Flow Kana builds and operates a sustainable, sungrown cannabis supply chain centered on small, decentralized craft farms in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle. The company distributes its own Flow Kana flower brand and provides white‑label and co‑branding services to licensed cannabis companies across California. Flow Kana opened processing and white‑label services at The Flow Cannabis Institute in April 2018 and is on track to complete a broader buildout of manufacturing operations at its Mendocino County headquarters. Manufacturing expansion will include a full suite of oil‑based vapes, topicals, tinctures and additional value‑add services using inputs sourced from its partner farmers. Flow Kana is California’s number one selling flower brand and emphasizes regenerative, beyond‑organic farming practices among its partner ecosystem. Financially, the company has raised significant private capital to scale its operations and supply chain. Flow Kana builds a cannabis supply chain centered on small craft farms in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle, focusing on sungrown, beyond-organic cultivation. The company offers processing, co-packing, white label, and distribution services to partner brands, dispensaries, distributors, and manufacturers. It has opened the first phase of operations at an 87,000 sq. ft. Flow Cannabis Institute in Mendocino County, a centralized campus for testing, trimming, processing, packaging, manufacturing, and distribution. Flow Kana plans to complete its manufacturing facility at the Flow Cannabis Institute within a year to manufacture premium cannabis oil and expand white-label and co-branding oil-based offerings. The company emphasizes transparency about growers and cultivation practices so products can be traced to independent craft farms. Flow Kana has raised a total of $50 million to date to build and scale its supply chain. Flow Kana operates an on-demand medical cannabis delivery service and a backend web app that connects customers to local, organic weed farmers and coordinates deliveries through legally operating dispensaries or a farmers distribution center. The service emphasizes clean, chemical-free cannabis grown in the California sun and offers curated selections by strain or mood (e.g., Euphoric, Energetic). Flow Kana itself is separate from the physical delivery providers and functions as the database and ordering interface; deliveries in testing took about 40 minutes, and the company promises under-an-hour delivery. The startup has community-supported-agriculture-style agreements with Bay Area farmers and hauls harvests to a nonprofit distribution center in San Francisco. Founder Michael Steinmetz says the company plans to organize similar farmer alliances in other states where cannabis is legal, including Washington and Colorado. Financially, Flow Kana has received approximately $260,000 in seed funding but remains mostly bootstrapped.

Total raised

$147M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Feb 2019