BONITA SPRINGS, FL, Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Check (GC) – the leading fintech connector and technology and insights provider in the emerging cannabis market – today announced a new wave of partners have joined its cannabis services marketplace, Green Check Connect, which GC launched in January 2023. The thousands of cannabis-related businesses (CRBs) GC already serves on its industry-leading platform can now access providers spanning the following categories: lending, payments, armored car services, CPA/tax advisory, legal, loyalty/e-commerce, education/training, marketing/PR communications, retirement benefits, specialty staffing, and consulting.
GC launched the Green Check Connect marketplace — a centralized platform where cannabis businesses can find all of the essential financial and business products needed to successfully grow their operations — to address the challenges CRBs have historically faced, including limited financial and business services options, along with exploitative pricing and poor service. Since it was unveiled earlier this year, Green Check Connect has grown from serving 4,500 CRBs to over 8,000. With this expansion, GC is actively adding new professional services and cannabis-friendly products to better meet the needs of platform users.
“Cannabis operators today rely on expertise from Green Check partners to achieve business success faster,” said Shane Sarty, VP of strategic partnerships at Green Check. “By expanding our commerce ecosystem, we are making it easier for operators to find the right solutions, share their business information in a secure way, and do what they do best: run their businesses.”
“Green Check has built an impressive network of some of the leading cannabis businesses across the U.S., and we are thrilled to partner with them to bring our services to an industry in dire need of allies,” said Bob Hogan, senior director at Clark Hill Public Strategies. “Our firm is committed to providing an exceptional level of service to our clients in the cannabis industry and treating them with the respect any legal business deserves, especially those facing the kinds of challenges currently being experienced in this evolving space.”
Green Check Connect facilitates networking among all participants on the platform, connecting new partners and causing a rising tide effect for marketplace users. The platform’s intelligent matching technology unites CRBs with service providers based on product/service fit, location, price and a variety of other factors garnered through Green Check’s industry-leading insights engine. This ultimately reduces the time, effort and cost businesses spend searching for, vetting and acquiring the services they need to grow.
“Our firm brings a vast amount of cannabis expertise and an established track record of helping businesses thrive in challenging environments," said Shawn West, Founder of CuraFin Advisors. "It took us a few years to create an institutional grade 401(k) program called The NACC specifically for the cannabis industry. We are thrilled to launch this next generation of benefits to such an impressive network of cannabis businesses and look forward to growing our partnership with Green Check."
The most recent additions to Green Check Connect include:
Armored Car Services: Empyreal; National Secure Transport; Operational Security Solutions (OSS)
Collections/AR: Retrievables
HR/Payroll: Green Leaf Business Solutions
Legal: Clark Hill
Lending: Canna Business Resources (CBR); eQcho Capital
Loyalty / Ecommerce: Mosaic
Marketing/PR Communications: Rio PR
Payments: Alleaves (Pin Debit); Birchmount Networks (Gift Cards); Retail Credit Solutions (Private Label Credit Card); Salt Money (CATM/POB)
Retirement Benefit /401k: North American Companies Council (NACC)
Specialty Staffing/Recruiting: EzHire Cannabis; Growing Talent; Trusted Human Capital
Staff Training: Seed Talent
QMS Platform: C15 Solutions
The expansion of Green Check Connect follows a series of major announcements and company milestones, including winning Top Compliance Company for the second time at the 2023 PBC Awards and being recognized as the Best B2B Technology Platform at the 2023 Benzinga Awards. In addition, GC was awarded Top Financial Technology by the Green Market Report and was named one of the top Best Places to Work in Fintech in 2022 and 2023 by American Banker.
About Green Check
Green Check (GC) is modernizing the way cannabis businesses and financial institutions work together. Founded in 2017 by a team of technology, banking, and regulatory experts, GC provides industry-leading technology and advisory services to more than 140 financial institutions and over 8,000 cannabis-related businesses. Green Check was included in the 2023 Forbes Cannabis 42.0 and named one of 50 game-changers in the cannabis industry in the 4th annual The Cannabis 50. It has been repeatedly recognized as Top Compliance Company and Top Compliance Leader at the PBC Awards, the premier cannabis industry honors. In addition, it has been recognized as the Top Financial Technology by the Green Market Report, and was also named as one of the top Best Places to Work in Fintech in 2022 and 2023 by American Banker. To learn more about Green Check, visit www.greencheckverified.com and follow it on LinkedIn.
