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Top 25 Manufacturing private equity firms based in Canada

Name: Manufacturing private equity firms based in Canada
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 222 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 222 manufacturing private equity firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,116 professional contacts across them, including 749 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers manufacturing private equity 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

222Companies

2,116Contacts tracked

749Verified emails

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The 25 largest manufacturing private equity firms based in Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 222 manufacturing private equity firms based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to manufacturing private equity 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 28, 2026	501-1,000	642 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “JV Driver Investments Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Birch Hill Equity Partners	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	91 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
3	Lynx Equity Limited	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	64 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
4	Clairvest Group INC	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
5	MKB & CO	Strong evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	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, 2026
6	Firepower Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	44 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	VRG Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
8	Newlook Capital	Strong evidence	Burlington, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Newlook Capital is a private equity firm that manages industry-specialized funds, each with its own focused, experienced, and aligned management, and a defined strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Kinterra Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
10	Beringer Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Beringer Capital is a buyout private equity firm focused on investing in companies at the forefront of digital transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	CPS Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
12	Triwest Capital Partners	Strong evidence	Calgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
13	Barrier Ridge Capital	Strong evidence	Etobicoke, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	22 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Barrier Ridge Capital (“BRC”) is a unique private equity firm with a different approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Weshall Investments INC	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	BDG & Partners	Strong evidence	Montreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
16	Vertu Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Vertu Capital brings decades of global private equity experience to high potential Canadian technology businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Alphi Capital	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026
18	Ironbridge Equity Partners	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Ironbridge is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $700 million of assets under management focused exclusively on investing in companies in the Canadian lower…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Define Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Define Capital is looking to acquire B2B software and SaaS companies that operate in a niche market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Decisive Dividend Corporation	Partial evidence	Kelowna, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	16 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Decisive Dividend is an acquisition-oriented company, focused on opportunities in manufacturing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Founders Group Of Food Companies INC	Indirect evidence	Vancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founders Group of Food Companies Inc.(“Founders”) is a family firm, established in 2014, that invests its partners’ own capital and focuses on applying operating know-how in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Stern Partners INC	Indirect evidence	Vancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded approximately 30 years ago by Ronald N.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Massey Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MASSEY CAPITAL is a Toronto based firm that acquires lower mid-market companies in Canada, defined as businesses with annual EBITDA less than $5 million.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Round13 Capital	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial 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, 2026
25	Walter Capital Partners	Strong evidence	Westmount, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Launched in late 2015, Walter Capital Partners is a private equity firm that embodies the entrepreneurial spirit and strategic vision of the Somers family, founders of the Walter…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: manufacturing private equity 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 manufacturing private equity firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of manufacturing private equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name manufacturing private equity 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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Manufacturing private equity firms based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

35.4%Verified-email coverage

9.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

40.5%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

161

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 222 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 manufacturing private equity 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 “manufacturing private equity 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 manufacturing private equity 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 manufacturing private equity 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, 749 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 manufacturing private equity 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 manufacturing private equity firms are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 222 manufacturing private equity 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 manufacturing private equity firms?

Toronto leads with 90 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (36) and Calgary (21).

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 749 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 222 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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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.