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Overview
EdgeStone Partners is a private equity and venture capital arm of GMP Securities, specializing in direct investments and fund of funds investments. It seeks to make private equity, mezzanine, and venture capital investments in middle market, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, industry consolidation, recapitalizations, roll-up strategy, management buy-in or buy-out, divestiture of non-core business and growth capital stages Within direct investments.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in venture capital funds and private equity funds within fund of fund investments. It specializes in investments in venture capital and buyout funds through its fund of funds.
EdgeStone Partners manages and invests through its funds, Later Stage Equity (EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund); Mezzanine Debt; Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), and Venture Capital (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund) funds. It prefers to invest in light manufacturing, business, and consumer and financial services.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada. It seeks to invest in Canada and focuses on primary investments, with a limited amount of capital allocated to secondary investments. It typically invests between $5 million and $15 million.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies with EBITDA range of $10- $50 million and Enterprise Value range of $50- $250 million. It seeks to invest in equity and equity related securities, and prefers majority ownership/control positions and active board involvement in its portfolio companies and targets an IRR of 20 percent to 25 percent per year.
EdgeStone Partners exits an investment within a period of three to seven years. It preferred exit options include: sale to a strategic or financial buyer; share re-purchase by the company; initial or secondary public offering; and financial restructuring and targets an IRR of 40 percent. It prefers to invest between Cdn $25 million ($22.14 million) and Cdn $60 million ($53.15 million) and more through the Later Stage fund.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to make subordinated debt, preferred share, and related equity investments in buyouts, going private transactions, growth capital financings, expansion capital, and acquisitions of middle market and later stage private and public companies through the Mezzanine Debt fund (EdgeStone Capital Mezzanine Fund). It seeks to invest in companies based in North America through the mezzanine fund.
EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $10 million ($8.85 million) and Cdn $40 million ($35.43 million) in its portfolio companies and also considers higher investments. It seeks an IRR between 15 percent and 20 percent and exits its investment within a period of three to seven years.
The fund also prefers to take a seat on the Board of Observers of its portfolio companies. Through its Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), the firm makes acquisition and organic growth investments in small and mid-sized public and private companies. The firm seeks to make equity and equity related investments in the exploration, production, and service sectors of the energy industry, oil and gas, and other energy-related sectors through the Energy Capital fund.
EdgeStone Partners primarily invests in companies based in Western Canada. It prefers to invest $5 million to $10 million per transaction.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in common equity or equity-related securities, such as preferred shares or convertible debt. It seeks to exit its investments in three to five years; has an Observer attend at all the board meetings of portfolio companies.
EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in early and mid- stage technology companies through its Venture Capital fund (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund). It seeks to invest in companies that sell technology solutions to the enterprise and where the intellectual property resides in the software.
EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $3 million ($2.59 million) and Cdn $10 million ($8.65 million) in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for three to five years, targets an IRR of 40%, and it also makes co-investments.
EdgeStone Partners also seeks membership on the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest in the telecommunications and other high technology sectors.
EdgeStone Partners began operation in February 1999. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada with additional offices in Montréal and Calgary in the same country.
Highlights
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Financial Services
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Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Private Equity Firm
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Contact Information
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EdgeStone Partners, established in 1999 and headquartered in North America., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity investments across Video, TV, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance, Banking, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Product Design, Semiconductor. The organization boasts a portfolio of 27 investments, with an average round size of $10.1M and 14 successful exits. Their recent investments include Overlay.tv, Tech Capital Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners, BreconRidge, Redmere Technology. The highest investment round they participated in was $10.0B. Among their most notable exits are Overlay.tv and Tech Capital Partners. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.
Investment portfolio
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Investments
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Annouced Date | Organization Name | Industry | Money Raised |
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Sep 29, 2010 | Work.com | Software | 7.0M |
Jan 01, 2012 | Porter | Travel | null |
Mar 27, 2012 | Densify | Software | 15.0M |
Aug 14, 2012 | Spectra7 Microsystems | Virtual Reality | 11.0M |
Exits
14
Funding Timeline
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Funding Rounds
27
EdgeStone Partners has raised 27 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 14, 2012 from a Venture Round - Spectra7 Microsystems round.
Annouced Date | Transaction Name | Number of Investors | Money Raised | Lead Investor |
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Sep 29, 2010 | Series A - Work.com | - | 7.0M | - |
Jan 01, 2012 | Private Equity Round - Porter Airlines (Canada) Limited | - | 0 | - |
Mar 27, 2012 | Series C - Densify | - | 15.0M | - |
Aug 14, 2012 | Venture Round - Spectra7 Microsystems | - | 11.0M | - |
Investors
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There is no funding round available on this profile
Fund raised
2
Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.
Annouced Date | Fund Name | Money Raised |
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May 10, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
May 11, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
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Recent Activity
Funding Round
Aug 14, 2012
Spectra7 Microsystems raised $11000000 on 2012-08-14 in Venture Round
Funding Round
Mar 27, 2012
Densify raised $15000000 on 2012-03-27 in Series C
Funding Round
Jan 01, 2012
Porter Airlines (Canada) Limited raised an undisclosed amount on 2012-01-01 in Private Equity Round
Funding Round
Sep 29, 2010
Work.com raised $7000000 on 2010-09-29 in Series A
Funding Round
Dec 09, 2009
Redmere Technology raised $5600000 on 2009-12-09 in Series B