Following a powerful keynote speech by Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann, attendees at the Cannabis Private Investment Summit, organized by Noa Kahner of Kahner Global, were treated...
The Wall Street Journal continues a recent trend towards mainstream coverage of the legal cannabis industry, exploring its push towards innovation as it transforms. The article begins with a discussion of Eaze,...
The New York Times has been a great advocate to the cannabis industry ever since it called for legalization in the summer of 2014. Most of the coverage has...
Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Seattle-based private equity firm Privateer Holdings, one of the fifteen “marijuana money managers” profiled at New Cannabis Ventures and a pioneer investor in the cannabis industry, spoke at...
New York Magazine has a cover story on Willie Nelson in the November 2nd Edition discussing his concerns about corporate interests taking over the industry. The in-depth article sheds...
One of Canada’s largest newspapers, The Globe and Mail, took a look at the rapidly evolving approaches to marketing cannabis and its ancillary products in an increasingly legal environment. While...
Chicago Inno, a division of Streetwise Media, published a piece that speculates on which cannabis company might be the first to be worth $1 billion. The industry is so...
New Cannabis Ventures is excited about the emergence of what we call the “Marijuana Money Managers,” a group of financial organizations that aim to help bridge the gap between...
One of the highlights of the National Cannabis Summit in Denver was the 90-minute panel entitled “Investing in the Canadian Cannabis Sector”. The participants included the CEO of merchant...
One of the better attended panels at the National Cannabis Summit in Denver was yesterday’s “Opportunities for Accredited Investors to Invest in Private Cannabis Startups.” Brendan Kennedy, the CEO...
NANAIMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Oct 05, 2015 Tilray, one of Canada’s largest and most reputable licensed producers of medical cannabis, today unveiled a broad-based line of 20 different medical cannabis...
Meet Brendan Kennedy, ceo of the private equity firm Privateer Holdings. He arrives at our meeting carrying a bowl of nuts. He’s been up with his nine-month-old daughter since...
Cannabis companies and those providing ancillary products and services face many obstacles due to federal illegality. We are all familiar with the challenges of banking, but one impediment perhaps...
Cannabis and music go together naturally, as any enthusiast will tell you. It’s not surprising that several well-known musicians are starting their own legal cannabis ventures and working to...
The cannabis industry is the latest trend that Silicon Valley companies are investing in, and for good reason. Venture capitalists, or private investors who provide venture capital to promising...
I am really excited about a material change that has positive implications for the cannabis industry, as several new companies have formed that will invest in the cannabis industry...
Patrick Moen worked for the Drug Enforcement Agency for 10 years before he accepted a job at the most heavily-funded legal marijuana startup in the United States, and probably...
Privateer Holdings made waves earlier this year when it closed on a $75 million round of financing, the largest infusion of cash into a cannabis-focused private equity firm in...
When news broke that Founders Fund, the proudly contrarian venture firm helmed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, was going to invest a major $75 million in Privateer Holdings, a...
Privateer Holdings is a private equity company focused exclusively on the cannabis space. Privateer’s portfolio of companies include: Leafly, Tilray and now Marley Natural. Marley Natural promises to be...
