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Top 25 Private investment firms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 94 private investment firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,365 professional contacts across them, including 583 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers private investment 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 14, 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 investment firms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Claridge is a private investment firm headquartered in Montreal, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harlo Entertainment is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $250M assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded approximately 30 years ago by Ronald N.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Norea Capital Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Langdon Equity Partners is a global investment firm based in Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We see your potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Numus Financial is a Halifax, Nova Scotia based venture capital firm focused on early-stage, high-growth companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are W Investments; a private equity fund based in Montreal, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2010, MAP Investco partners with market-leading and disruptive businesses that are seeking strategic capital and operational expertise to accelerate growth and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2016, BRK Capital is a private investment firm based in Montreal that invests in global public and private markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Snowdon Partners is a Montreal-based growth oriented private investment firm dedicated to building great businesses, by partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and providing the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The next generation, with an old school approach: Foxbridge Capital, LLC is a privately held, entrepreneurial investment firm seeking to acquire and operate small to medium size…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Almada Group is a private equity / venture capital entity which focuses on companies in which it has a significant influence or controlling position.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clearspring Capital Partners is a leading Canadian mid-market private equity firm that invests in and acquires medium-sized companies through buyouts, growth and acquisition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Epstein Enterprises is an established, Canadian-based investment company, operating from its head office in Toronto, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TerraNova Partners takes a hands-on approach to investing in private operating companies at various stages of development where we can add value and partner with a motivated and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 investment 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 private investment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private investment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private investment 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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Private investment firms based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 14, 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 94 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 investment 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 “private investment 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 private investment 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 private investment 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, 583 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 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Private investment firms by metro
- Private investment firms in Toronto41
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 investment 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 private investment firms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 94 private investment 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?
Sagard, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private investment firms?
Toronto leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (15) and Vancouver (15).
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 583 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 94 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 14, 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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