On the heels of Lift Toronto 2023, which took place June 1-3, gathering a robust audience from across the cannabis industry and community for education, exhibits and top-tier networking, Lift Events & Experiences announces a game-changing new partnership and key enhancements to its upcoming U.S. debut.

Continuing its mission to “lift the cannabis industry across North America,” Lift will soon make its way to a key location in the stateside legalization movement. The team behind the events recognizes a great responsibility to both new and returning audiences, as well as to California’s deep-rooted cannabis legacy.

Lift San Francisco will include the Lift Expo, scheduled for Thursday, August 3 and Friday, August 4, 2023. The Lift Cannabis Business Conference (previously scheduled during a pre-show period prior to the expo) will take place Thursday, August 3, as a combined event with a new Investment Summit presented in partnership with The Arcview Group.

Recognized as a pioneer in cannabis and hemp industry investment content, The Arcview Group has been a trusted global leader for over ten years and a nexus for investors, companies, entrepreneurs and community. Together, the new partners prioritize social justice and responsibility, with The Arcview Group providing a broad spectrum of programs and services across a vertically integrated organization. The Arcview Investment Summit will take place alongside the Lift Cannabis Business Conference, combining two synergistic education opportunities, including enhanced investment-centered content for audiences across the cannabis and hemp industries.

“Lift is honored to welcome our new partners, The Arcview Group,” says Lift Events & Experiences Portfolio Lead, Lindsay Roberts. “Through extensive research and the expert counsel of our North American Advisory Board, we know that investment content is a ‘must’ for serving Lift’s California and U.S.-wide audience. There is no better source for this crucial, timely information than The Arcview Group.”

“We are excited to work with Lift. Having produced 50 investor conferences over the last 13 years, it’s important that investors, entrepreneurs, and operators can experience our unique content at major industry events,” says The Arcview Group CEO Jeffrey Finkle. “Partnering with Lift on a combined conference in San Francisco will help us realize that goal.”.

The combined Lift Cannabis Business Conference and Arcview Investment Summit will be followed by the buzzworthy new Taste at Lift: Cannabis Food & Beverage Experience on Friday, August 4. All Lift San Francisco educational and expo activities will take place at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center and will be complemented by Lift’s famously irresistible atmosphere and best-in-class networking opportunities.

Thursday, August 3, 2023 | Lift Cannabis Business Conference and Arcview Investment Summit

Lift’s strategy-focused, advocacy-oriented business and community leadership conference and The Arcview Group’s leading-edge cannabis industry investment program combine into one high-impact day of essential education. Attendees will gain the information needed to navigate today’s cannabis market and investment climate in California and beyond.

Friday, August 4, 2023 | Taste at Lift: Cannabis Food & Beverage Experience

Premiering at Lift San Francisco 2023, this first-of-its-kind event offers an unparalleled experience including tastings, presentations and expert panels featuring the world’s leaders in cannabis food, beverage and hospitality. Guests are invited to learn and engage at the forefront of this emerging sector through first-hand lessons learned, expected obstacles and success stories.

Thursday, August 3 & Friday, August 4 | Lift Expo Days

Exhibitors at the Lift San Francisco cannabis tradeshow will span the full cannabis ecosystem, offering the latest products, services and innovations. Brands, growers and producers will showcase live flower on the expo floor to see, touch and smell; speakers and panels will be featured each day; plus, attendees can expect the unexpected with Lift’s famous atmosphere and ah-ha! moments.

Thursday, August 3 & Friday, August 4 | Receptions & Official After Party

Receptions each day will create ideal opportunities for industry members and attendees to continue conversations and make meaningful, business-building connections. At the close of Lift San Francisco, the Lift Official After Party will serve up food, drink and music to end the event on a high note.

Lift San Francisco Tickets are available now and Exhibits and Partnerships are available. Click here for additional details.

