# Steve Albarran

> Steve Albarran is the co-founder and CEO of Confident Cannabis (now Confident LIMS), the laboratory information management software that quietly runs testing for more than 60% of the legal cannabis industry in the United States. A Mexico City native from a family of business owners, he traded a New York finance career - M&A banking at Lehman Brothers and Sawaya Partners, then his own growth-equity firm Left Lane Capital - for Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he met his co-founding team. Motivated partly by a wish to move money away from Mexican cartels and toward legal, ethical operators, he built the data backbone that lets labs, growers and buyers trust what is in a cannabis product. He is a member of the National Cannabis Laboratory Council.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Confident LIMS (Confident Cannabis)
- **Organizations:** Confident Cannabis / Confident LIMS, National Cannabis Laboratory Council (NCLC), Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Left Lane Capital Partners
- **From:** Mexico City, Mexico
- **Nationality:** Mexican-American
- **Education:** BA in Finance, Bentley University, Master's in Management (Sloan Fellow), Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Built Confident Cannabis into the LIMS serving more than 60% of the US legal cannabis testing industry., Led the company to profitability in September 2022., Guided a rebrand to Confident LIMS and expansion into mainstream regulated industries (food, agriculture, environmental).

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Graduated from Bentley University with a finance degree.
- **2007-2015** — Worked roughly nine years in New York in finance, including M&A investment banking at Lehman Brothers and Sawaya Partners.
- **~2013** — Founded Left Lane Capital Partners, a growth-equity firm focused on health and wellness; investments included superfood snack maker Health Warrior.
- **2014-2015** — Attended Stanford GSB as a Sloan Fellow and met co-founder Tony Lewis; developed the idea for Confident Cannabis.
- **2015** — Co-founded Confident Cannabis; joined Y Combinator (batch S15).
- **2022** — Company reached profitability in September and rebranded from Confident Cannabis to Confident LIMS, expanding beyond cannabis.
- **Present** — Serves as CEO, leading expansion into food & beverage, agriculture, environmental and industrial testing; member of the National Cannabis Laboratory Council.

## Achievements

- Built Confident Cannabis into the LIMS serving more than 60% of the US legal cannabis testing industry.
- Led the company to profitability in September 2022.
- Guided a rebrand to Confident LIMS and expansion into mainstream regulated industries (food, agriculture, environmental).
- Graduated Y Combinator (S15).
- Early-stage investor in Health Warrior, one of the fastest-growing US superfood snack brands.
- Published a CEO column in Entrepreneur magazine.

## Latest updates

- **2022-09** — Confident Cannabis reached profitability.
- **2022** — Company rebranded to Confident LIMS and began expanding into non-cannabis regulated industries.

## Links

- Website: https://www.confidentlims.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-albarran
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.albarran/

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Last updated: 2026-07-27