--- description: Snoop Dogg is one of several investors helping to fund Eaze, a California-based startup that promises to deliver medical marijuana to your doorstep in less than 10 minutes title: Snoop Dogg Just Invested in a Weed Delivery Startup image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77981761d6a5a991/6987eaf855a859a46fa898e7/snoop-dogg.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Startups](/tag/startups/) ## Startups Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Snoop Dogg Just Invested in a Weed Delivery Startup  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 14, 2015 4:24 PM CUT  Snoop Dogg arrives at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on March 29, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif. Snoop Dogg arrives at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on March 29, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif.Steve Granitz—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 14, 2015 4:24 PM CUT Snoop Dogg is one of several investors helping to fund Eaze, a California-based startup that promises to deliver medical marijuana to your doorstep in less than 10 minutes. Eaze has raised more than $10 million in funding from DCM Ventures, Fresh VC, 500 Startups and Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, Quartz [reports](http://qz.com/381500/eaze-pot-delivery-service-lands-an-investment-from-snoop-doggs-venture-firm/ "undefined"). Founded by former Yammer employee Keith McCarty, Eaze raised $1.5 million of seed funding in November and became one of the first pot companies to get international investors, perhaps because the business only provides the technology, not the marijuana itself. In the nine months since its launch, Eaze has made 30,000 deliveries, and now the startup is looking to expand its team by hiring 50 people in the next 50 days. The legal marijuana industry is growing fast: Alaska, Washington D.C., Colorado and Washington state have all legalized recreational marijuana, and 20 states have [legalized medical](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/01/06/marijuana-legal-states-medical-recreational/4343199/ "undefined") marijuana. And other pot companies are also getting in on the action—according to [CB Insights,](https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/cannabis-startup-industry-funding/ "undefined") weed businesses raised a total of $104 million in 59 deals over the course of 2014, with Privateer Holdings (the company selling Bob Marley-branded weed) raking in a $75 million investment from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. \[[_Quartz_](http://qz.com/376683/the-marijuana-startup-behind-bob-marley-branded-weed-just-closed-a-record-funding-round/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/"},"headline":"Snoop Dogg Just Invested in a Weed Delivery Startup","datePublished":"2015-04-14T16:24:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:23:21.382Z","description":"Eaze promises to deliver medicinal marijuana in less than 10 minutes","url":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/","keywords":["Startups","Marijuana","Business topic","Weed","Uber","Snoop Dogg"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77981761d6a5a991/6987eaf855a859a46fa898e7/snoop-dogg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77981761d6a5a991/6987eaf855a859a46fa898e7/snoop-dogg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards - Arrivals","caption":"2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Steve Granitz—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/startups/","name":"Startups"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/","name":"Snoop Dogg Just Invested in a Weed Delivery Startup"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Drones from Amazon? How About Robots from Google.","description":"Google bought the robotics company Boston Dynamics, bringing it one step closer to selling robots to eager companies.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bf4hr7Sg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-12-17T19:56:38.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bf4hr7Sg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/","duration":"PT1M57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3821236/snoop-dogg-eaze-marijuana-delivery/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```