Presenting Companies - Investor Pitch Competition
Cannabis Investing Forum - March 18, 2021
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Moderator - Investor Pitch Competition
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Moderator - Investor Pitch Competition
John Nemanic, Partner, Green Coast Capital
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John is a partner in Green Coast Capital International S.A. Green Coast is an international investor providing flexible and innovative financing to the small-cap and micro-cap marketplace in a variety of sectors. Our team consists of experts in capital markets making quick decisions to provide growth capital to issuers.
John is a serial entrepreneur and investor. As co-founder, Chairman and CEO, he exited 3 very successful Internet start ups. In 2006, Hostopia raised 29.2 million (TSX:H), then sold to Deluxe Communications for $124 Million USD. Tucows was sold to the Steinmetz Group for $45 Million April 1999. Tucows current market cap. is over $600 Million. Internet Direct was merged with Look Communications in 1999 with a deemed value of $560 Million John's current interests are medical cannabis, cultivation, hemp and CBD start ups, with a focus on Colombia. He is married to Sandra Carrillo MD a leading expert in Cannabis for clinical applications, and was appointed as "Clinical professor in charge of the scientific program for cannabis research and education", Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama. John manages Panamanian and Colombian based businesses. He is a former member of EO Panama and has extensive contacts within Panama. He also is a former member of EO Toronto (1995) and YPO Toronto (1999). He is actively seeking high-return opportunities to invest in and serve as a director for high-quality cannabis oriented firms. If you are seeking a highly experienced operator, a dynamic leader who understands the growth cycles of start-ups, and how to develop exit strategies please contact John Nemanic. About Green Coast Capital Green Coast Capital International S.A is a private international investment firm focused on investing in small- and micro-cap publicly traded growth companies. We provide flexible debt and equity structured investments across several international markets. We seek to invest in high growth and distressed situations. Green Coast Capital International S.A allocates capital across all industries in four core strategies: discounted equity, convertible debt, convertible preferred equity, and undervalued open market opportunities. We only manage our own capital giving us the ability to make timely and qualified investment decisions.
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Claudia Post, Founder & CEO, Scarlett Express
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Claudia Post is an award-winning and seasoned leader, business owner, nonprofit executive and experienced problem solver with the ability to steer change and transform organizations. As a dynamic strategic thinker and influential change agent, Post consistently demonstrates commitment, leadership and vision. She has proven her effectiveness in cultivating and leveraging professional relationships throughout organizations and across industries.
Post founded Diamond Courier Service, Inc., a same day, time-critical, bicycle and car delivery service. As she built the company from one location and four employees into the national Diamond Transportation Group, Inc. with 10 locations, over 350 employees, and enhanced vertical services, revenue escalated and Diamond became a multi-million-dollar organization. Post most recently founded Claudia Post Advisors, a marketing, sales, logistics, and management consulting company. As a facilitator, Claudia Post enables organizations and individuals to realize their full potential. She uses her entrepreneurial and leadership skills to assist others in developing pathways for growth and accomplishment. As a catalyst, she can spark innovation and cultivate vision among her clients. As a community leader Post has served as a director, officer, committee chair, and/or advisor to scores of educational, business and industry associations, and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, Post has been a teacher, mentor and advocate helping entrepreneurs to develop business, personal, and professional skills. Having recognized cannabis as the next frontier, Post founded Smokin’ Hot Solutions - which focuses on digital marketing communications for the industry. Armed with a tremendous amount of knowledge and a huge network of connections in the industry, she distinguishes her agency by being at the forefront of all things cannabis related. Equipped with a wealth of business acumen, she connects the dots for her clients. About Scarlet Express Scarlet Express provides state-approved, closed-loop delivery services to patients in every state.
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Elad Barak, Co-Founder & CEO, Voyager
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Elad’s experience includes developing spacecraft, manufacturing jet-planes, and robots, along with various business development leadership roles in cleantech and cannabis. Elad served as a Military Lieutenant at the IDF, diplomat Attaché in Mexico and Ukraine, and holds an M.Sc. in System Engineering and an MBA.
About Voyager Products In order to meet the need for pent-up demand from consumers who do not want to smoke, vape, fear a bad experience with edibles, and don’t know the dose they need, Voyager has come up with a unique solution. Voyager has developed a pocket-sized dispenser for consumers to precisely dose their cannabis at 1 mg intervals, in two formats: water-drops to infuse their favorite beverage and oil-drops for sublingual use. By creating an ecosystem of a dispenser + multiple pods from which consumers can choose, Voyager is providing users the freedom to safely enjoy their cannabis precisely, anytime, and anywhere.
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Joe Long, President, Surge Automated
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Joe Long has 25 years of leadership experience in B2C and B2B technology organizations, developing automation and execution strategies that optimize revenue and margin performance. He brings extensive background in enterprise software sales within the financial services industry with specific insight to payments & money movement.
About Surge Automated Surge Automated secures the online purchase of age restricted products by digitally proving the identity and age verification of consumers.
