Canada private equity and venture capital (PE & VC) market map

We compiled an extensive Canada private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) market map that shows key Canada investors and investment funds. We hope this is useful for your startup fundraising. Find below the list of investors from the market map and links to their websites.

Canada has a very advanced Private Equity and Venture Capital markets with huge number of institutional investors, as well as Angel investors and accelerators. Many investors in Canada are located in Toronto (Ontario), but also in other large cities, such as Vancouver (British Columbia), Edmonton (Alberta), Calgary (Alberta), Montreal (Quebec) and Ottawa (Ontario). Canadian PE/VC/Angels invest in various sectors, there are both generalist and specialist investors targeting certain industries, such as Technology, Energy, Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Canadian investors follow the footsteps of the US market and provide funds to companies and startups at different stages, including seed, growth financing, mezzanine, LBO and MBO deals with low to mid-cap deals being the most popular. Unlike in the US and most of other countries, many active private equity investors in Canada are PE arms of Canadian pension funds.

• 32 Degrees Capital
• 7 Gate Ventures
• A5 Capital
• Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)
• Annapolis Capital Ltd.
• ARC Financial Corp.
• Ardenton Capital
• Argosy Partners Ltd.
• Arva Limited
• Auxo Management LP
• Azimuth Capital Management
• Banyan Capital Partners
• BDC Capital
• Bedford Capital Management, Inc.
• Beringer Capital
• Birch Hill Equity Partners
• BlockTech Capital
• British Columbia Investment Management Corp. (BCI)
• CAI Capital Partners
• Camcor Partners, Inc.
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
• CanEx Capital
• Canopy Rivers
• Champlain Financial Corporation
• Chrysalis Capital Advisors, Inc.
• Clairvest Group, Inc.
• Clearspring Capital Partners
• CopperLion Capital
• Crown Capital Partners, Inc.
• Dancap Private Equity
• DW Healthcare Partners
• EdgeStone Capital Partners
• Elgner Group Investments Ltd.
• Entrepreneur Capital, Inc.
• Founders Advantage Capital
• Founders Group of Food Companies Inc.
• Fulcrum Capital Partners, Inc.
• Georgian Partners
• Granite Partners
• Headwater Equity Partners
• Imperial Capital Group Ltd.
• InvestEco Capital
• IVEST Consumer Partners
• Legado Capital
• Maxam Capital Corp.
• Mosaic Capital Corp.
• ONCAP Management Partners
• Onex Partners
• Penfund

For more information on investment funds (their investment criteria, funds sizes, region preferences and etc.) in Canada go to CanadaPE/VC funds database on privateequitylist.com

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