Lift Events by the Numbers

3K+ Attendees*

2 Days of Exclusive Cannabis Industry Education

2 Days of Exhibits, Attractions and Activations

100+ Speakers*

100+ Exhibiting Companies*

2 Industry Networking Receptions and 1 Amazing After Party

Lift Industry Attendees Snapshot**

27% Own or Represent Producers

48% C-Suite, Owner or Founder

54% Purchasing Decision-Makers

80% Plan to Follow Up with Exhibitors After the Show

Lift Events & Experiences 2023 North American Advisory Board

Deepak Anand, Head of International Consulting, Gateway Proven Strategies

David Brown, Cannabis Policy Analyst & Founder, StratCann

Adelia Carrillo, Founder, EventHi

Chris Day, CEO, Gateway Proven Strategies

Christine De La Rosa, CEO, The People’s Ecosystem

Jill Ellsworth, CEO, Willow Industries

Jillian Reddish, Co-Founder, Global Cannabis Network Collective

Jesce Horton, CEO, Lowd

Mariana Larrea, Attorney; Founder, AMENIC

Nathan Mison, CEO, Diplomat Consulting

Gia Morón, CEO, Women Grow

Jamie Pearson, CEO, New Holland Group

Shanita Penny, Founder/Principal, Budding Solutions

Amna Shamim, Chief Growth Officer, Parsl

Dana Shoched, President & CEO, O2VAPE

David Tran, Founder, Farechild

*Based on most recent event data.  **Based on most recent post-show poll data.

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About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

The COVID-19 outbreak has severely disrupted the economy and could push the world into the sharpest economic contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s. While the cannabis industry has been largely spared thus far, companies have been forced to adopt new business models and strategies to succeed in the ‘new normal’.

Innoviom, a nimble beverage and foods start-up that builds on consumer market trends and takes them to scale, is well-positioned to succeed in the current macroeconomic backdrop given its highly experienced management team, it’s unique focus on relaxation beverages and its rapid pivot to sell products through ecommerce channels—including Amazon.com in recent weeks.

CEO Ahmed El Azizi explains what makes Innoviom products unique.

If you’re an accredited investor interested in functional beverages, you can sign up to receive the company’s investor presentation and learn more about its current offerings.

Perfectly-Positioned Beverage Products

Innoviom’s great tasting, low-calorie, adaptogen-containing relaxation beverages are designed to relieve stress, reduce anxiety and enhance mood without causing drowsiness with lavender, lemon balm, chamomile, green tea, and other all-natural ingredients. In addition, Wowie by Tranquini includes 20mg of hemp-derived cannabidiol, or CBD, per can.

These innovative products are uniquely suited to address consumer needs in the current high-stress COVID-19 environment. All of Innoviom’s products allow you to work/study from home with less stress and anxiety from juggling all the responsibilities with little outside help. Reducing stress while being active, helps consumers to be at their best even in the current situation.

With cannabinoid-free and CBD-only versions, consumers across the spectrum can access these products in any market without having to visit a dispensary or worry about the legal status of cannabis in their state.

With an established supply chain, manufacturing and distribution network already in place, the company is well on its way to expanding distribution throughout the United States. The company’s move to trademark the name in 120 countries and seek regulatory approval in 30+ countries suggests that international expansion is in the cards.

Reaching Millions of Customers via Ecommerce Sales

Innoviom recently began selling its Tranquini brand of products, with or without CBD, on Amazon.com and Tranquini.com. With its agile management team, the company was able to pivot to e-commerce and significantly expand upon its existing presence in U.S. retail chains, like Meijer. The company also works with distributors, like KeHE and UNFI.

Relax and be positive with Innoviom’s Tranquini adaptogen-blend beverages.

Take a break and hang loose with Innoviom’s CBD-infused  beverages.

“A cultural shift in consumption also contributes [to the growth in CBD beverages],” says Duane Stanford, Beverage Digest Executive Editor. “Consumers [are] increasingly looking for natural products with health benefits and are reducing their alcohol intake. CBD drinks are positioned as a potential aid for conditions from anxiety to muscle pain.”

The functional beverage market is projected to grow at an 8.66% CAGR to reach $208.13 billion by 2024, according to Research and Markets. Zenith Global believes that CBD beverages will be among the fastest-growing subsets of the functional beverage industry, growing from just $86 million in 2018 to $1.4 billion by 2023.

