Featured Vendors (April-June) - 2023

Cannabis tech startups are sprouting up around the United States, Canada, and other areas around the globe. In a competitive industry, companies will benefit from staying on top of the latest IT trends. With cannabis being legalized in an ever-increasing number of markets across the country and around the world, sales are likely to be higher than ever, but the fledgling cannabis sector is more prone to rapid trend changes than others. Comprehensive and uniform regulation is lacking, methods of consumption are evolving and investments are difficult to predict.

Today, technology companies are taking advantage of the nascent green rush to develop gadgets and platforms aimed at making the growth, compliance, sales and all other aspects of the marijuana industry easier. From cannabis-specific apps and software to hardware and business-consumer platforms, cannabis tech is booming. CBD and marijuana dispensaries can benefit from digital signage as it will help companies grow with innovative solutions. By embracing this trend, companies can craft immersive environments to enhance customer experience and brand image. Digital signage can be used by dispensaries to play informational videos as well as create interactive kiosks and instructions about how best to use the product. It can also help by creating a more straightforward payment process.

Using automation technologies can streamline the most tedious, timeconsuming tasks in a grow operation, eliminating costly mistakes and reducing a considerable amount of labor along the way. Whether syncing watering and light cycles with automated timers or keeping track of inventory and weights, growth stages and any movement the plants have done within a cannabis grow through an automated data entry system, automation has the ability to improve performance in cultivation, harvesting, processing, manufacturing, packaging, compliance and distribution.

Economies of scale will be more important than ever in 2022. More acreage will be planted by large and sophisticated growers, which will not only drive down prices but also squeeze out smaller producers who are already struggling to remain profitable under onerous regulations and high tax burdens. While each state and local market has its own unique mix of opportunities and challenges, 2022 will not be easy for most cannabis operators. Even relatively stable and disciplined companies will be challenged as they position themselves for some version of federal–and soon thereafter international–legalization.

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Conception Nurseries

Conception Nurseries is bringing state-of-the-art tissue culture technology to the cannabis industry to provide cultivators with elite cannabis clones without using seeds or pollination, which produces plantlets free of pathogens with exceptional vigor, at a cost-per-plant below producers' in-house costs

Kevin Brooks, CEO
Enlightened Quality Analytics

The company works with its clients in the cannabis field to assess risks, identify compliance and quality gaps, improve processes, and provide solution-oriented-support. EQA helps cultivators, processors, and investors employ the good practices of mature industries that are necessary for the long-term success of their clients and the cannabis industry. EQA works with its clients in the cannabis landscape to assess risks from initial business development to scaling and expanding. This includes services such as internal and due diligence audits, investor relations, process improvement, technical data review, analytical method development, and other solution-oriented-support for this unique industry

Transcendence Through Quality, Fractals Amid Chaos. We Provide The Systems And Knowledge Necessary For Cannabis Clients To Make Data And Riskbased Decisions That Ensure Their Success

Shannon Swantek, CQA, Principal Scientist & CEO
Jointly

Jointly has developed and launched a consumer wellness app for the iPhone (Android version is under development) that aims to provide much needed product transparency in the legal cannabis industry. After Jointly has established its consumer application as a leading wellness tool for cannabis consumers, its next focus will be on developing the app’s functionality to recommend the best legal cannabis products available for customers’ specific cannabis wellness goals

Jointly’s goal of empowering consumers to take control over their cannabis wellness goals fits nicely with the goals of the leading cannabis brands, product manufacturers, and retailers

David Kooi, Co-Founder and CEO
Portal42

Portal42 is a cannabis seed to sale software solution that allows provisioning centers, processing, and cultivation owners to track their data and be more effective and efficient. The company continues to have its finger on the pulse of state-of-the-art technology and products to enable the facilities to provide enhanced customer experience even during the pandemic. To elucidate, the company is ensuring robust communication between facilities and their patients and customers and adding an online payment solution. Also, Portal42 has a pickup/delivery component in place, which is helping its clients provide a touchless solution, eliminating the need for human-to-human interaction and in-store queues in this new normal

