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May 10 , 2021 AKERNA CORP . Akerna Announces Financial Results for the First Quarter 2021 Software revenue up 62 % , total revenue up 31 % year - over - year DENVER , May 10 , 2021 / PRNewswire / -- Akerna ( Nasdaq : KERN ) , an enterprise software , leading compliance technology provider and developer of the cannabis industry's first seed to - sale enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software technology ( MJ Platform® ) , today reported its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31 , 2021 . AKERNA CORP . " Our first quarter was a strong start to 2021 , with increasing demand for our platform driving 62 % year over year software growth , " said Jessica Billingsley , CEO of Akerna . " With the leadership position we have in our core business and capabilities we have integrated to take advantage of new opportunities such as payments with the passage of the Safe Banking Act , new state initiatives , and ultimately U.S. federal legalization , we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the approaching inflection point in industry growth . " Akerna is the technology ecosystem for cannabis . Through its family of software , which includes MJ Platform , Viridian Sciences , Ample Organics , Trellis , Leaf Data Systems , Last Call Analytics , and solo sciences , Akerna provides the only scalable cannabis ERP solution offering compliance , data , taxation , payments , seed - to - sale , track - and - trace , and consulting to operators , governments , and brands . In doing so , Akerna creates one of the world's most