National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada, established in 1859 and headquartered in Montreal, offers a comprehensive range of financial products and services to retail, commercial, corporate, and institutional clients both domestically and internationally. The organization operates through four main segments: Personal and Commercial, Wealth Management, Financial Markets, and U.S. Specialty Finance and International. The Personal and Commercial segment provides personal banking services, commercial banking solutions, and various insurance products. Wealth Management offers investment solutions, trust services, and lending options. In the Financial Markets segment, the bank specializes in risk management products, underwriting, and advisory services for mergers and acquisitions. The U.S. Specialty Finance and International segment focuses on specialty finance and financial services in emerging markets. National Bank also operates a network of 483 branches and 1,573 banking machines, aiming to deliver exceptional service and client satisfaction across all its offerings.

Arslan Benbakouche

Chief Analyst, Investor Relations

Linda Boulanger

Vice President and Head, Investor Relations

Luc Ménard

Executive Vice-President and General Manager and Head of Private Investments

Ghislain Parent

Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice-President of Finance and Treasury

Louis Vachon

President and Chief Executive Officer

Past deals in Ontario

Pluribus Technologies is dedicated to acquiring and enhancing small B2B software companies from owners and investors that are seeking a succession plan.

Flexiti

Debt Financing in 2021
Flexiti Financial Inc. is a sales financing company based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Rosario, Argentina. Founded in 2013, Flexiti specializes in providing flexible sales financing options, including lower interest rates, longer payment terms, and revolving credit, primarily targeting the retail, health, and home improvement sectors. The company utilizes a mobile application process and patented ID scanning technology to facilitate point-of-sale financing for consumers, ensuring a quick and efficient application experience. Flexiti's focus on customer service and its robust credit policies enable high credit approval rates, allowing consumers to access promotional offers and shop conveniently at a network of retailers. By leveraging advanced technology and operational excellence, Flexiti aims to enhance the purchasing experience for customers while supporting business growth for its partners.

DRI Healthcare Trust

Post in 2021
DRI Healthcare Trust provides unitholders with differentiated exposure to the anticipated growth in the global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology markets. Our business model is focused on managing and growing a diversified portfolio of pharmaceutical royalties with the aim to deliver attractive growth in cash royalty receipts over the long term.

d1g1t

Venture Round in 2021
d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by analytics that offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Paystone

Debt Financing in 2021
Paystone is a leading provider of customer engagement solutions for North American businesses of all sizes. The company’s seamlessly integrated suite of automated payment processing, customer loyalty, and gift card solutions help merchants turn everyday transactions into meaningful customer interactions. Its secure, user-friendly solutions are used at over 25,000 merchant locations across Canada and the United States, collectively processing over $10 billion dollars a year in bankcard volume, including The ALDO Group, The Source, Booster Juice, Global Pet Foods, Kernels Popcorn and 50 of the MTY Food Group's restaurant brands. The fintech employs 150 employees and has 100+ sales partners across Canada. Visit www.paystone.com for details.
Martello Technologies manages the performance of real-time services on complex distributed cloud networks. Their solutions, which include network performance management software as a service (SaaS) and SD WAN, allow over the top (OTT) service providers and enterprises around the world to deliver better service quality and a reliable user experience. Designed for real-time communications, Martello’s solutions detect, identify and address network performance problems BEFORE service quality is impacted.

VersaPay

Post in 2019
VersaPay was founded in 2006 as an electronic payments company and went public in 2010 (TSX-V: VPY). VersaPay is a Fintech company and leading provider of cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions, enabling businesses to provide a superior customer experience, get paid faster, streamline financial operations, and dramatically reduce DSO and costs. VersaPay ARC is the new standard in accounts receivable and collections management with a customer self-service environment to view invoices online, collaborate on inquiries and disputes, and facilitate secure online payments (EFT/ACH and credit card). Businesses gain access to a suite of powerful tools that enable efficient collections, cash application and real-time insight into accounts receivable. VersaPay ARC automatically reconciles payments and account information through integrations with a wide range of ERPs and accounting software providers.

