Investment Intern, Portage Ventures (Summer 2026)

Sagard Overview

Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm active in venture capital, private equity, private credit and real estate. Sagard also engages in private wealth management through Sagard Wealth. 

Founded in 2016 and guided by the core values of entrepreneurship, innovation, collaboration, rigour and authenticity, Sagard has experienced outstanding growth. Today, the firm has more than US$32 billion under management, 190 portfolio companies and 440 professionals.

Sagard is well positioned to continue to grow substantially, organically and inorganically, pursuing its vision of becoming one of the best-performing investment management firms. Headquartered in Canada, Sagard currently has offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

More at https://www.sagard.com

Portage Overview

Portage is a fintech and financial services-focused global investor that partners with some of the world's most innovative companies. Portage invests globally across key sector verticals, including wealth and asset management, insurance, consumer and small business finance, and payments. The Portage team has deep entrepreneurial and industry experience and provides founders privileged access to the firm's partners, in-house value creation experts, and broader global ecosystem. Portage currently deploys capital through both its Venture and later-stage Capital Solutions strategies. The firm has offices in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Paris, and London.

For more information, please visit http://portageinvest.com.

Position Overview

We are currently looking for an individual who is highly analytical and deeply passionate about fintech to join our team in Toronto as an Investment Intern this summer. This person will play a pivotal role in supporting our team to find and evaluate entrepreneurial, breakthrough companies in financial services.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with our portfolio companies to support them on pivotal initiatives.

• Conduct ad-hoc analysis (e.g., market sizing, analyzing survey data, pricing analysis, competitive analysis, web analytics data).

• Deeply understand the metrics of our portfolio companies and how they trend over time.

• Conduct commercial, financial, and product due diligence on potential investments.

• Develop company - and sector-specific investment theses, supporting the investment group in identifying key industry trends and investment opportunities.

Experience and Qualifications:

• A strong passion and /or curiosity about investments and technology.

• Self-starter - able to take initiative, prioritize, and run on own with limited guidance.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and in an ambitious environment where things change constantly.

• Organized with high attention to detail.

• Comfort in structuring quantitative analysis; not quantum physics, but you should love numbers (we all do!).

• Great teammate - happy to do whatever is required to support team.

• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to synthesize and articulate thoughts about companies and markets concisely.

Are you confident you could do the job, and are you excited about the opportunity but don’t meet all the requirements? At Portage, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We encourage you to apply!  You may be the right candidate for this role or other positions.

Sagard is an equal opportunity employer, which values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual. 

If you require accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process, please contact the People & Culture team to make your needs known in advance.

Sagard may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence, to support certain stages of the recruitment and selection process.