Psychedelic Capital October - The gold standard for psychedelic investment.
Event Information
About this Event
OCTOBER 2020 EDITION / MONTHLY
October 29th / 4:30 - 7:15pm / Toronto / Eastern Time
Can't make the live show? Don't worry, we provide access to recordings for every ticket holder.
COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
Looking at long term psychedelic drug discovery, the market for psychedelic clinics and how the two sectors will interact as the industry evolves.
MARKET INSIGHTS
The Conscious Fund
Understanding how responsible go public tracks and sustainable IPO models will become key parts of the psychedelic investment ecosystem.
PSYCHEDELIC CAPITAL
An investor conference series diving deep into psychedelic medicine investment. Each month, we present a curated group of CEOs, capital advisors, and investment luminaries from around the world.
Each session features two tracks. The first looks at the bigger picture, helping investors understand the psychedelic landscape. The second is a chance to hear from the hottest companies directly, in conversation with our experts.
The topics we explore include:
- Public Markets & IPOs
- Early Stage Opportunities
- Business & Operations
- Law & Regulation
- The Future
Magical Brands is a growth company and one of the largest global sellers of plant extract accessories, tools and technology. Since our inception in 2012, we have been at the forefront of the herbal and plant-derived health and wellness movement. We create innovative, impactful products through fostering community and building deep connections with consumers. Magical Brands recently announced a transaction to begin trading on the TSXV.
Numinus Wellness developing new approaches, new treatments and new ways of thinking — solutions where the world of health care and technology collide — to help individuals and communities heal, discover meaning and make deeper connections.
Universal Ibogaine is creating the gold standard for addiction treatment with ibogaine-assisted psychotherapy.
Jayashree Mitra
Partner, Zuber Lawler
Dr. Jayashree Mitra focuses on patent and other intellectual property work, often in relation to pharmaceutical and cannabis subject matter. Dr. Mitra has litigated drug patents for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. She is ideally situated to digest the science underlying innovative cannabis products. She possesses a PhD in pharmacology from Yale University, and was a member of the Law Review at Northwestern University School of Law. She works in Hindi and Bengali.
Kimberly Adams
Founder, LYT Mind
Kimberly Adams earned a B.A. in Humanistic Psychology from Sonoma State Unversity, as well as licensure in Biofeedback. The SSU Psychology Dept was home to some of the original Psychedelic experimenters working with high dose LSD and intensive psychotherapy, holotropic breathwork, and some of the original MDMA experimenters. This kick start to her career lead her to seek opportunities to shed light on mind-expansion and consciousness research. Professionally, she has worked in several verticals creating business structures and marketing funnels in alternative wellness, tech and product marketing. Her clients include Ibogaine aftercare centers, online educational products, clinical spaces for Psychedelic Research and, CBD services and remediation companies. She is currently working on a resource platform and natural product company to safely navigate Addiction Recovery with the use of Psychedelics. Find out more and connect with Kim at linkedin.com/in/lytmedia/.
Her volunteer experience includes supporting TEDx S.D., The Gerson Institiute, the re-enlivening of the S.F. Psychedelic Society, the Decriminalize Nature Organization in Oakland as well as the Sacred Garden Community in Oakland.
Payton Nyquvest
Chief Executive Officer, Numinus
Payton Nyquvest is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Numinus, a company at the forefront of transformative change in treating the growing prevalence of mental health issues and desire for greater wellness. Payton is the former Director, VP and Head of Sales at Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent brokerage firms with a focus on public health and human advancement. With fifteen years of experience in investment banking, he has raised over $100 million for 100+ public and private companies. Payton was also previously an investment advisor with Jordan Capital Markets, Canaccord Financial.
Jessica Cadoch
Jessica is currently completing her Masters in Medical Anthropology at McGill University, is the Executive Director of the Montreal Psychedelic Society, and is the Research Manager at Maya PBC. Her master’s research explores the implications involved in a shifting paradigm around psychedelic substances. She pays particular attention to the ethics involved in integrating this new approach to managing mental illness into conventional and dominant ones, particularly in looking at twelve-step-based models of recovery from addiction. By connecting, educating and engaging the community, Jessica hopes to facilitate the shifting narrative around psychedelic substances.
Cody Shandraw
Director, Ambria Capital
Cody currently manages Tangier Capital's due diligence and market assessment projects, including the building and maintaining of new relationships with clients and partners. Working hand-in-hand with C-level executives and management at portfolio companies to provide operational guidance and access to an extensive industry network of contacts while also reviewing potential investment portfolio additions along with broader industry examination to determine risk/return trade-offs for the emerging legal psychedelic markets.
Mitchell Osak
CEO, Quanta
Mitchell is a trusted advisor and consultant to the psychedelics and cannabis sectors. He has delivered over 200 business consulting projects to more than 100 companies across the globe. Mitchell's objective, frank and fact-based style of advising has made him a sought-after speaker, writer and media commentator on the psychedelics and cannabis industries. Mitchell has an MBA from the University of Toronto and is a former P&G brand manager.
Dr. Carlos Alvear
MD, Yolitia Botanicals
Since Carlos' youth, he has been searching for ways to comprehend the complexity of the mind, which were formed as an MD through working on building bridges between ancestral healing paths and our western medical model.
