Phyto Partners

Phyto Partners is a venture firm established in 2015, specializing in early-stage investments within the cannabis industry across the United States. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, it operates multiple venture capital funds, including Phyto Partners III, which focuses on later-stage investments exceeding $5 million, and Phyto Partners IV, which targets sectors related to neurowellness, brain health, and psychedelics. The firm plays a crucial role in supporting entrepreneurs and businesses in the cannabis industry by providing access to capital that may not be available through traditional funding sources. Phyto Partners leverages its extensive network of experienced business executives, financial experts, and advisors to assist portfolio companies with their financing needs, operational strategies, and execution, ultimately aiming to enhance successful outcomes in the evolving cannabis market.

David Benmen

Investor Relations Professional

Brett Finkelstein

Managing Director

Larry Schnurmacher

Managing Partner

25 past transactions

Willow Industries

Series A in 2022
Willow Industries, LLC specializes in technology for the decontamination of cannabis and hemp, focusing on post-harvest processes. Based in Denver, Colorado, the company has developed a patent-pending machine, WillowPure, which employs ozone-based oxidation to effectively reduce contaminants such as mold, yeast, mildew, Aspergillus, Salmonella, and E. Coli without compromising the flower's medicinal properties or visual appeal. In addition to its decontamination technology, Willow Industries offers consulting services related to compliance, regulations, and testing procedures, as well as evaluations for dry and cure rooms. Founded in 2016, the company aims to ensure the safety and quality of cannabis products through innovative and scientifically validated methods.

Vangst

Series B in 2022
Vangst is a staffing service dedicated to the cannabis industry, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2014, the company operates a digital platform called Vangsters that connects job seekers with cannabis employers, facilitating a streamlined job search experience. Vangst provides various staffing solutions, including direct hire placements, on-demand employees, career fairs, and a comprehensive job board. The company has established itself as a trusted resource for both employers and employees by successfully matching thousands of cannabis professionals with leading companies in the sector. With a focus on industry expertise and a deep understanding of the evolving regulatory landscape, Vangst aims to support the growth and success of the cannabis workforce.

Katalys

Debt Financing in 2021
Rev Ventures is a portfolio of digital companies that brings together brands and people to solve life's challenges. Our growing portfolio of web technologies, digital properties and partnerships allow us to drive performance for our partners and quality buying experience for consumers. Our wholly-owned subsidiary and flagship company RevOffers is an advertising network connects brands with publishers who are looking to generate advertising revenue.

Fyllo

Series C in 2021
Fyllo Inc. is a marketing technology company that specializes in serving the cannabis industry. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in major cities across North America and Israel, Fyllo offers a comprehensive platform designed to address the unique challenges of this highly regulated market. The Fyllo Compliance Cloud provides enterprise-grade software and services, leveraging RegsTechnology's extensive database of cannabis laws and regulations at various governmental levels. Fyllo's solutions encompass data analytics, ad campaign management, measurement and reporting, and creative management services, enabling marketers and legal professionals to navigate compliance complexities while driving growth and engagement.

Rev Ventures Group

Seed Round in 2021
Rev Ventures brings over 20 years of branding, communications, planning, media optimization, and revenue operations experience to the table. Rev Ventures Group, is a technology driven performance marketing ecosystem. RevOffers, is a wholly-owned subsidiary and flagship company of Rev Ventures Group. RevOffers is an advertising network that connects brands with publishers who are looking to generate advertising revenue.

Fyllo

Series A in 2020
Fyllo Inc. is a marketing technology company that specializes in serving the cannabis industry. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in major cities across North America and Israel, Fyllo offers a comprehensive platform designed to address the unique challenges of this highly regulated market. The Fyllo Compliance Cloud provides enterprise-grade software and services, leveraging RegsTechnology's extensive database of cannabis laws and regulations at various governmental levels. Fyllo's solutions encompass data analytics, ad campaign management, measurement and reporting, and creative management services, enabling marketers and legal professionals to navigate compliance complexities while driving growth and engagement.

Canix

Seed Round in 2020
Canix is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in creating automation software for the cannabis industry, including both medical and recreational sectors. The company offers next-generation ERP solutions designed to streamline daily operations, ensure compliance with state regulations, and facilitate data-driven business decisions. By utilizing advanced technology and a comprehensive dataset encompassing pricing, yield, and inventory information, Canix aims to establish a robust technical foundation for cannabis cultivators and extractors.

Front Range Biosciences

Venture Round in 2020
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.

