# Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors 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: 23
- 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

## Btomorrow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage

Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.

## 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

## Gotham Green Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce

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

## Green Acre Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing

Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail.

## RIV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## 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.

## 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

## Ralph Gygax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

## Navy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## 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.

## Werner Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Professional experience:
Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations
Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management
Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force

## 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.

## 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.

## WGD Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Marketing

WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.

## Christian Angermayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

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

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

## 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.

## 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

## ensemble
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Cannabis, Software

ensemble helps brands operate & scale in a dynamic market while giving investors single-point access to an actively-managed portfolio of privately-held companies. ensemble is a highly experienced team with proven track records in marketing, technology, and natural products.

## 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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Maria Raga
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Retail, Travel

Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace

## 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.

## Neo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## HALLEY Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lafayette, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Cannabis, Health Care

HALLEY is focused on building elite companies in the legal cannabis, hemp and traditional agriculture spaces and is investing early in these truly life-changing trends.

## Floret Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, SaaS, Mobile

Floret Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging technology companies. It has invested in over 20 companies through a combination of corporate and angel investments in areas such as robotics, media, and enterprise software. Floret Ventures has founded multiple companies and participated in exits worth over $10B in industries.The firm was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## 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.  


## 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.

## Thirty Five Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Sports, FinTech

Thirty Five Ventures is a startup founded by basketball star Kevin Durant that invests in tech companies.

## 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.

## Torus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Computer, Software

We are investors advocating for positive action, and are searching for like-minded founders. Is this you?

## 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.

## 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.

## Mollitiam Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce

Mollitiam Capital is a U.S.-focused cannabis private equity fund cultivating resilient brands and businesses. The firm was founded by industry veterans Ross Bevevino and Tyson Macdonald.
Mollitiam Capital is headquartered in New York, New York.

## Satori Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Us, Picardie, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce

Satori Investment Partners is a privately held investment firm focused on providing growth equity to cannabis companies.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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