Israel’s first Canna Tech event draws a crowd

A standing-room-only crowd of venture capitalists and angels, agricultural technology investors and innovators, medical doctors, medical cannabis researchers and licensed growers came to Jaffa last week for Israel’s firstCanna Tech conference.

“You find Israelis everywhere in the cannabis scene as master growers and investors. They have this world of knowledge and we want to connect them to one another and to investors,” says event organizer Karin Kloosterman, a former writer at ISRAEL21c, whose startup Flux is close to producing a product to simplify hydroponic (on-water) home farming as tomorrow’s environmentally friendly alternative to conventional agriculture.

“My mission is to create a tool to feed the world, and I think what’s happening in the cannabis community can be a model for that,” she tells ISRAEL21c. “Legal cannabis growers in North America have been using hydroponics for the past 15 years.”

David Oren, managing partner of Montreal-based Israeli VC firm ...

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