Meristematic Wins the Gateway Pitch Slam Meristematic won the recent Gateway Pitch Slam at the New West Summit in Oakland, California. The Gateway Pitch Slam is a pitch competition that...
Casa Verde Capital Leads US$2 Million in Funding For Seed-To-Sale Cannabis Startup Trellis Investment by Snoop Dogg’s leading innovative cannabis venture firm helps the cannabis management platform scale and...
New West Summit will be taking place in Oakland this year, the cannabis conference’s first time across the Bay after hosting its previous two conferences in San Francisco. NWS,...
Second Group of Gateway Graduates Are First to Take on Market After Passing of California’s Prop 64 GTWY 02 Welcomes Investors and Media to Graduation of Cannabis-Technology and Consumer...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals, a major gathering in Austin, TX that will celebrate its 31st anniversary this year, is known for allowing attendees to discover the...
In Episode 57, host Brandon David of Investing in Cannabis interviewed Chris Schroeder of Somatik, which offers a cold brew medical cannabis coffee infused with 15mg of THC. Schroeder, who...
The first Elevate Conference, which took place in Oakland on September 20th, focused on cannabis startups. The event, sponsored by Gateway Incubator and Investing in Cannabis, provided attendees a great opportunity...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals, a major gathering in Austin, TX that will celebrate its 31st anniversary next year, is known for allowing attendees to discover the newest original...
In episode 40 of Investing in Cannabis, Brandon David interviews Marshall Hayner, who is a founder participating in the Gateway Incubator program. Hayner, who hasn’t yet renamed his company, joined...
The cannabis industry is full of startups, many of which have great ideas or even deep domain expertise but lack critical skills required to scale their company, similar to...
In episode 38 of Investing in Cannabis, Brandon David interviews Carter Laren and Ben Larson of Gateway Incubator and Sascha (CEO) and Khari Stallworth, the husband and wife team who...
Oakland-based Gateway Incubator launched last November, with initial funding provided by MJIC. The size of the investment was never disclosed, but it was intended to cover up to $600K of investments...
Ben Larson, one of the founders of cannabis industry incubator Gateway in San Francisco, spoke at Valley in Berlin, a one day conference in Germany bringing together interesting Silicon Valley speakers with...
The cannabis industry is long on new ideas but often short on best business practices and the skills necessary to take the idea to fruition, including raising capital from...
In episode 24 of the Investing in Cannabis Podcast, Brandon David interviews Carter Laren and Ben Larson of Gateway, an early stage accelerator program for cannabis companies. Gateway is a full immersion...
Ben Larson and Carter Laren, who both serve as Director and mentor at the Founder Institute, an early-stage technology startup accelerator, are entering the cannabis industry with the launch...
