An institutional partner to the cannabis industry
Fueling the growth of businesses and management teams
About Us
We leverage a decade of hands-on experience in the cannabis industry and nearly half a century of combined institutional investing experience to help businesses capitalize on their growth potential. Our investment philosophy is straightforward: within an extremely complex industry, we seek to fund simple and proven business models that are run by best-in-class entrepreneurs. This enables us to maximize risk-adjusted returns while providing management with the trust, freedom and insight to effectively run their companies.
Value Proposition
Investors
Track Record
Prior to the founding of FocusGrowth, we made and exited a number of successful credit and private equity investments in the cannabis space. Since then, we have deployed approximately $863 million of capital across 30 deals in the cannabis industry.¹
Institutional Caliber Leadership
We believe we have deep knowledge of credit and private equity investing, working with some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions.
Robust Pipeline
As of Q2 2025, we have a robust and actionable $500 million pipeline across 25 states.
Flexible Mandate
We strive to invest in growth companies, targeting an asymmetric risk/reward dynamic. We believe our flexible investment mandate with regard to structure and forms of return allows FocusGrowth to provide investors with an optimized risk adjusted return.
Partners
Relatable & Relevant Experience
FocusGrowth differentiates itself through its team — former cannabis industry operators and veteran institutional investors. We collectively have a decade of hands-on experience in the cannabis industry and understand what it is like to execute on and grow your business model in the complex world that is the legal cannabis industry.
Long Term Capital Partners
We invest in our partners for the long term through fully committed private equity vehicles to ensure that we are around for years of growth to come.
Deep Industry Networks
Through our years of professional experience we believe we have cultivated an unrivaled network of operators, investors, and service providers that often aide our portfolio companies in their myriad needs.
Efficient Underwriting
Through the team's previous operational experience, we have worked alongside a wide and dynamic swath of the legal cannabis industry. We believe this has enabled the development of unparalleled and efficient underwriting and portfolio monitoring processes.
Legal and Regulatory Expertise
Cannabis is complex and evolving. We possess a comprehensive understanding of the industry's mosaic of laws and regulations that allow us to mitigate downside and unlock value for investors and portfolio companies alike.
¹ As of Q2 2025. $863 million of capital deployed includes the total of (i) capital invested in portfolio companies by FocusGrowth, (ii) recycled capital and refinancing activities, and (iii) third-party capital not managed by FocusGrowth but deployed alongside our investment in deals where FocusGrowth was the lead or co-lead investor. Includes face value of debt investments and funded value of equity investments. FocusGrowth is not responsible for any investment decision making activities relating to the third-party capital, which is managed independently of the firm and comprises approximately $232M of the capital deployed figure above. Such assets are not included within our regulatory assets under management.
Investment Strategy
Exclusively focused on brick-and-mortar businesses in the legal cannabis industry
Proprietary sourcing channels and networks built through nearly a decade of industry experience
Primarily targeting loans that are secured by first liens on real estate, licenses, and equipment
Holistic approach to valuation and loan coverage analysis through cash flow as well as hard assets
Boots-on-the-ground due diligence process focuses on real industry channel checks into the asset fundamentals, management teams, and regulatory regime
Our Team
Decades of collective years working together through credit investing and cannabis operations.
Operations Team
Operations Team
Advisory Team
Investment Team
Investment Team
Investment Team
Investment Team
CEO
Operations Team
Operations Team
Our Team
Decades of collective years working together through credit investing and cannabis operations.
Operations Team
Operations Team
In the News
TerrAscend Corp. (“TerrAscend” or the “Company”) (TSX: TSND, OTCQX: TSNDF), a leading North American cannabis company, today announced that the Company, together with certain entities that are consolidated by the Company (the “Consolidated Entities”), has closed on an upsize to its senior secured syndicated term loan (the “Loan”) of $79 million (the “Transaction”), $68 million of which were used to retire existing indebtedness across other lenders, with the remainder designated for future growth initiatives. As part of the Transaction, an additional uncommitted term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $35 million will be available for future mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”).
VANCOUVER, BC, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Body and Mind Inc. (CSE: BAMM) ( OTCQB: BMMJ) (the "Company" or "BaM"), a multi-state operator, is pleased to announce that it has closed a US$11.1 million debt financing (the "Loan") with related entities to FocusGrowth Asset Management, LP (collectively, "FGAM").
July 20, 2021
Contact
FocusGrowth Asset Management
NY Office
747 Third Avenue, Suite 3602
New York, NY 10017