Dr. Evan Wood
Chief Medical Officer, Numinus
Dr. Evan Wood is the Chief Medical Officer at Numinus. He has published over 500 scientific articles that have contributed to the establishment of innovative policy and therapeutic programs. Early in his career, Dr. Wood’s research contributed to the revision of international guidelines for the treatment of HIV infection among persons who use drugs. He subsequently led efforts that contributed to the legalization of adult cannabis use in Canada, the establishment of supervised injecting as a standard of care nationally, and internationally recognized clinical therapeutic guidelines for a range of substance use disorders. Dr. Wood has been a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and was the founding Executive Director of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.
Jeremy Weate
Chief Executive Officer, Universal Ibogaine
In the past five years, Jeremy has organized ibogaine conferences in Vienna, Porto and London and taken on a leadership role within the ibogaine community, previously as executive director of the Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance. He is also an executive producer of a film about ibogaine: The Ibogaine Stories. He spent four months in 2018 supporting the establishment of Tabula Rasa Retreat in Portugal, the leading ibogaine facility in Europe. He brings over two decades of strategic and adaptive experience in the corporate and development sectors to his leadership of Universal Ibogaine, as well as an unstoppable passion for ibogaine medicalization.
Michael Franks
Managing Partner, Noetic Psychedelic Fund LP
Michael is currently Managing Partner Noetic Psychedelic Fund. 7 years in venture capital in Silicon Valley, background in biochemistry UofT, BA economics Queens University, MBA Trinity College, education Stanford/Harvard, 2 Eco-Challenges Adventure races (Morocco/British Columbia), Canadian Ironman (Penticton).
Garyn Angel
Chief Executive Officer, Magical Brands
Garyn Angel’s work with politicians has guided international cannabis law reform, and his contributions to legal marijuana landed him a spot on the exclusive CNBC NEXT List of global business visionaries.
As CEO and founder of Magical Brands, Garyn created the first self-contained herbal extraction device for at-home use: MagicalButter—a machine that takes cannabis from flower to high-quality infusions with consistency, allowing patients of medical cannabis simple, safe and smoke-free alternatives.
His leadership extends beyond business. Garyn founded the Magical Creative Center at Shunde Polytechnic an educational program for engineers, is a speaker at the Forbes Under 30 Summit and writes for Entrepreneur.
Michael Astone
Director, BDO Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Advisors
Michael is a senior Mergers & Acquisition professional and Financier focused on Diversified Industries that includes high growth disruptive industries. His deal sheet includes deals from as small as $1 mm in seed capital to as large as $3 billion. In 2017, he co-founded the cannabis practice at a Schedule 1 bank and travelled globally to over 70+ facilities meeting family offices, venture capitalists and high net worth individuals who he does lots of deals with now.
Michael helps companies raise private equity, execute RTOs, raise debt, sell their business, merge their business, buy a customer / competitor, find a strategic investor / partner and more with the global BDO team where he is a Director in the Canadian Advisory business.
Dr. Alberto Solà, BSc, MD
President, Universal Ibogaine
Universal Ibogaine’s President Dr. Sola is a thought leader in entheogenic treatment. He has the distinction of having treated more patients with ibogaine than any other person in the world and is head of operations at Clear Sky Recovery. Dr. Sola graduated from Universidad Anahuac. As the Medical Director of Amerimed, he opened four emergency hospitals for tourists in Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, and Cabo San Lucas.
Field Trip Health
Havn Life
Pure Extraction Corp.
Mindset Pharma
New Wave
FIVE Pharmaceuticals
Ehave
Aion Therapeutic Inc.
Cybin Corp
MagicMed Industries
Bexson Biomedical
Wake
The Conscious Fund invests in early stage ventures in plant powered medicine. We are helping the psychedelic medicine space to grow ethically and sustainably through our work with Seed to Series A companies.
Microdose is the source for psychedelic insights spanning events, videocasts & podcasts, insider news and balanced reporting on the space. From investment through science to patient pathways, we've got it covered.
Psyindex is a media partner with the leading psychedelics index, powered by CFN Enterprises Inc. (OTCQB: CNFN). A leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the cannabis industry, CFN helps private, pre-public and public cannabis companies in the US and Canada attract capital, investors and media attention.
OUR EVENTS
In addition to our huge Virtual Psychedelic Conference where 1,100 experts gathered to hear 100+ speakers over 2 days. We've also held several investment summits across Europe, including London, Malta and Luxembourg.
Through these events we have hosted thousands of investors and international cannabis and psychedelics companies. Attendees included UHNWIs, Family Offices, and VCs with a combined AUM of €15bn+.
BECOME A SPONSOR
Sponsors present and showcase their companies to our diverse network of investors, including UHNWIs, Family Offices, VCs, PEs and other Funds.
TICKETS
All tickets are offered on a first-come first-served basis. If you are an accredited or high net worth investor, please contact us for a complimentary ticket at info@microdose.buzz
If you are an accredited member of the press, please contact us for a media pass at info@microdose.buzz
* Please note that companies and speakers may change from time to time. The sector is so busy that we occasionally have to make amendments on short notice.