We're making safe cannabis products accessible to every adult on planet Earth.
Join our teamFounded in 2015 by Kyle Sherman
Powering 1,000+ cannabis dispensaries
Processing $3B+ annual sales
Combining 55+ years industry experience
This is Flowhub
Flowhub is a cannabis technology company infused with
We are a collection of individuals bound by a mission to make cannabis accessible to everyone through powerful compliance and retail management software.
We're focused on making it as fluid as possible to run, manage and grow any modern dispensary operation.
Even yours.
Our story
How did we end up here?
Meet Kyle Sherman
In the early 2010's, Flowhub Founder and CEO Kyle Sherman wanted to get off prescription medications.
After watching the CNN Original documentary “Weed” on Charlotte Figi, Kyle became inspired by the possibility of cannabis as legitimate medicine. Kyle tried cannabis and it worked. It got rid of the pain without side effects.
This personal experience inspired Kyle to dedicate his life to ending the war on drugs. He moved from California to Colorado, the first state to legalize adult-use cannabis, to help define the burgeoning legal industry.
Kyle worked at a series of notable cannabis companies such as Dixie Elixirs, Weedmaps, and Neos Vape Pens as a Head of Compliance, where he experienced the problems with cannabis business technology first hand.
Frustrated with inefficiencies of existing platforms, Kyle decided to create software that would accelerate workflows, increase accuracy, and simplify compliance. He desperately needed it, and found others did too.
Flowhub was born.
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2014
1st Metrc integrator
CEO Kyle Sherman lobbies the CO Department of Revenue to build an open API to Metrc.
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2015
Seed Round
Flowhub is founded in Denver, CO and raises a Seed Round led by Poseidon.
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2016
Launch
Flowhub celebrates 1st transacting dispensary customer and introduces the cannabis industry’s 1st mobile scanner device, the Nug.
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2018
Scale
Flowhub expands nationally to support emerging legal cannabis markets, processing $1B+ in cannabis sales annually for 400+ dispensaries.
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2019
Series A
Flowhub announces $23M Series A funding led by e.ventures, Evolv Ventures — the venture fund backed by Kraft Heinz — and Poseidon.
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2020
Virtual market leader
Prompted by COVID-19, Flowhub transitions to a remote-first company, processing $3B+ cannabis sales annually for 1,000+ dispensaries.
Leading the Green Wave
Flowhub is on the front lines of ending cannabis prohibition. As the only cannabis POS provider actively involved in federal legalization, we are using our influence to create meaningful social change and are committed to building a transparent, equitable industry that is approachable for all adults and medical patients.
We are proudly founding members of Cannabis Trade Federation (CTF) and U.S. Cannabis Council (USCC) committed to advancing social equity, racial justice, and federal cannabis legalization.
Our Leadership Team
Kyle Sherman Founder and CEO
Scott Schell Chief Technology Officer
Stephanie Jenkins Chief Revenue Officer
Craig Gomulka Chief Financial Officer
Brandon Hickman Chief of Staff
Anne Fleshman VP of Marketing
Emily Trask VP of Finance
Kjell Hedstrom VP of Engineering
Gopal Sachanandani Director of Customer Success
Chad Heater Director of Product Experience
Ru Bradford Director Strategic Sales
Camron Moore Director of Agile Office
Kyle Sherman is the Founder and CEO of Flowhub. A legalization advocate and entrepreneur, Kyle continually defines the company vision, strategy, and growth as Flowhub innovates the way cannabis retailers manage complex compliance mandates, supply chain data, sales transactions, and reporting. Kyle brings extensive cannabis industry experience to Flowhub, with previous experience working with notable brands such as Dixie Elixirs, Weedmaps, and Neos Vape Pens as a Chief Compliance Officer. Kyle has been named a Top 100 Cannabis Leader by Entrepreneur Magazine, 30 AND UNDER by Business Insider, and is an Associate Producer for the documentary “Weed the People” which aims to educate mainstream audiences about medical cannabis as a human rights issue. In 2014, Kyle lobbied the Colorado Department of Revenue to build the Metrc API, which is now the standard used for cannabis tracking in most legal markets. Kyle also serves as a Founding Director and Treasurer on the Cannabis Trade Federation (CTF) board, an organization focused on building an inclusive industry and passing the STATES Act.
