Touchstone Holdings Ltd. is a privately held Canadian corporation focused on investment and asset management. Based in Edmonton, we have over a 50 year history of owning and operating alternative assets
with a focus on real estate, oil & gas and private equity.

Touchstone’s primary operating subsidiaries are
Nunastar Properties Inc., Grandview Exploration Inc. and AstroHill Ventures Ltd. 

Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Nunastar Properties Inc. is one of the leading residential and commercial real estate companies in Canada's North. Nunastar is also one of the largest hospitality and lodging providers.

For over 50 years, Nunastar has played a key role shaping Iqaluit real estate as both developer and property management company behind the Astro Hill development.

Astro Hill manages over 350 residential apartment units and townhomes. Future residential development projects will include the construction of new mixed use commercial and residential buildings in various locations throughout Astro Hill.

Nunastar's commercial holdings in Iqaluit real estate include 20,000 square feet of retail space in Astro Hill, which houses a 95-room hotel, a new full-service conference centre, a fitness centre, a movie theatre, three restaurants, a convenience store and Government of Nunavut offices. Iqaluit's largest retail health provider will soon open in Astro Hill offering eyecare, telehealth, pharmacy as well as fresh food.

Nunastar Properties also owns and operates:

Frobisher Inn – Iqaluit, Nunavut

The Frobisher Inn is the largest full-service hotel in Canada's Eastern Arctic with 95 guest rooms, variety of contemporary dining and food options including a fine dining experience at our Chef's Table and a flexible 440 person conference centre. The Frobisher Inn offers top rated service for the business traveler, adventurer, or for a team that is looking for a unique and special place to hold your next event.

The Explorer Hotel – Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

The Explorer Hotel is the premier full-service hotel in Canada's North with 259 guest rooms, variety of contemporary dining options and 7,500 square feet of flexible meeting and conference space. The Explorer Hotel offers top rated service for the adventurer, business traveler or for a team that is looking for a unique and special place to hold your next event.

Nunastar Properties Inc. is part of the Touchstone Holdings group of companies – a privately held Canadian corporation focused on investment and asset management. For over 50 years, Touchstone Holdings Ltd. has built its business as an owner and operator of alternative assets, including real estate, oil & gas and private equity. Touchstone is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Grandview Exploration Inc. is a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration and production company.

Grandview’s primary operating assets are located in central Alberta with interests in an affiliated company operating in Madagascar. 

Touchstone’s private equity activities have ranged from funding start-ups to providing equity and debt growth capital in a number of private and public companies.

Touchstone is a long-term, value-adding investor and is interested in partnering with experienced management teams to create outstanding companies that generate outstanding investment returns.

Our goal is to work with talented entrepreneurs to create a new generation of great companies.

AstroHill Ventures Ltd. ("AVL") is an Edmonton-based venture capital firm that invests primarily in companies offering data analytics driven software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) products.  

Our investee companies use data and analytics to help their customers discover what is happening in their business operations and processes, determine why it is happening, predict what is likely to happen, and prescribe the best action to take.

AVL’s focus is on analytics applications that translate captured and combined data into value-added business decisions and on machine learning applications that removes or augments the human element in data interactions and decision making.