DENVER, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SHF Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Safe Harbor Financial (Nasdaq: SHFS) (“Safe Harbor” or the “Company”), a fintech leader facilitating financial services and credit facilities for the regulated cannabis industry, announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Terry Mendez, will serve as a featured “Conscious Capitalist” at Psychedelic Science 2025 (PS2025). The Conscious Capitalism Workshop will be held on Monday, June 16, 2025, from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), PS2025 is the world’s largest psychedelic conference, convening entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, healers, policymakers, and Indigenous knowledge-keepers from around the globe.

The Conscious Capitalism Workshop—informally dubbed the “Shark Tank” of PS2025—prioritizes mentorship over competition, offering an interactive platform where mission-driven startups pitch visionary ideas to a panel of impact investors and advisors. As one of the featured “Sharks,” Mendez will offer real-time feedback to participants, sharing insight on values-based business building in complex, regulated sectors.

“As someone who’s spent a career working to build trust-based financial systems in challenging markets, I’m honored to participate in this movement,” said Mendez. “This event isn’t about judging ideas—it’s about uplifting bold entrepreneurs and giving them an opportunity to turn transformative visions into sustainable business models.”

Mendez became CEO in early 2025, bringing deep experience in cannabis, finance, and business transformation. Since then, Safe Harbor has started to evolve beyond banking to provide cannabis businesses nationwide with the financial guidance, services, and support they need to succeed.

Mendez added, "Our goal is simple: to give operators access to focused expertise and solutions at a cost they can afford -- eliminating unnecessary overhead while improving clarity, cost control, and operational efficiency.”

About Safe Harbor: 
Safe Harbor is among the first service providers to offer compliance, monitoring and validation services to financial institutions that provide traditional banking services to cannabis, hemp, CBD and ancillary operators, making communities safer, driving growth in local economies and fostering long-term partnerships. Safe Harbor, through its financial institution clients, implements high standards of accountability, transparency, monitoring, reporting and risk mitigation measures while meeting Bank Secrecy Act obligations in line with FinCEN guidance on cannabis-related businesses. Over the past decade, Safe Harbor has facilitated more than $25 billion in deposit transactions for businesses with operations spanning more than 41 states and US territories with regulated cannabis markets. For more information, visit https://shfinancial.org/.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain information contained in this press release may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included herein may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to trends in the cannabis industry, including proposed changes in U.S and state laws, rules, regulations and guidance relating to Safe Harbor’s services; Safe Harbor’s growth prospects and Safe Harbor’s market size; Safe Harbor’s projected financial and operational performance, including relative to its competitors and historical performance; success or viability of new product and service offerings Safe Harbor may introduce in the future; the impact volatility in the capital markets, which may adversely affect the price of Safe Harbor’s securities; the outcome of any legal proceedings that have been or may be brought by or against Safe Harbor; and other statements regarding Safe Harbor’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “outlook,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would,” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in Safe Harbor’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Safe Harbor undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.

Safe Harbor Investor Relations Contact: 
ir@SHFinancial.org

Safe Harbor Media Relations Contact:
Ellen Mellody
570-209-2947
safeharbor@kcsa.com