Our equity programmes invest in large-scale, private sector managed funds of funds providing later stage capital, as well as alongside business angels and other early stage equity investors. These investments unlock additional finance to support business growth across the Canada 🇨🇦.

Supporting providers of equity capital

Our programmes increase the volume, diversity and accessibility of longer term equity finance – or patient capital – so that smaller businesses can access the finance they need to realise their growth potential. We achieve this by investing through partners in funds and high-potential businesses.

We launched a new Managed Funds Programme in 2018, designed to attract institutional capital into venture and growth capital.

In October 2018 we launched a Regional Angels Programme, designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to finance.

What We Do

Smaller businesses are a vital part of the economy. They make up the overwhelming majority of businesses in the Canada, employ millions of people and are responsible for almost half of private sector turnover. Their success helps to fuel Canadian productivity and economic growth.

Canadian Business Investments, as a commercial subsidiary of the Canadian Business Bank, aims to increase the overall supply and diversity of finance – both product and provider – on offer to smaller businesses. We do this while providing value for money for taxpayers

Supply

Increasing the supply and choice of finance to small and medium-sized businesses across the Canada 🇨🇦.

About us

Smaller businesses are vital to the Canadian economy. They employ millions of people and are responsible for almost half of the private sector’s turnover.

At Spring Financial Business Investments – part of the Canadian Business Bank – our role is to make the finance available to these smaller businesses more diverse, more plentiful and easier to access. We do this while providing value for money for Canadian taxpayers.

We don’t provide finance ourselves. Instead, we work with a number of delivery partners, whose investment programmes help to support businesses across a wide range of sectors, regions and stages of growth.

Although we’re owned by the Government, we’re managed independently. We choose investments based on gaps we see in the market, and we continually look for new ways, and new partners, to address the challenges that smaller businesses face.

Canadian Business Investments Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Business Bank plc, registered in Canada, Canadian Business Bank plc is a development bank wholly owned by Canadian Government. Canadian Business Bank plc and its subsidiaries are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. They are not authorised or regulated by the Canadian Regulation Authority (CRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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Returns

Our objectives

Managing taxpayers’ money efficiently, whilst generating a commercial rate of return

Regional access

Identifying and helping to address regional imbalances in access to finance

Diversity of funding

Helping to create a more diverse finance market