We are introducing several apps, both desktop and mobile, that will drive better interactions for staff, customers, and owners

Courtney Forgues, President
Sante Laboratories

Santé Laboratories opened its doors as the first Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) to address compliance issues and is focused on helping companies commercialize competitive and well-characterized bio-hemp products based on plant extracts, semi-synthetic, and synthetic cannabinoid substances. As a Texas-based company, Santé Labs is the first ISO/IEC 17025:2017-accredited hemp-testing lab in the State of Texas, registered with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and FDA as a cGMP compliant manufacturer. The company offers a large portfolio of analytical services to help customers with product development, research and development, and commercialization of cannabinoid products and therapeutics

We understand there is no such thing as ‘one-size-fits-all’ formulation, therefore we don’t deliver ‘one-size-fits-all’ services

Mike Sandoval, President
Conception Nurseries

Conception Nurseries is bringing state-of-the-art tissue culture technology to the cannabis industry to provide cultivators with elite cannabis clones without using seeds or pollination, which produces plantlets free of pathogens with exceptional vigor, at a cost-per-plant below producers' in-house costs
Enlightened Quality Analytics

The company works with its clients in the cannabis field to assess risks, identify compliance and quality gaps, improve processes, and provide solution-oriented-support. EQA helps cultivators, processors, and investors employ the good practices of mature industries that are necessary for the long-term success of their clients and the cannabis industry. EQA works with its clients in the cannabis landscape to assess risks from initial business development to scaling and expanding. This includes services such as internal and due diligence audits, investor relations, process improvement, technical data review, analytical method development, and other solution-oriented-support for this unique industry
Transcendence Through Quality, Fractals Amid Chaos. We Provide The Systems And Knowledge Necessary For Cannabis Clients To Make Data And Riskbased Decisions That Ensure Their Success

Shannon Swantek, CQA, Principal Scientist & CEO
Jointly

Jointly has developed and launched a consumer wellness app for the iPhone (Android version is under development) that aims to provide much needed product transparency in the legal cannabis industry. After Jointly has established its consumer application as a leading wellness tool for cannabis consumers, its next focus will be on developing the app’s functionality to recommend the best legal cannabis products available for customers’ specific cannabis wellness goals
Jointly’s goal of empowering consumers to take control over their cannabis wellness goals fits nicely with the goals of the leading cannabis brands, product manufacturers, and retailers

David Kooi, Co-Founder and CEO
Portal42

Portal42 is a cannabis seed to sale software solution that allows provisioning centers, processing, and cultivation owners to track their data and be more effective and efficient. The company continues to have its finger on the pulse of state-of-the-art technology and products to enable the facilities to provide enhanced customer experience even during the pandemic. To elucidate, the company is ensuring robust communication between facilities and their patients and customers and adding an online payment solution. Also, Portal42 has a pickup/delivery component in place, which is helping its clients provide a touchless solution, eliminating the need for human-to-human interaction and in-store queues in this new normal
We are introducing several apps, both desktop and mobile, that will drive better interactions for staff, customers, and owners

Courtney Forgues, President
Sante Laboratories

Santé Laboratories opened its doors as the first Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) to address compliance issues and is focused on helping companies commercialize competitive and well-characterized bio-hemp products based on plant extracts, semi-synthetic, and synthetic cannabinoid substances. As a Texas-based company, Santé Labs is the first ISO/IEC 17025:2017-accredited hemp-testing lab in the State of Texas, registered with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and FDA as a cGMP compliant manufacturer. The company offers a large portfolio of analytical services to help customers with product development, research and development, and commercialization of cannabinoid products and therapeutics
We understand there is no such thing as ‘one-size-fits-all’ formulation, therefore we don’t deliver ‘one-size-fits-all’ services

Mike Sandoval, President