# EdgeStone Partners

> EdgeStone Partners is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Computer. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2012
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ph.linkedin.com/company/edgestone-capital-partners/
- Website: http://www.edgestone.com/

EdgeStone Partners is a private equity and venture capital arm of GMP Securities, specializing in direct investments and fund of funds investments. It seeks to make private equity, mezzanine, and venture capital investments in middle market, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, industry consolidation, recapitalizations,roll-up strategy, management buy-in or buy-out, divestiture of non-core business and growth capital stages Within direct investments. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in venture capital funds and private equity funds within fund of fund investments. It specializes in investments in venture capital and buyout funds through its fund of funds. EdgeStone Partners manages and invests through its funds, Later Stage Equity (EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund); Mezzanine Debt; Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), and Venture Capital (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund) funds. It prefers to invest in light manufacturing, business, and consumer and financial services. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada. It seeks to invest in Canada and focuses on primary investments, with a limited amount of capital allocated to secondary investments. It typically invests between $5 million and $15 million. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies with EBITDA range of $10- $50 million and Enterprise Value range of $50- $250 million. It seeks to invest in equity and equity related securities, and prefers majority ownership/control positions and active board involvement in its portfolio companies and targets an IRR of 20 percent to 25 percent per year. EdgeStone Partners exits an investment within a period of three to seven years. It preferred exit options include: sale to a strategic or financial buyer; share re-purchase by the company; initial or secondary public offering; and financial restructuring and targets an IRR of 40 percent. It prefers to invest between Cdn $25 million ($22.14 million) and Cdn $60 million ($53.15 million) and more through the Later Stage fund. EdgeStone Partners seeks to make subordinated debt, preferred share, and related equity investments in buyouts, going private transactions, growth capital financings, expansion capital, and acquisitions of middle market and later stage private and public companies through the Mezzanine Debt fund (EdgeStone Capital Mezzanine Fund). It seeks to invest in companies based in North America through the mezzanine fund. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $10 million ($8.85 million) and Cdn $40 million ($35.43 million) in its portfolio companies and also considers higher investments. It seeks an IRR between 15 percent and 20 percent and exits its investment within a period of three to seven years. The fund also prefers to take a seat on the Board of Observers of its portfolio companies. Through its Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), the firm makes acquisition and organic growth investments in small and mid-sized public and private companies. The firm seeks to make equity and equity related investments in the exploration, production, and service sectors of the energy industry, oil and gas, and other energy-related sectors through the Energy Capital fund. EdgeStone Partners primarily invests in companies based in Western Canada. It prefers to invest $5 million to $10 million per transaction. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in common equity or equity-related securities, such as preferred shares or convertible debt. It seeks to exit its investments in three to five years; has an Observer attend at all the board meetings of portfolio companies. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in early and mid- stage technology companies through its Venture Capital fund (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund). It seeks to invest in companies that sell technology solutions to the enterprise and where the intellectual property resides in the software. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $3 million ($2.59 million) and Cdn $10 million ($8.65 million) in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for three to five years, targets an IRR of 40%, and it also makes co-investments. EdgeStone Partners also seeks membership on the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest in the telecommunications and other high technology sectors. EdgeStone Partners began operation in February 1999. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada with additional offices in Montréal and Calgary in the same country.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.4M–$10M |
| Series B | $3.8M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 43% |
| Computer | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 43% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 8 | 57% |
| Ireland | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan W. Kerdman | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-w-kerdman |
| Gilbert S. Palter | Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilbert-s-palter |
| Samuel L. Duboc | President and Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-l-duboc |
| Andrew Walton | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-walton |
| Sandra Bosela | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandra-bosela |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cirba | Densify is the developer of cloud and container cost management technology. Densify’s software enables FinOps and DevOps to collaborate and automate the proactive specification of cloud and container resources in the most financially-prudent way. With Densify, enterprises ensure that applications continuously get the resources they need at thelowest possible spend. | $15M | Series C | Mar 27, 2012 |  |
