Top VC Firm Benchmark Just Poured Millions Into This Startup’s Marijuana Breathalyzer

Law enforcement is the natural initial customer base for the Hound, but Lynn believes that the larger market to address will be employers who currently commission 40 million drug tests each year.

Venture capitalist Mike Lynn was cycling in the Berkeley Hills in 2014 when the cars started passing him at high speed. As they whizzed by on the winding roads in California’s Bay Area, they left behind mementos: the distinct smell of marijuana.

Lynn’s day job was to invest in startups, but he was a doctor by training and a reserve police officer, too. He started seeing examples of drivers showing up at hospitals injured who’d clearly been using cannabis before their accidents.

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