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Amar Singh Is Teaching Factories to Remember
Before Amar Singh built software for factory floors, he studied the living systems inside controlled environments. Elevated Signals began when that scientific habit met an industry still recording its most important work on paper.
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.
Distru
Distru is an Oakland-based software company that builds a purpose-made ERP for the licensed cannabis industry. Its seed-to-sale platform unifies inventory, order fulfillment, manufacturing, CRM, and financial tools while keeping operators compliant through deep two-way integrations with state track-and-trace systems like Metrc and BioTrack. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Blaine Hatab, Distru serves cannabis distributors, manufacturers, cultivators, and retailers across roughly 25 states and processes more than $2 billion in transactions annually.
Treez Inc.
Treez is an enterprise cloud commerce platform built for the cannabis retail industry, bundling point of sale (SellTreez), cashless payments (TreezPay), inventory and compliance, retail analytics, ecommerce, and loyalty into a single system. Founded in 2016, the company powers over 600 dispensary locations, processes more than $5 billion in annualized transactions, and is used by an estimated 15% of the U.S. retail cannabis market.
John Yang
John Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Treez Inc., the enterprise cannabis retail commerce platform he built from a single dispensary's pain point into a company processing over $4 billion in annual transactions across 600+ retail locations. A Shanghai-born, Reno-raised technologist who grew up troubleshooting computers in his father's shop, Yang applied a decade of Fortune 500 consulting experience to one of America's most underserved retail sectors, raising $76.7M in funding and turning Treez into the backbone of cannabis retail operations in over a dozen states.