# Onex

> Onex is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Education. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last fund: May 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onex
- Website: http://onex.com

Onex is a private equity firm that invests and manages capital on behalf of its shareholders and institutional investors. It prefers to invest in the aerospace and defense, building products, construction and engineering, media, retail, transportation, financial services, healthcare devices, healthcare supplies and services, communications andnetworking, software, chemicals, and industrials sectors.Onex was established in 1984 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Onex. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Onex. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/onex?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Private Equity | $50M–$317M |
| Post-IPO Equity | $85M–$400M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 21% |
| Education | 3 | 13% |
| Consulting | 3 | 13% |
| Health Care | 3 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 13% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 16 | 67% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 8% |
| Secondary Market | 2 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 79% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Denmark | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laurence Goldberg | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurence-goldberg |
| Dave Kelly | Head of Gluskin Sheff | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-kelly-0c4e |
| Gerald W. Schwartz | Founder, President, & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerry-schwartz-e737 |
| Gerald W. Schwartz | Founder, President, & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerald-w-schwartz |
| Judy Cotte | Head of ESG | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judy-cotte |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OneDigital | OneDigital is a company focused exclusively on employee benefits and combines people and technology to deliver the new generation of health and benefits. It provides thinking ahead of the market, innovative approaches, and market-leading solutions that give clients peace of mind. |  | Secondary Market | Sep 19, 2025 |  |
| PowerSchool | PowerSchool is a provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education. The company's solutions connect educators, administrators, and families to improve student outcomes. PowerSchool offers a variety of cloud-based solutions including a student information system, a learning management system, and data analytics tools. |  | Private Equity | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Unanet | Unanet is a leading provider of ERP solutions purpose-built for Government Contractors, A/E, and Professional Services. More than 2,000 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and nurture business growth. |  | Private Equity | Dec 09, 2022 |  |
| Analytic Partners | Analytic Partners is a marketing analytics company that leverages adaptive modeling techniques and tools to help companies generate better marketing ROI, drive growth and, ultimately, grow closer to their customers. We work with marketers to build deep knowledge about brands, customers and competitors that is converted into sound strategies aimedat improving business performance. www.analyticpartners.com |  | Private Equity | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Resource Environmental Solutions | RES is the nation’s leading supplier of ecological offsets for unavoidable, project-related impacts to wetlands, streams and habitats. |  | Private Equity | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Wealth Enhancement Group | Wealth Enhancement Group is a Greater Minneapolis-based independent wealth management firm offering comprehensive and customized financial planning and investment management services across 40 states. Established in 1997, Wealth Enhancement Group currently has over 10,000 households that entrust them with $4.7 billion in assets as of3/31/15. Wealth Enhancement Group specializes in providing retail mass affluent and affluent clients with the comprehensive expertise and resources that are typically available only to large institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy. Wealth Enhancement Group uses a team approach with a focus on fostering long-term client relationships and has 13 offices throughout Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. |  | Private Equity | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Weld North Education | Weld North Education focuses on building the best digital curriculum capabilities and resources to enable teachers, administrators, parents, and students to benefit from innovative technologies designed to maximize potential. Over the last decade, WNE has invested millions of dollars to make its digital offerings more powerful and effective. WeldNorth, founded in 2010, has made several acquisitions over the years, and its portfolio has grown to include online courseware and intervention company Edgenuity; and supplemental curriculum provider Imagine Learning; core curriculum company LearnZillion. |  | Private Equity | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Emerald X | Emerald Expositions is an owner and operator of business-to-business tradeshows in the United States connecting hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers across nine diversified end markets. | $400M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| Ryan Specialty Group | Ryan Specialty Group is a rapidly growing service provider of specialty products and solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers. Ryan Specialty Group provides distribution, underwriting, product development, administration and risk management services by acting as a wholesale broker and a managing underwriter. Our mission is to provideindustry-leading innovative specialty insurance solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers. | $208.1M | Private Equity | Mar 12, 2020 |  |
| Ryan | Ryan is an award-winning global tax services firm, with the largest indirect tax practice in North America and the sixth largest corporate tax practice in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides a comprehensive range of state, local, federal, and international tax advisory and consulting services on amulti-jurisdictional basis, including audit defense, tax recovery, credits and incentives, tax process improvement and automation, tax appeals, tax compliance, and strategic planning. | $317M | Private Equity | Oct 17, 2018 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Norwest Equity Partners (NEP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CPP Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canada-pension-plan-investment-board) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Century Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/century-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fenway Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenway-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Onex invest in?

Onex invests primarily in Software, Education and Consulting startups, most often at Private Equity and Post-IPO Equity stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Onex's check size?

Onex typically joins rounds of $50M–$317M at Private Equity and $85M–$400M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Onex participates in.

### How do I contact Onex?

Public channels for Onex include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Onex?

The team at Onex includes Laurence Goldberg (Managing Director), Dave Kelly (Head of Gluskin Sheff) and Gerald W. Schwartz (Founder, President, & CEO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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