Kera
Executive Summary
The operating system for modern rental operations.
Kera is building the operating system for SMB rental operations: win daily property-management workflows first, then expand into the full rental lifecycle once density exists.
Financial Traction Snapshot
CA$382.78
Current MRR
Normalized Stripe MRR
CA$4,593.36
Current ARR
Normalized Stripe ARR
$1.5M
Raise target
Planned pre-seed
$100K
6M ARR target
Execution milestone
Financial figures sourced from the May 5, 2026 data-room snapshot.
Operational Traction Snapshot
100+
Properties onboarded
Through a single property manager
15
Direct paying landlords
Early demand signal
CA$60K
Rent processed
Workflow depth in production
76
Active subscribers
Active subscriptions used for MRR
Early signal is still small on financial scale, but the workflow proof is real: direct landlords pay today, and one SMB PM cohort can onboard supply in bulk.
Problem, Solution, and Why Now
Problem
SMB property managers and hands-on landlords stitch together inboxes, spreadsheets, lightweight tools, and manual reconciliation for leasing, rent, maintenance, documents, and owner reporting.
Broken tradeoff
Incumbents like Yardi, DoorLoop, and Buildium offer depth for larger operators, but SMB teams still face a bad choice between enterprise software they do not fit and stripped-down tools that remove critical workflows.
Solution today
Kera packages leasing, payments, maintenance, documents, and reporting into one daily operating layer for SMB PM teams.
PM Wedge, Vision, and Why Kera Wins
Bulk supply entry
A single SMB PM can bring 50 to 500 properties, which is far more efficient than landlord-by-landlord onboarding.
Painful status quo
Many PMs still use no purpose-built software, or tools that strip out the workflows they actually need.
System-of-record wedge
Inventory, leasing, rent collection, vendors, and owner reporting all flow through one operational graph.
Long-term vision
The long-term goal is not better point software. It is network density: one system of record that keeps tenant identity, workflow history, and local supply connected across moves.
Built for SMB workflow simplicity without removing the hard operational work.
Daily PM workflow ownership creates the data layer for expansion.
Canadian-first execution matters where forms, privacy, payments, and verification are operationally local.
Team
Jason Matthews
Founder & CEOFounder-operator building Kera from firsthand exposure to rental operations pain across family landlords, agents, and local markets.
Sagar Patel
Co-Founder & CPOProduct and design lead focused on turning operational complexity into software that small teams can adopt without training overhead.
Rob Sutherland
Chief Commerce OfficerCommercial operator with experience across three successful exits, now owning partnerships, pipeline, and close execution.
The Ask
Raising $1.5M to reach $100K ARR in 6 months.
Use the round to prove repeatable SMB PM acquisition, expand workflow depth, and establish the density conditions for lifecycle expansion.
Scale the commercial motion under Rob to improve pipeline quality and close velocity.
Deepen PM workflows, accounting rigor, and migration reliability so Kera becomes the daily operating layer.
Reach $100K ARR with repeatable SMB PM acquisition and expansion inside the initial city clusters.
45%
Product & Engineering
Accounting depth, migration reliability, core PM workflows, and workflow-safe AI tooling.
35%
Commercial Team
Outbound, partnerships, PM pipeline management, and close execution.
20%
Operations Infrastructure
Payments, reporting, implementation support, and internal operating systems.