Joseph Farruggia

Farruggia launched Money World Magazine and the Money World Investment Conferences in the late 1980s, building one of the period's prominent independent investor-relations platforms.

He later served as Investor Relations Specialist at Atlantic Capital Corp. and Wall Street Marketing Group, directing capital raises for companies listed on NASDAQ and NYSE American (formerly AMEX).

He co-founded Café.com Wi-Fi, the pioneer of corporate-branded wireless internet for the restaurant sector. Café.com built and operated Denny's Wireless Internet and deployed Wi-Fi for IHOP, Dunkin' Donuts, hotels, and coffeehouses nationwide before being acquired by ICOA, Inc. in 2005.

A produced screenwriter, Farruggia worked alongside Academy Award–winning filmmaker Roger Corman (Honorary Award, Lifetime Achievement).

His credits include Baby Face Nelson (1996), co-starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as Al Capone; Born Bad (1997), starring James Remar and Corey Feldman; and Spiders (2013), featuring an early starring turn by Sydney Sweeney — now an Emmy nominee — as the young girl whose rescue drives the film's central arc.

In 2016 he founded CanIDeal as the first legal B2B commerce platform for the cannabis industry. Over the decade since, CanIDeal has expanded into the Global Cannabis Terminal & Exchange — covering physical supply-chain commerce across 147 jurisdictions with $2.4B in tracked volume and 3,200+ suppliers, alongside a live capital markets data layer for publicly traded cannabis equities.

He launched Cannabis Investor News in 2026 as the global cannabis equities terminal — covering 326 cannabis companies across 10 regions and 16 exchanges with daily AI-generated market briefs, real-time pricing, primary-source regulatory filings, and the proprietary Cannabis Market Health Index (CMHI).

Cannabis Investor News is published by CanIDeal, Inc., a Nevada corporation operating the CanIDeal global cannabis commodities terminal. CIN operates as CanIDeal's editorial newsroom — independent in editorial judgment, consolidated in ownership. Our commercial relationships and any potential conflicts arising from CanIDeal's terminal business are disclosed in our Editorial Standards.