With the need for security guard services growing worldwide, Montreal-based tech startup TrackTik Software Inc., an integrated security workforce management cloud-based software, announced today $45 million in financing from Toronto-based Georgian Partners and Montreal-based Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse).

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. (Grupo SURA) have announced today the acquisition by CDPQ of a strategic minority interest in Grupo SURA’s subsidiary SURA Asset Management (SURA AM), one of Latin America’s leading financial institutions with US$135 billion in assets under management.

Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse) have entered into a strategic partnership supporting and accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain Québec’s leadership position in this industry. The partnership will seek to drive the creation and growth of businesses that will build Québec’s future economy.

Ivanhoé Cambridge and Claridge announce today the creation of a second investment vehicle for real estate projects in Quebec’s urban centres, primarily Quebec City and Montréal.

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) announced a transaction of up to $150 million in the form of a loan to SSQ Insurance, one of the largest insurance and investment companies in Québec.

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced that it is taking an equity interest totalling $200 million in Plusgrade, a leading provider of revenue solutions to the global travel industry.

An infrastructure co-investment platform was officially launched with the President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque, the President and CEO of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Michael Sabia, and FDN President Clemente del Valle, as well as the presidents of all Colombian pension fund administrators in attendance.

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse) and the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) are pleased to announce the creation of the Fonds CDPQ pour la relève journalistique, an initiative that will provide ten young journalists or students each year with a $10,000 bursary enabling them to take a paid three to four month internship with a Québec media outlet.

Brookfield Business Partners L.P. (NYSE:BBU) (TSX:BBU.UN) ("Brookfield Business Partners") together with institutional partners (collectively, “Brookfield”) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (“CDPQ”), today announced that they have reached an agreement whereby Brookfield and CDPQ will acquire 100% of Johnson Controls’ Power Solutions business (“the Business”) for approximately US$13.2 billion. 

Ivanhoé Cambridge, real estate subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, has acquired a 90,000 m² office-building campus from Natixis, in the Greater Paris area of Saint-Denis Pleyel. This is the largest asset sold this year in the French office market. Simultaneously, EDF has signed a nine-year fixed-term lease on what constitutes its main business establishment in France, and has initiated a program to renovate its facilities.