Clairvest Group
22 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 1700, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2S3, Canada
Overview
Clairvest Group is an equity management firm that invests its own capital in entrepreneurial corporations. Clairvest Group was founded in 1987 as a Canadian-based private equity management firm that invested its own capital in entrepreneurial corporations. Clairvest combines the capital and considerable experience of its board, consisting of entrepreneurs who have themselves successfully built many companies. Their expertise and experience is brought to bear on every investment opportunity.
- Total investments
- 4
- Lead investments
- 4
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Boca Biolistics
Led · Equity · Feb 2023
Boca Biolistics, founded in 2007, is a clinical research organization and biomaterials company focused on the procurement, storage and sale of human biological samples, specializing in infectious diseases and oncology. The company sources samples through a proprietary international network of collection sites and has a strong reputation as a trusted vendor. Boca also offers in-house analytical laboratory testing and characterization services for internal and third-party samples. Clairvest made a US$25 million equity investment to partner with Boca’s management for the next phase of growth. Going forward Boca will be led by founders Valentin Adia (CEO) and Michael Morris (COO), who rolled a significant portion of their equity alongside Clairvest. The capital is intended to accelerate growth and support biopharma and diagnostic research and development efforts.
- FSB Technology
Led · Equity · Jul 2019
FSB provides a scalable, flexible SaaS sports betting and internet gaming platform that includes data and pricing feeds, a proprietary betting engine, UX, infrastructure management, player segmentation/CRM, payment processing and analytics. The platform is available as a fully-managed service or as an enterprise solution and is integrated with major casino games suppliers. FSB's technology is designed for live betting and fragmented global regulation and is utilised by operators on four continents. The company focuses on enabling partners to run branded, responsible sports betting and gaming businesses with light physical deployments and centralised control. Management has signalled an aggressive growth plan in existing markets and expansion into new regulated sports betting jurisdictions. FSB was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in London.
- Head Digital Works
Led · Equity · Apr 2017
Head InfoTech India Pvt Ltd operates Ace2Three, an online multiplayer rummy portal offering multiple rummy variants, tournaments and pool games. The site was launched in 2007 and went commercial in 2008. The company says its game is used by over 8 million online gamers in India. Head InfoTech will use the fresh capital to develop other social-gaming products to be launched outside India while maintaining a key focus on the Indian market. Founder Deepak Gullapalli will continue to head the company. Matrix Partners previously invested in Head InfoTech in 2010.
- Cieslok Media
Led · Equity · Oct 2013
Cieslok Media operates large-format digital and static billboards across major Canadian cities and is led by Jörg Cieslok. The company focuses on transit and street placements including bus, rail, bulletins, telephone kiosks and street banners, and develops digital outdoor platforms. It also offers a range of products such as posters, headlight and taillight displays, head liners, full back and full wrap products, window clings and interior car cards. Cieslok Media was formerly known as Titan Outdoor Canada Company. The firm has offices in Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver. It intends to use the new funding to expand its business.