Banyan Capital Partners

Banyan Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Vancouver. Founded in 1998, the firm specializes in investing in later-stage middle-market companies across various sectors, including manufacturing, distribution, health care, consumer products, construction materials, and specialty retail. Banyan Capital Partners focuses on buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and industry consolidation, targeting privately held companies that seek to accelerate growth or facilitate ownership changes. The firm also engages in special situations, such as balance sheet restructuring and management transitions. With a long-term investment approach, Banyan typically invests between CAD10 million and CAD50 million per transaction and prefers both majority and minority stakes in its portfolio companies. It primarily targets established mid-sized companies in North America, particularly in Canada and the United States, while maintaining an industry-agnostic stance, excluding certain sectors like real estate and high technology risk. As an affiliate of Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd., Banyan Capital Partners has the capability to collaborate with co-investment groups for larger investments.

30 past transactions

Innovative

Private Equity Round in 2022
Innovative distributes liquid salts, primarily magnesium chloride and calcium chloride mixed with additives for de-icing, dust control, and various industrial applications. The Company services a diverse customer base including largely treated salt partners, commercial customers, water treatment clients, and government agencies including regional municipalities, townships, and counties.

Familyone

Seed Round in 2018
Familyone is a community community platform, positioned as "good goods are not expensive", and separated from the low-cost strategy area. Select high-quality and good goods, continuously improve the efficiency of the supply chain, and achieve the ultimate cost performance.

Rack Attack

Acquisition in 2017
We’re your local adventure experts — helping you expand your vehicle’s potential, creating more space for friends and family, peace-of-mind protection for your prized gear and bigger possibilities for your next weekend escape or road trip with no return date. Whether you’re answering a spontaneous call to the wild or carefully plotting a cross country journey—we ensure you find the right fit for your vehicle and activity, install it on the spot or ship it out same-day, then set you up with care and maintenance resources so it’s Reliable For Life. Our team of seasoned Gear Guides help you navigate the entire process, so you can enjoy the journey as much as the destination. For over 25 years, we’ve been trusted by explorers at every experience level, in adventure hubs across North America. We don’t just know our stuff—we live and breathe it. Our expert-vetted range of racks, bars, boxes and overland spans every outdoor activity and niche need. Rack up. Head out. Explore more.

Winking Art Pte. Ltd

Series C in 2017
Winking Art Pte. Ltd. is a game development and art outsourcing company specializing in providing comprehensive art services and animation production. Founded in 2000, the company has its headquarters in Shanghai, China, with regional offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Nanjing, China, as well as additional locations in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Winking Art offers a range of services, including 2D and 3D artwork, pixel artwork, concept design, and UI design. It also focuses on character and environment development and provides advanced animation services such as motion capture and in-game cinematic animations. The company develops role-playing and virtual reality games for platforms like Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, distributing its products globally.

Geek+

Series A in 2016
Geek+ develops autonomous mobile robots for warehouse, factory, and supply chain management. Geek+ applies advanced robotics and AI technologies to develop tailored solutions to a wide range of industries, including e-commerce, apparel, retail, logistics, 3PL, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. Geek+ helps big brands optimize their logistic solutions using reliable products paired with high-quality after-sales services. Geek+ has delivered the largest number of logistics robots among its peers in China. The company's customers include e-commerce platforms, third-party logistics providers, express delivery companies, offline retailers, and manufacturers of apparel, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, and electronics products. Geek+ has also established strategic partnerships with a number of key customers to co-develop customized AI and robotic solutions across different industries and applications.

PDD Holdings

Series A in 2015
PDD Holdings (Nasdaq: PDD) is a multinational commerce group that owns and operates a portfolio of businesses. PDD Holdings aims to bring more businesses and people into the digital economy so that local communities and small businesses can benefit from the increased productivity and new opportunities. PDD Holdings has built a network of sourcing, logistics, and fulfillment capabilities, that support its underlying businesses.

Testin

Series B in 2015
Testin is the global leader in One-Stop-Application cloud testing services for applications such as web, mobile web, H5, native mobile APP, Lite APP, mobile games, VR/AR, wearable, AI, smart home, smart driving, IoT and industrial APP developers to provide the necessary one-stop testing services and quality assurance. Testin is the disruptor of the traditional software testing service mode, combine AI automated real device SaaS testing, crowdsourcing testing, full stack security testing and continuous big data analysis, succeeded not only in capturing the domestic market of China but also in sett its foot of the global arena, has now continued to serve more than 800,000 developers with their 2.3+ million APPs, branding clients including most tier 1 internet entities and McDonald’s, Nestle, Starbucks, Daimler, BMW, Philips and Kabam, etc. Testin has been certified by ISO9000, ISO27001, ISO20000, ISO17025, CMMI3 and CNAS, aims to help developers to build confidence in their applications and ensure a good user experience. Testin has secured US$84.9 million in 3 rounds of IDG, Banyan, Haiyin, and CEL. Testin has been recognized as 2015 and 2016 Deloitte High-Tech & Growth Top 50 China, Red Herring Finalist 2014 Asia 100, 2015 Global 100 and 2017 Red Herring Global 100 Winner.

