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Top 20 Secondary market private equity firms based in Toronto, Canada
RevenueBase identified 38 secondary market private equity firms headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,021 professional contacts across them, including 663 with verified work emails. Across Canada, Toronto is the largest hub for this category.
This list covers secondary market private equity firms headquartered in Toronto, 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 20 largest secondary market private equity firms based in Toronto, Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dawson Partners (“Dawson”) is a leading global alternative asset manager focused on providing innovative structured solutions to the private markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Overbay Capital Partners is a Toronto-based private equity secondaries firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Banyan Capital Partners (Banyan) is a Canadian based private equity firm that makes control and minority equity investments in mid-sized private and public companies throughout…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Morningside Capital is a private equity investment firm based in Toronto, Canada with approximately $600 million of assets under management and advisement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saltire is a long-term capital partner that invests in equity, debt and hybrid securities of private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ashbridge Partners is a privately-held, entrepreneurial investment firm that acquires and actively manages small to medium-sized businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Waypoint Investment Partners is an entrepreneurial partnership focused on investing in both public and private markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Allevar Partners, we are passionate entrepreneurs and former Private Equity professionals focused on acquiring, operating, and driving long-term growth while assisting owners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golden Spruce Capital is a Toronto and Los Angeles based pool of entrepreneurial capital seeking to acquire best-in-class small and medium sized businesses across North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BSP is a firm owned and operated by partners with decades of experience in analyzing, acquiring and operating businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As entrepreneurs ourselves, we are passionate about finding, acquiring, and growing high-potential businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our sole purpose is to acquire and operate a small to medium sized business, while staying true to values Learn more at” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Davids Partners is a trusted buy-side partner in private equity, specializing in improving deal flow for new platform investments and add-on acquisitions.” 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: secondary market 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 secondary market private equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of secondary market 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 secondary market 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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Secondary market private equity firms based in Toronto, Canada at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Canada list rather than for Toronto, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Toronto, over 38 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 secondary market 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 Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “secondary market 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 secondary market 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 secondary market private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Toronto 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, 663 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.
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 secondary market 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 secondary market private equity firms are there based in Toronto, Canada?
RevenueBase identified 38 secondary market private equity firms headquartered in Toronto, 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?
Dawson Partners, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in Canada has the most secondary market private equity firms?
Toronto leads Canada with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (14) and Montreal (9).
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 663 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 38 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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