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Sampford's quarterly report says public industrial-tech valuations have moved well ahead of the prices private buyers are paying.
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Ottawa-based M&A boutique that sells Canadian mid-market technology companies, often to U.S. buyers.
Sampford Advisors is an Ottawa-based boutique investment bank that works only on mid-market M&A for technology, media and telecom companies, mostly Canadian software, SaaS and IT services businesses. The firm reports 56 closed deals worth more than $2.6 billion in aggregate, with roughly three quarters of its sell-side clients bought by U.S. acquirers. For recruits it is a small team (about eight people on its team page) that hires associates and analysts mainly from Carleton, Ivey and Telfer commerce programs.
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Runs sale processes for founder-owned and sponsor-backed Canadian software, SaaS, IT services and hardware companies, frequently to U.S. strategic and private equity buyers.
Advises technology companies on acquisitions and on bringing in private equity investors, as on Remsoft's investment from Banneker Partners and its purchase of Lim Geomatics.
Publishes monthly commentary and a quarterly industrial-tech report covering public valuations and private transactions.
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Canadian technology M&A specialist that publishes its own Canadian tech M&A data, which makes the firm a reference point for the sector.
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Small team on cross-border software mandates.
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Sampford Advisors works as one generalist team: bankers staff deals across these sectors rather than joining a group, so there is no group to pick when you apply. Ottawa-based M&A adviser that works only with Canadian technology companies, mostly on sell-side processes; it names its technology verticals but has no separate teams.
Software/SaaSIT Services / Managed Services
Technology M&A Advisory
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Founded Sampford after more than 16 years in investment banking with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, where he raised over $20 billion of capital and completed over $10 billion of M&A. Before founding the firm he spent three years as CFO and VP Corporate Development at Conversant. He studied business at Sheffield University.
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Managing Partner who joined Sampford in 2025. He brings more than 25 years across enterprise software, M&A, corporate strategy, risk and compliance, and financial management. He was quoted as Sampford's Managing Director in the firm's 2025 deal announcements.
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Joined Sampford in 2016 straight out of Carleton University's commerce program (finance concentration), after two co-op terms, and rose to Partner. He has helped execute over $1 billion of M&A and financing transactions and writes the firm's market commentary.
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Sep 30, 2025
Fidus Systems
Financial advisor to Fidus Systems · Embedded systems and electronic design services
Buyer Catchment Capital
New York private equity firm Catchment Capital agreed to take a majority stake in Ottawa-based Fidus Systems as its first investment, with Fidus management rolling alongside. Closing was expected in October 2025.
Aug 19, 2025
Global Analyzer Systems Ltd.
Exclusive financial advisor to Global Analyzer Systems · Industrial technology (emissions monitoring)
Buyer Alliance Technical Group
Sale of emissions-monitoring and continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) specialist Global Analyzer Systems to Alliance Technical Group. Sampford's release says the deal had closed.
Mar 12, 2025
Remsoft
Exclusive financial advisor to Remsoft · Forestry and natural resource software
Buyer Banneker Partners
Fredericton-based Remsoft received a strategic investment from private equity firm Banneker Partners and acquired Ottawa forestry-software company Lim Geomatics.
Sampford's quarterly report says public industrial-tech valuations have moved well ahead of the prices private buyers are paying.
Catchment Capital names Sampford as Fidus's financial advisor on its majority investment.
Sampford announces the sale, which pushes it further into industrial technology.
Sampford announces it acted as exclusive advisor to Remsoft on both deals.
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