Diandao

Series A in 2015
Diandao, an on-demand service that brings qualified professionals to your doorstep.Diandao only has massage therapists available in Beijing and Shanghai at the moment, which highlights how tough it is to expand these kinds of services across a nation.

Genshuixue

Series A in 2015
Genshuixue is a Chinese online education platform that allows its users to search for courses related to various fields and subjects. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Beijing, China.

700Bike

Series A in 2015
700BIKE is an Internet company to promote bicycle culture, is committed to building a lifestyle and sports aesthetics include new Internet community. With fashion, the trend of the way to guide and transfer bicycle culture, science and technology to make exercise more, so riding attributed to life. 700BIKE within two years after the start-up established by virtue of the professional authority and spread the energy industry, a pioneer in the field of media power bike vertical; and the use of its advantages in resources integration, held, including "retro riding", "Gu Chi Open, "a series of influential events, the cumulative number of participants nearly 10,000 people will be riding the cultural depth perception and conception.

BeiBei

Series C in 2015
BeiBei Group, founded in 2011 and based in Hangzhou, China, operates an e-commerce platform specializing in maternal and infant products. The company offers a wide range of everyday discount sales for women's and children's clothing, accessories, diapers, household goods, and toys. BeiBei aims to position itself as a leading technology retail platform, leveraging the expertise of its founding team, which has roots in Alibaba. The company has attracted significant venture capital investment from prominent firms, further supporting its growth in the competitive e-commerce sector.

Huami

Series B in 2014
Launched in 2014, Huami is the top #1 wearable device company in the world, ahead of Apple and Fitbit, with over 50 million units sold. Huami's mission is to seamlessly connect biomechanical signals and daily activities with smart data services to promote healthy living and to make our lives easier. The product line of fashionable activity trackers and smartwatches under the Amazfit brand, including the Pace, Arc, Cor, Bip, Moonbeam and Equator, effortlessly track activity without sacrificing style. Huami is the exclusive provider of wearable technology for Xiaomi and maker of the Mi Band. Huami has raised $35 million from Sequoia Capital, Shunwei Capital Partners, Banyan Capital, Morningside Ventures and Xiaomi. The company is privately-held and headquartered in Beijing and and Mountain View, CA.

Moov

Series A in 2014
Moov is dedicated to helping you improve the quality of your everyday workout. By combining artificial intelligence and gameplay into a first-of-its-kind wearable device, Moov is fitness training taken to the next level. Advanced motion sensors read your body’s form, while Moov syncs with your smartphone to give you real-time feedback and coaching instructions that can help improve while you exercise. Based out of San Francisco, CA, Moov incorporates sport science research from Harvard and Stanford and is designed to help professionals and beginners alike. Now you can get the most from every workout, so you can train harder and faster without having to compromise results.

Shequ001

Series B in 2014
Shequ001, a Chinese e-commerce site that specialises in rapid delivery. Shequ001 helps supermarket partners to deliver merchandise to consumers, getting goods to the door usually in around one hour. Instead of managing merchandise itself, Shequ001 leverages resources of local partners and assists them with an in-house delivery team. Shequ001 sources its goods from local stores, tapping into their expertise in warehousing and inventory.

BeiBei

Series B in 2014
BeiBei Group, founded in 2011 and based in Hangzhou, China, operates an e-commerce platform specializing in maternal and infant products. The company offers a wide range of everyday discount sales for women's and children's clothing, accessories, diapers, household goods, and toys. BeiBei aims to position itself as a leading technology retail platform, leveraging the expertise of its founding team, which has roots in Alibaba. The company has attracted significant venture capital investment from prominent firms, further supporting its growth in the competitive e-commerce sector.

Newcrete

Acquisition in 2014
Newcrete combines the expertise to bring high quality, trustworthy concrete services to Newfoundland and Labrador.

Dyad.com

Seed Round in 2014
Dyad.com is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27 million in scholarships to the world's best universities. Dyad Mentors guide students through the university admissions process with a free online library of instructional articles and videos and a digital workspace for face-to-face video-conferences and document reviews.

MIP

Acquisition in 2013
MIP UK Ltd is a manufacturer and distributor specializing in reusable healthcare textiles and related products tailored for the healthcare industry in the UK. The company offers a diverse range of items, including patient and staff apparel, clothing protectors, bedding, mattresses, pillow protectors, towels, underpads, carts, bags, and repositioning devices. MIP is committed to delivering high-quality products while ensuring the lowest cost per use for its customers, focusing on meeting the specific service requirements of the healthcare community.

