Direct Investments
Typical equity commitments of approximately $5 million to $25 million.
We consider established, income-producing assets with clear economics, durable locations, and long-term ownership potential.
Private capital. Long-term ownership. Enduring stewardship.
Nuzzi Group is a private investment and operating group working across real estate, private credit, established businesses, venture investments, strategic advisory, and community stewardship.
Nuzzi Group is a private investment and operating group (Est. 1999) working in close partnership with a multifamily office (Est. 1982) formed by a small group of Western Canadian families. Nuzzi Group serves as the forward-facing platform for originating, evaluating, and advancing opportunities across our core mandate areas.
Direct Investments
Acquisitions
Private Credit
Strategic Advisory
Community Stewardship
The relationship combines disciplined capital, operating judgment, and multi-generational perspective. We engage selectively where the opportunity is established, the mandate is clear, and the alignment is built to endure.
Where We Invest and Operate
Real Estate
Long-term investments and development partnerships across multifamily, commercial, industrial, and agricultural real estate.
Private Credit
Structured and asset-backed capital for established borrowers, operating businesses, and real estate opportunities.
Venture
Minority investments in founder-led companies with demonstrated revenue, customer traction, and a credible path to durable growth.
Operating Companies
Control and significant ownership investments in established, cash-flowing businesses built to be improved, compounded, and held for the long term.
Strategic Advisory
Selective, principal-led advisory for owners, founders, families, and leadership teams navigating consequential decisions.
Community & Stewardship
Through more than 300 live charity auctions that have raised over $50 million for charities across Canada, alongside long-term initiatives in youth sport, food, land, and community gathering, we invest in what helps people feel nourished, connected, and supported.
Real Estate
We invest directly and alongside experienced partners across multifamily, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and select development opportunities.
Strategic Partnerships
We participate in acquisitions and developments ranging from approximately $25 million to several hundred million dollars in total project value.
Capital commitments and ownership structures are determined by the opportunity, the partners involved, and the role Nuzzi Group is positioned to play.
Major Development
We consider select large-scale development opportunities, including multi-tower and master-planned projects, with total project values extending from approximately $100 million into the billions.
These opportunities are evaluated for location quality, entitlement path, partner capability, capital structure, and long-term ownership potential.
Across each category, we look for capable partners, disciplined capital structures, durable demand, and opportunities where patient ownership and thoughtful execution can compound value over time.
Private Credit
We consider asset-backed and structured credit opportunities across real estate, operating businesses, and select special situations.
Typical capital commitments range from approximately $5 million to $25 million, with larger financings considered through the broader family-office relationship and alongside established lending partners.
Real Estate Credit
Residential and smaller real estate generally from approximately $500,000 to $2 million.
Larger real estate generally from approximately $10 million to $100 million or more.
Capital for acquisitions, bridge financing, refinancing, construction completion, and other time-sensitive real estate situations.
Operating Business Credit
Financing requirements generally from $5 million to $50 million.
Growth capital, acquisition financing, working capital, and recapitalization for established businesses with positive cash flow, identifiable collateral, and a clear source of repayment.
Special Situations
Financing requirements generally from $10 million to $100 million or more.
Select opportunities requiring speed, flexibility, or a more tailored structure than conventional lenders can provide.
Across each category, we look for experienced borrowers, meaningful collateral, credible repayment plans, clear economics, and structures designed to protect capital through changing conditions.
We do not provide unsecured financing for concepts, pre-revenue companies, or situations dependent on speculative future traction.
Venture
We make minority investments in founder-led companies that have moved beyond concept and early validation.
Company Profile
Generally $1 million to $5 million in annual revenue.
We look for demonstrated customer demand, increasingly repeatable sales, capable founders, and a credible path toward profitability or an already profitable base.
Investment Size
Typical initial investments range from approximately $100,000 to $1 million, with additional capital considered where the opportunity, ownership structure, and strategic fit support it.
Areas of Interest
We are generally sector agnostic where revenue, customer traction, economics, and alignment are clear, with particular interest in technology and data, PropTech, AgTech and food systems, automation and industrial technology, health and wellness, mobility and logistics, and select consumer products.
We engage where capital has a defined use and where our experience, relationships, governance, or strategic involvement can materially improve the outcome.
We do not invest in concepts, pre-revenue businesses, biotechnology, mining, mineral exploration, or companies seeking outside capital to create initial customer demand.
Operating Companies
We acquire and invest in established businesses where durable demand, capable management, and clear operating value already exist.
Company Profile
Generally $10 million to $100 million in annual revenue and $2 million to $15 million in EBITDA.
We look for businesses with positive cash flow, recurring or defensible demand, strong customer relationships, and a realistic path for continued growth, succession, or operational improvement.
Ownership
We consider control investments and significant ownership positions.
Our preference is to work with capable management teams and business owners seeking succession, liquidity, strategic support, or a long-term home for what they have built.
Areas of Interest
Industrial and essential services, manufacturing, construction and job-site services, security and monitoring, infrastructure services, construction materials and aggregates, logistics and distribution, food and agricultural operations, and other durable cash-flow businesses.
We favour companies with tangible operating value, clear economics, and opportunities to improve systems, governance, capital structure, or execution over time.
We do not pursue businesses dependent on speculative future traction, unclear ownership, value that exists primarily in projections, biotechnology, mining, or mineral exploration.
