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Highland Park, Il, Us

Highland Park, Il, Us

Irvine, California, Us

Abstrax is a California-based company that is a leader of cannabis research and product development with a specific focus on the study of botanical and cannabis-derived functional flavors and fragrances (also known as terpenes and aroma compounds). The terpene industry is a rapidly growing segment of the global flavor & fragrance market which is expected to grow to $35 billion by 2024. This market segment includes the cannabis, CBD, skincare, cosmetics, and food and beverage industries. As a leading innovator in the industry, Abstrax offers the largest catalogue of award-winning, botanically-derived terpene flavor and fragrance blends. With a state-of-the-art type 7 cannabis licensed laboratory located in Long Beach CA and unparalleled customer service, we are dedicated to offering new and precedent-setting terpene flavor systems. We leverage the technical expertise of our scientific staff and our proprietary equipment which is specifically designed to study and extract complex mixtures of botanical aroma compounds via three-dimensional analysis of strain profiles. We work with internationally recognized brands and product developers to create products that thrill our customers. Our custom terpene and product formulations are designed for use in vapes, concentrates, skincare topicals, tinctures, alcohol, food, energy drinks, personal care, and more. We help our partners and brands develop their cannabis inspired products from concept to production.

Panther Capital is financial services holding company focused on alternative asset direct investment opportunities. In addition to our portfolio assets we are active in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring activities across a variety of industries.

Chicago, Il, Us

Seed Talent is a community-based professional development platform for cannabis professionals. We help you stay ahead of the competition with our platform of free courses. We are dedicated to creating an easily accessible platform that provides training and professional development for the next generation of leaders in the cannabis industry.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Instant Alliance was created to expand Instant Technology’s technical workforce solutions into the Finance and Accounting Industry. We at Instant Alliance are partners committed to making your business thrive. We are human capital experts dedicated to working side-by-side with you every step of the way to success.At Instant Alliance, we take the time to understand how your workforce impacts your business. We guide the way. We get the job done. And, most importantly, we get it done right. It’s that expertise that makes us specialists, with Fortune 100 success stories to prove it.We offer a full suite of human capital and consulting services to equip you with all the right brainpower, because we believe, with the right team, every business can write the future, not simply read about it. And we believe you can eclipse the competition, starting now.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Driving compliance and trust in the cannabis marketplace

Chicago, Il, Us

OCA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. OCA invests in many industries, with a preference for financial services and for-profit education. Over the last decade, OCA has invested three funds in over 45 companies. In response to the increase of attractive seed-stage investment opportunities, OCA Ventures created a seed program called OCA EDGE. OCA EDGE invests smaller amounts in seed or very early stage rounds of highly scalable technology businesses.

PayQwick is a private bank in the Cannabis industry. In May 2023 the company was sold to Green Check Verified and is now known as screen Check Direct.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

VividGro® is an AgTech firm that focuses on optimizing indoor agriculture. VividGro® technology has been developed for use at both the International Space Station and Antarctica for the production of indoor produce. These breakthroughs in LED and automation technology can be used here on Earth to produce sustainable crops.

Commerce, California, Us

MJIC, Inc. was started as an investment company in the legal cannabis industry in 2014 and has transformed to one of the largest most recognized brands in the industry. We are now a diversified operating company with 3 divisions that operate a series of businesses in the industry. MJIC Media, MJIC Capital and MJIC Solutions collectively offer a diversified portfolio of operating businesses as well as a launching platform for emerging companies and teams in the industry. In January 2015 we acquired CFO Worldwide, LLC and the Panther Micro Opportunity Funds to expand our operational footprint.

CFO is a boutique accounting, investment banking and financial services firm. We act as outsource CFO to private companies with revenues between $1 Million and $30 Million. We are a transactional CFO and focus on companies in growth mode looking for growth capital. We also act as a multi-family office and provide direct investment due diligence and negotiate transactions and terms sheets to families and individuals seeking to invest in private placement transactions.

Deerfield, Il, Us

GCG financial is a mid-sized financial services firm primarily in the life and health insurance brokerage space. I operated my own financial advisory group (Private Client Services to closely held business owners and family offices. Focused on alternative investment categories such as venture capital, private equity and direct investment in businesses. Handled M&A transactions of buy and sell side. Also was licensed as an insurance broker and series 7 broker.