Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec

The Caisse is a global fund manager. Its clients, which it calls its depositors, are mostly Québec public and private pension funds and insurance plans. The funds entrusted to the Caisse are invested in financial markets in Québec, in Canada and around the world to generate a profit.

Marc Cormier

Executive Vice President Fixed Income and Active Overlay Strategies Investment Management

Mathieu Gauvin

Senior Vice President Investments

Emmanuel Jaclot

Executive Vice President

Martin Laguerre

Executive Vice President and Head of Private Equity

Meng Ann Lim

Managing Director and Head, Private Equity Asia Pacific

Alexandre Synnett

Executive Vice President and CTO

Charles Émond

President and CEO

184 past transactions

Silk

Series B in 2023
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Apraava Energy

Secondary Market in 2022
CLP India Pvt. Ltd. is a foreign investor in the Indian power sector. CLP India is a wholly owned subsidiary of CLP Holdings Limited, which is listed on the Hong Stock Exchange and is one of the largest investor-owned power businesses in Asia. CLP India is the largest foreign investors in the Indian power sector with a total committed investment of over INR 14,500 Crores. This investment is spread across a diversified and environment friendly generation portfolio that covers renewable energy, supercritical coal and gas fired generation, amounting to close to 3000 MW.

Cozey

Venture Round in 2022
Cozey is a furniture company. They design the seating, the table, and their accessories. Their products include the Cozey 3 seater charcoal sofa with slope arm, the Cozey 6 seater dark grey sectional with slope arm, the left lounging chaise, and the ottoman.

Bouthillette Parizeau

Private Equity Round in 2022
Bouthillette Parizeau is an operator of an engineering firm in the community intended to serve Canadian communities. The firm specializes in buildings for the institutional, commercial, multi-family, and industrial markets, assisting clients with mechanical, electrical, telecommunications, and security work.

Corealis Pharma

Venture Round in 2022
Corealis Pharma provides services on a contract basis in the areas of formulation and process development as well as in small-scale clinical trial material manufacturing and the packaging of solid dosage forms to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Its services include API characterization, salt selection, pre-formulation, formulation and process development, analytical method development, stability storage, and testing, technical transfer and scale-up, cGMP manufacturing and packaging of phase I and II CTM, and dossier support.

Everstream

Debt Financing in 2022
Everstream is a Cleveland-based network service provider bringing fiber-based Ethernet, Internet, and data center solutions to businesses throughout Northeast Ohio. They focus on delivering best-in-class network solutions while providing an unrivaled commitment to customer service. With over 2,500 miles of fiber across 24 counties and comprehensive data center connectivity at 10 Gigabit speed, they provide the fastest, most reliable network in the region. Their 24/7 network operations center is staffed and operated by certified technical staff based in downtown Cleveland. Everstream was founded in 2014 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Talent.com

Series B in 2022
Talent.com is a platform that centralizes jobs available on companies'​ career websites, staffing agencies, or job boards. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

eSentire

Secondary Market in 2022
eSentire is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, protecting the critical data and applications of 1500+ organizations in 80+ countries, representing 35 industries from known and unknown cyber threats. Founded in 2001, the company’s mission is to hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business disrupting events. Combining cutting-edge machine learning XDR technology, 24/7 Threat Hunting, and proven security operations leadership, eSentire mitigates business risk, and enables security at scale. The Team eSentire difference means enterprises are protected by the best in the business with a named Cyber Risk Advisor, 24/7 access to SOC Cyber Analysts & Elite Threat Hunters, and industry-leading threat intelligence research from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). eSentire provides Managed Risk, Managed Detection and Response and Incident Response services. For more information, visit www.esentire.com and follow @eSentire.

Hy2gen

Private Equity Round in 2022
HY2GEN AG develops, finances, builds and operates plants for the production of green hydrogen and hydrogen-based e-fuels worldwide. Hy2gen produces green hydrogen and green e-fuels for mobility, agriculture, and industry.

eSentire

Private Equity Round in 2022
eSentire is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, protecting the critical data and applications of 1500+ organizations in 80+ countries, representing 35 industries from known and unknown cyber threats. Founded in 2001, the company’s mission is to hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business disrupting events. Combining cutting-edge machine learning XDR technology, 24/7 Threat Hunting, and proven security operations leadership, eSentire mitigates business risk, and enables security at scale. The Team eSentire difference means enterprises are protected by the best in the business with a named Cyber Risk Advisor, 24/7 access to SOC Cyber Analysts & Elite Threat Hunters, and industry-leading threat intelligence research from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). eSentire provides Managed Risk, Managed Detection and Response and Incident Response services. For more information, visit www.esentire.com and follow @eSentire.

