Founded by two operators with a combined track record of growing companies from billions to tens of billions in revenue, Groupe Soto exists for one purpose: to acquire exceptional businesses and take them further than they could go alone, without losing what made them great.
Canada and the United States are home to hundreds of thousands of owner-operated businesses built by the baby boomer generation. Over the next decade, the vast majority of these founders will face a succession question. Most will find that their options are limited. Family members who are uninterested. Competitors who want to strip and flip. Private equity firms that see only a spreadsheet.
Groupe Soto exists to be the fourth option. We are operators who understand the weight of what founders have built. We bring institutional discipline without institutional indifference. We see the people, the culture and the community. Not just the numbers. We have the track record, the network and the capital structure to make it work.
Capital is a commodity. What Groupe Soto brings is harder to replicate.