April 17, 2017
Baker Launches eCommerce Platform That Is “Shopify For Cannabis”
Denver, Colo.–based startup Baker Technologies has built an eCommerce platform that the company is touting as “Shopify for cannabis.” According to Fast Company, the three-year-old marijuana-marketing startup created the platform...
April 14, 2017
Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis
Cannabis, a favorite relaxation method of choice for some, has slowly become less stigmatized within the past few years. After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax...
April 13, 2017
Tony Fadell And Jim McCarthy Talk Our Connected (Commerce) Future
Digital, to be sure, is one path commerce is taking and will take. The question is, what else does the future hold for us, interconnected as we will be? As...
April 07, 2017
B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big...
B2B FinTechs in the U.S. and India seem to be an unshakable force these days. This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture...
April 04, 2017
Cannabis’ Curious Commerce Consequences
As John Oliver pointed out on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight – the quasi-legalization of marijuana in various states and districts in the United States has created something of a grey...
March 28, 2017
Cash As Budding Problem And Pot-Hole (For Banks)
The death of cash may be wildly exaggerated, but for banks, cash is a dual edged sword: Store of value and store of risk. In the latest Data Drivers, Hypur...
March 22, 2017
Cannabis Dispensary SaaS Provider Baker Technologies Raises $3.5M
Is the way March will end for the Investment Tracker, not with a bang but a whimper? In the period that ended March 17, investment activity could only be termed anemic....
March 22, 2017
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Cannabis Payments
In 1992, a discussion about buying marijuana was pretty straightforward. Back then, it was illegal and socially stigmatized. Walking into a storefront to buy it was pretty much out of...
March 17, 2017
Second Day, Second Wind On Innovation Debates
IP 2017 is now slightly in the rearview mirror, but the debates over everything from cross-border remittances to the role of the private sector in cybersecurity to digital identities live...
