Technology

Tech firm Flowhub has landed $23 million as part of its Series A funding round. The round was led by Evolv Ventures, a venture fund backed by Kraft Heinz, which is partly owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

Blockchain technology is gaining attention as a safer seed-to-sale solution for the monitoring of legal cannabis transactions.

Brad Bogus is the VP of Growth and Marketing for Confident Cannabis, a wholesale cannabis platform that connects cannabis cultivators, laboratories, and retailers.

Colorado cannabis company Ebbu has been accused of violating Colorado investment laws by failing to properly disclose investor identities in its early fundraising rounds.

Scientists have created a bacteria solution that exudes industrial quantities of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in “magic mushrooms” that is being studied as a potentially groundbreaking treatment for depression and other mental health afflictions.

Is this new CBD-infused sportswear line from Acabada a real breakthrough in activewear apparel, or is the extraordinary hype surrounding CBD leading startups down increasingly bizarre paths?

Killer Mike joins keynotes Alicia Silverstone, George Zimmer, and many other featured speakers.

Weedmaps will no longer allow unlicensed cannabis businesses to list or advertise on their platform; additionally, the technology firm announced a new social equity program to benefit minority entrepreneurs in the cannabis space.

Jontae James is the founder of NatureTrak, a free track-and-trace software designed to help cannabis industry operators maintain compliance.

Cannabis track-and-trace compliance software company MJ Freeway has rebranded as Akerna following a merger with MTech Acquisition Corp.; the new company begins trading on the NASDAQ today.

Google has officially banned apps that assist with cannabis transactions, including delivery apps and any app that includes a “shopping cart” feature for cannabis products.

The vast majority of California’s cannabis industry is not currently using the state’s seed-to-sale tracking system. Instead, regulators are relying on a paper-based honor system that uses hard copy invoices and shipping manifests.

The property that was planned as an industry coworking space for the cryptocurrency startup will now be sold.

LA prosecutors and nonprofit tech organization Code for America are teaming up to help guide as many as 50,000 cannabis convicts down the path to expungement.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have extracted cannabinoids from brewers yeast.

Genetic milestone in mapping the cannabis genome to be made public to accelerate research and commercialization

The new features for the medical cannabis registration portal will allow cards to be issued to patients much faster.

The state’s other seven dispensaries all opened to long in-person lines, a challenge Northeast Alternatives hopes to avoid.