Laps

Private Equity Round in 2022
Laps is recommerce platform of reconditioned sports equipment. Laps help sports enthusiasts to sell, buy or trade their equipments-all in one place and one transaction.

SPYPOINT

Debt Financing in 2021
Spypoint develops and markets surveillance systems for the outdoors industry. Its unique AI-driven cellular-based remote monitoring technology has enabled the company to lead the industry into the next stage of its evolution. Every year since 2018, Spypoint has been named one of Canada's fastest growing companies.

BTR Energy

Series A in 2021
BTR Energy is a technology company that provides a data-driven platform for businesses in the agricultural, electric transportation, and power industries to benefit from participation in low-carbon transportation programs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

QIMA

Private Equity Round in 2021
QIMA is more than a testing, inspection, certification, and compliance company: We are on a mission to offer clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust. With a global reach spanning 100+ countries, QIMA serves the consumer products, food and life sciences industries, supporting more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers. The company combines on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions to bring accuracy and visibility for quality, safety and compliance data. What sets QIMA apart is its unique culture: 6,000 employees live and make decisions every day by the QIMA Values. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, QIMA continues to disrupt the Testing, Inspection and Certification industry.

CrossCountry Mortgage

Debt Financing in 2021
CrossCountry Mortgage is a provider of mortgage lending services focused on individual clients. The company offers a diverse range of home purchase and refinance programs, including conventional and jumbo mortgages, as well as government-insured options for veterans and rural homebuyers. With services that encompass refinancing, home loans, and investment property loans, CrossCountry Mortgage aims to assist clients in securing the necessary funding for their housing needs.

M3 Financial Group

Funding Round in 2021
The M3 Group is the #1 non-bank mortgage originator and undisputed leader in mortgage brokerage across Canada. With more than 8,300 brokers and $67+ billion in annual loan volumes on a trailing twelve month basis, the broker-led, data driven, consumer obsessed group and its brand collective, Multi-Prêts Mortgages, Mortgage Alliance, Invis, Mortgage Intelligence, Verico, Simplinsur/SimplAssur, Pinch Financial, M3 Tech, M3 Ventures and YourMortgageMarket.com have a single goal: be the best consumer ally when it comes to serving the financial needs of Canadians from coast to coast.

Sama

Series B in 2021
Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. As an industry pioneer with 15-years of experience, Sama’s expertise and solutions are trusted by leading companies such as GM, Ford, Continental, Google, and many more. Sama specializes in image, video, language, lidar, and sensor data annotation and validation for complex machine learning algorithms. As a leader in ethical AI and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 60,000 people lift themselves out of poverty.

Grupo Diagnóstico Aries

Private Equity Round in 2021
Grupo Diagnóstico Aries is a consortium of clinical diagnostic services companies. They provide services that include laboratory, cabinet, and imaging, as well as business services such as reference laboratories, molecular biology, cytology, pathology, hematology, immunology, colposcopy, bone densitometry, endoscopy, ambulance service, medical care centers, home service, and more.

Celsius Network

Venture Round in 2021
Celsius is a blockchain-based marketplace platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions. Celsius specializes in the fields of consumer lending, fintech, and financial services. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

WestConnex

Private Equity Round in 2021
WestConnex is a transportation infrastructure project that will change the way we move. Motorists and businesses can travel more quickly and with more confidence if the M4 and M8 are connected through a continuous, free-flowing motorway constructed mainly underground.

ICR

Acquisition in 2021
ICR is a strategic communications and advisory firm.
Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company is the business of acquiring Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) from banks and financial institutions.

Beyond Technologies

Acquisition in 2021
Beyond Technologies is a professional service firm, specialized in SAP solution integration and business process optimization. Founded by a team of experienced consultants with over 15 years of integrated business management system experience, we know how to leverage SAP to improve and streamline business processes in order to deliver real and sustainable benefits to our clients. We offer intelligent, practical and innovative solutions that give our clients a competitive edge. We are committed to implementing solutions designed to meet our clients’ needs, priorities, resources and budgets.

AlayaCare

Series D in 2021
AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem. The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who have founded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate. Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014.

Sentera

Series C in 2021
Sentera provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Poka

Series B in 2021
Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

American Tower Corporation Europe

Private Equity Round in 2021
American Tower Corporation Europe provides the wireless infrastructure needed to enable a connected world—outdoors, indoors, and in urban and rural locations.

eStruxture

Venture Round in 2021
eStruxture provides network and cloud neutral data center solutions designed with the capacity, performance and flexibility to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and the control to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business processes. eStruxture offers colocation, private cloud, managed services, interconnections, security and support services to customers.

