NEW YORK – LeafLink, the cannabis industry’s leading wholesale marketplace, today announced the winners of the
LeafLink List 2024 Awards. This year, 192 winners from 13 states were honored for their innovation, growth, and leadership in the cannabis space. These businesses represent excellence in four categories: Brands, Retailers, Products, and LeafLink Innovators.
“The LeafLink List celebrates the remarkable businesses driving the cannabis industry forward,” said Artie Minson, CEO of LeafLink. “These winners are not just shaping the cannabis market,
they’re creating new opportunities and setting benchmarks for success, inspiring the next generation of cannabis entrepreneurs. Congratulations to everyone who has won today!”
The LeafLink List 2024 winners were selected through a comprehensive analysis of performance data from January 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024. The analysis evaluated cannabis businesses in
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon, highlighting their exceptional achievements and leadership. Honorees include brands and retailers that led their states in total
sales or demonstrated extraordinary growth. Additionally, top-selling products across categories such as cartridges, concentrates, edibles, flower, pre-rolls, and topicals were celebrated for their widespread consumer appeal. The LeafLink Innovators category
spotlighted companies making strides in areas such as social equity and technology adoption.
To further celebrate the winners and give back to the community, LeafLink will be making a donation to
Defy Ventures, a national nonprofit whose mission is to shift mindsets to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance through entrepreneurship, career readiness,
and personal development training programs delivered both in prison and in the community. Defy’s vision is to cut recidivism (return-to-prison) rates in half by leveraging entrepreneurship to increase economic opportunity and transform lives. Defy supports
currently and formerly incarcerated people in defying the odds across nine states and more than 26 prisons throughout the country.
About LeafLink
Founded in 2016, LeafLink is a leading B2B technology platform for the wholesale cannabis industry, helping thousands of customers in 30+ markets. LeafLink believes better access to modern financial services will propel the industry towards sustainable growth.
In July 2024, LeafLink acquired cannabis banking platform
Dama Financial in order to provide access to safe, reliable, and compliant banking. In 2024, LeafLink was included in the
Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators List in the Banking, Finance, and Fintech category and was also awarded Green Market Report’s
