In 2019, founder, Kyrié (Kirk) Kirkland was applying for an Illinois dispensing license and found information access to be a challenge.

Throughout the process, information and education was difficult to find around owning and building a cannabis dispensing business.  Kyrié was no stranger to research, information dives and self-learning but she found it challenging to navigate around paywalls and dense legal content to access cannabis business information. And that’s when she decided to build  a cannabis library.

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In 2021, Kirk met Andrea (Dre) Morris when she was matched as her mentee through the THC Staffing Group mentorship program.  It was through this connection that they both decided to join and support one another through Chicago’s CannaTech Ventures Incubator as two separate businesses, however during that process Dre and Kirk found true alignment and forged a partnership that would take Nuvé to the next level.

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In 2021, we completed our proof of concept for a VR cannabis trimming simulation and in 2022 joined the CannaTech Ventures incubator to launch our tech startup in the cannabis industry.

We’re in the process of market research and designing our MVP to prepare us for fundraising to bring Nuvé to the forefront of immersive cannabis education.