About Portage
Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs reshaping financial services
$4.1B
Assets under management¹
65+
Portfolio partners
13
Countries
Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.
Our team partners with ambitious companies across all stages, providing flexible capital and delivering a global network of investors, commercial partners, advisors and value creation experts. With deep industry knowledge and entrepreneurial experience, Portage is committed to supporting the leaders who are reshaping financial services.
Our dedicated value creation team provides portfolio companies with hands-on support in go-to-market, technology & cybersecurity, business acceleration & M&A, and partnerships to accelerate their path to success.
Our history
Portage was born out of an ambition to reshape financial services globally. Co-founders Adam Felesky and Paul Desmarais III launched the platform in 2016 to help fintech and financial services entrepreneurs traverse the challenging terrain from local startup to global scale up.
Portage’s roots are in the early-stage fintech venture space. Since 2016, we have raised three venture funds and expanded to late-stage fintech and financial services through Portage Capital Solutions in 2022.
The Sagard network
Portage is a global fintech and financial services investment platform within Sagard, a global multi-strategy alternative asset management firm with $32B under management³, 150+ portfolio companies and 400+ professionals. Sagard invests across venture capital, private equity, private credit, and real estate.
Sagard also engages in private wealth management through Sagard Wealth and venture creation through Diagram.
Sagard delivers flexible capital, an entrepreneurial culture, and a global network of investors, commercial partners, advisors, and value creation experts. Its dynamic and supportive ecosystem gives its partners the advantage they need to learn, grow and win at every stage.
The firm has offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
Visit Sagard.com (opens in new window)1Assets Under Management (“AUM”) of Portage as of March 31, 2025, is the sum of the net asset value and uncalled capital commitments, of all funds and co-investment vehicles managed for the Portage platform.
Our definition of AUM is not based on any definition contained in our fund management agreements. Furthermore, our calculation may differ from the manner in which the SEC defines “Regulatory Assets Under Management* on Form ADV and from the AUM definition used by other asset managers.
2As of December 31, 2024. Partnerships can include POCs, pilots and full commercial.
3Assets Under Management (“AUM”) as of June 30, 2025 is the sum of:
- net asset value of private equity, venture capital, private credit and healthcare funds, including uncalled capital commitments of those funds and unused leverage;
- gross asset value of the underlying real estate of Sagard Real Estate funds and separate accounts;
- fair value of assets held in co-investment vehicles managed by Sagard and uncalled capital commitments of those co-investment vehicles;
- AUM of other managers controlled by Sagard;
- fair value of all other assets managed by Sagard that are not otherwise included in the clauses above.
All references to “dollars” or “$” are to US dollars unless otherwise stated.