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From Tablelist to Cannabis eCommerce Platform: Dispense Marches On

Although the cannabis industry’s pace can cause time to fly by in dog years, Kyla Sirni, the co-founder and CEO of Dispense, a cannabis eCommerce platform launched in 2020, is used to the bustle. She and her co-founder had worked…

Fyllo: Connecting a Cannabis Flywheel

November 30, 2022
Brian MacIver
Compliance and Regulations, Science and Technology
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A consumer data marketplace. An advertising and promotions platform. A compliance tool. A regulatory database. This is not a checklist of software and digital technologies that cannabis companies should consider, but rather an abbreviated form of what Fyllo (pronounced FEE–low)…

ProCanna: Answering Cannabis’s Compliance and SOP Tracking Needs

Dede Perkins became a regulated cannabis industry veteran without intending to. The co-founder and CEO of cannabis compliance and auditing software company ProCanna had a successful freelance writing practice when she was contacted by a Massachusetts group applying for one…

POSaBIT: From Bitcoin Payments to Cannabis Financial Institution

Ryan Hamlin’s cannabis origin story is not an uncommon one. The founder and CEO of cannabis debit payment and point-of-sale (POS) platform POSaBIT (pronounced PAUSE-ah-bit) found himself at a barbecue in Washington state in late 2014, chatting with a friend…

Treez: Laying the Groundwork for the Future of Retail Cannabis FINtech

Ahead of this week’s Marijuana Business Conference in Las Vegas, cannabis POS software company Treez is getting ready to bring its version of the future of retail cannabis FINtech to market with a series of product innovations. John Yang, Treez’s…

Jane Technologies: Digitizing the Cannabis Retail Experience

November 11, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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One of the books that most influenced Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of cannabis e-commerce platform Jane Technologies, is “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek. In the book, Sinek splits the different games that humans play into two categories: finite, and infinite.…

Dutchie: A 3-Billion-Dollar Cannabis E-Comm Giant

November 10, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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Dutchie certainly has made headlines with its rapid growth over the last few years. An e-commerce platform focused on facilitating dispensary operations and transactions, Dutchie enables more than $14 billion in sales annually across 5,500 dispensaries in the U.S. and…

BLAZE: Cannabis Operators Building Software for Cannabis Operators

When Chris Violas, founder and CEO of cannabis seed-to-sale software company BLAZE, ran a cannabis delivery service under California’s Prop 215 system from 2011 to 2014, he saw firsthand the issues with which these businesses had to contend. Inventory management,…

springbig: From Yogurt and Pizza Digital Punch to Cannabis CRM Platform

November 3, 2022
Brian MacIver
Ancillary Businesses, Marketing, News & Insights, Science and Technology
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When cannabis customer relationship management (CRM) software company springbig went public this past June, CEO Jeffrey Harris noted in a press release how the move would help “accelerate our growth strategy as a newly public company.” Accelerating an already rapidly…

Simplifya: Tracking 18 Million Lines of Regulations, And Counting

October 26, 2022
Brian MacIver
Compliance and Regulations, Science and Technology
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18 million lines of cannabis regulations. That’s what Marion Mariathasan, CEO of cannabis compliance software provider Simplifya, estimates his company currently tracks across 28 state markets. Launched in 2016, Simplifya is one of the cannabis industry’s leading compliance software companies.…

Flowhub: A Streamlined Experience for Large (and Small) Retail Operations

October 23, 2022
Brian MacIver
Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology
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After discovering how CBD could help him get off of prescription SSRIs, Kyle Sherman, founder and CEO of cannabis POS software company Flowhub, moved with his family from California to Colorado in 2013. While California was still the medical cannabis…

CEO & Founder Gary Cohen Delivers Cova’s Point-of-(Compliant)-Sale Software Secret Sauce

October 19, 2022
Brian MacIver
Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Spotlight
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By Brian MacIver When Gary Cohen, founder and CEO of cannabis industry point-of-sale (POS) software company Cova, was working for another large POS company operating in the retail cellphone market, he never dreamed he would one day be making the…

By the Numbers: Headset CEO Cy Scott on the Future of Industry Data

October 18, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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Seattle-based Headset has been plowing the cannabis retail point-of-sale data fields since 2015, when it exclusively focused on Washington state. Over time, the company steadily expanded its analytic chops to include more markets, and today it tracks product sales and…

An Essential Metrc Adjusts for the Future

September 19, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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If there is an all-encompassing company in cannabis, it has to be Metrc. With more than 20 state governments (and one American Territory) under seed-to-sale contract, the Lakeland, Florida-based technology company is the dominant provider of cannabis track-and-trace solutions in…

Why Demand for Tech Talent in Cannabis Cultivation Is at an All-Time High

August 1, 2022
Ryan Douglas
Cultivation, HR and Staffing, Science and Technology, Uncategorized
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For cultivation businesses, information technology (IT) is more than just email administration and fixing security camera glitches. IT affects nearly every aspect of a cannabis cultivation facility, and it’s crucial to the success of any commercial growing operation. The right…