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List of 3 large Single Family Offices in Canada
Throughout recent years, Canada developed to a single family office hotspot. Many Canadian millionaires and billionaires launched their private investment firms and started to actively invest in private and public markets. In the following, we are introducing you to three interesting Canadian family offices from our list.
1. Thomvest (Toronto)
The investment vehicle of Peter J. Thomson is called Thomvest. The Toronto-based family office has further offices in San Francisco (for venture capital investments) and Dallas (for real estate investments). The investment scope of the firm is split into three verticals: Thomvest Ventures, Thomvest Asset Management and Thomvest Properties. Thomvest is an extraordinarily active venture capital investor. Investments include Blend, carta, SoFi and ShiftLeft.
2. Claridge (Montreal)
Canadian billionaire Stephen Bronfman manages his wealth through the Claridge family office. Clardige invests in private equity, real estate as well as funds. In 2016, the Canadian family office launched an real estate investment program to focus on Quebec development projects. Until 2020, the investment platform invested more than $200M. When it comes to third-party funds, the family office invests in equity funds, hedge funds and private equity funds.
3. Werklund (Calgary)
David Werklund belongs to the wealthiest Canadians. He lauched oil servicing company Concord Well Servicing and waste management firm Canadian Crude Separators, which was ultimatively combined in Tervita Corporation. In 2021, Tervita was aquired by Secure Energy Services. The Werklund Family Office is active in various areas. Werklund Ventures invests in active equities as well as disruptive technologies and merchant banking. For philanthropic endeavours, the firm also operates the Werklund foundation.

Information included in our list
- Company name
- Contact data (URL, address, state, e-mail, telephone number, executives)
- Family information (Name, Estimated family assets in M€, Holding structure)
- Real Estate Focus (Yes/No) / Real Estate Focus Details / Examples of Real Estate Investments
- Venture Capital Focus (Yes/No) / Details on Venture Capital Focus / Examples of Venture Capital Investments
- Private Equity Focus (Yes/No) / Details on Private Equity Focus / Examples of Private Equity Investments
- Financial assets focus (Yes/No)
- Renewable Energy Focus (Yes/No)
- Other focus (art, philanthropy, forestry, agriculture, etc.)
- Dates of the entry creation, last check and last update
Values may be missing if some data points are not publicly available. The “largest single-family offices” are defined by the wealthiest Canadian families who actively invest through investment vehicles and for whom reliable information is available. With regular, free updates and extensions, we constantly improve the data quality.
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Last Updated on January 29, 2025
Zoe Grossman (verified owner) –
A really good list with relevant details about the family offices. Imho better than other database providers I already tried in the past.