Purity Life Health Products LP

Acquisition in 2012
It is Canada’s leading distributor of natural health products including dietary supplements, vitamins, natural body care, earth friendly.

Bevo Agro

Post in 2009
Bevo is the largest supplier of propagated plants in North America, providing greenhouses, field farms, nurseries, and wholesalers across the continent with healthy, vigorous, pest-and-disease-free plants.Plant propagation is a system under which seedlings are nurtured to the ideal level of development for finished growth in greenhouses. Each seedling is cultivated in a specific controlled temperature, nutrient, fertilizer, light and moisture environment to ensure the highest quality plant. Bevo’s main products are vegetable plants such as tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and cucumbers, along with other plants such as bedding plants, flowers, trees, berries, and grasses.

Genoa

Debt Financing in 2007
Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company is the pharmacy and telepsychiatry provider serving the behavioral health and addiction treatment community for over 15 years. Our pharmacy and telepsychiatry services impact more than 500,000 individuals annually in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Our network of more than 325 pharmacies fills over 10 million prescriptions annually. Although Genoa specializes in serving individuals with behavioral health and substance use disorders, we are a full-service pharmacy. This means we take care of all the medication needs of our consumers, including prescriptions written by psychiatrists, primary care providers, or other specialty prescribers. Genoa’s services are flexible to the many behavioral health, addiction treatment, and primary care delivery models across the country. We have developed services in pharmacy and telepsychiatry to meet the needs of those specific models. None of our service models or pharmacies are the same. We continue to seek opportunities nationwide to help behavioral health and addiction treatment organizations with their pharmacy and telepsychiatry services.

Shanahan's Limited Partnership

Debt Financing in 2007
Shanahan’s is the distributor, manufacturer, and installer of hardware, hollow-metal doors and construction specialty products in Canada. The Company is also the exclusive Canadian distributor of ABUS security products and other third-party hardware, industrial/wood doors, and washroom accessories through its Hardware Agencies and Serrubec brands.

Corix

Acquisition in 2006
Corix is a company that provides sustainable infrastructure services focused on drinking water, wastewater processing, and energy solutions. It specializes in designing, supplying, building, installing, financing, and operating utility infrastructure systems tailored for small to medium-sized communities across North America. The company serves a diverse client base, including municipal, institutional, military, and private sectors, aiming to enhance local utility systems. By offering comprehensive services, Corix supports the development and maintenance of essential infrastructure that ensures reliable access to water and energy resources.

Q'Max Solutions Inc.

Acquisition in 2006
Q'Max Solutions is an oil & energy company providing drilling fluids, solids control, and waste management services.

Syscon Justice Systems

Venture Round in 2006
Syscon Justice Systems Ltd. provides offender and case management software solutions for the corrections industry. Its solutions include offender management and jail management systems, offender financials, medical records, assessments, community case management, and business intelligence. Syscon Justice Systems Ltd. provides solutions for the management of incarcerated inmates in a jail or prison, as well as for the management of offenders in community supervision situations, such as parole and probation. The company provides financial applications to manage trust accounts, commissary operations, inmate payrolls, debts, fees, and restitution payments; corrections-specific electronic health records application; and recidivism assessment tools. Its customers include jails, prisons, probation, and parole bases. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Richmond, Canada with additional offices in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada; Folsom, California; London, the United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. As of June 29, 2007, Syscon Justice Systems Ltd. is a subsidiary of SECURUS Technologies, Inc.

Tartan Canada Corporation

Acquisition in 2006
Tartan Canada Corporation is a construction customer service company located in Calgary.

Fios

Venture Round in 2005
Fios, provides electronic discovery management services for corporations, law firms, and litigation support companies. It offers electronic discovery services, such as evidence collection, processing, review, and production. The company also provides litigation readiness services, including litigation readiness assessment, electronically stored information content mapping, legal hold protocols, discovery response planning, FRCP 26(f) discovery conference preparation, discovery response staffing, discovery technology requirements, and information governance services. In addition, it offers project management processes, and procedures and technology services; and technology assessment consulting services. Further, Fios, Inc. operates information portals on e-discovery and compliance. The company was formerly known as Litigation Data Corporation and changed its name to Fios, in 1999. Fios was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with additional offices in Dallas, Texas; and New York, New York.

Party Packagers

Private Equity Round in 2005
Party Packagers, Inc. engages in the retail of party supplies, balloons, catering supplies, decorations, gifts, toys, loot bags

Party Packagers

Debt Financing in 2005
Party Packagers, Inc. engages in the retail of party supplies, balloons, catering supplies, decorations, gifts, toys, loot bags

DTI Dental Technologies

Acquisition in 2001
DTI Dental Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures dental prosthetics including crowns, bridges and orthodontic appliances.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.