CAI Capital Partners

What is CAI Capital Partners?

CAI Capital Partners is a private equity fund with a focus on founder-owned businesses in the Canadian lower middle market.

With a track record of investing $1.6 billion in private equity over three decades, CAI emphasizes its strong Canadian roots and specializes in leveraging these to identify and nurture investment opportunities in Canada, particularly those demonstrating substantial potential for EBITDA growth.

They prioritize relationships and possess a reputation which allows them to manage personal capital for various founders of companies in their portfolio.

Their investment criteria include companies with $3 million or more of EBITDA, a founder-owned or led business model, providing essential services and products, and having a willingness to accept a control investor. They do not require but appreciate a company with prior institutional equity and a presence in Canada or the US.

Their approach combines adding talent, professionalizing processes, investing in infrastructure, and identifying expansion opportunities with the goal of building market leaders. The fund's expertise is in equity, and they have specialties in Expansion, MBO/LBO, Acquisition, Recapitalization, Restructuring, Consolidation, Privatization, and Corporate Divestiture.

The firm's headquarters are located in Vancouver, British Columbia, and they employ a team of experienced partners and associates who are actively involved in all facets of the investment process, transaction execution, and monitoring of portfolio companies. CAI is characterized by their respectful, open-minded, and determined Canadian approach to business, and they value deeply rooted connections within the nation's business environment.