A Unique Investment Opportunity

Innoviom is led by CEO Ahmed El Azizi, former Global VP of Functional Beverages at PepsiCo. He is joined by Group CFO Christine Morcos, who worked with Pfizer, Gillette and Procter & Gamble and Julia Trofimova, who formerly served at Diageo, Red Bull and other mainstream consumer product companies, 

CEO Ahmed El Azizi discusses management’s experience in the space.

Accredited investors interested in the functional beverage and CBD industries can sign up to receive the company’s investor presentation and details about their offerings.

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Innoviom, Inc.

Ahmed El Azizi

CEO

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About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

“Let not your heart be troubled,” is a famous passage from John 14:1 to find comfort in troubled times, a mantra that ManifestSeven CEO Sturges Karban finds applicable for the state of the cannabis market today. Karban recently took some time to sit down with CFN Media to discuss the cannabis industry, where he sees it heading and how ManifestSeven is ignoring the market noise and building what is effectively the Amazon of the cannabis space.

This is Normal

Every nascent market goes through volatility and cycles. Think back a couple decades to the tech boom, a time when most people didn’t even understand what the internet was, much less how it was going to reshape the world. And what happened? There were some violent swings before things ironed out. We got Google, PayPal, Apple and other tech juggernauts out of it.

Presently, cryptocurrency is doing the same thing as it goes through growing pains.

There is a decisive difference between those two and the cannabis space, though. The internet and crypto were things people had never heard of when those markets started emerging. People in virtually every corner of the planet know what cannabis is. It is a plant with proven demand worldwide for thousands of years.

Karban says he’s not afraid of machinations in the cannabis evolution – which he believes are normal market cycles as businesses, consumers and lawmakers figure out how to navigate the nascent market. In his view, cannabis stocks were experiencing rapid growth and frothiness in the public markets and a pullback was inevitable. That certainly has been the case since spring, with most so-called “pot stocks” seeing their valuations at least halved.

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Cases in point: Canopy Growth Corp. (NYSE: CGC)(TSX: WEED), the biggest cannabis company in the world, saw its stock price gashed by 73.8% from the end of April to a low last month before making up a little ground. Peer Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB)(TSX: ACB) suffered a similar fate, with shares jettisoning 77.2% from April to November.  

Now, Karban believes we’re near the bottom of the cycle and ready for the next sustainable “hockey stick” move upward largely underpinned by fundamentals rather than mostly speculation. 

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The New Standard 

Cannabis 2.0 is the colloquial term for the next generation of legal marijuana. Some may think it is about new product forms hitting shelves at dispensaries, and it is to a certain extent, but it is more about normalization of the industry. This means implementation of all the hallmarks of long-term, institutional-grade enterprises.

Simply, companies are no longer going to fly by with napkin drawings about their big plans in what is forecast to be a $66.3 billion market in the next five years. 

Karban sees companies being measured by more traditional metrics in Cannabis 2.0 as “the right type of standards and protocols” become benchmarks of the industry. This means things like corporate governance, profitability, real asset bases, enhancing the balance sheet and professional and responsible management of risks and expenses becoming top priorities. 

The next 12 months will be characterized by companies that demonstrate these qualities rising to the top, figures Karban. “The Googles, PayPals and Amazons of the [cannabis] world are starting to line up,” he said during the conversation.

Intrepid Investors

Cannabis-related stocks may have suffered in 2019, but retail investors aren’t the least bit put off, according to a survey commissioned by ManifestSeven and conducted by global business advisory firm FTI Consulting. In the survey, 83% of American respondents viewed the 12-month outlook for the overall cannabis industry as “slightly” or “very” positive, as did 79% of Canadians surveyed.

Seeing the big picture, not the current blood in the streets, Karban knows that valuations normalizing will lure more institutional money off the sidelines to support the right kind of issuers. In turn, more professional investors will recognize the opportunity.

Capitalizing on Market Conditions

ManifestSeven is building an omni-channel platform for B2B and B2C cannabis commerce. Effectively, the platform will include distribution infrastructure and services for every channel in retail cannabis, including dispensaries, on-demand delivery, in-store pickup, e-commerce and e-commerce subscriptions. 

