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History

2025

  • Kensington Acquired One9 Venture Capital Business

2024

  • In March 2024 AGF Management Limited announced it had completed the strategic investment to acquire a majority interest in Kensington Capital Partners Limited, a key step in AGF’s strategic imperative to grow its alternatives business, AGF Capital Partners.

2021

  • Kensington celebrates 25 years of success investing in the alternative asset space.
  • The Kensington Private Equity Fund reaches $1 billion.

2018

  • Kensington awarded the Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative (VCCI) by the Government of Canada.

2016

  • Kensington opens office in Vancouver.
  • Kensington awarded mandate for British Columbia’s BC Tech Fund.

2015

  • Kensington acquires interest in Westboro Management Ltd, adding the Westboro Mortgage Investment Corporation to its alternative asset platform.

2014

  • Kensington awarded VCAP mandate by Canadian Government – launches Kensington Venture Fund.

2007

  • Kensington launches Private Equity Fund, the first prospectus qualified private equity fund, designed equally for individual investors and institutional investors.
  • Kensington launches Fund of Funds IV designed for institutional investors for Canadian private equity.
  • Kensington launches International Fund designed for institutional investors for international private equity.

2004

  • Kensington launches Fund of Funds II, the first Canadian private equity program designed for high-net-worth individual investors.

2002

  • Kensington launches Fund of Funds I, the first Canadian private equity Fund of Funds dedicated to the Canadian mid-market.
  • Kensington launches first private equity co-investment fund.

1996

  • Kensington founded by Tom Kennedy and began the private equity investing program.

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