Jani Rautiainen is a Finnish entrepreneur who co-founded PropertyGuru with Steve Melhuish, the British-born chief executive who ran the company for many years. The business was registered in Singapore as AllProperty Media Pte Ltd in 2006 and launched as PropertyGuru in 2007.
The idea was to replace newspaper property classifieds with one searchable website. By 2016 the site held about 90% of the Singapore market and drew 14 million monthly users. That year the company raised S$175 million and expanded to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Rautiainen served as a board director and left the board in September 2019. He therefore stepped away before PropertyGuru went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2022.
PropertyGuru was taken private in a deal led by EQT, announced in August 2024 and completed in December 2024. The deal valued the company at about $1.1 billion.