When pot and tech collide

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What do you get when you combine pot and techies? (No, not a late night Doritos-driven coding session.) It's a whole new startup industry that's blossoming in Seattle.

The Emerald City is already known for being fertile ground for tech startups. With the growing recreational and medicinal cannabis industries getting off the ground, we're seeing the tech and marijuana markets colliding in new and very interesting ways.

Cy Scott is one of the co-founders of Leafly, a website that allows users to rate and review pot strains and dispensaries. Scott says the seed for Leafly was planted while he was working at Kelly Blue Book, a website that allows users to rate and review cars.

But, when he and his partners tried to get Leafly off the ground, it took years before they could get any funding.

"Unbelievably difficult," Scott recalled. "We were pitching to traditional institutional investors, and...

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