{"id":21096,"date":"2020-11-16T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=21096"},"modified":"2020-11-16T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:41:52","slug":"cannabis-company-smokes-the-kootenay-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cannabis-company-smokes-the-kootenay-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis company smokes the Kootenay pitch competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three West Kootenay entrepreneurs faced off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kast.com\/\">Kootenay Association of Science and Technology's (KAST)<\/a> first pitch competition, and it was a company that helps cannabis growers that smoked the competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/certicraft.com\/\">CertiCraft<\/a> took home the grand prize, featuring cash, networking and mentorship opportunities. The Thursday live-stream saw the company pitch its mission to help cannabis growers adjust to a regulated and legal Canadian market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CEO and co-founder Sami Majadla shares his company's winning pitch and what's next:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21096-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-16_8.33.53am-12m5s.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-16_8.33.53am-12m5s.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-16_8.33.53am-12m5s.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>KAST has two more pitch competitions coming up in 2021. Hear more about the comp in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kootenaycoopradio.com\/west-kootenay-entrepreneurs-pitch-to-win-kast-competition\/\">an interview with KAST host Sean Smillie.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three West Kootenay entrepreneurs faced off in the Kootenay Association of Science and Technology&#8217;s (KAST) first pitch competition, and it was a company that helps cannabis growers that smoked the competition. CertiCraft took home the grand prize, featuring cash, networking and mentorship opportunities. The Thursday live-stream saw the company pitch its mission to help cannabis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":21098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[2056,3160,3162,2530,3161],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=21096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}