Druva

Series H in 2021
Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service, delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

CAE

Post in 2021
CAE provides simulation and modeling technologies and integrated training solutions for the civil aviation industry and defense forces around the globe. With annual revenues exceeding C$1.5 billion, CAE employs more than 7,000 people at more than 100 sites and training locations in more than 20 countries. They have the largest installed base of civil and military full-flight simulators and training devices. Through their global network of 29 civil aviation and military training centers, they train more than 75,000 crewmembers yearly. They also offer modeling and simulation software to various market segments and, through CAE's professional services division, they assist customers with a wide range of simulation-based needs.

Zevia

Private Equity Round in 2020
Zevia produces zero-calorie diet sodas. It offers sodas in various flavors, such as black cherry, caffeine-free cola, cherry cola, cola, cream soda, Dr. Zevia, ginger ale, ginger root beer, grape, grapefruit citrus, lemon-lime twist, lime cola, mountain Zevia, orange, and strawberry. The company provides its products through retailers, including natural food stores, health food stores, grocers, and e-retailers in the United States and Canada. Zevia was founded in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Bonterra Resources

Post in 2020
Bonterra is a Canadian gold exploration company with a large balanced portfolio of exploration and mining assets. Bonterra controls the only permitted gold mill in the region with a large land position of approximately 35,000 hectares in the Urban Barry Camp. Bonterra is located in the mining-friendly province of Quebec, within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The company was founded in 2007 by Johnny Oliveira.

IEX Group

Venture Round in 2020
IEX is an equity trading venue seeded by a consortium of buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices. IEX focuses on investor protection and performance by creating a market that aims to maximize shares traded at the best available price, decrease information leakage, eliminate informational disadvantages and persistent inefficiencies, and promote an opportunity for natural interest to interact without unnecessary intermediation. IEX is dedicated to offering fair access to a balanced marketplace, and delivering a defined and objective experience in support of just and equitable principles of trade. IEX operates a fair-access platform for any qualified broker dealer, and was built on the principle of investor protection, delivered through its proprietary anti-colocation architecture and simplified pricing and rule set. IEX was featured in the best-selling book, Flash Boys, written by Michael Lewis.

Inigo

Private Equity Round in 2020
Inigo Ltd. is a specialty insurance and re-insurance company.

CAE

Post in 2020
CAE provides simulation and modeling technologies and integrated training solutions for the civil aviation industry and defense forces around the globe. With annual revenues exceeding C$1.5 billion, CAE employs more than 7,000 people at more than 100 sites and training locations in more than 20 countries. They have the largest installed base of civil and military full-flight simulators and training devices. Through their global network of 29 civil aviation and military training centers, they train more than 75,000 crewmembers yearly. They also offer modeling and simulation software to various market segments and, through CAE's professional services division, they assist customers with a wide range of simulation-based needs.

FLO

Series C in 2020
FLO operates an electric vehicle charging network to provide smart charging services. Its platform helps to overcome climate change and accelerate EV adoption through a vertically integrated business model.

Onapsis

Series D in 2020
Onapsis provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and on-premise ERP and business-critical applications. Its solutions include the Onapsis Security Platform, a widely-used SAP-certified cyber-security solution in the market. Unlike generic security products, Onapsis’ context-aware solutions deliver both preventative vulnerability and compliance controls, as well as real-time detection and incident response capabilities to reduce risks affecting critical business processes and data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Onapsis has offices in Heidelberg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sollio Cooperative Group

Venture Round in 2020
La Coop fédérée is an agri-food federation of cooperatives that represent agricultural producers and consumers. It represents more than 60,000 members grouped into close to 70 cooperatives in multiple Canadian provinces. La Coop fédérée employs more than 13,000 employees and has a revenue of $6.3 billion. Its activities are divided into three divisions: Olymel S.E.C (under the Olymel, Flamingo and Lafleur banners, the Agri-business division (under the La Coop, Élite, Agrocentre, Agrico and Agromart banners), and the BMR Group (under the BMR, Unimat and Potvin & Bouchard banners). La Coop fédérée was founded on 1922 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec in Canada.

AppDirect

Private Equity Round in 2020
AppDirect is the cloud service commerce leader making software and products accessible globally. The AppDirect cloud service commerce platform unites providers, developers, and consumers of cloud services into a single ecosystem. This makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location and delivers new opportunities to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. AppDirect-powered marketplaces, billing and distribution, and reselling services help providers – including Telstra, ADP, Samsung, Deutsche Telekom, and others – connect millions of businesses to solutions from Microsoft, Google, Box, and more.

