Society Picks of The Week

American Cannabis Partners

American Cannabis Partners (ACP) is a multi-state cannabis company with 560,000 square feet of licensed canopy space for cultivation and one retail license. The company is nationally headquartered in Trinity County of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle.

ACP is focused on three complementary business segments: real estate, acquisition & development of proprietary assets, and ongoing cultivation operations. Led by a seasoned management team with 30+ years of canna-business experience, ACP’s strategy is to capture opportunities in real estate and licensing in states that have recently passed cannabis legalization legislation, thereby equipping the company to capitalize on Federal interstate commerce opportunities.

Through its current cultivation operations, ACP supplies approximately 80% of its whole flower products for manufacturing, distribution and retail licenses. With the remaining 20%, the company supplies its proprietary strains to select California distributors and its own Michigan retail location under its exclusive in-house brand, ZÜK.

History of American Cannabis Partners

In 2014, Stephen Jordan, President of ACP, took on the Director of Operations position for a U.S.-based company operating in the Jamaican cannabis space. Over the course of his three-year tenure in this role, Jordan developed a number of relationships that would help serve as the basis of American Cannabis Partners.

One such relationship was with Junior Gordon, a cultivation lead grower from Jamaica’s Westmoreland Parish. Jordan immediately saw the value of Gordon’s unique skillset and credentials, and Gordon recognized Jordan’s heartfelt vision of bringing Jamaican culture to the rapidly developing U.S. cannabis space.

Guided by that mission, ACP’s unchanging goal is to improve the lives of individuals through cannabis and business.

Current Operations

Since its founding in 2018, privately-owned American Cannabis Partners has established a foothold in two key U.S. cannabis markets – California and Michigan. In total, the company has acquired 12 cannabis licenses, including 20,000 sq. ft. of cultivation licenses in California and 540,000 sq. ft. of cultivation licenses & one retail license in Michigan.

ACP’s IP portfolio features three proprietary strains sold exclusively through the company’s wholly owned ZÜK brand, as well as proprietary data collection and mining systems supporting its cultivation and retail operations.

Investment Considerations

• American Cannabis Partners (ACP) is a multi-state operating cannabis company headquartered in Trinity County of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle.
• ACP supplies multiple forms of raw product at wholesale prices for manufacturing, distribution and retail licensees.
• The company’s wholly owned in-house brand, ZÜK, is available through ACP’s retail location in Michigan, as well as select California suppliers.
• Michigan cannabis industry sales reached $984.7 million in 2020, according to data from the Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency, with recreational sales making up more than half of the total.
• California cannabis industry sales hit $4.4 billion in 2020, marking a year-over-year increase of 57%, according to MJBizDaily.
• The management team for ACP is comprised of industry leaders in organic farming, financial services and cultivation, with 30+ years of canna-business experience.

- Recent Coverage -

April 4, 2022

American Cannabis Partners (“ACP”), a sustainable Jamaican experience canna-business innovator, today announced its appointment of T.J. Dillashaw as its director of marketing and as a member of the company’s advisory board. Dillashaw’s experience includes being a successful franchisee and area developer for a rapidly-growing certified organic juice bar company, as well as bringing new retail business to a sports nutrition and functional energy beverage company, for which he serves in a leadership capacity for marketing and business development. “I am pleased to welcome T.J., a two-time mixed martial arts bantamweight champion and accomplished entrepreneur, to ACP,” said Stephen Jordan, ACP’s chief executive officer. “We embrace this unique opportunity to combine our strengths and accelerate our continued expansions in the cannabis space. With T.J.’s business track-record and American Cannabis Partners’ proficiency in managing profitable operations, the decision to team up was excitingly easy.”

Nowigence Inc.

Nowigence Inc. is an innovative software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) company focused on developing and bringing to market Pluaris™ — a comprehensive, ready-to-use artificial intelligence (“AI”) platform. Pluaris delivers the combined power of an intelligent reader along with a smart search engine. It works 24/7 reading and analyzing relevant content as is being created in various public and private data sources on topics that one reads either because one enjoys them or because one needs to gather information to fulfill job tasks or other responsibilities.

A personal knowledge management (“PKM”) tool, Pluaris is created for those who want to advance their competitiveness with the power of intelligent reading while searching for information. It accelerates the pace of problem-solving and decision-making. Pluaris is an end-to-end, fully automated, data-science product, offering data-at-scale capabilities mimicking the human process in their abilities to learn. It performs tasks that typically require human intensive activities when reading information from public and private data sources. It provides precise answers to questions asked, analyzes different perspectives, discovers new connections, and creates organized and nested notes. As a result, Pluaris allows teams to work collaboratively from anywhere in the world to share and draw informed conclusions.

Nowigence puts the power of data science into the hands of consumers through integrating state-of-the-art data processing techniques in an intuitive interface at an affordable subscription price. The Pluaris platform generates a trove of critical information to assist individuals, teams, and organizations to quickly build expertise. It reads and analyzes hundreds of pages in a few minutes wherein the data is transformed, linked, taxonomized, and optimized for storage and further trend analysis.

Investment Considerations

• Nowigence Inc. is the creator of Pluaris™, an off-the shelf, cloud-based, artificial intelligence (AI) platform that automates intelligent reading while searching for information in real-time for large datasets.
• Its patentable, proprietary AI technologies automatically read data from hundreds of millions of documents in seconds with human-level comprehension and understanding of text.
• Even from its early days, Nowigence attracted users from major corporations, thereby not only earning moderate revenues but also getting feedback during product development.
• The company’s business is global, with its corporate office in Albany, New York, and tech centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India).
• While most other products are tailored for a specific use case, Pluaris was developed as an adaptive learning platform, offering features and flexibility to appeal to multiple target markets.
• Most competitors belong to the service industry or are consultants, providing manpower to custom-develop solutions from scratch for clients; Gartner reports that 85% of such solutions fail.
• State-of-the-art AI algorithms combined with an intuitive user interface and “no code” technical requirement ensure almost any consumer can derive value from Pluaris immediately and with no specialized training.
• The company’s most meaningful and proprietary IP is around machine learning and natural language processing; these tools have been and are continuing to be developed and enhanced.
• Nowigence operates in the rapidly growing cognitive computing and personal knowledge management (PKM) markets, which have an estimated one billion users and are currently underserved.
• The cognitive computing market was valued at $8.87 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach a value of $87.39 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 31.6% from 2019 to 2026.
• The members of the management team are highly experienced, with over two decades of experience each in building successful technology companies.

- Recent Coverage -

April 7, 2022

Nowigence has introduced Pluaris, an all-in-one, easy-to-use personal knowledge management platform designed to assist users with automated reading and analysis of textual data. “The system reads and analyzes articles, documents and other textual data, enabling readers to learn more in less time, uncover hidden insights, and stay on top of the information they need to know. Pluaris helps individuals, teams and entire enterprises make sense of massive amounts of textual data, converting them into bite-size nuggets of intelligence in a short span of time,” a recent article explains. “Once Pluaris has done its job, users simply scan their customized newsfeeds to see summaries and extracted intelligence for each item uploaded. They can also view graphical analysis of the annotations and analyzed content for unbiased importance ranking. In addition, Pluaris assists in drilling down to any level of granularity using filters. Thanks to Pluaris, users discover new connections, topics and insights.”