🦃 While our American friends were preparing for Thanksgiving last week, we at REACH Canada were busy hosting an event that reminded us of what we’re most grateful for—our partnerships across the real estate tech industry! Just days before Thanksgiving, we teamed up with the Vancouver Proptech Collective crew to co-host the December social as part of our Vancouver IMPACT day! The team of Charmaine Wong, Leon Ng, Selly SJ Park, Kelly H., Anthony Paes-Braga and Maria Yoma nailed the event - it was such a vibe! Amazing people, cool location, and fantastic networking for all. While this was one event, it highlights how amazing the entire real estate tech community is and how grateful we are to be a part of it! So to all of our partners across Canada and the US, we want you to know that we are SO thankful for all of you and so excited to keep building on what comes next! 📸 #Photocredits to the Proptech Collective! Steven Laidlaw | Lynette Keyowski | Courtney Cooper | Mike McAra | Stephanie Wood | Scott Kaplanis | Ross McCredie | Ryan Carson | Jonathan Christensen | Pierre Calzadilla | Mukund Venkatakrishnan | Andrew Kim | Kurtis Cicalo | Dmitri Bourchtein | Zhong-Yan Chen | Sasha Hryciuk | Sam Mehrbod, Ph.D. | Joe Tolzmann | Thomas Park | Laura Fortey | Terry Wang | Kat Newel, B.Sc M.Sc MBA | Adam Starr | Rachel Hay-Ching Yuen | J. Friedrich Klaus | David Bluhm
REACH Canada
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Accelerating the top growth companies in real estate into the global real estate industry.
About us
REACH Canada is a growth accelerator created by Second Century Ventures, an early-stage technology fund, backed by the National Association of Realtors® which leverages the association’s more than 1.6 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The REACH Accelerator program helps technology companies launch into the real estate vertical and its adjacent markets. The program provides education, mentorship and market exposure to one of the world’s largest industries.
- Website
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https://narreach.ca
External link for REACH Canada
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Vancouver - Calgary - Toronto - Montreal
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- real estate, PropTech, FinTech, and Venture Capital
Locations
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Primary
Vancouver - Calgary - Toronto - Montreal, CA
Employees at REACH Canada
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Ann Sobil
Sales, Revenue & Culture Leader | Data-driven Business Strategy | Change Management | Executive Coach | Management Consulting
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Pierre Calzadilla
COO & Co-Founder @ Upfront | Empowering top US brokerages with powerful financial tools | 5x Start-up Revenue Leader
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Jon Hunter
Mentor - REACH
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Janet Miller
Real Estate Business Coach at Tom Ferry International
Updates
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🚀 Well, thank you Vancouver ⛰️🌅 Last week, we held our very first IMPACT in Vancouver as part of the 2025 program at the gorgeous REACH Canada Alumni offices of roomvu! New this year, REACH Canada has handcrafted exclusive IMPACT (Innovation, Mentorship, Property, Collaboration & Technology) events across the country with the very first being last week! 🔥We started our day with a fireside chat featuring industry heavyweights Errol Samuelson - Chief Industry Development Officer at Zillow and Ross McCredie - CEO of Sutton Group to talk all things technology, real estate and the local Vancouver tech market! From there, our elite 2025 founders had the chance to share their companies with the VIPs and then we broke out into one-on-one feedback! Looking at you: 🍁 Steven Laidlaw (Stelor Inc.) 🍁Jonathan Christensen (Bidmii) 🍁Joe Tolzmann (RocketPlan Technologies Inc.) 🍁Thomas Park (REITIUM) 🍁Terry Wang (ReLease) 🍁Pierre Calzadilla (Upfront) 🍁Kurtis Cicalo (Voiceflip) 🍁Andrew Kim (SHARE) We capped the day off with a social which we will talk more about on Thursday! For now, we wanted to send a massive thank you to all of you that attended and helped make the very first IMPACT a success👌. Special thanks to Sam Mehrbod, Ph.D. and Arik Broadbent (Dentons) for sponsoring the day! Heads up - next on our calendar for IMPACT sessions are: ✈️ Calgary ✈️ Montreal ✈️ Toronto If you are in any of those cities and want to potentially join us for IMPACT, please let us know! Let's roll 🚀 Ashu Dassan | Todd Shyiak | Lynette Keyowski | Mike McAra | Scott Russell | David Langlois | Kat Newel, B.Sc M.Sc MBA | Ryan Carson | Sasha Hryciuk | Greg Fok, CPA, CMA | Christian Nielsen | Leon Ng | David Bluhm | Jesus Wong, CPA, CA | Arnold Shuchat | Kevin Skipworth |