Poka

Venture Round in 2020
Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

WSP Global

Post in 2020
WSP is a professional services firm. WSP and Parsons Brinckerhoff have combined and are now one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. Together they provide services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment, and our expertise ranges from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transport networks and from developing the energy sources of the future to enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. WSP has approximately 32,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals and various environmental experts. We are based in more than 500 offices across 39 countries worldwide. On October 31st, 2014, the transaction to acquire Parsons Brinckerhoff was closed. Long recognized as one of the world's leading transportation engineering firms, Parsons Brinckerhoff’s expertise enhances WSP in providing comprehensive services for all types of infrastructure projects including power, buildings, water/wastewater, mining and community development. WSP, through its acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff, has approximately 32,000 employees, mainly engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, other design professionals, as well as various environmental experts, based in more than 500 offices, across 39 countries, on 5 continents. WSP, including Parsons Brinckerhoff, had pro forma revenues of $5.2 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2014. WSP also acquired Focus, Technip TPS and Winward, increasing its expertise in geomatics, in buildings and infrastructure engineering. The acquisitions grew our client base and our presence in Alberta, France, the U.S. and Australia. On January 1st, 2014, the Company reorganized its corporate structure to create a parent company named WSP Global Inc. and adopted a common brand, WSP, thus creating a united company with one strategy and one vision. WSP was ranked 16th in the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 225 International Design Firms and 17th in the Top 150 Global Design Firms list. On August 1st, 2012, WSP and GENIVAR merge, creating a world-class professional services firm with approximately 15,000 employees, working in over 300 offices on every continent. The merger brought together two successful and ambitious companies with complementary strategies, positioning for diversified global growth and delivering to a wide range of sectors with worldwide skills but minimal geographic or client overlap.

Hopper

Venture Round in 2020
Hopper is a travel app that uses predictive analytics to make travel recommendations. The mobile application uses big data to predict and analyze airfare and accommodations. Hopper provides travelers with the information they need to get the best deals on flights and hotels and notifies them when prices are at their predicted lowest points. In 2007, Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk co-founded Hopper in Montréal, Quebec.

Monarques Gold

Post in 2020
Monarques Gold Corporation (TSX-V: MQR) is an emerging gold producer whose goal is to continue to grow through its strong position in the North American quality project portfolio located in the Abitibi mining camp in Quebec, Canada. The Company currently holds more than 240 km² of gold properties including the Beaufor Mine, the Croinor Gold and Wasamac Advanced Projects, the Camflo and Beacon Mills, and six promising exploration projects. It also offers contract machining services from its Camflo plant with a capacity of 1,200 tonnes per day.

Plenary Group

Acquisition in 2020
Thier vision is to be a world leader in developing, providing and managing public infrastructure, recognised for a distinctive approach that delivers outstanding results for clients, partners, communities and the environment.

Meridian Credit Union

Debt Financing in 2020
Since our founding, Meridian’s commitment to helping our Members build better lives has never wavered. By focusing on what is at the heart of our Members' lives — their families, homes, businesses, health, and communities — we are working to fulfill a role as partner, advisor, and supporter. As Ontario’s largest credit union, with more than 365,00 Members, we’re committed to providing exceptional banking services and advice. We also have a role to play that goes beyond financial services. Our commitment to Members and communities is rooted in this fundamental belief.

AlayaCare

Series C in 2020
AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem. The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who have founded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate. Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014.

Eddyfi

Private Equity Round in 2020
Eddyfi Technologies, a label designed to maximize the potential of multiple NDT inspection technology brands. The transaction aims to strengthen the group’s position in the oil & gas industry, and brings an additional portfolio of products and technologies to the company.

Allied Universal

Acquisition in 2019
Allied Universal provides security solutions. Allied Universal provides unparalleled service, systems, and solutions to serve, secure, and care for the people and businesses in their communities. They are responsible for protecting more than 42,000 client sites across North America covering multiple specialty sectors such as higher education, healthcare, and corporate campuses. Technology like access control, intrusion and alarm detection, and IP-based video systems allows Allied Universal to customize every level of security to your needs. Through Allied Universal’s integrated approach to security, the best trained officers are supported by the latest technology like CyCop, their mobile incident reporting platform. That union enables both proactive planning and the most responsive security programs in the business. From Allied Universal’s monitoring and response center, their clients receive the right combination of real-time analytics, event-based technologies and the latest in situational awareness from their GSOC as a service.

Nuvei

Private Equity Round in 2019
Nuvei is a financial service company that provides its clients with payment technology solutions. Nuvei provides all payout options as well as card issuing, banking, risk management, and fraud management services. Businesses can accept next-generation payments, provide all payout options, and take advantage of card issuance, banking, risk, and fraud management services using Nuvei's modular, flexible, and scalable technology.

