FirePower Capital
Harsh Gondalia is a financial professional with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, currently serving as a Senior Financial Analyst at FirePower Capital since September 2022. Prior to this role, Harsh held positions as a Senior Financial Analyst at Simply Group Financial and as a Senior Analyst in Investment Banking at YES SECURITIES, focusing on VC/PE deals and M&A advisory across various sectors. Harsh's career also includes experience in central planning and financial planning & analysis at Reliance Industries Limited and an internship in audit, advisory & taxation at PHD & Associates. Academic qualifications include a Master of Finance from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, a Chartered Accountant qualification from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics.
FirePower Capital
FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs, helping them complete mission-critical transactions, such as acquiring a competitor, selling to a strategic buyer, or financing their growth with our own or our partners’ capital. We started FirePower Capital with a single thought in mind: give lower mid-market companies access tothe same level of sophisticated transactional advice that is only available to larger companies; reason is, investment banks in Canada do not “scale down” from headline-grabbing deals.As a team we have created a next-generation investment bank specifically for lower mid-market companies. Since 2012, we have brought together a diverse and dynamic team of deal-makers, marketers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and developers to execute on the vision.We have challenged the ways investment banks traditionally do deals: for example, we have created a cross-functional team in which experts fulfill a specific component of each deal; we have written new software that has allowed us to advance multiple deals simultaneously without sacrificing attention to detail; we have built new, active networks that connect Canadian businesses with relevant buyers, investors, and lenders worldwide.We are determined to win in the lower mid-market, where no-one thinks it is feasible to grow a successful investment bank. Our people will continue to disrupt the ways deals get done in Canada with their results-driven attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, and confidence to say “we can do this better”.