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Top 25 Lower middle market pe firms based in Canada

Name: Lower middle market pe firms based in Canada
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 300 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 300 lower middle market pe firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 3,481 professional contacts across them, including 1,458 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers lower middle market pe firms 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 20, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest lower middle market pe firms based in Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 300 lower middle market pe firms based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to lower middle market pe firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	JV Driver Investments	Indirect evidence	Leduc, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	642 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “JV Driver Investments Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Novacap	Indirect evidence	Brossard, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	355 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novacap est un investisseur nord-américain d’envergure et l’une des sociétés d’investissement privé les plus expérimentées au Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	Northleaf Capital Partners	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	280 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Northleaf Capital Partners is a global private markets investment firm with more than US$31 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure cumulative capital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Altas Partners	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	99 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Altas Partners is a North American private equity firm focused on selectively acquiring significant interests in high-quality, durable businesses with compelling growth potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Birch Hill Equity Partners	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	91 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Birch Hill is a Canadian mid-market private equity firm with a long history of driving growth in our portfolio companies and delivering returns to our investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Imperial Capital Limited	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	75 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Imperial Capital has been successfully building better businesses since 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	Torquest Partners	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “TorQuest Partners is a Canadian-based manager of private equity funds with a proven track record in identifying and building value in a diversified portfolio of companies based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	Lynx Equity Limited	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	64 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lynx Equity is a private equity firm that owns and operates fifty companies in various industries across North America, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	ARC Financial Corp	Indirect evidence	Calgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	55 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Clairvest Group INC	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Clairvest, a leader in the Canadian private equity industry for more than 35 years, has approximately $4.3 billion of capital under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	MKB & CO	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Indirect 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 20, 2026
12	Oncap Management Partners	Partial evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ONCAP, in partnership with operating company management teams, invests in and builds value in North American headquartered small and medium sized businesses that are market…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Firepower Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	44 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	VRG Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1982, VRG Capital is a private equity firm backed by a select group of Canadian family offices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Harlo Entertainment	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Harlo Entertainment is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $250M assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Kinterra Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Kinterra Capital is a private equity firm that invests in the people, ideas, critical materials, and strategic infrastructure necessary to accelerate the development of the modern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Instar Asset Management	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Instar is a private equity firm that invests in scalable businesses providing essential products and solutions to communities across North America’s middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Penfund	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Penfund is a leading provider of junior capital to middle market companies throughout North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	CPS Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded by a pair of entrepreneurs whose passion is to invest in and work with high-quality businesses, CPS Capital is different from other private equity investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Triwest Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	Calgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1998, TriWest Capital Partners is one of Canada’s leading private equity firms having raised over $1.6 billion ($CAD) of committed capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Barrier Ridge Capital	Indirect evidence	Etobicoke, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Barrier Ridge Capital (“BRC”) is a unique private equity firm with a different approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Klass Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Klass Capital is a growth equity firm investing in category-defining B2B technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	BDG & Partners	Indirect evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BDG is a private equity firm that aims to create value by investing in great businesses, where our own capital, strategic insight, global relationships and operational experience…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Vertu Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Vertu Capital brings decades of global private equity experience to high potential Canadian technology businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Alphi Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With over 35 years of private equity experience, we invest in lower middle market Canadian companies in the business services and value added distribution industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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: lower middle market pe firms. 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 lower middle market pe firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of lower middle market pe firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name lower middle market pe firms. 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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Lower middle market pe firms based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

41.9%Verified-email coverage

11.6Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

45.3%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

216

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

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 300 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 lower middle market pe firms, 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 “lower middle market pe firms”. 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 lower middle market pe firms), 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 lower middle market pe firms, 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, 1,458 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 20, 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 lower middle market pe firms, 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 lower middle market pe firms are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 300 lower middle market pe firms 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?

JV Driver Investments, headquartered in Leduc, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most lower middle market pe firms?

Toronto leads with 136 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (42) and Montreal (29).

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 1,458 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 300 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 20, 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.