PharmEasy

Series D in 2019
PharmEasy is a health tech startup offering services such as teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and diagnostic test sample collections. It also operates an online pharmacy that helps patients connect with local pharmacy stores and diagnostic centers in order to fulfill their extensive medical needs. The startup company is funded and backed by Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), Ascent Health, Bessemer Venture Partners, Orios Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, InnoVen Capital, and Temasek Holdings. PharmEasy was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah as a subsidiary of Ascent Health.

Top Aces

Private Equity Round in 2019
Top Aces Inc. provides combat airborne training, adversary, and other services to the Australian, Canadian, and German armed forces. It offers joint terminal attack controller training to special operations and ground forces; red air and electronic attack training to CF-18 aircrew and navy; and live-fire target practice to the military. The company also provides engineering and maintenance, aircraft management system, and aerospace consulting and project management services. Top Aces Inc. was formerly known as Discovery Air Defence Services Inc. and changed its name to Top Aces Inc. on February 1, 2018. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Dorval, Canada. It has additional offices in Mesa, Arizona; and Hermannsburg, Germany.

H2O Innovation

Post in 2019
H2O Innovation is known for its state of the art water & wastewater treatment systems. Through the years, we have developed a strong knowledge of membrane filtration and a solid understanding of the water industry. This brought us to elaborate a comprehensive offer and provide complete engineering services, in-house manufacturing and thorough after sale service. The progression and maturity of the company naturally led us to erect a second pillar to enrich our business offer: the sale of specialty products and services, including the sale of maple equipment. With this solid business model, H2O Innovation positioned itself as a leader among the major water treatment players and is continuously increasing its market share.

Azure Power

Post in 2019
AzurePower offers clean and affordable solar energy to its customers without having them to pay for the high asset or operation costs upfront. AzurePower delivers most optimal solar energy by assuming all responsibilities and complexities for owning, building, and operating the power-generation, while the customers enjoy all the economic and marketing benefits of renewable power.

Sollio Cooperative Group

Venture Round in 2019
La Coop fédérée is an agri-food federation of cooperatives that represent agricultural producers and consumers. It represents more than 60,000 members grouped into close to 70 cooperatives in multiple Canadian provinces. La Coop fédérée employs more than 13,000 employees and has a revenue of $6.3 billion. Its activities are divided into three divisions: Olymel S.E.C (under the Olymel, Flamingo and Lafleur banners, the Agri-business division (under the La Coop, Élite, Agrocentre, Agrico and Agromart banners), and the BMR Group (under the BMR, Unimat and Potvin & Bouchard banners). La Coop fédérée was founded on 1922 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec in Canada.

Bird

Series D in 2019
Bird operates a micro-mobility platform that offers electric vehicle-sharing services, aiming to provide affordable and sustainable transportation solutions to communities worldwide. The platform enables users to create profiles, facilitating the sharing of personal electric vehicles, including electric bicycles. By coordinating with cities, Bird enhances access to environmentally friendly local transport, thereby contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and promoting responsible alternatives to traditional motor vehicles.

Neuvoo

Private Equity Round in 2019
Neuvoo is a job search engine available in over 60 countries. It offers a platform that enables its users to search for all types of employment and for particular salaries. Neuvoo was founded by Maxime Droux, Lucas Martinez, and Benjamin Philion in 2011 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Element AI

Series B in 2019
Element AI is an artificial intelligence company that gives organizations unparalleled access to cutting-edge technology. The company launches and incubates advanced AI-First solutions in partnership with large corporations. They deliver AI software products that augment decisions to make your business stronger, safer, and more agile. Element AI allows accelerating the deployment and commercialization of solutions that meet customer needs for the operationalization of AI while continuing to develop AI products. It maintains a strong connection to academia through research collaborations and takes a leadership position in policy-making around the impact of technology on society. The has built an AI systems integrator of sorts to help other companies develop and implement artificial intelligence solutions and Accenture’ for machine learning, neural network-based solutions, and computer vision applications.

Sanfer

Private Equity Round in 2019
Sanfer is a pharmaceutical company with an international presence that is always concerned with contributing to population health. It has innovative pharmaceutical products with therapeutic properties that provide a viable treatment option to its prescribers and consumers. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Mexico.

AlayaCare

Series C in 2019
AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem. The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who have founded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate. Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014.

