Vision

Our vision is to become the leading provider of relevant information in the artificial intelligence industry by contributing original content and curating quality news on the most promising businesses and influential investors, and helping to bridge the gaps between AI entrepreneurs and investors. We also want to help our readers get better educated about artificial intelligence learning programs.

Mission

The AI industry is quickly transforming economies around the world and impacting equity and debt investments. NCV informs and connects all of those who seek to benefit to the success of this new industry and to avoid misapplications of artificial intelligence.

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Leadership

Alan Brochstein, CFA

Based in Houston, Alan leveraged his experience as founder of online community 420 Investor, the first due diligence platform focused on the publicly-traded stocks in the cannabis industry. Alan transitioned it to Seeking Alpha, where he had been a contributor since 2007. With his extensive network in the cannabis community, Alan found new ways to connect the industry and facilitate its sustainable growth.

At New Cannabis Ventures, he was responsible for content development and strategic alliances. Before shifting his focus to the cannabis industry in early 2013, Alan, who began his career on Wall Street in 1986, worked as an independent research analyst following over two decades in research and portfolio management. A prolific writer, with over 800 articles published since 2007 at Seeking Alpha, where he has more than 70,000 followers, Alan was a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a frequent source to the media, including the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV, and wrote columns for Leafly and Forbes.

Alan maintains a personal blog, and you can find out more about him there. He wrote about cannabis stocks primarily at 420 Investor, Seeking Alpha and in the weekly newsletter here at NCV, but he sometimes shared his thinking on the cannabis sector there too. Alan has been very focused on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in his writing at Seeking Alpha, and he launched a second contributor there, The Intelligent ETF Investor. Alan earned a Certificate from Babson College in July 2026 for AI and Data Analytics for Business Leaders and passed two courses at Anthropic, Claude 101 and AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations.

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