Two San Francisco engineers quietly turned a roommate side hustle into one of California’s biggest cannabis distribution machines in less than a decade. What began as hand-delivered boxes from a Bay Area apartment has grown into a tech-driven wholesale marketplace, a fleet of delivery vans, and massive warehouses serving retailers across the state. Founders now say the company processes roughly $1 billion in product a year and brings in roughly $100 million in revenue, a rare profitable model in a market where many operators are still struggling to stay afloat.
From a San Francisco Apartment to Statewide Distribution Muscle
Vince Ning and Jun S. Lee launched Nabis in 2018 out of a San Francisco apartment, landing early brand partners and personally driving product to dispensaries before they built a software enabled marketplace. The founders, and subsequent reporting, sketch a quick jump from bedroom hustle to statewide infrastructure, with Nabis now touching a large share of California’s regulated cannabis market. As reported by SFGATE, the company now operates warehouses…..