Mahindra Rise

Post in 2019
Mahindra Rise is a prominent business entity within the Mahindra Group, which includes Mahindra & Mahindra Limited and its subsidiaries. Established in 1945 and headquartered in Mumbai, Mahindra & Mahindra engages in diverse sectors such as automotive components, logistics, financial services, and information technology. The company is best known for manufacturing utility and light commercial vehicles, as well as agricultural tractors and equipment. In addition to its automotive and farm equipment segments, Mahindra Water Utilities Limited, a subsidiary, provides water utility services. The Mahindra Partners division, founded in 2010, focuses on private equity and corporate venture capital investments, targeting sectors like healthcare, clean technology, and consumer products. With a portfolio that spans India and Silicon Valley, Mahindra Partners aims to foster innovation through investments in early-stage technology startups. Overall, Mahindra Rise exemplifies a multifaceted approach to business, combining manufacturing, service provision, and investment strategies to cater to various markets.

Lightsource bp

Debt Financing in 2019
Lightsource bp is a global leader in the development and management of large-scale solar energy projects, providing sustainable and affordable energy solutions to businesses and communities. The company focuses on the development, acquisition, and long-term management of photovoltaic plants, collaborating with utilities, local communities, and governments to meet the increasing demand for reliable and clean energy. With strong in-house planning and development capabilities, Lightsource bp takes on multiple roles as the owner, planner, developer, operator, and manager of its projects. The company aims to deploy at least 8GW of solar capacity worldwide in the next five years, emphasizing the importance of solar energy and smart energy solutions in the future of energy delivery.

Midland Exploration

Post in 2019
Midland is a dynamic and aggressive mining exploration company that focuses on the discovery of gold mines, EGP, base metals and rare land in the province of Quebec. The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange since March 2007. The Company is led by a management team and consultants experienced and highly respected skills in the mining sector and also associated with several important mineral discoveries. Midland is looking for partnership opportunities in mining exploration. Recently the company has entered into significant agreements optionnant Patris Gold Property to Teck Resources Limited and its Casault gold projects in Jouvex and SOQUEM INC. Two other gold projects, Maritime-Cadillac and Laflamme, are currently in joint venture (JV) with Agnico Eagle and Maudore Minerals Ltd. respectively. Midland also the Ytterby project, a rare earth project located near the deposit Strange Lake in northern Quebec in joint venture (JV) with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) and with whom an agreement of option for the project EGP Pallas was recently concluded. Recently, Midland acquired a new gold project Willbob high levels located in the Labrador Trough.

Vertical Bridge Holdings

Secondary Market in 2019
Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure. It specializes in co-location services and build-to-suit towers and provides the infrastructure needed to support today's increasingly wireless culture. Vertical Bridge was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Hilco Global

Corporate Round in 2019
Hilco Global, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, is a prominent international financial services company that specializes in asset valuation, monetization, and advisory services. The firm operates across various sectors, including retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and distribution, working closely with companies and their financial advisors, such as private equity firms and investment banks. Hilco Global provides services as an advisor, auctioneer, broker, and liquidator, focusing on both tangible and intangible assets, including inventory, machinery, real estate, and intellectual property. With a global presence and a team of approximately 500 professionals, the company has completed billions of dollars in transactions worldwide, delivering operational support and insights to maximize asset value recovery. Additionally, Hilco Merchant Resources, a subsidiary, offers specialized services in the retail sector, managing liquidation events and strategic initiatives while ensuring optimal outcomes for clients.

Harfang Exploration

Post in 2019
Harfang Exploration Inc, formerly RedQuest Capital Corp, is a Canada-based mining exploration company. The Company's mission is to discover gold districts in the province of Quebec. The Company’s development model is based on the generation of mining projects and on the establishment of partnerships with exploration and mining companies. The Company owns Lac Menarik gold property located in the James Bay region of northern Quebec, an underexplored area.

Real Ventures

Venture Round in 2019
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance, mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

Mofang Gongyu

Series D in 2019
Mofang Gongyu develops and rents serviced apartments. It provides an O2O apartment chain services brand for white-collar urbanites. Mofang Gonyu rents its apartments to white-collar, college-educated residents with a decent average monthly income and also provides value-added services to them. It currently operates over 150 apartment complexes in major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Xi’an. Mofang Apartment Management began operation in 2006. It became Mofang Gonyu in August 2010, with its headquarters in Shanghai in China.

Allied Universal

Private Equity Round in 2019
Allied Universal provides security solutions. Allied Universal provides unparalleled service, systems, and solutions to serve, secure, and care for the people and businesses in their communities. They are responsible for protecting more than 42,000 client sites across North America covering multiple specialty sectors such as higher education, healthcare, and corporate campuses. Technology like access control, intrusion and alarm detection, and IP-based video systems allows Allied Universal to customize every level of security to your needs. Through Allied Universal’s integrated approach to security, the best trained officers are supported by the latest technology like CyCop, their mobile incident reporting platform. That union enables both proactive planning and the most responsive security programs in the business. From Allied Universal’s monitoring and response center, their clients receive the right combination of real-time analytics, event-based technologies and the latest in situational awareness from their GSOC as a service.

