Altitude Investment Management

Altitude Investment Management, LLC is a New York-based venture capital firm that specializes in investing in the legal cannabis industry. The firm focuses on a range of early-stage to growth-stage companies in North America and Europe. With a team experienced in managing alternative investment funds and navigating highly-regulated industries, Altitude is well-equipped to address the unique regulatory and funding challenges within the cannabis sector. Over the past three years, the firm has developed strong relationships with legal and regulatory professionals, industry executives, and consultants, enhancing its ability to identify and capitalize on investment opportunities in this rapidly expanding market.

Michael Goldberg

Partner and Co-Founder

Roderick Stephan

Partner and Co-Founder

Jon Trauben

Partner and Co-Founder

10 past transactions

NOBL Group

Series A in 2020
NOBL Group is a London-based company that specializes in cannabis data, media, and event organization aimed at advancing the cannabis industry globally. Established in 2019, it emerged from the Media & Data division of European Cannabis Holdings. NOBL Group offers a software platform that leverages insights and expertise within the cannabis sector, facilitating access to valuable information and networking opportunities. The company is also involved in organizing conferences and providing consulting services, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of the cannabis market.

PathogenDx

Series B in 2019
PathogenDx, Inc. specializes in innovative testing solutions for the botanical, food, and agricultural sectors. The company offers a range of nucleic acid microarray diagnostic assays that can test for multiple pathogens simultaneously, providing results in less than a day and significantly reducing costs compared to traditional testing methods. Its technologies include PathogenDx for pathogen detection, QuantX for quantifying key indicator organisms, and DetectX, a DNA-based platform for comprehensive pathogen testing. By streamlining the testing process, PathogenDx allows laboratories to bypass extensive sample preparation steps, enhancing efficiency and affordability. The company's solutions deliver real-time data on product quality, helping growers, processors, and producers maintain safety standards. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, PathogenDx also operates an office in Tucson and collaborates with partners such as Icon Farms and Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc.

KannaSwiss

Venture Round in 2019
KannaSwiss AG, founded in 2014 and based in Kölliken, Switzerland, specializes in the production and distribution of high-quality cannabidiol (CBD) products across Europe. The company supplies bulk CBD isolate and distillate, alongside a diverse range of consumer products including water-soluble oils, tinctures, creams, cosmetics, and wellness items. KannaSwiss is committed to using organic cannabis sourced from the Swiss highlands, ensuring that its offerings are ecologically farmed and rigorously lab-processed for purity and potency. The company also operates an online retail platform catering to both retailers and wholesalers, providing natural CBD solutions aimed at promoting health and well-being without side effects.

Canndescent

Series C in 2019
Canndescent LLC is a cannabis company based in Santa Barbara, California, specializing in the cultivation of premium cannabis flowers. The company adheres to state and local regulations, ensuring compliance in all aspects of its operations. Canndescent employs a proprietary cultivation technology that enhances the aromas and flavors of its products, focusing on quality management and deep cultivation expertise. By abandoning traditional strain names, Canndescent aims to simplify the customer experience, allowing consumers to access cannabis flowers that are produced, packaged, and distributed in a consistent manner. The company caters to both recreational and medical markets, emphasizing the transformative potential of its cannabis offerings.

BDSA

Series C in 2019
BDSA is an analytics platform focused on the cannabis market, offering business intelligence and market insights to various stakeholders, including retailers, manufacturers, brands, wholesalers, and investors. The company provides tools for tracking retail sales, understanding consumer behavior, and forecasting market trends, which help clients make informed decisions regarding product innovation, pricing strategies, and market expansion. By delivering actionable insights, BDSA enables its clients to enhance profitability, boost revenues, and improve their competitive positioning within the industry.

Wurk

Series A in 2019
Wurk is the leader in HR, Payroll, and Payment technology servicing the fastest-growing emerging industry, cannabis! Wurk's proprietary Compliant Payment Cloud underwriters cannabis businesses enabling them to process payments for payroll, taxes, 401k, benefits, and more positioning Wurk as the largest payments processor in the industry. Their SaaS HCM Cloud provides Modern HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Scheduling accessible on any device, including tablets and mobile. Wurk's Intralytics Cloud (integration meets analytics) connects the industries leading technology providers allowing operators to combine and analyze data to inform mission-critical decisions. Wurk is also assembling this data to provide industry benchmarks to help operators compare their KPIs to the trends of the industry. Wurk's unique platform is proving that Human Capital Management, Workforce Management, and Payment technology providers can add significant value to their customers by focusing on their vertical-specific needs. Wurk was founded in August 2015 by Keegan Peterson. And it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

springbig

Series A in 2018
Springbig provides loyalty, digital communications, and CRM technology solutions to retailers in the cannabis industry. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. After years of experience in big-box retail, their founders saw tremendous opportunity in the underserved cannabis industry and decided to bring advanced loyalty programs, an essential marketing tool in such a competitive industry, to cannabis dispensaries and brands.

Front Range Biosciences

Series A in 2018
Front Range Biosciences, Inc. is an agricultural biotech company specializing in the breeding and production of new plant varieties and seeds within the hemp, coffee, and cannabis sectors. Founded in 2015 and based in Lafayette, Colorado, with additional offices in Wisconsin, California, and Spain, the company employs tissue culture propagation techniques to enhance the efficiency and consistency of clone and seed production. Their Clean Stock program ensures a supply of disease- and pest-free plants, providing farmers with data-driven solutions to develop new cultivars with commercially relevant traits. Front Range Biosciences aims to modernize agriculture for cannabis and hemp, offering services that support cultivators in improving yields, minimizing disease risks, and creating innovative plant strains.

Canndescent

Series C in 2018
Canndescent LLC is a cannabis company based in Santa Barbara, California, specializing in the cultivation of premium cannabis flowers. The company adheres to state and local regulations, ensuring compliance in all aspects of its operations. Canndescent employs a proprietary cultivation technology that enhances the aromas and flavors of its products, focusing on quality management and deep cultivation expertise. By abandoning traditional strain names, Canndescent aims to simplify the customer experience, allowing consumers to access cannabis flowers that are produced, packaged, and distributed in a consistent manner. The company caters to both recreational and medical markets, emphasizing the transformative potential of its cannabis offerings.

PathogenDx

Series A in 2018
PathogenDx, Inc. specializes in innovative testing solutions for the botanical, food, and agricultural sectors. The company offers a range of nucleic acid microarray diagnostic assays that can test for multiple pathogens simultaneously, providing results in less than a day and significantly reducing costs compared to traditional testing methods. Its technologies include PathogenDx for pathogen detection, QuantX for quantifying key indicator organisms, and DetectX, a DNA-based platform for comprehensive pathogen testing. By streamlining the testing process, PathogenDx allows laboratories to bypass extensive sample preparation steps, enhancing efficiency and affordability. The company's solutions deliver real-time data on product quality, helping growers, processors, and producers maintain safety standards. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, PathogenDx also operates an office in Tucson and collaborates with partners such as Icon Farms and Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc.
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