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Facebookers, Reddit CEO make $2.1 million marijuana investment

(courtesy of Meadow)

A hot San Francisco marijuana startup, Meadow, has announced millions in funding from an eclectic local group of investors with connections to Facebook, Reddit and the 49ers.

SOMA tech company Meadow announced this morning it has received $2.1 million in seed funding today from a collection of investors including former Facebookers now at Slow Ventures, Reddit’s CEO and founder Steve Huffman, Joe Montana’s investment fund Liquid 2 Ventures, Steve ’Capt. Hoff’ Hoffman of Founders Space, and Justin Kan, creator of Justin.TV and Twitch.

The deal comes amid a torrent of new investments in the cannabis space.