Cirque du Soleil

Debt Financing in 2019
Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company that focuses on the production of shows. IT offers an online platform that enables its users to find information and buy tickets for shows. The shows are performed in Las Vegas, New York, Orlando, and Riviera Maya. Cirque du Soleil facilitates an online boutique that enables shoppers to find and buy apparel, accessories, collectibles, arts, and more. Cirque du Soleil is based in Montreal, Canada and was founded in 1984.

TrackTik

Series B in 2019
TrackTik is an agile end-to-end operation management software designed for the security industry, focused on increasing visibility, productivity and competitiveness. Using the tracking, scheduling, reporting or dispatch features, security companies now have the ability to optimize and standardize processes while increasing trust from clients and gaining profitability. Our fully integrated platform allows them to be in complete control of their field operation with an easy-to-use mobile and web-based technology. With a focus on customers’ success, our goal is to improve the overall business performance of security companies while allowing them to mitigate risk and strengthen their reputation. To learn more about TrackTik, visit www.tracktik.com.

Laps

Private Equity Round in 2019
Laps is recommerce platform of reconditioned sports equipment. Laps help sports enthusiasts to sell, buy or trade their equipments-all in one place and one transaction.

SURA Asset Management

Private Equity Round in 2018
SURA Asset Management is a company specialized in Savings, Protection and Investment.

Azimut Exploration

Post in 2018
Azimut Exploration Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration company trading on Toronto's TSX Venture Exchange. The Company specializes in project generation supported by exploration expertise and partnership development. Targets are generated through the advanced processing of large geoscientific databases (the “Big Data” approach).

Plusgrade

Private Equity Round in 2018
Plusgrade is a provider of upgrade solutions, a key segment of the fast-growing ancillary revenue and merchandising sector in the global airline industry. Its software solutions provide its global base of customers with meaningful incremental revenue and controls, allowing them to enhance and optimize revenue across classes of service. Plusgrade’s proprietary SaaS platform has received accolades from industry-wide participants and many distinguished media publications. Founded in 2009, Plusgrade is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with offices in Singapore and New York.

H2O Innovation

Post in 2018
H2O Innovation is known for its state of the art water & wastewater treatment systems. Through the years, we have developed a strong knowledge of membrane filtration and a solid understanding of the water industry. This brought us to elaborate a comprehensive offer and provide complete engineering services, in-house manufacturing and thorough after sale service. The progression and maturity of the company naturally led us to erect a second pillar to enrich our business offer: the sale of specialty products and services, including the sale of maple equipment. With this solid business model, H2O Innovation positioned itself as a leader among the major water treatment players and is continuously increasing its market share.

Azure Power

Post in 2018
Azure Power Global Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, construction, ownership, operation, maintenance, and management of solar power plants in India. It generates solar energy based on long-term contracts with Indian government energy distribution companies, as well as other non-governmental energy distribution companies and commercial customers. As of March 31, 2020, the company operated 43 utility scale projects and various commercial rooftop projects with a combined rated capacity of 1,808 MW. Azure Power Global Limited was founded in 2008 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Universign

Venture Round in 2018
Universign is a pure-player in the digital confidence world. They have created a SaaS platform for electronic signature, server stamp, timestamp and identity management services. These services give all kinds of electronic documents a legal dimension, by giving them strong guarantees in terms of their legal value, their integrity over time and the authenticity of their authors and signatories.

FNZ

Acquisition in 2018
FNZ is a FinTech firm that partners with financial institutions to enable them to provide multi-channel wealth management services to their clients across direct, intermediated, and workplace channels. FNZ develops long-term partnerships with customers to enable them to get to market with a market-leading digital proposition, transform their customer service offering, and grow assets under management across multiple distribution channels.

Hopper

Series D in 2018
Hopper is a travel app that uses predictive analytics to make travel recommendations. The mobile application uses big data to predict and analyze airfare and accommodations. Hopper provides travelers with the information they need to get the best deals on flights and hotels and notifies them when prices are at their predicted lowest points. In 2007, Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk co-founded Hopper in Montréal, Quebec.

