# Jani Rautiainen

> Jani Rautiainen is a funding round investor at Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd backing Real Estate. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/testudo-funds)
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/janirautiainen

Jani Rautiainen is a funding round investor at Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd in Singapore focused on Real Estate and Internet. Jani Rautiainen Founded PropertyGuru, a leading real estate online group in South East Asia founded in 2006 and grown the company since to 4 countries and over 400 employees. PropertyGuru today serves 14 million property seekers monthly in South East Asia and is used by majority of real estate developers and agents to market their properties.PropertyGuru has also raised S$230m of funding over the lifetime of the company. Prior to PropertyGuru worked with Internet firms since 1996, including founding two start-ups.Jani holds MBA from INSEAD (2005), and M.Sc in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology (2000).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 4 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| Grocery | 1 | 13% |
| PropTech | 1 | 13% |
| Shopping | 1 | 13% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 2 | 25% |
| India | 1 | 13% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 13% |
| Philippines | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Citics | Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others. | $2.1M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| NoneAway | NoneAway makes property searches safe, smart, and simple by matching property owners and seekers with trusted listings and verified brokers. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| Propseller | Propseller is a real estate agency that offers property owners a reliable way to sell by combining in-house agents with technology. The company's platform is able to tell users the likelihood of conversion each step of the way. It enables consumers to sell their properties with commission rates as low as 1 percent, or half the market rate.Propseller's mission is to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for sellers and buyers alike.The company was founded in 2018 by Adrien Jorge and is headquartered in Singapore. | $12M | Series A | Aug 29, 2022 |  |
| Citics | Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others. | $1.3M | Convertible Note | Oct 29, 2021 |  |
| Citics | Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others. | $1M | Seed | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Citics | Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others. | $1M | Seed | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Square Yards | Square Yards is India’s largest integrated platform for Real Estate & Mortgages and one of the fastest growing Proptech platform in UAE, Rest of Middle East, Australia & Canada. Square Yards platform offers an integrated consumer experience & covers the full real-estate journey from search & discovery, transactions, mortgages,interiors, rentals, property management and post-sales services. Its’ enterprise solutions cater to all stakeholders in the real estate value chain like agents, real estate developers and banks. | $20M |  | Sep 19, 2019 |  |
| RedMart | RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics. | $5.4M |  | Jan 23, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vulpes Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vulpes-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nextrans](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextrans) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TheVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vietnam Investments Groups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vietnam-investments-groups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AiViet Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiviet-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BHS Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bhs-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Vulpes Investment Management is an alternative investment manager

2 contacts available at Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Field Pickering | Head of Venture Investing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/field-pickering |
| Jani Rautiainen | Venture Partner, Investment Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jani-rautiainen |

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## FAQ

### What does Jani Rautiainen invest in?

Jani Rautiainen invests primarily in Real Estate, Internet and Grocery startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jani Rautiainen's check size?

Jani Rautiainen typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jani Rautiainen participates in.

### When did Jani Rautiainen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jani Rautiainen closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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