As detailed by Karban, consumers are habituated to the dynamic of retailers having extensive reach into supply chains to get what they need. Using Banana Republic, a Gap (NYSE:GPS) company, as an example, Karban explained that people are accustomed to walking into a store and if the apparel they want isn’t in stock, it is addressed instantly by an associate with a few taps on an iPad to scan the back room, warehouses and all other locations across the country to see where the closest one is.

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In that lane, ManifestSeven’s platform is an “order from anywhere, fulfill from anywhere” model that brings true value to the cannabis supply chain by seamlessly connecting businesses to businesses and businesses to consumers. The initial focus is in California where ManifestSeven now covers 80-85% of the state’s population from a service coverage perspective. 

2019 has been a big year for the company. During the spring, a $22 million private placement was completed, providing expansion capital. ManifestSeven acquired six companies in the distribution and retail space over the past nine months. This included their first cannabis dispensary, located in Santa Ana, California, and the 1-800-CANNABIS asset that serves as a central component of the platform.

Right now, Karban says they’re in the midst of completing another private placement during which they are raising capital at a 2x valuation compared to the funding round earlier this year. The takeaway there is that while most companies have been languishing, there is no down round for ManifestSeven.

The company has four or five more acquisitions it is considering, according to Karban, and plans to become a public entity in the coming months. He didn’t come out and say as much, but ManifestSeven’s plan to enter the public domain certainly implies that Karban is steadfast in his contention that the cannabis market is about to begin a new upward cycle with quality companies winning the capital from retail and institutional investors. 

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Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

Watch exclusive video interviews of leading cannabis industry funds and investors profiling their investment strategies, portfolios and new objectives

Santa Monica, California–(Newsfile Corp. – November 12, 2019) – CFN Enterprises Inc. (OTCQB: CNFN), owner and operator of CFN Media Group (“CFN Media”), the leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the worldwide cannabis industry, today announced the release of new interviews within its video series featuring prominent cannabis investors and funds.

Watch the latest video interviews within the series here:

https://www.cannabisfn.com/video-library/?vchannel=Cannabis-Funds&vorder=date:desc 

“CFN Media has established relationships with some of the world’s leading cannabis-focused investors and funds,” said CFN Media President Frank Lane. “We bring these funds in-studio and film at conferences to capture valuable insights, trends and developments from a savvy investment viewpoint.”

CFN Media has produced three other financial interview series with Viridian Capital Advisors’ Scott Greiper, president of the CSE Richard Carleton and prominent cannabis investor Paul Rosen.

About CFN Enterprises Inc.

CFN Enterprises Inc. (OTCQB: CNFN) owns and operates CFN Media Group, the premier agency and financial media network reaching executives, entrepreneurs and consumers worldwide. Through its proprietary content creation, video library, and distribution via www.CannabisFN.com, CFN has built an extensive database of cannabis interest, assisting many of the world’s largest cannabis firms and CBD brands to build awareness and thrive. For more information, please visit www.cfnenterprisesinc.com.

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About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference will take place at Chicago’s Palmer House on October 22 and 23, 2019. Cannabis investors will have a chance to come face-to-face with cannabis companies to hear about their advancements in the rapidly growing industry, while cannabis executives will have an opportunity to grow their business and attract investors with lightning round presentations and one-on-one meetings.

The conference will feature speakers including:

CFN Media Interviewing Mark Krytiuk, President of Nabis Holdings at the Toronto Benzinga Capital Conference 2019

CFN Media will provide full coverage of the conference via exclusive interviews with thought leaders and pioneering companies. If you’re company is interested in an interview, please contact Frank Lane at [email protected] or (800) 517-5820 to schedule a time. The coverage will be published on the CFN Media Video Library over the coming weeks.

About the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference

The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference is the premier gathering of cannabis entrepreneurs and investors in North America. No other conference offers the level of access and seamlessness of interaction between entrepreneurs building future billion-dollar cannabis enterprises and the investors whose capital will make that happen. 

