ACCELERATING
HUMAN
WELLBEING
ULTRANATIVE is an investment fund that accelerates human wellbeing by helping entrepreneurs innovate, disrupt and scale as they work towards building a better world through alternative medicines and sustainable technologies.
ACCELERATING
HUMAN
WELLBEING
ULTRANATIVE is an investment fund that accelerates human wellbeing by helping hemp and cannabis entrepreneurs innovate, disrupt and scale as they work towards building a better world through plant based medicines and technologies.
OUR UNIQUE
INVESTMENT APPROACH
Our unique approach to investment is driven by a desire to deeply understanding each entrepreneurial vision and then working to build new opportunities that will help write their next chapter of growth.
OUR UNIQUE
INVESTMENT APPROACH
Our unique approach to investment is driven by a desire to deeply understanding each entrepreneurial vision and then working to build new opportunities that will help write their next chapter of growth.
SCALING THROUGH
INNOVATION
We’re looking for leaders and teams that place innovation at the cornerstone of their success. We drive sustainable impact across the health & wellness landscape by supporting innovative founders with bold visions.
DATA IS YOUR
GREATEST ASSET
Our first successful incubation Chroma is an open source barcode that verifies product authenticity, connects brands with consumers and makes supply chains transparent.
COMMUNITY IS
OUR CURRENCY
The ULTRANATIVE team has developed world class partnerships across all sectors of the alternative health supply chain which provide our portfolio founders with exceptional access to industry-leading talent and cutting edge technology.
SCALING THROUGH
INNOVATION
We’re looking for teams and leaders that place innovation at the cornerstone of their success. We hope to help drive sustainable impact across the cannabis and hemp landscape by supporting leaders with audacious innovative visions.
DATA IS YOUR
GREATEST ASSET
Our first successful incubation Chroma Exchange, leverages supply chain data to provide the industry with access to debt financing. We believe the industry can scale more effectively by changing the way that data is shared and used.
COMMUNITY IS
OUR CURRENCY
The ULTRANATIVE team has developed world class partnerships across all areas of the cannabis and hemp supply chain which provides our portfolio founders with exceptional access to industry leading talent and cutting edge technology.
“WE PUT PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS FIRST”
YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY
Over the past six years our partners have invested in and partnered with many leading companies across the emerging alternative health & wellness industry including:
LISTENING
TO LEADERS
We have been investing and actively participating in the industry, but more importantly we have been observing and listening to industry leaders, gaining a deep understanding of the numerous industry pain points. This is a small sample of some of the initiatives that we have been a part of:
As the industry scales we believe that distribution and marketing strategies for brands are paramount for growth. Brands that can optimize multi-channel go to market strategies will yield maximum potential. Our partnership and investment with the leading delivery service platform, EAZE, amplifies the importance we place on distribution and data as we innovate consumer engagement to fuel growth.
As the cannabis and hemp industry matures, ensuring a consistent and compliant supply of both biomass and extracted materials is critical for future demand. Due to the speed of industry growth and fluid regulatory changes, issues like tracking and validating toxins in real time, manufacturing yield management and efficient compliance practices will be obstacles to scale. ULTRANATIVE is prepared to support our companies to stay ahead of compliance headwinds through our work with AGTECH, a mass spectrometry technology developed for the international space station, to bring in-field mass spectrometry technology to the cannabis industry.
Thanks to new rules enacted by the current administration, banks are forbidden to loan money to cannabis companies under the traditional SBA program. As a result, cannabis companies have a hard time raising debt capital, which has driven the average cost of capital for a US-based cannabis company up to 30-40%. To help create additional paths to capital, ULTRANATIVE formed a joint venture with Chroma.Exchange to offer supply chain-based credit modeling to the industry which enables companies to more effectively scale their operations through access to additional working capital.
ULTRANATIVE has been actively working with data scientists and the broader medical community to help drive innovation in the way data is accessed, used and shared across all aspects of the industry. And although there is still more work to be done, we are driving best practices forward, enabling a future where the consumer is ultimately able to interface with custom and personalized, plant-based medical formulations that can effectively resolve specific medical conditions with the highest values of scientific efficacy.
LISTENING
TO LEADERS
We have been investing and actively participating in the industry, but more importantly we have been observing and listening to industry leaders, gaining a deep understanding of the numerous industry pain points. This is a small sample of some of the initiatives that we have been a part of:
As the industry scales we believe that distribution and marketing strategies for brands are paramount for growth. Brands that can optimize multi-channel go to market strategies will yield maximum potential. Our partnership and investment with the leading delivery service platform, EAZE, amplifies the importance we place on distribution and data as we innovate consumer engagement to fuel growth.
As the cannabis and hemp industry matures, ensuring a consistent and compliant supply of both biomass and extracted materials is critical for future demand. Due to the speed of industry growth and fluid regulatory changes, issues like tracking and validating toxins in real time, manufacturing yield management and efficient compliance practices will be obstacles to scale. ULTRANATIVE is prepared to support our companies to stay ahead of compliance headwinds through our work with AGTECH, a mass spectrometry technology developed for the international space station, to bring in-field mass spectrometry technology to the cannabis industry.
Thanks to new rules enacted by the current administration, banks are forbidden to loan money to cannabis companies under the traditional SBA program. As a result, cannabis companies have a hard time raising debt capital, which has driven the average cost of capital for a US-based cannabis company up to 30-40%. To help create additional paths to capital, ULTRANATIVE formed a joint venture with Chroma.Exchange to offer supply chain-based credit modeling to the industry which enables companies to more effectively scale their operations through access to additional working capital.
ULTRANATIVE has been actively working with data scientists and the broader medical community to help drive innovation in the way data is accessed, used and shared across all aspects of the industry. And although there is still more work to be done, we are driving best practices forward, enabling a future where the consumer is ultimately able to interface with custom and personalized, plant-based medical formulations that can effectively resolve specific medical conditions with the highest values of scientific efficacy.
ULTRANATIVE
PARTNERS WITH
EAZE
Cannabis marketplace Eaze and partner Ultranative announce the launch of Momentum, a business accelerator to cultivate the growth and success of underrepresented business founders in the cannabis industry.
ULTRANATIVE
PARTNERS WITH
EAZE
Cannabis marketplace Eaze and partner Ultranative announce the launch of Momentum, a business accelerator to cultivate the growth and success of underrepresented business founders in the cannabis industry.
