Brent Cunningham

Brent Cunningham is an M&A professional associated with Sequoia Mergers & Acquisitions, a Canadian boutique M&A advisory firm focused on selling privately held mid-market companies. A legacy Sequoia contact page lists him as the Toronto contact at 161 Bay Street, Suite 2700, Toronto, with the email [hidden] and phone number 647 983 7414.

Third-party employment data from SignalHire reports Cunningham as Partner at Corvus Mergers + Acquisitions from January 2023 to present, and previously Partner at Sequoia Mergers & Acquisitions from January 2007 to January 2023. The same profile lists earlier operating roles as VP Global Sales at AEP Networks from 2003 to 2006 and Co-Founder of Forte Advanced Management Software from 1986 to 1997.

His education is reported as University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta. I did not find primary-source evidence that he is an angel investor or that he invests at seed stage; the verifiable public record points to M&A advisory rather than venture investing.

• No verified personal angel or seed-investing thesis was found.
• Sequoia’s stated focus is sell-side M&A: “the sale of privately-held, mid-market companies.”
• Sequoia’s process is built around creating buyer competition for owners, including outreach to strategic buyers and financial buyers.
• Sequoia says it typically executes up to six company sales per year and is selective about engagements.
• Sequoia’s target profile is a “great company” that is profitable, sustainable, and represents a future growth opportunity for buyers.
• The firm states that it does not specialize by industry; instead, it specializes in creating competition for strategically valuable companies across varied sectors.
• In a 2017 Divestopedia article, Cunningham was quoted saying there were “four to five qualified buyers for every one private company we sell,” and the article said he worked with owners of companies with EBITDA between $500,000 and $10 million.