CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 4, 2024--
Chicago Atlantic Admin, LLC (“ Chicago Atlantic ”) announced that it acted as administrative agent on the funding of a $30 million senior secured credit facility for Deep Roots Holdings (“ Deep Roots Harvest ”), a vertically integrated operator in Nevada with five open dispensaries, one dispensary planned to open in December 2024 and a standalone cultivation and processing facility.
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The capital provided by Chicago Atlantic, on behalf of its affiliated investment funds, will support Deep Roots Harvest’s expansion as it takes on additional retail and cultivation assets across Nevada. In October 2024, Deep Roots Harvest acquired most of the assets of Nevada cannabis operator, The Source Holdings, LLC (“The Source”), including four retail operations, two provisional retail licenses and one operating facility for cultivation.
The successful move positions Deep Roots to operate 12 total dispensaries and establishes them as the market share leader in Nevada.
“Deep Roots is a company to watch in 2025, and it’s our pleasure to take a front row seat and support their growing investment portfolio,” said David Kite, Managing Partner at Chicago Atlantic. “Their team has shown operational expertise at every level, exceptional business acumen and a strong balance sheet – We couldn’t be more excited to partner with them.”
Keith Capurro, CEO of Deep Roots Harvest, said the company will continue its strategic growth in 2025 and beyond.
“Chicago Atlantic has quickly proven themselves as a valuable partner as we continue to invest across our portfolio of businesses,” said Capurro. “With a larger balance sheet and meaningful additional borrowing capacity, we are well positioned to execute on our broader strategy.”
About Chicago Atlantic
Chicago Atlantic is a private markets alternative investment manager focused on industries and companies where demand for capital exceeds traditional supply. The firm’s investment strategies include opportunistic private credit and equity with focuses on loans to esoteric industries, specialty asset-based loans, liquidity solutions and growth and technology finance. Chicago Atlantic has closed over $2.2 billion in credit facilities since inception. Chicago Atlantic’s team of over 80 professionals has offices in Miami, Florida and Chicago, Illinois. For more information on Chicago Atlantic’s investment opportunities and financing products, visit chicagoatlantic.com.
About Deep Roots Harvest
Founded in 2014, Deep Roots is a vertically integrated operator with multiple dispensaries and essential facilities across Nevada. The company produces Nevada grown cannabis for medical and adult use. Its Farm To Body cannabis program pledges to grow and cultivate the cleanest cannabis in the state, prioritizing customer health, safety and personalized experience. For more information, visit deeprootsharvest.com.
A Deep Roots Harvest retail operation in West Wendover, Nevada. (Photo: Business Wire)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544.
Iran had no immediate reaction to the news, which came after the foreign minister of Oman — long an interlocutor between Washington and Tehran — traveled to Iran this weekend. It also remains unclear just what Iran could promise, particularly as Trump has set strict demands over its nuclear program and its ballistic missile arsenal, which Tehran insists is crucial for its national defense.
Meanwhile Monday, Iran called for pro-government demonstrators to head to the streets in support of the theocracy, a show of force after days of protests directly challenging the rule of 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian state television aired chants from the crowd, who shouted “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”
Trump and his national security team have been weighing a range of potential responses against Iran including cyberattacks and direct strikes by the U.S. or Israel, according to two people familiar with internal White House discussions who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday night. Asked about Iran’s threats of retaliation, he said: “If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.”
Trump said that his administration was in talks to set up a meeting with Tehran, but cautioned that he may have to act first as reports of the death toll in Iran mount and the government continues to arrest protesters.
“I think they’re tired of being beat up by the United States,” Trump said. “Iran wants to negotiate.”
He added: “The meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what’s happening before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up. Iran called, they want to negotiate.”
Iran through country's parliamentary speaker warned Sunday that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America uses force to protect demonstrators.
More than 10,600 people also have been detained over the two weeks of protests, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in previous unrest in recent years and gave the death toll. It relies on supporters in Iran crosschecking information. It said 496 of the dead were protesters and 48 were with security forces.
With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the toll. Iran’s government has not offered overall casualty figures.
Those abroad fear the information blackout is emboldening hard-liners within Iran’s security services to launch a bloody crackdown. Protesters flooded the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Online videos purported to show more demonstrations Sunday night into Monday, with a Tehran official acknowledging them in state media.
In Tehran, a witness told the AP that the streets of the capital empty at the sunset call to prayers each night. By the Isha, or nighttime prayer, the streets are deserted.
Part of that stems from the fear of getting caught in the crackdown. Police sent the public a text message that warned: “Given the presence of terrorist groups and armed individuals in some gatherings last night and their plans to cause death, and the firm decision to not tolerate any appeasement and to deal decisively with the rioters, families are strongly advised to take care of their youth and teenagers.”
Another text, which claimed to come from the intelligence arm of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, also directly warned people not to take part in demonstrations.
“Dear parents, in view of the enemy’s plan to increase the level of naked violence and the decision to kill people, ... refrain from being on the streets and gathering in places involved in violence, and inform your children about the consequences of cooperating with terrorist mercenaries, which is an example of treason against the country,” the text warned.
The witness spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing crackdown.
The demonstrations began Dec. 28 over the collapse of the Iranian rial currency, which trades at over 1.4 million to $1, as the country’s economy is squeezed by international sanctions in part levied over its nuclear program. The protests intensified and grew into calls directly challenging Iran’s theocracy.
Nikhinson reported from aboard Air Force One.
In this frame grab from video obtained by the AP outside Iran, a masked demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi during a protest in Tehran, Iran, Friday, January. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran shows protesters taking to the streets despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.(UGC via AP)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran showed protesters once again taking to the streets of Tehran despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Jan. 10, 2026. (UGC via AP)
