As if the challenges of running a cannabis cultivation business aren’t great enough, some in the industry expect that domestic growers could soon see international competition. While cannabis remains...
The National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), the cannabis industry’s only national trade association, opened voting today for its Board of Directors. The Board has twenty-two Directors, each of whom serves...
Tilray, New South Wales Government, University of Sydney and the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Announce Clinical Trial Partnership for Cannabinoid Use to Combat Nausea and Vomiting Resulting from Chemotherapy Treatment...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals, a major gathering in Austin, TX that will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, is known for allowing attendees to discover the...
Sacramento Bee reporter Peter Hecht explores the emergence of the cannabis industry, which is drawing investors like cannabis-industry focused Poseidon Asset Management and Privateer Holdings but also more diversified firms including...
Amanda Drury is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Power Lunch” and is also host of the popular CNBC segment “Power Pitch.” She recently moderated a panel discussion between Dooma Wendschuh of ebbu and...
In a Bloomberg interview, Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Privateer Holdings, discussed his company, its mission and the opportunity he sees. Cannabis prohibition is fundamentally wrong, especially for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
