Canyon Partners
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Canyon Partners is a company that offers loaning and investment services. It specializes in value-oriented special situation investments for endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and other institutional investors. The company invests across a broad range of asset classes, including distressed loans,corporate bonds, convertible bonds, securitized assets, direct investments, real estate, arbitrage, and event-oriented equities.Canyon Partners was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Canyon Partners invests in
Stages Canyon Partners invests in
Countries Canyon Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Joshua S. Friedman
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Mitchell R. Julis
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (33%)
- Travel 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Commercial 2 (22%)
- Real Estate 2 (22%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 2 (22%)
- Private Equity 2 (22%)
- Series E 1 (11%)
- Series G 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- India 1 (11%)
- Germany 1 (11%)
- United Kingdom 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Joshua S. Friedman
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Mitchell R. Julis
Co-Founder & Co-CIO
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Co-Founder & Co-CIO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
ACRE
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ACRE operates as an alternative asset management firm. | $123.8M / Debt Financing / Apr 22, 2026 | |
Anchor Glass Container
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Anchor Glass Container Corporation (“Anchor Glass”) is a North American manufacturer of premium glass packaging products. Anchor Glass has long-standing relationships with blue chip companies across the beer, liquor, food, beverage, ready-to-drink and consumer end-markets. | $100M / Private Equity / Oct 09, 2025 | |
Mavrek Development
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Mavrek Development is a construction company. They specialized in commercial and large residential developments that breathe life back into neighborhoods. It is a full-service developer and general contractor firm. This passion results in the premier build that connect communities and leaves a lasting impression in cities. | $106.3M / Debt Financing / Jul 25, 2025 | |
Smartsheet
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Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others. | $3.2B / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 24, 2024 | |
First Foundation
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First Foundation provides investment management, wealth planning, consulting, and banking services. Their depository services include commercial deposits, savings accounts, and online banking services. They also provide bank products and services to individuals and families that include checking, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, debitcards, credit cards, and mortgage loans. | $228M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 02, 2024 | |
Travelport
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Travelport is the technology company which makes the experience of buying and managing travel continually better. It operates a travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. The company facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world's leading travelproviders with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business (B2B) travel platform. Travelport has a leading position in airline merchandising, hotel content and distribution, car rental, mobile commerce and B2B payment solutions. The company also provides IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions. | $570M / Private Equity / Dec 04, 2023 | |
CarDekho
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CarDekho provides enterprise mobility solutions, mobile application development, Web design and development, offshore staffing, and testing and quality assurance (QA) services. Its enterprise mobility solutions include enterprise mobility consulting, mobile business intelligence, business process mobilization, B2B mobile applications (app)development, enterprise iOS app development, enterprise Android app development, and enterprise app distribution; and mobile app development services include iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows8, Phonegap, and bootstrap.CarDekho’s Web design and development services include responsive design, PSD to HTML conversion, flash Website design, themes customization, content management system, E-commerce solution, CRM app development, open-source development, custom Web app development, regular Website maintenance, customized programming, online marketing, graphic design, Website hosting, employee management system, logo design, inventory management, and database design. Its offshore staffing services for designers, mobile apps developers,.NET developers, PHP developers, Java developers, Python developers, and ROR developers; and testing and QA services include automated, manual, usability, nonfunctional, specialized, mobile app, testing-as-a-service, integration, functional, system, localization, and acceptance testing.CarDekho develops entertainment, GPS tracking, weather, business and finance related, multi-media, sports, social networking, education, and travel applications. It serves the automobile, E-learning, consultancy, finance, social networking, tours and travel, health and fitness, medical, job and career, news and magazine, utility/productivity, entertainment, lifestyle, and Ecommerce industries; and IT and communication, and book and library industries.Amit and Anurag Jain founded CarDekho in 2007. It has its headquarters in Jaipur in India. | $200M / Series E / Oct 13, 2021 | |
FlixBus
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FlixBus is a unique combination of tech-startup, e-commerce platform, and transportation company. FlixMobility is a young mobility provider, offering new alternatives for convenient, affordable, and environmentally-friendly travel via the FlixBus and FlixTrain brands. Thanks to a unique business model and innovative technology, the startup hasquickly established Europe’s largest long-distance bus network and launched the first green long-distance trains in 2018 as well as a pilot project for all-electric buses in Germany and France. Since 2013, FlixMobility has changed the way over 100 million people have traveled throughout Europe and created thousands of new jobs in the mobility industry. In 2018, FlixMobility launched FlixBus USA to bring this new travel alternative to the United States.From locations throughout Europe and the United States, the FlixTeam handles technology development, network planning, operations control, marketing & sales, quality management, and continuous product expansion. The daily scheduled service and green FlixBus fleet are managed by bus partners from regional SMEs, while FlixTrain operates in cooperation with private train companies. Through these partnerships, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and a strong international brand meet the experience and quality of tradition. The unique combination of a technology start-up, e-commerce platform, and classic transport company has positioned FlixMobility as a leader against major international corporations, permanently changing the European mobility landscape. | $650M / Series G / Jun 02, 2021 | |
The Lightstone Group
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Lightstone Group is a real-estate investment company that develops, manages and invests in all sectors of the real estate market. | $18M / Dec 10, 2018 |
Co-Investors
Elliott Management Corp.
2 deals together
AllianceBernstein
1 deal together
Baillie Gifford
1 deal together
Benefit Street Partners
1 deal together
BlackRock
1 deal together
Blackstone
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Canyon Partners invest in?
Canyon Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Travel and Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Canyon Partners?
The team at Canyon Partners includes Joshua S. Friedman (Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer) and Mitchell R. Julis (Co-Founder & Co-CIO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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