Scott Schell is the Chief Technology Officer at Flowhub, providing visionary technical leadership for the software engineering team. With over 25 years of experience, Scott is an architect, entrepreneur and seasoned enterprise technology executive with an aptitude for leading global organizations. Prior to Flowhub, Scott led engineering and product development at Convercent, LogRhythm, and Maptek.
Stephanie Jenkins is the Chief Revenue Officer for Flowhub responsible for overseeing revenue generation, customer success, strategy and operations. Prior to Flowhub, Stephanie served as the VP of Sales at Glassdoor where she scaled the company from an unknown, small-scale start-up to a SaaS recruiting giant. Over the course of 8 years, she helped build the overall GTM organization from 15 to 500 team members, and lead the SMB GTM team which accounted for one-third of overall revenue. In 2018, she led the team through a successful exit event, an acquisition from Recruit Holdings for 1.2B, and also served as the Head of the Chicago office which grew to nearly 400 team members. Stephanie’s strengths are adaptability, agility, building systems and processes for scale, and creating mission-driven teams. Stephanie received her BA from Cornell University where she triple majored in Chemistry, Biology and Art History with honors.
Craig Gomulka is the Chief Financial Officer at Flowhub responsible for financial oversight of the organization, including forecasting and analysis, budgeting, reporting, and risk management. Prior to Flowhub, Craig served as Chief Financial Officer for Health Fidelity, a growth-stage health IT software company where he oversaw the Finance, Human Resources, and Legal teams. Craig has held finance and corporate development roles at large healthcare companies including UPMC and Highmark where he focused on corporate finance, M&A, investments and strategic partnerships. Craig has served as a past board member of Axial Healthcare, BitArmor Systems, Imago Scientific, and HyperNex. Craig received a BA from Colgate University, an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Brandon Hickman is the Chief of Staff at Flowhub. In this role, Brandon directs all administrative, financial, staffing, and operational activities. Prior to Flowhub, Brandon served as Solutions Department Manager at Apto and spent 5 years leading a team of 20 at Apple. Brandon’s technical and managerial experience as well as his attention to customer experiences and focus on creating a world class company culture allows him to achieve operational cohesion across the entire organization at Flowhub.
Anne Fleshman is the VP of Marketing at Flowhub responsible for driving all marketing strategy, brand development, and demand generation programs. As a marketing leader with a background in early-stage B2B SaaS startups, Anne excels at executing scalable, repeatable, and compounding strategies to achieve exponential growth. Prior to Flowhub, Anne joined Autopilot in pre-beta days to take the company from startup to scaleup, fueling top-of-funnel acquisition to maintain 21% MoM revenue growth as Director of Marketing. Anne received her BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from UC Berkeley.
Emily Trask is the VP of Finance at Flowhub. As an executive, Emily has an exceptional track record of streamlining operations to directly increase bottom line profits and is an expert in growing companies from start-up to multimillion dollar enterprises. Prior to Flowhub, Emily worked in the Healthcare technology space, helping scale businesses like iTriage and Datica through the M&A process. Emily received her BS in Accounting and Finance from Arizona State University.
Kjell Hedstrom is the Vice President of Engineering, providing management, strategic planning, and technical leadership to the software engineering team. Kjell is passionate about creating empowered, high-performance engineering teams. Prior to Flowhub, Kjell led software engineering and agile development in a wide range of domains, including SaaS fitness aggregation, network security, air traffic monitoring, military avionics surveillance, medical ventilators, heart surgery, and brain stereotactic radiosurgery.
