Your legacy. Our platform for growth.
Originate Partners acquires specialized service and light manufacturing businesses that deliver essential, recurring, and value-added solutions critical to the functionality and longevity of the assets they serve.
We focus on companies that serve a diverse client base and offer a clear, measurable value proposition — easy to explain, impactful in results, and capable of steady, predictable growth.
With a strong foundation in building services, Originate invests broadly in essential-service businesses that share the same durable, value-driven characteristics.
Originate builds scale by professionalizing these providers, strengthening sales, branding, and client retention while preserving their technical credibility and operational simplicity.
The Originate Advantage
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We Buy to Build
We acquire businesses to own, operate, and grow for the long term, creating lasting value through strong management and sustainable growth.
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Our Own Capital
Each acquisition is financed through retained earnings from our operating businesses, with excess cash flow strategically reinvested into the acquisition and expansion of new ventures.
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Operators First
We’re business builders, not financiers — our experience lies in running and scaling companies, building lasting value, and driving growth, rather than managing funds.
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Synergy Strength
Our companies support each other through shared networks, resources, and expertise, generating value that extends far beyond any single business.
Our Acquisition Criteria
At Originate Partners, we are actively seeking established service-based businesses in the Greater Toronto Area. Our goal is to partner with owners who have built strong companies and are considering the next stage in their journey.
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We focus on businesses with strong roots in the GTA, where we can leverage our local presence and networks.
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We seek well established companies with 10+ years of operating history.
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Targeting companies with scale, stability, and strong cash flow to support long-term growth.
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Open to tailored structures — including earnouts, equity rollovers, or all-cash transactions — to meet seller needs.
Top Companies In Our Portfolio
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Originate Developments
A Toronto-based infill development firm with $3 Billion of residential communities currently in development.
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Sage Living
Purpose-driven, tenant-first property management company with over 3,500 units actively under management in 10 properties across the GTA.
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The Commencement Group
The largest on-campus event retailer in North America, offering products that celebrate milestone moments. Its portfolio includes officially licensed apparel and memorabilia for hundreds of schools.
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In8 Developments & Construction Management
A construction manager who has completed over $1 Billion worth of residential developments across Southwestern Ontario for the past 20 years.
Our Team
Entrepreneurs with a proven track record of founding, acquiring, and operating diversified businesses.
Adam and Darryl are long-term operators who start, purchase, invest in, and grow companies - never to flip, always to strengthen.
Over the past decade, we've acquired five businesses and launched six more, building a portfolio spanning real estate development,
construction, property management, and retail and apparel-licensing services.
ADAM SHEFFER, PARTNER
DARRYL FIRSTEN, PARTNER
Contact us
adam@originate.ca
(647) 222-3116
1500 Don Mills Road
Toronto, ON
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