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Top 25 Private equity firms in financial services based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 410 private equity firms in financial services headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 4,724 professional contacts across them, including 2,292 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers private equity firms in financial services 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 29, 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 private equity firms in financial services based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Onex invests and manages capital on behalf of its shareholders and clients across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fengate is a leading investment firm specializing in real assets, with a focus on infrastructure, private equity and real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sagard is a global multi-strategy alternative asset management firm active in venture capital, private equity, private credit, and real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 280 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Haywood Securities is an investment firm that values its independence and its entrepreneurial spirit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1974, Mawer Investment Management Ltd.(pronounced "more") is a privately owned, independent investment firm, managing approximately $67.8 billion in assets for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SureSwift Capital acquires and manages exceptional businesses with strong fundamentals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Claridge is a private investment firm headquartered in Montreal, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAF Group (“SAF”) is a global alternative investment manager actively deploying and raising capital with a focus on generating above average risk adjusted returns through credit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fiera Comox Partners is a global investment manager that manages private investment strategies in Private Equity, Agriculture and Private Credit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Harlo Entertainment is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $250M assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Launched in 2014, InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in private companies in single and multi position…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pembroke Management is an independent, Montreal-based investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sarona Asset Management (Sarona) is a global impact investment firm, focusing on performance and purpose in private equity emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Privately-owned and based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, The Mancal Group’s core principles are rooted in the values, insights, and financial proficiency acquired through our more…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: private equity firms in financial services. 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 private equity firms in financial services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity firms in financial services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity firms in financial services. 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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Private equity firms in financial services based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 410 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 private equity firms in financial services, 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 “private equity firms in financial services”. 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 private equity firms in financial services), 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 private equity firms in financial services, 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, 2,292 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 29, 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 private equity firms in financial services, 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 private equity firms in financial services are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 410 private equity firms in financial services 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?
Novacap, headquartered in Brossard, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private equity firms in financial services?
Toronto leads with 186 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (59) and Calgary (34).
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 2,292 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 410 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 29, 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.
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