MindBridge

Series B in 2019
MindBridge Analytics Inc. is a Canadian FinTech company that specializes in financial analytics software for audit, assurance, and commercial enterprises. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the MindBridge platform identifies anomalous transactions and patterns within financial datasets, which aids organizations in detecting unintentional errors and intentional misstatements. The MindBridge AI Auditor provides risk-weighted analysis and deep insights into monetary flows, enabling companies to enhance their internal controls and improve decision-making processes. Through these capabilities, MindBridge helps organizations minimize financial losses and strengthen their overall financial integrity.

Think Research

Venture Round in 2018
Think Research offers knowledge-based tools and clinical contents for clinicians at the point of care. Health care organizations are facing a growing number of complex challenges. Health system reform, quality improvement policies, constrained funding, disconnected systems, and a constantly expanding base of medical knowledge. Adapting to and navigating all this complexity requires new ways of thinking. Health care organizations need practical and cost effective solutions that approach its users’ health care challenges in new and creative ways. It connects clinicians, facilities, and entire health care systems with the quality clinical contents and the technologies to put it into practice. It also offers its users with knowledge translation services, partner apps such as eMED-PASS and how2track, and EntryPoint platforms and applications. Think Research is a Canada-based company that was founded in 2006. The company utilizes ontologic and semantic based Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make better use of the data they collect from the patients.

Cobalt 27 Capital

Post in 2018
Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. is a minerals company that offers direct exposure to cobalt, an integral element in key technologies of the electric vehicle and battery energy storage markets. The Company owns over 2,982 Mt of physical cobalt and manages a portfolio of cobalt royalties. The Company intends to continue investing in a cobalt-focused portfolio of streams, royalties and direct interests in mineral properties containing cobalt, while potentially adding to its cobalt physical holdings when opportunities arise.

MindBridge

Series A in 2018
MindBridge Analytics Inc. is a Canadian FinTech company that specializes in financial analytics software for audit, assurance, and commercial enterprises. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the MindBridge platform identifies anomalous transactions and patterns within financial datasets, which aids organizations in detecting unintentional errors and intentional misstatements. The MindBridge AI Auditor provides risk-weighted analysis and deep insights into monetary flows, enabling companies to enhance their internal controls and improve decision-making processes. Through these capabilities, MindBridge helps organizations minimize financial losses and strengthen their overall financial integrity.

HomeEquity Bank

Debt Financing in 2017
HomeEquity Bank is a privately held company and helps Canadians live retirement their way by providing a safe, secure, and easy way to access the equity they’ve built up in their homes through their financial solutions, the CHIP Reverse Mortgage® and Income Advantage®.

Nest Wealth

Funding Round in 2017
Founded in 2014, Nest Wealth has created Canada’s first SaaS-based digital wealth management platform to ensure all investors have access to sophisticated, personalized and transparent wealth management services. Wealth management firms and individual advisors can provide and manage virtually any investment to any investor through any distribution channel with Nest Wealth’s configurable white label practice management tool. For individual investors, Nest Wealth offers an automated, low-fee and transparent direct-to-investor wealth management solution that makes it easier to reach their financial goals. Nest Wealth has been chosen by some of Canada's largest wealth management firms and financial institutions, including the National Bank of Canada, to modernize their wealth management platforms.

SiriusXM Canada

Debt Financing in 2013
SiriusXM Canada is a Canadian radio channel broadcasting satellite radio channels featuring premier sports, news, entertainment, and more. It broadcasts commercial-free music, sports, news, talk, entertainment, and weather to over 2.6 million subscribers in Canada. SiriusXM Canada delivers its digital-quality audio everywhere its listeners want to listen, whether in cars, on boats, in the home or office, and through a wide range of mobile devices. SiriusXM Canada was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.

Altamira Financial Services

Acquisition in 2002
Altamira Financial Services provides brokerage, private wealth services, financial, and retirement planning services to its clients.