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Drawing from his successes at Facebook and Google, where he furthered his programming and complex systems design expertise, Jun founded Series B-funded machine-learning SaaS company Allganize before launching Nabis full-time in 2017. Nabis now serves over 100 cannabis brands and nearly 100% of California’s licensed retailers with its distribution, capital, analytics, and other business services.

For the past couple of months, Forbes has interviewed dozens of industry analysts, investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners to come up with a list of entrepreneurs and changemakers who have an outsized influence over an industry that generated $25 billion in sales last year. Here are the pioneers to watch in the green gold rush.

Check out eight companies, from Solvent to Nabis, that created technology for cannabis professionals and users alike.

This report explores the extent of legalization across Europe to date, lessons from how legal markets unfolded in North America, and where reform might happen next.

Vince Ning co-founded Nabis, a company that is revolutionizing the cannabis industry and is quickly becoming the Amazon of Cannabis.

California is targeting legal cannabis businesses, while letting illicit businesses thrive causing trouble for licensed operators.

Nabis, a cannabis wholesale platform, has partnered with Sun+Earth Certified, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization that certifies cannabis growers according to high bar regenerative organic agriculture standards.

Over the next few years, New York’s brand new cannabis industry has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely create a new market. This is a great economic development opportunity and a chance for New Yorkers to work together and benefit as a whole. The panel of experts will provide views from the key market players talking about how New York will benefit from this successful cannabis marketplace.

Will Brophy, the Head of Operations at San Francisco-based cannabis wholesale company Nabis, said he and his team have started considering how they could go electric.

On this episode of the RMR Podcast, Mitch talks with Vince Ning, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of NABIS Distribution in California.

Cannabis Wealth speaks to Rob Koch, Director of Strategy and Information at California distributor, Nabis.

Mercy Wellness is teaming up with an East Bay cannabis producer, Oakland distributor, and Mendocino County grower in providing free medicinal marijuana.

“We’re working with state legislators to share our experience growing the business from the ground up,” Vince Ning added. “Regulators in newly legalized states need to hear from thought leaders from other markets.”

It only took about four years for Nabis co-CEOs, Vince Ning and Jun S. Lee, to build up their company to $500 million in sales and 1,300 retail customers as the largest wholesale cannabis platform in California.

Julia Jacobson discusses her journey through the cannabis industry, the current state of the market in California, and the importance of sustainable practices. Jacobson also discusses challenges throughout the industry, as well as what she expects to see in 2022.

Founded in 2017 by Vince C. Ning and Jun S. Lee, Nabis has quickly established itself as the leading cannabis wholesale platform in California. Nabis supports the largest portfolio of brands in the world, exclusively supplying 100+ brands to over 99% of CA’s dispensaries.

"There's a ton of hype, especially from (and for) investors. It makes sense that beverages will pick up; I think they will. But there are a lot of challenges for this category. For one, people don't have experience with drinking cannabis. It's a new physical habit that may have to be established over the course of a generation." Vince C. Ning

California marijuana companies – already facing labor shortages, high taxes and regulatory red tape – are now contending with supply-chain gridlock, forcing many to reassess and revamp procurement strategies as margins shrink.

"Our mission is to 'empower the world to discover cannabis by providing choice, access, and innovation'. Our approach is different from that of a traditional distributor, in that we remain neutral and agnostic when it comes to representing brands. We have no equity stakes in brands and we don't endorse one brand over another. By allowing brands of any size into our platform to tell their own story, Nabis democratizes access to shelf space as opposed to being a gatekeeper."

Companies like Nabis work with brands and cultivators to deliver flowers, edibles, and other products to dispensaries, who then sell directly to consumers.

Nabis supports the largest portfolio of cannabis brands in the world, exclusively supplying over 100 brands to CA’s dispensaries. A whopping 99.5% of retailers in California—the biggest cannabis market on the planet—receive products from Nabis.

Only urgent tax cuts and a boost in retail operations can save the industry, the letter warns.

This year saw a new set of states' markets begin to flourish, as an even bigger cohort makes preparations to open in the northeast. It’s never clean or easy, but all the arrows still point in the same direction: eventual federal reform. With that in mind, here are the biggest stories of 2021, and the ones that will continue to matter next year.

So when I reached out to Vince Ning, founder of California wholesale platform, NABIS, I asked exactly that. As a distributor of over 100 brands across a saturated state, I figured who better to provide a litmus test for trends everywhere in weed.

Today, we are joined by Vince Ning of Nabis. Now, this is a full-service cannabis distribution platform that helps hundreds of brands reach the market. We talk about how a couple of coders took an idea, turned it into an industry-leading software that services nearly 100 percent of California's dispensaries, and grew it into a company that now offers shipping, finance, real estate services, and more.

There is a major tax crisis that could cause the collapse of the cannabis industry next year. One of the largest coalitions of operators in California cannabis' history has formed around working with the state to improve legislation. Industry leaders requested the Newsom administration take specific steps.

MJ Unpacked launched its first live show in Vegas this Thursday. The exclusive event is limited to brand and retail executives and accredited investors and represents a re-imagining of what a cannabis conference can look like. Hosted at Mandalay Bay, MJ Unpacked features a brand exhibit hall, a main stage for speakers and panel discussions, a “money stage” for brands to pitch to investors, and private meeting rooms for investors.

How two childhood best friends built a software-enabled distribution service that's transforming California cannabis. There's a cannabis founder stereotype that's bemoaned by the old-school legacy community: white boomer men with lucrative pasts in corporate finance and ample access to venture capital money, but the scant connection to traditional cannabis culture.

Nabis, a cannabis wholesale platform based in San Francisco, doesn’t drug test its workers, but has a no-tolerance policy for being under the influence on the job, in part because some employees handle heavy equipment, says Co-CEO Vince Ning.

The outlaw’s Bordeaux, California cannabis has for decades fetched a premium price—and serious profit—for anyone with the chutzpah to smuggle pounds out-of-state. Marijuana legalization has not changed this.

Major flaws in California’s marijuana regulatory system have allowed criminals to gain control of legal distribution permits and divert “untold millions of pounds” of cannabis to the illicit market–all while state officials “turn a blind eye,” a new lawsuit charges.

Director Nicole Elliott and industry stakeholders discuss what’s changed, and what still needs to change, in the biggest legal cannabis market in the world.

What are the hottest cannabis brands in 2021? And the trendiest products? This tough-to-answer question will soon have a response, thanks to the work of 47 leaders in the cannabis industry and beyond.

Today’s guest is Jun Lee, co-founder of the cannabis wholesale distribution company, Nabis. To anyone even remotely paying attention, it’s clear that the public perception of weed is rapidly changing. To date, weed is legal for recreational use in 18 states, plus D.C., while another 13 states have decriminalized its use.

Ning said he’s solely focused on winning on a merit basis. But he is glad to have a platform for his community in these recent times where they’ve faced a new wave of discrimination.

Vince Ning and Jun Lee have been best friends since they were 13. In 2017, after years of working in software development in Silicon Valley, the duo decided to come together and co-found a cannabis distribution brand—and have since managed to grow it into a behemoth that serves 99% of licensed retailers in California.