Apraava Energy

Private Equity Round in 2018
CLP India Pvt. Ltd. is a foreign investor in the Indian power sector. CLP India is a wholly owned subsidiary of CLP Holdings Limited, which is listed on the Hong Stock Exchange and is one of the largest investor-owned power businesses in Asia. CLP India is the largest foreign investors in the Indian power sector with a total committed investment of over INR 14,500 Crores. This investment is spread across a diversified and environment friendly generation portfolio that covers renewable energy, supercritical coal and gas fired generation, amounting to close to 3000 MW.
Kintavar Exploration is a natural resource corporation principally engaged in the exploration and development of precious metal and base metals properties located in Quebec with access to infrastructure. It seeks to identify, investigate, evaluate and acquire under explored properties located in both traditional and non-traditional geologically favourable environment. Currently the focus is on two sectors, the Abitibi gold district where the company is working on the Anik and RAG properties and in the Grenville geological province on the Mitchi property.

Stelmine Canada

Post in 2018
Stelmine is a company involved in mineral exploration in Quebec. It engages in the acquisition, exploration, production, development, and operation of mining properties. The company plans to open a new gold mining camp in the eastern part of the Opinaca metasedimentary basin.

Avison Young

Private Equity Round in 2018
Avison Young is a commercial real estate services company that is owned and operated by its principals. Avison Young is a commercial real estate services firm The company provides value-added, client-centric investment sales, leasing, advisory, management, financing, and mortgage placement services to owners and occupiers of office, retail, industrial and multi-residential properties.

Delachaux

Acquisition in 2018
Delachaux designs and manufactures rail fastening systems and rail welding systems.

Sphinx Resources

Post in 2018
Sphinx is engaged in the generation and acquisition of exploration projects in Québec and Canada which is recognized as an attractive mining jurisdiction worldwide.

Breather

Series C in 2018
Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon as the arrival. Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.

Maple Gold Mines

Post in 2018
Maple Gold Mines is a Canada-based gold exploration company engaged in the gold mining sector. It is a well-funded exploration company focused on advancing a district-scale gold project in one of the world’s premier mining jurisdictions. The company’s 370 km2 Douay Gold Project is located within the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec, Canada.

ecobee

Series C in 2018
Ecobee is a provider of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats for residential and commercial applications, delivering energy conservation solutions. The company offers ecobee Smart Thermostat, a digital programmable thermostat that helps in customizing temperature settings. The thermostat connects the clients to their WiFi, and gives them remote access to the thermostat settings from any computer and helps in energy conservation. Its products are used in single family homes, multi-family dwellings, and offices. The company accepts orders online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Invenergy

Acquisition in 2018
Invenergy is a privately-held developer and operator of sustainable energy solutions. It has developed nearly 150 projects, including wind, solar, and natural gas power generation as well as advanced energy storage facilities.

Boralex

Post in 2018
Boralex is a power producer whose core business is dedicated to the development and operation of renewable energy power stations in Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom. Boralex owns power generation assets across four technologies: wind, solar, hydroelectric, and thermal. Substantially all of its operating assets are subject to indexed fixed-price energy sales contracts.

FX INNOVATION

Venture Round in 2018
FX INNOVATION is a innovative companies in the industry, they work with our customers to make IT valuable to business.

Frank & Oak

Series C in 2018
Frank & Oak is a vertically integrated online menswear brand with premium threads and a simple, integrated, and personalized shopping experience. Every month, Frank & Oak offers members a limited feed of premium clothing and accessories. Our curators act as a lifestyle partner, offering style advice, personalized product suggestions, and an easy-to-use shopping platform. Since launching in February 2012, the brand has seen tremendous growth, momentum, and media coverage for both its garments and its unique membership experience.

Taxelco

Venture Round in 2018
Taxelco owns and operates Téo Taxi, a revolutionary fully electric on-demand transportation service, Taxi Diamond, Montreal’s leading taxi company and Taxi Hochelaga, the industry leader in paratransit services.

Stingray

Acquisition in 2018
Stingray Digital is a privately held Canadian media and entertainment company based in Montreal, Quebec. Stingray Digital specializes in digital media including interactive music broadcasting and distribution. Currently, operations include The Karaoke Channel, a licensed karaoke supplier and an interactive television and Internet service; Stingray Music, a licensee and distributor of re-recorded music; Stingray360, a provider of copyright cleared subscription music services for the business environment; Concert TV, a video-on-demand television service; and Galaxie, a digital pay TV audio service Stingray Digital operates on behalf of CBC/Radio-Canada.

Fives

Private Equity Round in 2017
Fives is an industrial engineering Group, which designs and supplies complex machines, process equipment, production lines, complete plants and after-sales services for manufacturers worldwide.

Howden Group Holdings

Private Equity Round in 2017
Howden Group Holdings is an international insurance intermediary group with insurance broking and underwriting agency arms.
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