

## Arcview Collective Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

Arcview Collective Fund is an early-stage and opportunities for the cannabis industry. The Collective invests across subsectors where it leverages its members’ expertise, to make investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment.
The firm was founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Bruce Macfarlane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Insurance

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

## Arcview Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3

The Arcview Group is a vertically integrated company servicing the cannabis and hemp industry, built with social justice and responsibility at its core.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Alexandria Venture Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pasadena, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.

## IA Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Insurance, Finance

IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital firm and manager of the Inter-Atlantic funds. Since 2000, IA Capital Group has partnered with entrepreneurs to shape the future of the financial services and insurance industries.

## Base Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.

## Navy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing

Navy Capital’s research-oriented, fundamentally-driven investment process focuses on identifying attractive opportunities within the legal cannabis space. Navy Capital seeks to find the best in class businesses within key verticals of the global cannabis industry. Those verticals include Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, Industrials, andAgriculture.

## Euclid Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Construction

We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.

## Hyde Park Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Hyde Park Angels is a venture capital firm that transforms early-stage investing that provides value to entrepreneurs and investors by driving startup growth and investment success. The firm specializes in the fields of angel, investing, and venture capital.
It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

## Michael Lazerow
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Mobile

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

## Entourage Effect Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology

Entourage Effect Capital, LLC (formerly Cresco Capital Partners, LLC) is a private investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry. EEC’s mission is to actively leverage our sector and investment experience, networks, and investment process, and to identify, invest and accelerate high quality emerging growth companies. EECstands apart by taking an active role in adding value to the management teams of its companies. Some have called it a “Keiretsu”, but as we are in Cannabis, we call it “the Entourage Effect.” The Entourage Effect is a term used to describe a novel method of endocannabinoid regulation. It means that the compounds within the cannabis plant work in concert to create a sum greater than any of its individual parts.
This is the same strength they bring to investing. From early stage acceleration, to acquisition sourcing, to strategy, to creating exit opportunities, they believe in being the most valuable names on their founder’s cap tables.

## 7thirty Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, AgTech

The 7thirty Opportunity Fund is an early-stage growth equity fund targeting private cannabis-related technology investments around the world. The fund is closely partnered with the CanopyBoulder business accelerator for unparalleled deal flow and access to top-tier investments. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the fund is ideally situated tocapitalize on the 30% average compound annual growth in the legal cannabis industry. A highly disciplined investment approach allows the fund to build a diversified portfolio of exceptional investments poised to grow with the industry.

## iSelect Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture

Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity

## Outbound Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.

## Achari Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

Achari Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cannabis & cannabis-related companies.

## Max Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

## C2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.  


## Intrinsic Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Cannabis

Intrinsic Capital Partners is an investment firm focused on life science and technology businesses within the legal cannabinoid market. The Intrinsic team brings institutional investment discipline and world-class operating experience to build and scale industry-leading companies that address unmet needs across the supply chain.

## Cosmic Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Personal Health, Manufacturing

We're investing in the next generation of consumer platforms, products and services.

## Duke Software Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, CRM, Cannabis

Duke Software Investments is an investment firm.

## Landis Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Cosmetics

LANDIS CAPITAL PROVIDES SEED, EARLY, AND LATER STAGE VENTURE INVESTMENTS IN CONSUMER PRODUCTS, E-COMMERCE AND ENTERPRISE COMPANIES.

## Emles Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Cannabis

Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.

## RIV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

## Samara Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, CRM, Cannabis

Samara Hernandez

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Chingona Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

Chingona Ventures, headquartered in Chicago, focuses on industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. Chingona Ventures' focus areas are in financial technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and futureof learning at the pre-seed/seed stage.

## Jack McCue
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Women's, Cannabis, Wellness

Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.

## Salveo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Agriculture, Farming

Salveo Capital is a private investment fund that partners with leading entrepreneurs and management teams to build high-scaling successful companies within the legalized cannabis eco-system.Salveo is predominately focused on the ancillary sectors of the market, which include: software and data; financial payments and services; ag-tech and yieldimprovement technologies; biotech and pharma; and licensing and branding.

## KEY Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Cannabis, Advertising, Digital Marketing

KEY Investment Partners is a venture capital fund focused on providing growth equity to early-stage cannabis companies.

## Winnebago Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

The Winnebago Seed Fund is a newly-formed venture capital fund based in Neenah, Wisconsin with a focus on seed investments in startup companies primarily in the Fox Valley and secondarily through the state of Wisconsin. The Fund’s primary purpose is to generate investor return by partnering with talented entrepreneurs to rapidly grow theirbusinesses.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## 32 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing

32 Ventures specializes in direct investments in early stage companies.

## Anslinger Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, B2B, SaaS

An emerging market fund, focused on the legal cannabis market, which as of 2015 was the fastest growing industry in the U.S.

## Brand New Matter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Darien, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Travel

Brand New Matter is an early stage venture capital firm.

## Greenhouse Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sausalito, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

## Tech Coast Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States, possessing more than 300 members in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Its members provide funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other investment group.Members invest in companies in a wide range of industries, including the life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, consumer products, and tech startups. TCA as a whole gives companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring, and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been ranked by CB Insights to be among the Top 20 Angel Groups in the US; TCA was also ranked as #1 for Network Centrality, meaning we have more connections than anyone! If you are in the game-changing business, we are here to help.

## Cresco Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Cannabis, Agriculture, Art

Cresco Capital Partners, LLC is a United States private equity investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry out of the firm's two committed investment funds. We use our combined professional, political and community resources to source investment opportunities throughout the supply chain from genetics and farming toretail, branding and distribution.

## Agritech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, B2B, AgTech

Agritech Capital is a strategy and investment firm specializing in innovation and technology in the agribusiness sector.

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