As Director of Customer Success, Gopal is responsible for leading both the Implementation and Customer Success Management teams at Flowhub. Gopal has extensive experience managing diverse, cross-functional teams to promote customer satisfaction and build positive business relationships. Prior to Flowhub, Gopal worked in technical customer-facing project management roles at Gopi Enterprise, Engrain, and Four Winds Interactive. He earned his degree in Business, Management and Marketing at the University of Colorado Denver.
As Director of Product Experience, Chad partners with customers and product developers from planning to release to ensure optimal product experiences that deliver value. With over 4 years of cannabis industry and compliance experience, Chad has unparalleled understanding and expertise in complex regulatory workflows unique to dispensaries. Prior to Flowhub, Chad worked in several customer service, education, and operational roles and earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Ru Bradford is the Director of Strategic Sales at Flowhub. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ru comes from a long history of Northern California cannabis endeavors and his passions include music, photography and surfing. His role at Flowhub is to work with enterprise accounts to ensure success, growth and optimization of the Flowhub ecosystem, while helping to manage the Account Executive team. Prior to Flowhub, Ru worked in enterprise sales for several notable technology companies and received his BA in Digital Media at Dominican University.
Camron Moore is the Director of the Agile Office at Flowhub. He is passionate about creating opportunities for continuous improvement throughout the business by using creative facilitation and providing visibility into our organizational processes. Camron has served as a consultant, leader or coach on software teams for over 10 years in industries that include logistics, over the top video streaming, ethics and now, cannabis.
Our Investors and Board Members
We’re proud to be backed by leading investors in cannabis, as well as global food and technology venture capital firms and individuals, who have been pivotal in positioning Flowhub as the SaaS solution of choice for solving today’s complex cannabis retail challenges.
Emily Paxhia
Blake Irving
Kris Duggan
Jett Fein
Emily L. Paxhia is a co-founder and one of the managing directors of Poseidon Investment Management, LLC (“Poseidon”), which has three dedicated investment funds in the cannabis industry. Emily has reviewed thousands of companies in the cannabis industry and has worked with countless founders in many capacities. She has helped to shape founders’ pitch preparations, go-to market strategies and product launches, and she has advised companies on day-to-day business operations. Emily has held board seats for multiple portfolio companies and participates as an adviser to multiple teams. Further, she has dedicated time and energy to supporting policy groups and has served on the Board of Directors of the Marijuana Policy Project. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Athletes for CARE. Emily graduated from New York University with an M.A. in Psychology in 2008. She graduated from Skidmore College with a B.A. in Psychology in 2002.
Blake Irving has a long track record of success in technology for more than 35 years, transforming companies like Xerox, Microsoft, Yahoo and GoDaddy — where he grew the business to more than 20 million customers and 7,000 employees as board Director and CEO. Blake is a graduate of San Diego State University and has an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. Blake is an an advisor to the McLaren Formula 1 Racing team and currently serves on the board to Autodesk, Docusign, ZipRecruiter and Flowhub.
Kris Duggan is a technology investor and serial entrepreneur for more than two decades. In 2013, Kris co-founded BetterWorks, an enterprise software company dedicated to improving performance management. Kris also co-founded Badgeville, a gamification and social engagement solutions provider, and has invested in many startups and teams, including Palantir Technologies, RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce.com), Addepar, Airbnb (via HotelTonight), Blend Labs, Docker, Entelo, Gusto, Matternet, Turo, and others. As a Flowhub board member, Kris is excited to support our vision to simplify and automate dispensary retail operations in order to democratize safe access to cannabis products.
Jett is a Partner at e.ventures, where he invests in consumer internet and software businesses. Jett joined e.ventures in 2014 and in addition to Flowhub, he has partnered with goPuff, Shopmonkey, gettacar, Playbook, GRIN, Sprout Therapy, among others. Jett holds a B.A., with distinction, from Stanford University, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
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