Clairvest Group
clairvest.com Direct + LP
Clairvest is a Toronto-based private equity firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build strategically significant businesses. It manages its own capital and co-invests alongside institutional investors, typically taking minority positions in owner-led companies.
Clairvest Group is a private equity firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 1987. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, at growth, in aerospace & Defense, business Services, Co-Pack / Private Label and engineering & Consulting. Its stated cheque size is $25 million to $100 million in equity capital in each portfolio company.. $4.6 billion under management and 72 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We provide patient, flexible, and long-term capital to enable your success”
— Clairvest Group, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Growth
- Invests in
- United States of America, Canada
- Sectors
- Aerospace & Defense, Business Services, Co-Pack / Private Label, Engineering & Consulting, Environmental Services, Equipment Rental, Gaming, Insurance, IT Services, Life Science Services
- Cheque size
- $25 million to $100 million in equity capital in each portfolio company.
- Founded
- 1987
- Assets under management
- $4.6 billion
- Portfolio
- 72 companies
Team, as Clairvest Group publishes it
- Ken Rotman CEO & MD
- Michael Wagman President & MD
- Michael Castellarin MD
- Mitch Green MD
- Robbie Isenberg MD
- Sebastien Dhonte MD
- Angus Cole MD
- Doug Horn MD
- Michael Andrisani Partner
- Ethan Wolfe Partner
- Rahil Manji Partner
- Davey Mishra VP
Names and roles exactly as listed on clairvest.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Clairvest Group publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.clairvest.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.clairvest.com/portfolio/invests_in_geographies
- https://www.clairvest.com/strategy/stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.clairvest.com/people/people
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Record 1500 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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