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🌟 Congratulations to our friends south of the border🇺🇸! Over the last two weeks, our sister programs, REACH US Residential and REACH Commercial successfully completed their 2024 programs at National Association of REALTORS® Association of REALTORS NXT and CRETech NYC! Massive congratulations to the classes of REACH Commercial 2024 - Acres, IncentiFind, Infinityy, PremiseHQ SaaS Inc., Prophia, Rensair and withco and REACH US Residential 2024 - chirpyest, Final Offer, Kukun , Notable, Purlin Co., Scout, Trackxi and Unlock Technologies!🎉 Also big props to Ashley Stinton and Bob Gillespie for putting together yet another amazing year for the REACH US Startups!🙌 Congratulations from all of us at REACH Canada!˙✧˖°🎓 ༘⋆。 ˚ Colette Shelton | Judd Hoffman | J. Danko Fatovic | Tim Quirk | Kevin Caulfield | Raf Howery | Scott Langmack | Austin Lane | Giorgi Chigogidze | Drew Fabrikant | Vijay Gopalswamy | Elango Karunamoorthy | Carter Malloy | Natalie Campos Goodman | Jim Schoonmaker | Lisa Nickerson | Mike Burrage | Jeffrey Beir | Rafi Dowla | Cameron Steele | Chris Hsu
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🌟 Celebrating the Champions of REACH Israel 2024! 🌟 After their 8-month journey, these visionary startups are ready to take the real estate tech world by storm. Today, they join the largest global alumni community of real estate tech innovators, marking a significant milestone in their journey. 🚀 Wishing each of you a massive congratulations from REACH Canada - and big props to those at the helm, Ran, Sivan and Tal. 🙌 So proud of you! Congratulations from all of us at REACH CANADA!🏆🎉 REACH Israel | Ran Laufer | Sivan Blasenheim | Tal Rath | Lendai | BuzzzTech | ArkDesign.AI | Accuraiser | MyTower | LeanCon | Centerya | Reli | Yair Benyamini | Tim Mironov | Erez Dricker | Boaz Leviatan | Pini Shemesh | Adva Zioni | Alon Lehavi | Dana Gorsky | Guy Hochman | Avi Anais | Ran Sinai | Israel Barell | Ziv Levi | Sapir Tubul | Dity Ayalon, AIA SARA | Nitzan Eretz-kdoshai | Gilad Levy
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🌟 Another exciting milestone for our 2025 REACH Canada cohort today... It's Mentor Showcase Day! 🚀 Each of our 8 incredible companies will step up to deliver a 4-minute pitch to our esteemed mentors, sharing their goals and aspirations for mentorship in the year ahead. Since day one, Lynette Keyowski, MS, CRAE, CAE and Mike McAra have been humbled by the unwavering support and generosity of our mentor network. Our mentors are truly the backbone of this program, showing up consistently, offering their insights, and helping our founders navigate their journey in REACH— not just during the program, but well beyond it.🧑🏻🏫 While we'd love to tag each and every one of our mentors, LinkedIn only lets us mention so many, so here’s just a small snapshot of our fantastic team! 📩 Do you have a passion for mentoring? Drop us a note via the new messaging tool on this page! We’d love to hear from you. To everyone involved — thank you once again for your continued dedication and support. We can't wait to connect later today. We are deeply grateful for everything you do!🙌 Andrew Carros | Maria Yoma | Brad Mitchell | Adam Rosenfeld, CPA, CMA | Joe Schneider | Bill Fowler | Alex Leduc, CFA | Rosann Copfer | Andrew Coca | Heidi Noel | Joel Shears | Bill Andrews | Lewis Martin | Linda Loftus CCIM SIOR CIPS MRICS FEA | Marc Dickow | Mike Star | Nima Wedlake | Ryan Lambert | Robin LaSure | Ross McCredie | Simon Chen | Tabitha Francis | Janet Miller | Meagan R. Zeman | Michael Gaudet | Molly McKinley | Rachel Levy | Richard Silver, Certified International REALTOR® | Tom Rossiter | Rob Love | Simon G. Boyer | Victor Lund | Kelly Hager
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🚀 Drumroll please... 🥁🥁🥁 The day we've all been waiting for is finally here! We're beyond thrilled to introduce the eight incredible real estate technology firms selected for REACH Canada's Class of 2025! 🔹Bidmii - connects real estate professionals and homeowners with contractors, making home improvements easier. 🔹Upfront - provides real estate native financial services for brokers and agents. 🔹ReLease - the simplest way for apartment buildings to offer residents flexible renting benefits, including the option to end their lease for any reason. 🔹Voiceflip - makes data accessible with advanced AI and voice technology giving users instant access to property data, market trends and organizational information. 🔹Stelor Inc. - provides condo managers and boards with capital replacement tools, analytics and predictive forecasting to help avoid special assessments and optimize reserve fund fees. 🔹SHARE - efficient way to build a portfolio of U.S. rental properties, unlocking institutional real estate service for retail investors. 🔹RocketPlan Technologies Inc. - a mobile-first business operating system for property restoration insurance claims. 