Individuals or companies interested in attending the conference can buy tickets online at:

https://benzingacannabisconference.com/chicago/ 

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CFN Media is a leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the cannabis industry. We help private, pre-public and public cannabis companies in the US and Canada attract capital, investors and media attention.

Our powerful digital media and distribution platform conveys a company’s message and value proposition directly to accredited and retail investors and national media active in the North American cannabis markets.

Since 2013, CFN Media has enabled the world’s preeminent cannabis companies to thrive in the capital and public markets.

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CannabisFN.com is not an independent financial investment advisor or broker-dealer. You should always consult with your own independent legal, tax, and/or investment professionals before making any investment decisions. The information provided on https://www.cannabisfn.com(the ‘Site’) is either original financial news or paid advertisements drafted by our in-house team or provided by an affiliate. CannabisFN.com, a financial news media and marketing firm enters into media buys or service agreements with the companies that are the subject of the articles posted on the Site or other editorials for advertising such companies.  We are not an independent news media provider. We make no warranty or representation about the information including its completeness, accuracy, truthfulness or reliability and we disclaim, expressly and implicitly, all warranties of any kind, including whether the Information is complete, accurate, truthful, or reliable. As such, your use of the information is at your own risk. Nor do we undertake any obligation to update the items posted. CannabisFN.com received compensation for producing and presenting high quality and sophisticated content on CannabisFN.com along with financial and corporate news.

About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

The New West Summit is taking place at NWS5 in San Francisco, CA on October 10 and 11, bringing together cannabis, technology, science, media and investment firms. With over 50 exhibitors and two days of high-impact presentations, investors, companies and advocates can network with some of the industry’s preeminent thought leaders and innovators.

Featured speakers at the event include:

• Actress, author and activist Alicia Silverstone
• Rapper, actor and entrepreneur Killer Mike
• Platinum-selling artist and filmmaker Michael Franti
• Former CEO of Men’s Wearhouse George Zimmer
• CNBC personality Timothy Seymour
• Activist and Harborside Co-Founder Steve DeAngelo
• Advocate and Filmmaker Mara Gordon
• Cannabis researcher Dr. Sue Sisley

Steve DeAngelo Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Harborside, a vertically integrated California cannabis company. Steve is also known as “The Father of the Cannabis Industry”.

CFN Media will provide full coverage of the conference via exclusive interviews with thought leaders and pioneering companies. If you’re company is interested in an interview, please contact Frank Lane at [email protected] or (800) 517-5820 to schedule a time. The coverage will be published on CannabisFN’s Video Library over the coming weeks.

Individuals or companies interested in attending the conference can buy tickets online at:

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About New West Summit

New West Summit focuses exclusively on technological advancements in the cannabis space and the disruptive forces at play in science, investment and media for this evolving industry. The October 10-11 event at Bespoke Event Center in San Francisco, California, will feature highly vetted & curated activations and participants with 60+ exhibitors, 40+ panels, 100+ speakers, an investment round tables, showcase retail pop-up’s, VIP afterparties and more. Learn more at www.NewWestSummit.com. 

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For Visitors and Viewers 

CFN Media’s Cannabis Financial Network (CannabisFN.com) is the destination for savvy investors and business people profiting from the worldwide cannabis industry. Viewers will see breaking news, exclusive content and original programming involving the people, companies and investments shaping the industry.

For Cannabis Businesses & Companies 

CFN Media is a leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the cannabis industry. We help private, pre-public and public cannabis companies in the US and Canada attract capital, investors and media attention.

Our powerful digital media and distribution platform conveys a company’s message and value proposition directly to accredited and retail investors and national media active in the North American cannabis markets.

Since 2013, CFN Media has enabled the world’s preeminent cannabis companies to thrive in the capital and public markets.

About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.

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Marcus Lemonis, the iconic entrepreneurial Profit, is famously known for building successful businesses under the mantra of “people, process and product.” If there is a company employing the “3 P’s” recipe in the cannabis space, it’s STWC Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: STWC), or Strainwise Consulting as it is often called, a company steeped with experience building a suite of services that shepherd success for its clients.

