Canada · What does Instar Asset Management invest in?
Instar Asset Management says it invests in Essential Products and Solutions.
What they do
Instar helps great companies to become even better, partnering with niche, market-leading businesses that provide essential products and solutions across North America’s middle marketFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthBuyout
- Sectors
- Essential ProductsSolutions
- Based in
- Toronto, Canada
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
No rounds observed yet. That is a limit of the sources we read, not a finding about the firm. If it has invested, a round will put it here. Know a round it was in? Tell us.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
GJGregory James SmithOfficer & DirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 20 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.5Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Instar Asset Management Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 175395
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 10 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.