EdgeStone Partners

EdgeStone Partners specializes in direct investments and fund of funds investments.

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Address: 1920 Yonge Street

City: Toronto

State: OH

Zip: M4S 3E2

Country: US

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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.

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Announced Date Company Transaction Money Raised
12/2008 Overlay.tv Series B 3.8M
11/2008 Redmere Technology Unattributed 7M
6/2007 Shoplogix Series B 7M
4/2009 BreconRidge Venture Round 11.2M
5/2005 Shoplogix Series A -
12/2004 PVelocity Series A 3.3M
4/2007 RapidMind Series A 10M
8/2012 Spectra7 Microsystems Venture Round 0
1/2008 Densify Series B 0
12/2009 Redmere Technology Series B 5.6M
10/2009 Varicent Software Series C 0
1/1999 Protus IP Solutions Venture Round -
5/2004 INEA Corporation Series B 7.5M
4/2007 Redmere Technology Venture Round 13.5M
11/2007 Aurigen Capital Private Equity Round 506
4/2005 Solace Venture Round -
7/2002 Expresiv Technologies Series A 9.8M
8/2003 Datawire Communication Networks Series B 0
9/2010 Work.com Series A 7M
4/2005 Datawire Communication Networks Series B 1.1M
2/2003 RSS Solutions Venture Round 1.6M
12/2003 Workbrain Venture Round 34.9M
2/2006 Densify Series A 5M
1/2008 Overlay.tv Series A 4.6M
1/2012 Porter Airlines Private Equity Round -
1/1999 Eurospec Manufacturing Private Equity Round -
3/2012 Densify Series C 0
8/2012 Spectra7 Microsystems Venture Round 0
3/2012 Densify Series C 0
1/2012 Porter Airlines Private Equity Round -
9/2010 Work.com Series A 0
12/2009 Redmere Technology Series B 0
10/2009 Varicent Software Series C 0
4/2009 BreconRidge Venture Round 0
12/2008 Overlay.tv Series B 0
11/2008 Redmere Technology Venture Round 0
1/2008 Densify Series B 0

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