When it comes right down to it, Strainwise could add two more P’s: partners and profits. As explained by Matt Willer, President of Strainwise, in an interview with CFN Media’s Nova Gaver, the company takes its work and the success of its clients very personally.  

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“Ultimately, we’re a partner in each of these entities, whether that’s formally or informally. We look at them as an extension of our business,” said Willer, adding, “Success is measured by our client’s bottom line. We’re feeling that we had a successful engagement or partnership when we’re improving someone’s business and obviously that is largely displayed by profit and loss.”

Strainwise’s diverse business model means the company could provide services for cash or equity (or a combination of both) or even make an investment in the client/partner if the opportunity is ripe.

The People

Strainwise’s roots go as deep into the legal cannabis industry as anyone. Co-founder and CEO Erin Phillips has the distinction of securing the first ever recreational marijuana license in the United States, that for a Strainwise branded dispensary. With Erin spearheading the consulting and regulatory end of business, husband and co-founder Shawn Phillips took care of operations, with the duo growing from a single dispensary and 4,000 square feet of production capacity in 2010 to nine retail shops in Colorado, more than three dozen licenses and 90,000 square feet of cultivation space.

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The Phillips are the type of people that when licenses to expand grow operations were unexpectedly delayed by Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division resulted in employees needing to be temporarily laid off, the couple worked to place their staffers with other companies in the industry so they didn’t have to go without work. It’s is this personal and deeply-experienced approach that Strainwise leadership brings to its partners that differentiates it from competitors.

Willer who was promoted to the position of President at Strainwise in February, is relatively new to the cannabis industry, but brings a wealth of knowledge of the capital markets to the company underscored by two decades of serving on boards and executive positions at public companies.

During his time as the former President and Director at Assure Holdings (TSX-V: IOM), Willer took the company public and was instrumental in a four-fold increase in market capitalization in 12 months. Willer also served as President of the U.S. division of Xylitol Canada, which experience 10x revenue growth under his tutelage.

There is something to be said for sticking to what you do best and letting others do what they do best in building a company. Willer can see the synergies, in particular the skill set each person at Strainwise possesses as advantageous to growth.

“[The Phillips] learned from the school of hard knocks. They started a business; They grew it; They went through the challenges like any business owner would. Through those years of experience, we’re able to translate that into a more efficient roadmap for our clients,” said Willer in the interview.

“The challenge that we have in the capital market is not specific to any one industry and the challenges that are dealt with at the operational level are really a shot into Erin’s domain. By allowing them to focus on helping our clients and grow the operational piece, it relieves them from the responsibilities that are more in my domain,” he added.

The Process

The process, as the Phillips found out with decision timelines for regulators being a moving target, can be the greatest challenge to any company in the cannabis space. The simple fact that the emerging industry is still so nascent inherently means that changes are incessant.

“It’s constantly trying to understand what is happening at the local, state or even federal level, which often times falls into compliance and legal issues, etc.,” said Willer. “In that murky environment, you still have to be able to run a business. What we’re trying to do is alleviate that stress of all these moving parts; let them know that they’re partnered with someone that can look after their best efforts and monitor all these dynamic movements,” he continued.

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As an example, Willer noted a company in Oklahoma City that came to Strainwise in its infancy. Strainwise led the new partner from concept to fruition, advising them through the licensing procedure to building-out their first dispensary and successful launch of the business.

The Product

For Strainwise, the lines between process and product can be somewhat blurred. There is, of course, the company’s own products. At the same time that it broadens the STWC footprint in its home state, as well as Oklahoma, into the massive California markets and down into Puerto Rico, the company is growing horizontally too.

“Growth is not just more dispensary partners or more cultivation partners,” Willer explained.

Strainwise is executing on a broad strategy to build a robust ecosystem providing products and services that will augment legacy consulting revenue and allow partners to save on capex by working directly with Strainwise.  