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Marcel Gamma, CEO, CBD of Denver
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Senior Manager with more than 25 years working experience in several industries. Proven skills in Organizational Restructuring, Business Development, Partner Management, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Advisory, M&A and general Entrepreneurship. Higher Education with a M.A. in Accounting & Finance from University of St. Gallen (HSG) and a M.B.A in International Business from Brunel University London.
About CBD of Denver CBD of Denver, Inc. (OTC:CBDD) a full-line CBD and Hemp oil company (“CBDD”) and a producer and distributor of Cannabis and CBD products in Switzerland, Europa and US. CBDD is focused on using equity to acquire profitable Swiss assets at attractive valuations to create value for all our shareholders driven by a passion to improve lives and strengthen communities by unleashing the full potential of cannabis. Through our brand Rockflowr and BlackPearlCBD we reach our consumers and have built up a strong customer base by focusing on top quality products and meaningful customer relationships. Black Pearl CBD has 0% THC, but is not an Isolate where the THC is stripped from the product rendering it ineffective. We use a proprietary technique adding terpenes as the activation ingredient, resulting in a product that is the finest in the industry and only available at CBD of Denver, Inc. is one of a handful of publicly traded CBD stocks. We are traded on the Over the Counter Stock Market under the symbol CBDD. As a publicly traded stock, this allows anyone the possibility of ownership in the rapidly expanding CBD market. Because we are publicly traded, we are bound by Federal and Interstate rules and regulations regarding CBD products. Offering products with 0% THC, allows us to work within these regulations. Understanding the CBD market is important, other products on the market are possibly imported from countries like China, are sold as a distillate resulting in less potency or a product that contains THC. The problem is that each state and country has their own rules and regulation regarding THC. Some states do not allow any products that contain THC, other states allow varying amounts of THC. That is why we post a lab report on all our products. OUR SUBSIDIARIES In Switzerland, we currently own two subsidiaries, Rockflowr, GmbH and CBD Welt 24, GmbH. Rockflowr, GmbH is a wholesale distribution company, which supplies CBD/ Hemp flower, CBD Oil, CBD Pollen and CBD biomass throughout Switzerland and Europe. Our distribution throughout Europe is growing by the day. CBD Welt 24, GmbH has vertically integrated the entire process of Hemp production from growing the hemp, lab extraction, and manufacturing. We utilize sustainable farming committed to the health of our customers and planet. We use drip irrigation, organic ethanol extraction, and natural pest deterrents such as pepper spray and lady bugs for all our products. We currently maintain 3 indoor grown facilities outside of Zurich, Switzerland and are looking to expand in the near future. In the United States, we currently own CBD Social Network and Black Pearl CBD. We are the only CBD company to own and release a comprehensive CBD Social Network (www.cbdsocialnetwork.com). The idea of the network is to connect CBD users from America and around the world to interact and discuss CBD uses, treatments and products. In recent months active users have doubled and we receive between 3,000 to 3,500 hits per day. In the future, this part of our operations could be an integral part our revenue structure. Black Pearl CBD (www.blackpearlcbd.com) is a manufacturer and an ecommerce retail sales unit that only sells the highest quality full spectrum CBD containing 0% THC. We do this through a process that removes the THC molecule from the CBD, then we remove the Terpenes from the THC and attach it to the CBD thus creating a full spectrum product. Other companies either leave the THC molecule and terpenes attached or strip it out completely. It is misunderstood, that the THC molecule is the activator for the CBD to be effective. It is not the THC, but the Terpenes that activate both the THC and the CBD. By removing the Terpenes and reattaching them to the CBD, we have a product that is effective and safe. Black Pearl CBD offers a full range of products from facial creams and sunscreens to all types of oils. All of products can be purchased at our ecommerce site www.blackpearlcbd.com.
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Nate Niehuus, Founder & CEO, Fast Flower Farms
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Nate Niehuus is the Founder and CEO of Fast Flower Farms, a cannabis and cultivation company based in Bay City, Michigan - one of the strongest adult-use cannabis markets in the world. Nate has a passion for cultivating safe, consistent, high-grade cannabis. Nate started Fast Flower Farms in 2018 and has been through over 30 iterations of glasshouse design, finally landing on Dutch Venlo-style glasshouse. Nate popped his first cannabis seed at 18 and learned cannabis cultivation from one of the finest cultivators in British Columbia, Canada.
About Fast Flower Farms Fast Flower Farms is a Michigan cannabis company committed to sustainable growth through scientific innovation, Lean Principles and operational integrity. As operators in one of the world’s strongest cannabis markets, our purpose is to ensure that our actions have a positive impact on the local community and excellent long-term returns for our investors. In addition to passionate founders, a deeply experienced team, and a proprietary genetic library of over 500 cultivars – we have developed strong partnerships and advisory agreements ensuring operational success and ongoing profitability. Ideally situated one of the world’s fastest growing cannabis marketplaces (342% YoY growth), our brand, ABA Cannabis (Artisan. Boutique. Authentic.) will sell branded cannabis products in both medical and recreational markets.