🔹REITIUM - a real estate marketplace empowering churches to raise capital through donations to build community centers, daycares and affordable housing on excess church land. A massive congratulations to these visionary founders, Jonathan Christensen, Mukund Venkatakrishnan, Pierre Calzadilla, Terry Wang, Kurtis Cicalo, Steven Laidlaw, Andrew Kim, Joe Tolzmann, Thomas Park and Laura Fortey. Welcome to the family! In the words of REACH Canada Managing Partner, Lynette Keyowski: This cohort brings solutions that redefine property management, foster financial inclusivity, expand rental flexibility, and facilitate secure investment and property enhancements. We’re thrilled to support these companies as they create meaningful solutions that resonate across the real estate community. Please join us in welcoming our newest proptech rock stars and stay tuned for exciting updates from REACH Canada! The future of real estate is looking brighter than ever! 🇨🇦🏡 For the full press release, please see the comments. #reach #realestatetechnology #realestateaccelerator #canadianrealestate #proptech #retech #venturecapital Lynette Keyowski | Mike McAra | Dave Garland | Tyler Thompson | Ashley Stinton | Bob Gillespie | Peter Schravemade | Ebonnie Schravemade | Carlos Rousseau | Johan Holmberg, CFA | Jeff Kennedy | Drew Meyers | Tom Ellis | Ane Delsol | Omar Rodriguez| Paolo Rigutto | REACH UK | REACH Latin America | NAR REACH | Second Century Ventures | National Association of REALTORS® | Mark Birschbach
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Exciting news! The 2024 Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) Fall Conference is happening this week in Frisco, Texas. Don’t miss our very own Lynette Keyowski speaking on International Growth on October 22nd from 10:50am to 11:10am CDT. The event will focus on creating and promoting standards that enhance efficiency across the real estate industry, with a vision of a more streamlined real estate tech landscape. Looking forward to seeing how these innovations will shape the future of real estate! Mike McAra | Sam DeBord | Greg Sax | Heather Elias | Dan Weisman | Ashley Stinton | Drew Meyers | Bonnie Wigg | Patrick Arlia | Joshua L. | Tim Quirk | Vijay Gopalswamy | Joel Cohen | Joel Shears | Kerry Rakuson, CAE, RED-B | Nina Dosanjh
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Hey there, innovation enthusiasts!📢 If you're looking to get inspired and stay ahead of the curve, the 2024 Pacific West Conference happening in Vancouver next week on October 1st and 2nd.📅✨ A collab by our friends at the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, this year's theme, "Innovate, Integrate and Inspire," is all about exploring the latest trends and technologies that are shaping our world. Whether you're an entrepreneur, business leader, or simply someone passionate about innovation, this is the place to be. 🙌 Our awesome alumni, SingleKey, Iluminai Intelligence Corporation, roomvu and Propra will be there! REACH Canada is definitely going! ✈️🚗 With a lineup of engaging speakers, interactive workshops, and plenty of networking opportunities, you'll have the chance to connect with like-minded individuals from across Canada and beyond. So, what are you waiting for? Join us at the Vancouver Convention Center East and be a part of this exciting event!💪 Who knows, you might just leave with the inspiration you need to take your ideas to the next level. See you there! #REACHCanada #PacificWestConference Lynette Keyowski | Mike McAra | Sam Mehrbod, Ph.D. | J. Friedrich Klaus | Jeff King | Baldev S. Gill | Chris Shields, ICD.D, RSG.D, ACC.DIR | Kat Newel, B.Sc M.Sc MBA | Ashley Smith | Jesse Latham | Al-Karim K.
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🌟 A Huge Thank You! 🌟 We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Proptech Collective for including us alongside such great names like Alate Partners, Carbonsight (by Autocase), GroundBreak Ventures, Hazelview Ventures and KOMPAS VC for making the Maple Mixer at Blueprint last week an incredible event.💥 It was so great to once again see all the amazingness that Canadian Proptech has to bring on the global stage - an ecosystem we are so proud to call home! Thank you to all who attended and contributed to such an epic event.🤝😊 We are already thinking about the next one! Lynette Keyowski | Mike McAra | Arunabh Dastidar | Bob Gillespie | Carlos Rousseau | Dave Garland | Tyler Thompson | Ashley Stinton | Viler Lika, MBA, B.Eng | Courtney Cooper | Stephanie Wood | Sivan Blasenheim | Ran Laufer
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Just 21 days to go until we kick off an incredible journey together! The excitement is really building! 🚀 We are so thrilled to welcome our selected cohort and have an amazing lineup of hands-on workshops and opportunities to connect with industry leaders that cannot be missed! ⚛️ We can’t wait to meet all the bright minds who will join us for this groundbreaking experience. Let’s make the most of this journey together! Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to liftoff! 🔥