For instance, the company in April launched a new packaging division offering customizable and compliant cannabis product packaging options to its clients. Elsewhere, Strainwise partnered with Dana Ress of Denver’s RedPoint Solutions on a joint venture for the purpose of developing a software solution called Supergrower. The customizable software is designed to address the complexities of operating in the legal marijuana space, with functionality across all four cannabis verticals: cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and retail. The JV is targeting July for Supergrower, giving investors something to look forward to in the near term.

Back to the People

In closing, Willer circled right back to the people as clear differentiators setting Strainwise apart from others in the cannabis business. The Phillips as bona fide industry pioneers speaks for itself in building the brand that is starting to gain momentum.  

Willer succinctly summarized the importance of the team, offering, “The people are really what drives this business. I think that as an extension of that – and that our partners would say – that you can trust us like a partner. We do what we say on time and on budget. I’d say 95 percent of our business comes by way of referral, which I think is a testimony to the caliber of people that we have in the organization.”

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For More Information on  STWC Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: STWC) please visit the Company’s website: http://www.strainwiseconsulting.com

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About Ash Stringer

Nabis Holdings Inc. (CSE: NAB) was founded by two of the four founders of MPX Bioceutical Corp. (CSE: MPX), which was one of the first companies to successfully become a multi-state operator, or MSO, in the United States. In October 2018, MPX was acquired by iAnthus Capital Holdings Inc. (OTCQX: ITHUF) for C$835 million in equity, making it one of the largest acquisitions made in the United States cannabis industry.

CFN Media recently caught up with Nabis Holdings President Mark Krytiuk at this year’s Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference to discuss Nabis Holdings and the founders’ goal to repeat and exceed their success with MPX.

Why Multi-State Operators?

The United States cannabis industry is projected to reach $25 billion by 2025, according to New Frontier Data, driven by the legalization of recreational and medical cannabis across a growing number of jurisdictions. While many cannabis operations began as local businesses in a single state, multi-state operators, or MSOs, have become increasingly commonplace, leveraging their capital and expertise across multiple states.

Last year, a record number of U.S. companies listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) to raise capital to deploy into building a presence in the United States. MSOs accounted for the top five capital raises on the exchange, totaling $1.52 billion, according to MJBizDaily, and these trends are poised to continue into 2019. Many of these companies are focused on states such as California with expanding programs or newly legal states like Florida.

The problem for investors is that competition is fierce and many MSOs are led by inexperienced management teams. While these companies may be proficient at raising capital, many teams lack industry-specific experience that’s critical to create lasting brands. Many teams also lack the regulatory know-how to navigate complex interstate issues given the lack of a cohesive legalization framework on a national level.

Repeating the Success at MPX

Nabis Holdings’ founders aim to repeat & exceed the success of MPX by following a similar playbook — which shouldn’t be surprising given that ‘nabis’ means ‘repeat performance’. By acquiring high-quality cannabis assets across the United States, the company aims to become a leading multi-state operator with a focus on acquiring EBITDA-positive operations with proven operating experience and strong brand traction.

The company’s management team will assist portfolio companies in enhancing their operational pedigree. CEO Shay Shnet was VP of Operations at MPX and was instrumental in identifying unique opportunities, while President Mark Krytiuk was VP of Grow Operations and brings more direct experience in cultivation. The company will also leverage potential synergies between its portfolio companies to enhance overall value.

So far, the company has completed a number of acquisitions in Washington State and executed binding letters of intent to acquire vertically-integrated assets in Michigan and Arizona. In addition, the company is looking at several other ‘off market’ opportunities in states like California, Oregon, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Nevada. The goal is to reach C$14.8 million in 2019 revenue and C$167 million in 2020 revenue with 55% gross margins.

Looking Ahead

Nabis Holdings Inc. (CSE: NAB) has what many cannabis companies lack — an experienced management team that has done it before. By leveraging this experience, the company aims to repeat its success in building a leading U.S. presence in mission-critical states like Michigan, California, and Arizona. Investors may want to keep an eye on the stock given the company’s near-term catalysts as it moves from LOIs to tangible acquisitions.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nabisholdings.com.

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About Ryan Allway

Mr. Allway has over a decade of experience in the financial markets as both a private investor and financial journalist. He has been actively involved in the cannabis industry since its inception, covering public and private companies.