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, private equity and private credit.

Touchstone’s primary operating subsidiaries are
Nunastar Inc. and Touchstone Real Estate Capital. 

Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Nunastar 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 in shaping the quality of life in Iqaluit as the developer of Astro Hill. Astro Hill is the center of activity in Nunavut’s capital city and one of the most desirable neighborhoods to live, work, and play.

Astro Hill is comprised of hundreds of residential units located in over a dozen buildings and the largest concentration of commercial spaces in Iqaluit. With our extensive landholdings and our long-term vision for new investments and improvements, we will ensure that Astro Hill remains the pre-eminent neighborhood for you to live, visit, or locate your business.

Nunastar Properties also owns and operates:

Frobisher Inn – Iqaluit, Nunavut

The Frobisher Inn is the largest full-service hotel in Canada's eastern Arctic. It features 95 guest rooms, meeting rooms, and a variety of contemporary restaurant options, including The Frob, a casual-dining restaurant with a Chef's Table experience, the Caribrew Cafe, and the famous Storehouse Bar & Grill. The Frobisher Inn offers top-rated service for business travelers, adventurers, or work teams looking for a unique and special place to host a meeting or event.

The Explorer Hotel® – Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

The Explorer Hotel® is the premier full-service hotel in Yellowknife. It has 259 guest rooms, a variety of contemporary dining options, and over 10,000 square feet of flexible meeting and conference space. You can retreat to the fireside warmth of Traders Grill, Yellowknife’s choice for fine dining. Or, if you are in the mood, meet friends for a drink and casual dining at The Trapline, a designer lounge exuding northern warmth. Enjoy the sun at our newly opened patio at the Trapline Lounge. Here, your bond with friends, family, and colleagues grows stronger, and your connection with nature becomes intimate.

Nunastar Inc. is part of the Touchstone Asset Management Ltd. group of companies – a privately held Canadian corporation focused on investment and asset management.

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.