Roy Trakin 300 Entertainment CEO/founder Kevin Liles is making a sizable investment in Vancouver-based cannabis lifestyle company Burb as it closes a $4 million Series A funding round led by Connecticut-based private equity group KarpReilly.For Liles, the combination of cannabis and music is a natural fit.
As a Def Jam executive, Liles’ bonafides go back to his professional relationship with Jay-Z, himself an investor in cannabis, and overseeing Method Man and Redman’s 2001 film debut, “How High,” and the duo’s short-lived 2004 Fox series, “Method and Red.”Burb co-founder CEO John Kaye is a former musician, denim wholesaler and investment banker who launched a federally licensed cannabis testing lab before starting Burb as an e-commerce,.
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