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Top 25 Direct equity investment platforms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 77 direct equity investment platforms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 605 professional contacts across them, including 160 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers direct equity investment platforms headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest direct equity investment platforms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The all-in-one liquidity platform for private companies and their shareholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MKB is a North American private investment firm that specializes in providing growth equity to companies driving innovation in the energy, transportation, built environment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Waverley was founded to bridge the gaps and break down the barriers that exist in the efficient flow of private equity capital in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FrontFundr is Canada’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, helping startups and growth-stage companies raise capital from their communities of everyday Canadians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rethink & Diversify Securities Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PortfolioHiWay’s innovative and comprehensive digital investment suite is designed to address all of your portfolio management needs, efficiently and economically” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “York Angel Investors: Data-Driven Capital, Built to Scale Founded in 2008, York Angel Investors has been connecting accredited investors with high-growth startups for over a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BuyProperly is an award-winning, AI-powered online marketplace for fractional investments in private assets such as real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PE Gate is an Ontario Securities Commission regulated, Exempt Market Dealer that offers Accredited Investors fractional ownership in private businesses and a secondary market to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Katipult is a leading provider of industry-tailored software infrastructure designed to streamline the exchange of capital in equity and debt markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We invest where operators see what spreadsheets miss.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The team at Next Equities has a proven track record of building companies into multi-million dollar success stories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equivesto is an Equity Crowdfunding portal and licensed Exempt Market Dealer operating in all Canadian provinces & territories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saltire is a long-term capital partner that invests in equity, debt and hybrid securities of private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fundscraper is a technology enabled platform for investing into real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sharechest believes in a world where #businesses and #investors can come together faster and more effectively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “REITIUM is a Real Estate Investment Marketplace that allows the everyday person to invest in Real Estate starting with $100.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our aim is to present investors with avenues for lasting wealth creation via private investments in Canadian real estate, tech, and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We match people who have money with people who need money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Utradea is the leading platform for investment ideas and insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hawkeye Wealth aims to help connect investors with Canada's top issuers of Private Equity Real Estate investment opportunities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Midasboard is the direct investment platform for alternative investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Built for the time-strapped, resource-strapped angel investor, and for the founders that despise fundraising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CMV Financial Corp facilitates financial and estate planning services for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: direct equity investment platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names direct equity investment platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of direct equity investment platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name direct equity investment platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Direct equity investment platforms based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 77 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among direct equity investment platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “direct equity investment platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names direct equity investment platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among direct equity investment platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 160 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names direct equity investment platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many direct equity investment platforms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 77 direct equity investment platforms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
HIIVE, headquartered in Vancouver, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most direct equity investment platforms?
Toronto leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (14) and Montreal (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 160 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 77 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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