Colorado-based hiring platform Vangst is buying GreenForce, a temporary staffing agency for the cannabis industry operating in Arizona and Oregon.
GreenForce founder and CEO Ryan Rosenfeld will join Vangst as chief business officer to focus on the company’s regional and national expansion.
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The half-cash, half-stock deal brings Vangst’s customer count to more than 1,800.
The company, which has more than 150,000 workers on its platform, assists 90% of the top U.S. cannabis operators in hiring fully credentialed employees for temporary and full-time positions.
“We want to be the category killer,” Vangst founder and CEO Karson Humiston told MJBizDaily in an interview.
“We were the first company to do hiring in cannabis, and we’re definitely the biggest,” Humiston said, adding that the GreenForce acquisition “is
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