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Noah Sayres, CEO, BudBuddy
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Noah is the Founder and Chief Visionary of BudBuddy. From a young age, Noah was driven to learn and succeed. Autodidactic by nature, he studied Philosophy at Oxford University at the age of 14. As of 2017, he was pursuing a Masters Degree in Technology Management at UCSB. Like many startup founders before him, Noah left his Masters Program to make his vision for BudBuddy a reality. Noah has strong cannabis industry experience in a variety of areas. These include everything from managing sales at a luxury smoke shop that specialized in the sale of high end water pipes, to being the first delivery driver at the third largest licensed medical cannabis delivery service in Santa Barbara County. These positions allowed him to learn extensively about the different types of accessory products and devices that customers use to enjoy cannabis, as well as the logistical hurdles involved in running a cannabis delivery service, especially one being built from the ground up. He is chiefly responsible for guiding BudBuddy’s overall business strategy. He also oversees the development and roll out of BudBuddy’s larger technology platform for the cannabis industry. In addition to his cannabis background, Noah brings a strong technology and E-commerce skillset to the company. While a student at UCSB, Noah created the UCSB Cryptocurrency Investment Club in which he served as President. In collaboration with Blockchain At UCSB, The Cryptocurrency Investment Club held numerous blockchain-related events and organized regular presentations in which blockchain luminaries such as Vitalik Buterin were known to attend. He also cut his teeth with online sales when he launched The Mustachery, an online store for luxury men’s grooming products. This taught him an immense amount about the ins and outs of running a primarily online storefront. Noah’s burning ambition is to make BudBuddy the portal through which every cannabis customer in America obtains their cannabis products and accessories. He believes that now is the time to Make Cannabis Easy. About BudBuddy "BudBuddy Makes Cannabis Easy. For Customers, We Make Ordering Cannabis Products For Pickup Or Delivery From Their Favorite Dispensaries Easier Than Ordering Takeout Food. They Can Shop From A Wide Selection Of Curated Accessory Products All In One Central Place. For Dispensaries, We Provide A Free State-Compliant POS Hardware & Software That Streamlines Their Business Operations. By Bringing Our Partner Dispensaries Increased Visibility & Sales Volume, We Create A Closed Loop Ecosystem That Solves The Major Pain Points For Dispensaries & Their Customers. In Exchange, We Take A Flat $5/Order Fee From The Dispensary. This Aligns Our Incentives With The Success Of Our Partner Dispensaries.”
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Oliver Horn, CEO, Elixinol Global
Elixinol: Industry Pioneer in Rapidly Growing Market - www.youtube.com/Elixinol Global
A Leader in High-Growth Multi-Billion-Dollar Market -www.youtube.com
A Leader in High-Growth Multi-Billion-Dollar Market -www.youtube.com
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Oliver Horn was most recently CEO of Swisse Wellness for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and North America. Oliver has previously held senior operational leadership positions at Treasury Wine Estates across ANZ, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
With an established track record for exponential growth in established and emerging markets, Oliver has extensive experience in building premium global consumer brands, a deep knowledge of the vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) category, a track record of premium brand building and a passion for creating businesses with a positive and thriving workplace culture. Prior to Elixinol Oliver was CEO of Swisse Wellness For Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and North America and has previously held senior operational leadership positions at Treasury Wine Estates across ANZ, Europe, Middle East and Africa. With an established track record for exponential growth in both established and emerging markets, Oliver has extensive experience in building premium global consumer brands, a deep knowledge of the vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) category, a track record of premium brand building and a passion for creating businesses with a positive and thriving workplace culture. About Elixinol Global Limited Elixinol is an original pioneer in the CBD industry — focused on the science, research and development of world-class cannabinoid products that provide real results for real people. A global company with a proven track record, Elixinol's products are sold online at Elixinol.com, at over 2,600 natural, specialty and conventional grocery stores and pharmacies across the U.S., and around the world. Elixinol distributes CBD products in North and South America, throughout Europe, Asia and the Pacific Region under the Elixinol brand. Elixinol's parent company EXL (elixinolglobal.com) is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (EXL) and on OTC Markets (ELLXF).
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Peter Kasper, Founder & CEO, Terpli
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Peter Kasper is the Founder & CEO of Terpli, a community-powered mobile app for cannabis recommendations and reviews. Peter launched Terpli while enrolled full-time in the MBA Program at USC, Marshall. He has dedicated his life and career to the cannabis industry and recently had the privilege of founding and leading the Marshall Cannabis Industry Club, USC Marshall's first-ever business of cannabis organization. With a finance and applied mathematics background, Peter eagerly brings his quantitative nature to the cannabis space and is excited to launch Terpli in the summer of 2021.
About Terpli Terpli is a community-powered app where users can engage with reviews, get discounts, and see full Cannabinoid and Terpene profiles to make informed, personalized cannabis decisions. There’s so much more to cannabis than indica or sativa. Terpli is elevating the conversation. From peer-driven reviews and targeted recommendations to an analytics dashboard that enables brands to act on consumer preferences, Terpli is the go-to destination for making data-backed cannabis decisions before the point of purchase.
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