Surna Engages Newbridge Financial for M&A and Financial Advisory Services; Company Completes Consolidation of Hydro, Sees Opportunities in Fragmented Industry

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - Sep 18, 2014) - Surna Inc. (OTCQB: SRNA), a company that develops, acquires, produces and sells equipment for the legal marijuana industry with a focus on disruptive technology, today announced it has recently engaged Newbridge Financial, Inc. for advisory services for funding, mergers and acquisitions, as well as financial, business, operations and related matters.

Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Newbridge Financial is a highly respected, boutique investment banking firm that specializes in emerging growth companies and dynamic industries and is taking an aggressive position in the legal marijuana industry.

"The cannabis industry remains highly fragmented," said Surna Chief Financial Officer, Douglas McKinnon. "Surna has established itself as an early industry leader with solid funding, state of the art products and a highly experienced management team as evidenced by this week's appointment of Todd Whitaker to VP - Engineering.

"With the addition of Newbridge to the team, we are aggressively looking for acquisitions that offer Surna: Entry into adjacent markets, intellectual property, outstanding management, growing cash flow or vertical integration, as well as hunting for some of the currently overlooked rising stars elsewhere in the legal cannabis industry," Mr. McKinnon added. "With our acquisition of Hydro Innovations now fully completed (Form 8-K to be filed shortly), Newbridge has a terrific team of investment bankers to augment our ability to source, analyze, evaluate and negotiate M&A opportunities -- and I am delighted to have them on board."

About Newbridge Financial, Inc.
Newbridge Financial, Inc. is the parent company of Newbridge Securities Corporation, a full service broker/dealer and investment banker (www.newbridgefinancial.com). Newbridge Financial is also the parent of a core group of companies that offer a broad spectrum of financial services and products to individuals and corporate clients.

About Surna Inc.
Led by Tom Bollich, the visionary technologist who co-founded famed gaming company Zynga which ultimately rose to a $10 billion market valuation, Surna's mission is to acquire intellectual property and scalable operating companies in the nascent, legal marijuana industry with a focus on disruptive technology, equipment and related support services (www.surna.com). Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Hydro Innovations, the Company offers a comprehensive line of commercial and small business indoor agriculture equipment (www.hydroinnovations.com).

The Company represents a pure play on explosive growth in the cannabis industry, while being agnostic as to the escalating proliferation of regulated, commodity cannabis growers & sellers, winners or losers; its business model excludes the production or sale of marijuana. ArcView industry research projects the highly fragmented $2.3 billion US cannabis industry will increase over four-fold to $10.2 billion by 2018.

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