Front Range Biosciences

Series B in 2019
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.

Katalys

Seed Round in 2019
Rev Ventures is a portfolio of digital companies that brings together brands and people to solve life's challenges. Our growing portfolio of web technologies, digital properties and partnerships allow us to drive performance for our partners and quality buying experience for consumers. Our wholly-owned subsidiary and flagship company RevOffers is an advertising network connects brands with publishers who are looking to generate advertising revenue.

Green Flower

Series A in 2019
Green Flower Media, Inc. produces and publishes videos for cannabis experts, doctors, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought-leaders that give facts, science, and knowledge of cannabis and cannabis industry. The company publishes online courses, classes, videos, and articles about cannabis. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ventura, California.

MATTIO Communications

Seed Round in 2019
MATTIO Communications, LLC is a marketing agency that specializes in the cannabis industry, providing a range of services designed to enhance brand visibility and engagement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers media relations, public relations, search engine optimization, content creation, social media management, influencer marketing, event production, programmatic media buying, and investor relations. MATTIO Communications aims to help clients articulate their unique brand voices and connect effectively with their target audiences, ultimately fostering meaningful conversations and shaping perceptions within the marketplace.

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.

Heally

Seed Round in 2018
Heally is an online health and wellness brand that helps patients connect with doctors on the industry’s telehealth platform. It connects consumers, licensed medical professionals, and natural alternatives into one ecosystem and provides wellness products in a curated and health-focused marketplace. The Heally telehealth platform has 50 medical clinics and more than 150 doctors, with a range of specialties, servicing thousands of patients. The Daly City, California-based company was founded in 2015 by Lina Kravetskiy.

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.

Wurk

Seed Round in 2018
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.

Baker Technologies

Series A in 2017
Baker Technologies, Inc. develops online customer relationship management solutions for the cannabis industry in the United States and Candida. It offers customer acquisition, engagement, and retention tools; and an e-commerce platform for online ordering, menus, and delivery. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Denver, Colorado. Baker Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TILT Holdings Inc.

Front Range Biosciences

Venture Round in 2017
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.

LEAF

Venture Round in 2017
LEAF is a smart home appliance that lets users grow their own medicinal plants, food, and herbs from the comfort and convenience of their own homes. Designed to automate the time-consuming and tedious process of growing high-quality plants, LEAF controls the grow environment, nutrients, lighting, pH, and connects to your smartphone to let you control all aspects of the home growing process remotely.

Flowhub

Seed Round in 2017
Flowhub is a cannabis retail software company that helps modern dispensaries thrive by delivering compliance, point of sale, inventory tracking, and business intelligence data from a single, highly-customizable platform. With first-to-market mobile check-in and inventory management applications, Flowhub processes over one billion dollars in cannabis sales annually, and empowers more than 700 cannabis retailers and their partners to grow revenue, simplify compliance, speed checkouts and manage inventory for improved consumer experiences. Flowhub is a privately held company headquartered in Denver.

Wurk

Seed Round in 2017
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.

LeafLink

Seed Round in 2017
LeafLink, Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce platform designed to facilitate wholesale activities within the cannabis industry. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, LeafLink connects cannabis brands and retailers, providing tools to streamline ordering and improve communication. The platform includes features such as a centralized sales engine, customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and order management tools, allowing users to manage their inventory, track orders, and enhance brand visibility effectively. With access available 24/7 across various devices, LeafLink serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the U.S. and Canada. The company also maintains offices in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and Toronto, reinforcing its role as the industry standard for wholesale management in the cannabis sector.

LEAF

Seed Round in 2016
LEAF is a smart home appliance that lets users grow their own medicinal plants, food, and herbs from the comfort and convenience of their own homes. Designed to automate the time-consuming and tedious process of growing high-quality plants, LEAF controls the grow environment, nutrients, lighting, pH, and connects to your smartphone to let you control all aspects of the home growing process remotely.

Grownetics

Seed Round in 2016
Grownetics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing integrated software and hardware tools aimed at optimizing cultivation practices for growers, farmers, and botanists. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Grownetics provides a comprehensive platform that combines crop analytics, machine learning, and automation to enhance controlled environment agriculture. Its offerings include advanced features such as three-dimensional microclimate mapping, remote management, and individual plant tracking, which enable users to improve the quality and yield of food products and medicines while minimizing risks and saving time. The company’s community-based approach also encourages the sharing of cultivation tips, further supporting measurable improvements in agricultural productivity.