Bansk Group

CAVU Consumer Partners invests in consumer brands across food and beverage, beauty and personal care, pet, and wellness. It backs growth-stage opportunities as well as earlier investments and incubations, providing brand-building and operating support. Its fifth fund closed with USD 325 million of commitments, exceeding its USD 275 million target, announced in February 2026.

Thrive Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in early and later stage technology companies. Thrive is industry and sector agnostic and has separate funds dedicated for earlier and growth stage investments. Our capital is highly flexible. We can incubate businesses (such as Oscar, Cadre and Cedar), partner with entrepreneurs through early development (e.g. Glossier, Warby Parker, Compass), and can lead later stage investments in large, category-making companies such as Spotify, Instagram, Twitch and Stripe. Thrive Capital was founded by Josh Kushner in 2009.

Silas Capital invests growth capital in consumer brands; early-stage investments are made through Silas Ventures.

Siddhi Capital is an operationally-focused food and beverage growth equity firm.

Prelude Growth invests in growing consumer brands. It provides capital and operational support to founders and management teams, including help with strategy and recruitment.

Venrock is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto that focuses on disruptive early-stage technology startups. Venrock partners with entrepreneurs who have grand ambitions and want to tackle big, hard problems that most think impossible. Venrock today consists of two separate programs: a traditional venture capital program, focused on early stage investing in healthcare and technology companies; and a later-stage healthcare program, which implements a venture capital-like long-term approach to investment opportunities in small capitalization public companies and late-stage private healthcare companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 as a venture arm of the Rockefeller family (the name Venrock being a compound of Venture and Rockefeller), who have a long history of venture-style investing dating back to the early 20th century.

Blackstone is a global alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, multi-asset, secondaries, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, life sciences, growth and energy transition strategies.

KKR is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit and hedge funds. The firm is a recognised global leader in private equity, with a long history of successful investments dating back to its founding in 1976. Although originally specialising in leveraged buy-out (control) transactions, KKR today participates in almost every asset class.

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity and alternative asset manager headquartered in Washington DC, USA. Carlyle was founded in 1987 and has grown to become one of the largest, most well known and most respected private equity managers globally. Carlyle operates across four principal strategies: Corporate Private Equity ($75bn AUM), Real Estate and Infrastructure ($44bn AUM), Global Credit ($34bn) and Fund of Funds / Investment Solutions ($34bn AUM). Carlyle was founded in 1987, originally as an investment banking boutique, by five founders: William Conway, Stephen Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel D'Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum. Carlyle went public through a NASDAQ listing in May 2012.

EQT Partners is a global alternative investment firm with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and public value.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

Fiera Capital is one of the largest independent investment management firms in Canada. We invest in equity, credit and fund of funds opportunities globally and use a number of partners with local expertise. Our core investment platforms are Fiera Properties (direct real estate investment primarily in North America), Fiera Infrastructure (mid-market and core infrastructure investments in OECD countries), Fiera Comox (direct Agriculture and Private equity investments globally) and Fiera Private lending (real estate and business lending). Fiera Capital offers a broad spectrum of investment strategies across asset classes, styles and capitalization ranges. We are one of only a handful of independent investment firms providing extensive expertise in Canadian active and structured fixed income, Canadian and foreign equity, asset allocation and non-traditional investment solutions through a broad range of strategies and services. Fiera Capital is a research-driven investment firm. We believe that disciplined, methodical analysis and the consistent application of a rigorous investment approach produce superior performance. Our active management model stresses teamwork and the free exchange of ideas among a group of highly experienced investment professionals. Fiera Capital was formed in 2003 through the acquisition of Elantis Investment Management from the Desjardins Group.