Casa Verde Capital

Greenbits, a cannabis retail platform serving more than 1,200 retail locations, has closed a $23 million Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global Management and Casa Verde Capital, the investment fund led by Snoop Dogg, Karan Wadhera and Ted Chung. Capital will be used to drive sales growth,...

Cannabis delivery company Ganja Goddess has seen a substantial surge in cannabis deliveries, according to newly appointed CEO Zachary Pitts. Pitts, who has been working in the cannabis sector since 2007, previously served as the California company's chief operating officer until he was...

Vape hardware producer Greentank has snagged former Dyson Engineering Manager Pete Duckett as the company’s new chief engineering officer. Duckett, an expert in structural engineering and thermo-fluid analysis, will lead the company’s R&D efforts. The company also announced the...

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...

Cannabis-focused venture capital firm Casa Verde Capital has invested in vaporizer company Indose. What Happened Casa Verde, Snoop Dogg's venture capital arm, led the Series A round that helped Indose raise $3.5 million. Indose is developing vape pens with a focus on dose precision in order to...

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. “...

“Wonder Women Of Weed” is a show co-hosted by Javier Hasse and Adelia Carrillo, featuring accomplished female leaders in the cannabis industry. #WWoW is brought to you by a collaborative effort that includes Benzinga, Industry Power Women and Direct Cannabis...

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...

Earlier this year, Calvin Broadus, more commonly known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, announced that he was planning to launch a fund that would invest in cannabis startups. The famous rapper has been open about marijuana use throughout the course of his career, but now he is hoping to profit even...