Landvera Wins the Prelia Prize at PitchTech Innovation Construction
Recognition for our work to improve municipal approvals—and a meaningful step toward expanding across Canada, including Québec.
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Justin Shum
Co-Founder & CEO
Justin is a two-time exited PropTech founder who has built and scaled software for the real estate industry. He founded ReadyChat, serving 30% of the top 100 U.S. brokerages before acquisition, and co-founded AskAvenue, which reached 10,000+ paid users in under a year. He's led product, GTM, fundraising, and commercialization, and now leads Landvera, building Approval Intelligence for real estate development.
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Landvera · 2026
The city approved it. The neighbours didn’t fight it. The design was agreed months earlier. And the project still couldn’t proceed because one number in one report never caught up with a decision everyone had already made.
Reconstructed from the record
Nobody Said No
We reconstructed completed approval files line by line — every requirement the city raised, every decision made in response, every number that moved. The delay never came from disagreement. It came from changes that only half-landed, documents that couldn't be reconciled, and conditions attached when verification was impossible.
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Government regulation now accounts for
26.4%of the final price of a new single-family home
Housing Affordability Starts Before Construction
Housing affordability is usually discussed as a construction-cost problem. But the latest research from the National Association of Home Builders points to another part of the equation that receives far less attention: the cost created before construction begins.
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