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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Real Estate space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kia Rahmani
CEO & Founder of Optix
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About Optix, Share Desk: The platform for coworking spaces and flexible offices
Simeon Garratt
Founder, CEO of Spark CRM
Founder at Spark CRM
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About Spark CRM: Spark is simplifying new home sales with smarter software.
Azim Jamal
CEO & Co-founder of Pacific Reach Properties
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About Pacific Reach Properties: Pacific Reach Properties is a full-service, vertically-integrated real estate investment firm.
Connor Griffiths
CEO of Lifty Life
CEO @ Lifty Life | Head of Digital Content @ Hostaway
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About Hostaway, Lifty Life: Vacation Rental Management within BC & Alberta, Canada + Digital Marketing to the Vacation Rental Industry
Ryley Best
Co-Founder & CEO of Zolo Realty
Ryley Best is the CEO and co-founder at Zolo Realty.
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About Zolo Realty: Canada’s Largest Digital Real Estate Brokerage
Joshua Fraser
CEO of Data Nerds
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About Data Nerds, Estated: Data Nerds provides an elegant solution in the vast market of real estate & property data.
Benjamin Blumer
Founder and CEO of ShapeMeasure
Ben has won awards for his research in both robotics and physics. He’s developed robots that assist in operating rooms and automate manufacturing equipment, even programming the world’s first legal robot ping-pong serve. His technical and business leadership has resulted in rapidly developed robotics technologies that solve real-world problems. Today, he’s using that experience to create a safer, smarter and more efficient construction industry.
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About ShapeMeasure: Our tools reduce labour cost by 80% in the $22B flooring installation market.
Sam Mehrbod
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Roomvu
Experienced , Award Winning, TOP 1% of all realtors in Greater Vancouver. Constantly Improving the World Of Real-Estate With Fringe Technologies at Roomvu.com
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About Roomvu: Roomvu uses AI to provide ready-made hyper local VIDEOS, that realtors personalize and publish on social media or promote via SMART ads
Zeeshan Rasool
Founder, CEO of Hangeh Labs
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About Hangeh Labs, Quupe Technologies: Transforming buildings into communities.
Krystine McInnes
Chief Executive Officer of Athena Organic Farm + Eco-Retreat
With over 10 years’ in sustainable real estate development, finance & high-level project management, law, strategic planning & financial feasibility, Krystine is a highly strategic thinker, visionary & passionate revolutionary. Conscious of the triple bottom line (planet, people, profit), she is fiercely committed to creating efficient, profitable business models that are holistic, sustainable, nurture the planet, & create abundance for all. She was one of the youngest ever members of T.E.C., a high-level CEO program & has chaired the board for the Economic Development Committee & Chamber of Commerce. She has been the CEO of BNS Lakeshore Developments from 2004 – 2013 when she left that role to start her own firm, dedicated to creating sustainable projects. Her first role was at the age of 23 when she successfully co-founded, designed, equity-raised, financed & built a $5 million development & has since been running budgets from $1.2 million to $25 million.
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About Athena Organic Farm + Eco-Retreat: With California experiencing record droughts, anticipated to continue for possibly decades, and over 70% of BC produce being imported.
Dogu Taskiran
CEO of Stambol
CEO at Stambol. CTO at Orderinbox. Polymath. Building the #Metaverse, one major piece of technology at a time. Previously of Microsoft, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Studied at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University.
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About Orderinbox, Stambol: Immersive Experiences for different verticals through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Hamidreza Etebarian
Co-founder & CEO of Offerland
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About Offerland: Offerland: Home Values, Rent Values and Profitable Investment Properties
Eric Carlson
CEO of Anthem Properties Group
Eric is the founder and CEO of Anthem and CEO of Anthem United. Highly engaged in the daily operations of the company, he is responsible for the strategic direction and overall execution of all aspects of the business. Working closely with the leadership team, he provides (relentless) oversight and direction for acquisitions, design, development and finance. Showing up every day for 26 years, he is fuelled by the passion and pursuit of creating original spaces and building strong communities.
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About Anthem Properties Group: A real estate development, investment and management company.
Tom Rossiter
CEO, President, Director of RESAAS
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About RESAAS: The World’s Largest Real Estate Technology Platform
Jason Spencer
Co-founder and CEO of StreetAdvisor
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About StreetAdvisor: StreetAdvisor is a real estate-based online social network and neighborhood content aggregator.
Jason Spencer
Co-founder and CEO of StreetAdvisor
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About StreetAdvisor: StreetAdvisor is a real estate-based online social network and neighborhood content aggregator.
Morgan Carey
CEO of Real Estate Webmasters Inc
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About Real Estate Webmasters Inc: World’s Largest Custom Web Development & Marketing Company For Real Estate
Morgan Carey
CEO of Real Estate Webmasters Inc
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About Real Estate Webmasters Inc: World’s Largest Custom Web Development & Marketing Company For Real Estate
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