| Work.com | Ryple is a web-based social performance management platform that helps managers and employees improve performance through continuous coaching, real-time feedback and meaningful recognition.Designed to build a transparent, results-driven work culture, Rypple replaces the traditional performance review with an easy, social and collaborativeapproach so people know where they stand and are accountable for achieving their goals.Unlike top-down enterprise performance management software, which sits on the shelf until annual review time, Rypple's quick set-up, intuitive Facebook-like interface and social environment make it easy and fun to use. Thousands of high-performing organizations use Rypple, including Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Kobo, Mozilla and Rackspace. | $7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2010 |  |
| Redmere Technology | RedMere develops active cable semiconductor solutions. The company offers EyeWire, a low power signal conditioning active chip technology, which is embedded within the cable to create smart HDMI active cables for consumer multimedia, gaming, home theater, mobile phone, digital video cameras or digital video still cameras, and PC markets; andVerifEye, an active cable manufacturing test platform that enables the rapid testing of active cable solutions based on EyeWire chip technology. RedMere was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Balbriggan, Ireland. | $5.6M | Series B | Dec 09, 2009 |  |
| Overlay.tv | Overlay.TV is a platform that enables web-based video content to be overlayed with images, video, links, tags, commentary and custom widgets. | $3.8M | Series B | Dec 16, 2008 |  |
| Redmere Technology | RedMere develops active cable semiconductor solutions. The company offers EyeWire, a low power signal conditioning active chip technology, which is embedded within the cable to create smart HDMI active cables for consumer multimedia, gaming, home theater, mobile phone, digital video cameras or digital video still cameras, and PC markets; andVerifEye, an active cable manufacturing test platform that enables the rapid testing of active cable solutions based on EyeWire chip technology. RedMere was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Balbriggan, Ireland. | $7M |  | Nov 30, 2008 |  |
| Cirba | Densify is the developer of cloud and container cost management technology. Densify’s software enables FinOps and DevOps to collaborate and automate the proactive specification of cloud and container resources in the most financially-prudent way. With Densify, enterprises ensure that applications continuously get the resources they need at thelowest possible spend. | $12M | Series B | Jan 28, 2008 |  |
| Overlay.tv | Overlay.TV is a platform that enables web-based video content to be overlayed with images, video, links, tags, commentary and custom widgets. | $3.4M | Series A | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| Aurigen Capital | Aurigen Capital Limited (“Aurigen”) is an insurance holding company that was formed in 2007 with a capital facility in excess of $500 million. Aurigen provides risk and capital management solutions tailored to specific customer needs, with our core business being the reinsurance of life insurance policies of North American residents.Aurigen isan organization of highly experienced, customer-centric, seasoned professionals who listen actively and respond quickly. Our creative solutions are backed by rigorous analytical methodology. We bring a modern approach to risk evaluation, unencumbered by legacy issues. An efficient capital structure allows for more competitive pricing to our customers, as well as more return potential for our shareholders.Aurigen’s recent expansion into the US is a significant step in its evolution to being a valued North American life reinsurer with a long-term goal of becoming a prominent, international life reinsurance group. |  | Private Equity | Nov 26, 2007 |  |
| Shoplogix | Shoplogix Inc. develops real-time performance management solutions. It provides Plantnode Perform, an integrated hardware and software platform that helps manufacturers to identify productivity opportunities through real-time capture and analysis of machine downtime. The company also offers Plantnode OutPerform, a real-time performance managementsolution, which provides infrastructure for mistake proof manufacturing operations; and Plantnode Enterprise that collects real-time data across multiple lines, plants, and geographies enabling standardization and comparison of efficiencies from job to job, plant to plant, or employee to employee. It has strategic partnerships with Leading Edge Solutions (Pty) Ltd. and GTS Brasil. Shoplogix Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Mississauga, Canada. | $7M | Series B | Jun 19, 2007 |  |
| RapidMind | RapidMind, Inc. provides a software development platform that allows software vendors to deliver performance on multi-core and stream processors. It offers RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, which enables software organizations to deliver products with less risk and lower development costs, as well as enables single-threaded manageableapplications that fully leverage multi-core processors. The company was founded in 2004 as Serious Hack, Inc. and changed its name to RapidMind, Inc. in 2006. RapidMind, Inc. is based in Waterloo, Canada. As of August 19, 2009, the RapidMind team and products have joined Intel Corporation and continue to work on similar products and technology there under the "Ct Technology" project. | $10M | Series A | Apr 24, 2007 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does EdgeStone Partners invest in?

EdgeStone Partners invests primarily in Software, Computer and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is EdgeStone Partners's check size?

EdgeStone Partners typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$10M at Series A and $3.8M–$12M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds EdgeStone Partners participates in.

### How do I contact EdgeStone Partners?

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### Who are the partners at EdgeStone Partners?

The team at EdgeStone Partners includes Bryan W. Kerdman (Partner), Gilbert S. Palter (Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner) and Samuel L. Duboc (President and Managing Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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