Gateway Incubator
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The premier cannabis business accelerator. We provide capital, mentorship, and office space; you create your dream company. Gateway is California's premier cannabis incubator, and the first program of its kind anywhere. As a funding business incubator located in San Francisco's Bay Area, Gateway is providing cannabis entrepreneurs exposure to the mentorship, capital, and expectations proven in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in the cannabis space have great passion and creativity for the products they produce. Our goal is to not only cultivate great entrepreneurs in the space, but to create world-class business leaders. This is what it will take to bring the cannabis industry to the mainstream.
Our location, office, and growing network of mentors, investors, and partners are all deliberately designed to create the best entrepreneurs in this quickly evolving market. We see value in the cross-pollination of industries, such as cannabis, tech, and professional services. Gateway is located in The Leviathan Building in Oakland, which it known for its unique design that we feel promotes creativity and collaboration. By operating in Oakland, the birthplace of the cannabis industry in the US, we will part of the hotbed of innovation in legal cannabis.
Gateway was launched on November 20, 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Ben Larson (@pitchtoben) and Carter Laren (@claren).
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“No matter the decision by the DEA now or in the future, this will continue to be a heavy advocacy effort at the state level,” echoed Larson. “With every small step forward, there will come a new target. The fight will be long and arduous, but legalization at this point is inevitable.” #truth #legalizeit
Gateway Open Office Hours Episode 004
We receive a lot of questions from founders and investors inside and outside the Gateway program. We’ve decided to broadcast open office hours once a week to address questions that you have regarding cannabis startups. Every week, we will gather questions from the community here on Facebook, and via Twitter or Instagram @gtwyinc. Just use the hashtag @GatewayOH and we’ll give you a shout-out if we select your question. #mind
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Join us right here tomorrow morning at 10 AM PT for our live Open Office Hours with Gateway Co-Founder, Carter Laren, and guest host, Ziv Gillat. Ziv is the Co-Founder of Eyefi and Forq, an experienced mentor at Gateway, 500 Startups, and Founder Institute, and just an all around awesome friend. Post your questions here in the feed and we'll address them on the show!
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Are you currently working on the next great idea in the legal #cannabis industry? Apply for Gateway's next cohort beginning in October. It's time to take your #startup to the next level. Capital, mentorship, guidance, pitch coaching, network, camaraderie, and so much more. ---GTWY.co/apply--- #cannabiscommunity #cannabiz #cannatech #startups #startuplife #gtwy02 #innovation #accelerator
A Brave New Cannabis World
Gateway Co-Founder, Ben Larson, visited Berlin recently to speak on the Tech Open Air stage. He's detailed his talk in today's blogpost. Take a peek into our future with #cannabis and where we sit in the timeline of the industry.
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Thank you so much to our friend and guest host, @bdavidsocraveit of Investing in Cannabis, for joining us yesterday for #GatewayOH. Brandon and @carterdistracted covered several important topics in this show: #startups and the #NDA, executing on #sales with a small technical team with no sales experience, leveraging tools to build your #startup faster, promoting your "brilliant" #cannabis concept, how one gets into an #accelerator or #incubator, and we even explored the limits of Brandon and Carter's vocabulary. It really was a great show. View the recording at facebook.com/gatewayincubator and join us next Friday at 10 AM PDT. #cannabiscommunity #startuplife via Instagram.com/gtwyinc
Gateway Open Office Hours Episode 003
We receive a lot of questions from founders and investors inside and outside the Gateway program. We’ve decided to broadcast open office hours once a week to address questions that you have regarding cannabis startups. Every week, we will gather questions from the community here on Facebook, and via Twitter or Instagram @gtwyinc. Just use the hashtag @GatewayOH and we’ll give you a shout-out if we select your question. #mind
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Gateway co-founder, Carter Laren, on stage at the Oakland Rotary #3 meeting educating the community on #cannabis. This is a great group of people to arm with a full knowledge-set of the industry. Go forth and educate, my friends!
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We're going to use Ben's absence this Friday as an opportunity to muck with our live show format. Same time (10 AM). Same place (here on Facebook). New host. Carter will still be here, and as luck would have it, we're friends with an amazing host, Brandon David of Investing in Cannabis. What better time to try having a guest host on the show. Same drill: send in your startup-related questions, and we'll discuss them on the air. Who knows what these guys will come-up with unsupervised :)
Investing in Cannabis
Investing in Cannabis
So awesome to see #GTWY01 companies doing big things prior to demo day. Check out this awesome interview with Pranav of Trellis and Brandon of Investing in Cannabis. This is the future of inventory management!
Oakland Rotary #3
You know cannabis is going mainstream when the Rotary Club wants to learn about the industry. You can catch Carter at Oakland Rotary #3 next Thursday!
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