Investors in Nova Scotia

Scotiabank Private Equity Investments is the private equity and venture capital arm of The Bank of Nova Scotia specializing in mid-to-late stage investment. It invests in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged and management buy-outs, growth strategies, expansions, upgrades of facilities and assets, privatizations and balance sheet recapitalizations. The firm prefers to invest in manufacturing, industrial and consumer products, fintech sector, services sector, financial industry, technology, building materials and resources. It invests globally with a focus on Canada. Scotiabank Private Equity Investments is based in Toronto, Canada.

Innovacorp is a venture capital investment firm specializing in seed/start up, incubation, and early stage investments. The firm invests in the information technology, clean technology, oceans technology, and life sciences industry. It typically invests in Nova Scotia based companies. The firm invests between CAD 0.1 million and CAD 3 million equity investments. It typically co-invests with regional, national, and international institutional investors. InNOVAcorp was founded in 1995 and is based in Halifax, Canada with an additional office in Sydney, Canada.

The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help. They’re based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.

RBC Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital arm of Royal Bank of Canada specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The firm also makes mezzanine, "stretch" senior, and second lien debt investments. The firm seeks to invest in early stage, mid stage, late stage, mature, turnarounds, and middle market companies. It invests private equity in the technology, life sciences, and telecommunications sectors. The firm concentrates its mezzanine investments in companies engaged in manufacturing, business services, consumer products, healthcare services, and information technology services. It also invests opportunistically in restaurants, retail, and oil and gas sectors. The firm invests in companies based in Canada and the United States. It typically invests $10 million to $20 million of mezzanine or second lien subordinated debt and a non-control equity investment of up to $3 million. The firm can commit up to $50 million of mezzanine capital in total financing. RBC Capital Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. RBC Capital Partners operates as an investment arm of Royal Bank of Canada.

Founded in 1987, TD Securities is an investment firm based in Canada. The firm provides investment banking, equity research, commodities, derivatives and capital market products and services internationally.

CIBC Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in direct, fund, and mezzanine investments; providing subordinated debt and equity to mid and late stage private or public companies to finance internal growth, acquisitions, management/leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations for middle market and mature companies . The firm prefers to invest in companies undergoing financial restructurings (or requiring short-term liquidity) and investments are typically made in later stage. The firm typically invest in Internet retail, Industrials, Consumer staples, Healthcare services and equipment, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Financials, Online services, Application Software, Computer Hardware, and Telecommunication Services sector. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Canada, Europe, and Australia. The firm prefers to invest between CAD10 million ($9.81 million) and CAD20 million ($19.61 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically exits its investments between 3 and 5 years and form transitional a capital investment, such as bridge financing, a horizon of up to 24 months is typical. CIBC Capital Partners was founded in 1989 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, United States, Greater London, United Kingdom, Massachusetts, and United States.

OMERS Ventures is a multi-stage investor in growth-oriented, disruptive technology companies around the globe. It provides patient, strategic capital to accelerate growth and scale. It is a direct multi-stage venture capital investor from seed to late with a proven track record of scaling disruptive tech companies. As part of the private equity family at OMERS, it supports companies at all stages of their development with specialized teams focused on private equity, growth equity, and venture.

BMO Mezzanine Fund is a private equity arm of BMO Capital Markets Corp. specializing in mezzanine debt investments in support of middle market leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financings, corporate lending, loan syndications, corporate broking. It also considers the structuring alternatives, including deferred interest, equity co-investments, and warrants. The firm seeks to make subordinated debt investments between $4 million and $15 million and also underwrites and distributes subordinated debt in larger transactions. It may act as a lead or as the sole investor in the transaction. BMO Mezzanine Fund is based in Toronto, Canada.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Limited offers security brokerage services. The company provides market research and equity sales and trading, analysis, and financing services. Additionally, it offers tax, insurance, pension consulting, and online dealing services. Canaccord Genuity Wealth Limited was formerly known as Collins Stewart Wealth Management Limited and changed its name to Canaccord Genuity Wealth Limited in April 2013. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Canaccord Genuity Wealth Limited operates as a subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Wealth Group Limited

Macquarie Group is an independent asset management institution and investment bank that manages specialist funds, owning assets in infrastructure, real estate, private equity and development capital. It is based in Sydney, Australia and was founded in 1969.