{"id":20251,"date":"2017-10-17T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:35:53","slug":"report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cannabis industry capital raises reach $1.8B in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Capital raises in the North American cannabis industry have reached a staggering $1.8 billion in the first three quarters of 2017, up from $720 million a year ago, according to Viridian Capital Advisers\u2019 Cannabis Deal Tracker.<\/p>\n<p>The raises are a compilation of deals brokered by 164 public companies and 105 private ones, with an average raise of $6.7 million. That\u2019s more than twice the average raise amount from a year ago of $3 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/long-ideas\/17\/10\/10168529\/investing-in-marijuana-cannabis-industry-raises-hit-1-8-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benzinga reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than $1.5 billion of those raises were in exchange for company equity, however, while only $247.5 million were for debt,<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-2017\/\">Report: Cannabis industry capital raises reach $1.8B in 2017<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Cannabis industry capital raises reach .8B in 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital raises in the North American cannabis industry have reached a staggering $1.8 billion in the first three quarters of 2017, up from $720 million a year ago, according to Viridian Capital Advisers\u2019 Cannabis Deal Tracker. The raises are a compilation of deals brokered by 164 public companies and 105<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/report-cannabis-industry-capital-raises-reach-1-8b-in-2017\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1734,2014,2015,2016,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20252,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251\/revisions\/20252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}