# Instar Asset Management: portfolio, investments and team

> Instar Asset Management is a private equity based in Canada. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/instar-asset-management (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Instar Asset Management

No observed cheques in the sources we track. That is a limit of our coverage, not a finding about this organisation.

Email

Unknown Private equity

Growth Buyout Essential Products Solutions

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Cheques on record

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## 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 market From their own website

- **Type:** Private equity
- **Cheque size:** Not stated
- **Stages:** Growth Buyout
- **Sectors:** Essential Products Solutions
- **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](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=instar-asset-management).

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **1 named**

GJ **Gregory James Smith** Officer & Director i Form 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

**$1.5B** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture 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.

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## Quick answers about Instar Asset Management

### What does Instar Asset Management invest in?

Instar Asset Management says it invests in Essential Products and Solutions.

### Is Instar Asset Management investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months.

### What kind of investor is Instar Asset Management?

Instar Asset Management is a private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada.

### How much does Instar Asset Management manage?

About $1.5B, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026).

### Where does this information on Instar Asset Management come from?

From public registers and its own website, checked and rebuilt every night.

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