iCAN: israel-cannabis.com

Name

iCAN: israel-cannabis.com

Website

https://israel-cannabis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

iCAN: israel-cannabis.com is a private, Israel-based cannabis accelerator founded in 2015 in Beit Shemesh that invests in cannabis products and solutions, with a small team led by founders Saul Kaye (CEO) and Jason Ryker (COO).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Beit-shemesh

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Core offering

iCAN is an Israel-based accelerator and services company that invests in cannabis products and solutions. It provides capital, operational support, and services to cannabis-focused ventures, primarily within the Israeli cannabis ecosystem. The company also functions as a holding and investment vehicle that channels funding from sources such as Tress Capital into portfolio companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cannabis Accelerator Program
• Cannabis Venture Investment

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Canopy Growth Corporation: Canopy Growth is a global cannabis MSO with extensive cultivation and branded product operations. It is comparable only at the broadest industry level, as a cannabis-sector incumbent rather than a direct accelerator peer to iCAN.
• Acreage Holdings: Acreage Holdings is a multi-state cannabis operator with cultivation, processing, and retail operations. It is broadly comparable as a cannabis-sector incumbent but operates at significantly larger MSO scale rather than as an accelerator or investor.
• Leafly Holdings: Leafly is a leading cannabis information and consumer marketplace platform. It is broadly comparable to iCAN as a cannabis ecosystem enabler, though Leafly operates at consumer scale via discovery and retail listings rather than early-stage investment.
• Weedmaps: Weedmaps is a major cannabis marketplace and SaaS platform connecting consumers and retailers. It is broadly comparable to iCAN as both operate within cannabis commerce infrastructure, but Weedmaps does so via listings and software rather than accelerator capital.

Direct peers

• Tress Capital: Tress Capital is a cannabis-focused private equity and venture firm that has directly invested in iCAN. It is a direct peer because both allocate capital to cannabis businesses and share an overlapping investor mandate and deal-flow network.
• Phyto Partners: Phyto Partners is a cannabis-focused venture capital and growth equity firm. It is directly comparable to iCAN because both deploy capital into cannabis companies with a similar investment thesis around ancillary products, services, and emerging cannabis categories.
• CanopyBoulder: CanopyBoulder is a US-based cannabis technology accelerator and seed fund. It is directly comparable to iCAN as both operate cannabis-focused accelerators backing early-stage companies, with similar deal-flow sourcing, mentorship models, and target portfolio profiles.

Others

• High Times: High Times is a long-running cannabis media and events brand. It is an adjacent peer to iCAN as a cannabis ecosystem participant with media, events, and capital-introduction activities, though it does not operate as an early-stage accelerator.
• Marijuana Business Daily: Marijuana Business Daily provides news, data, and events for the cannabis industry. It is an adjacent peer to iCAN as a cannabis information and capital-introduction provider that overlaps with iCAN's investor-relations and ecosystem-credibility functions.

Emerging players

• PanXchange: PanXchange operates B2B commodities trading platforms with material cannabis, hemp, and CBD exposure. It is an emerging peer because it serves as infrastructure within the cannabis commercial ecosystem, intersecting with iCAN's portfolio companies but operating a marketplace rather than an accelerator model.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/israelcannabis
• Facebookfacebook.com/1452402785072977
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ican-israel-cannabis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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