Strategic Advisory
Principal-led advisory is accepted selectively where the mandate, authority, and value exchange are clear.
We work with owners, founders, families, and leadership teams navigating consequential decisions involving strategy, capital, governance, negotiations, positioning, transactions, ownership, and complex stakeholder dynamics.
The work is direct, confidential, and built around experienced judgment rather than standardized coaching or consulting frameworks.
All fees are stated in Canadian dollars. International mandates may be quoted in U.S. dollars.
Strategic Intensive
Starting at CAD $7,500
A focused engagement addressing one defined strategic issue, decision, negotiation, or opportunity.
The engagement includes:
- Advance intake and review of relevant materials
- A concentrated strategic working session
- Clear decision architecture and recommended direction
- A written summary of the path forward
- One follow-up discussion where appropriate
This is a defined engagement and does not include ongoing access.
Strategic Advisory
Starting at CAD $15,000 per month
Three-month minimum
Ongoing principal-led support for owners, founders, families, and leadership teams requiring experienced judgment across strategy, governance, capital planning, negotiations, positioning, and senior-level problem solving.
The engagement includes:
- A weekly strategic meeting
- Direct asynchronous access between meetings
- Review of decision-critical materials within the agreed mandate
- Support with strategic decisions, negotiations, communications, and positioning
- Accountability around agreed priorities and execution
- Responses generally within one business day
This mandate provides meaningful access and continuity while preserving a defined scope and clear operating boundaries.
Principal Advisory
Starting at CAD $30,000 per month
Six-month minimum
A limited, high-access mandate for complex situations involving major strategic decisions, capital architecture, governance, mergers and acquisitions, negotiations, strategic communications, shareholder matters, family dynamics, and direct principal involvement.
The engagement may include:
- Priority access for time-sensitive decisions
- A flexible meeting cadence
- Deeper review of capital, governance, and transaction matters
- Active participation in negotiations and strategic communications
- Direct engagement with other principals, advisers, or leadership team members where appropriate
- Support where business, ownership, leadership, and personal decision-making intersect
- Reserved principal capacity throughout the mandate
Only a very small number of Principal Advisory mandates are accepted at one time.
Engagement Structure
Advisory engagements are separate from investment consideration.
Travel, transaction execution, introductions, exclusivity, success fees, and other specialized work may be structured and compensated separately where appropriate.
Direct access is governed by the agreed mandate, communication expectations, and reasonable-use boundaries. Advisory services do not include emergency, crisis, legal, tax, accounting, or regulated investment advice.
Community & Stewardship
Communities flourish when people are nourished, active, connected, and given places where they can belong.
300+
live charity auctions led in support of organizations across Canada
$50M+
raised for charitable and community causes
Through more than 300 live charity auctions led in support of organizations across Canada, more than $50 million has been raised for charitable and community causes.
Our long-term work extends across youth sport, organic food, land, mentorship, and community gathering. These initiatives are designed to increase access to nourishing organic food, create places for young people to move and grow, and strengthen the connections between families and the communities around them.
Among the visions being advanced are the planting of 5,000 fruit trees in family yards across the region, helping families grow nourishing organic fruit at home, and the creation of a 12-court basketball facility centred on energy, mentorship, competition, and belonging.
Each initiative reflects a simple principle: communities grow stronger when people are fed, moved, connected, and united in purpose.
We approach this work as long-term stewardship, building places, programs, and opportunities intended to serve beyond a single event or generation.
Our Story
The entrepreneurial roots behind Nuzzi Group date to 1999, when Marco Iannuzzi began building and operating his first technology business.
That path continued through ventures launched while at Harvard and MIT, a professional football career, finance and advisory work during his playing years, direct investments, board leadership, and extensive community involvement across Canada.
In 2005, Marco began contributing within a private multifamily-office environment formed by a small group of Western Canadian families, whose investment roots extend to 1982.
Over more than two decades, he has learned, invested, and contributed across real estate, cash-flowing operating businesses, venture investments, governance, capital allocation, and community stewardship. In recent years, that progression has developed into a general-partner role, with Nuzzi Group serving as the forward-facing platform for originating, evaluating, structuring, and advancing opportunities.
Nuzzi Group also draws on a longstanding family construction lineage. Marco’s father has worked in the construction industry since 1980 and founded Iannuzzi Consulting in 2010. Through that platform, he provides project management, cost consulting, estimating, and project oversight across select developments and operating opportunities.
This combination of entrepreneurial initiative, family-office discipline, construction intelligence, operating judgment, and community leadership shapes how Nuzzi Group approaches its work today.
Through direct investments, acquisitions, private credit, strategic advisory, and community stewardship, Nuzzi Group continues to build with a long-term view.
Begin With the Right Mandate
Nuzzi Group considers a limited number of investment, acquisition, credit, advisory, and community opportunities.
Before reaching out, please review the relevant mandate and confirm that the opportunity falls within the criteria outlined above.
Submit an Opportunity
For real estate, private credit, venture investments, operating-company acquisitions, succession opportunities, and strategic partnerships.
Submissions should include enough information to understand the business, transaction, capital requirement, ownership structure, and reason Nuzzi Group may be the right fit.
Request Advisory Consideration
For owners, founders, families, and leadership teams seeking principal-led support around consequential decisions.
Advisory inquiries are considered through LinkedIn so relevant professional context and background can be reviewed before engagement.