Deb Stowe | January 17, 2022 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Vangst, a Colorado-based hiring platform for the cannabis industry, has raised $19 million in Series B financing. The company has earmarked the investment for the...
Sarah Praetorius | January 17, 2022 | PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Hamburg-based Evernest has secured €13 million ($14.8 million U.S.) in its Series A financing round. The proptech start-up will use its fresh capital to expand in...
Jacopo Natali | January 16, 2022 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Malaysia-headquartered c-to-b-to-c automotive marketplace Carsome has sent its “best and final offer price” letter for the acquisition of fellow Malaysia-based...
Jacopo Natali | January 16, 2022 | PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Thailand-based proptech start-up PropertyScout has raised $2.5 million U.S. in its pre-series A funding round from Hustle Fund, a venture capital company with...
Lucy Barnard | January 14, 2022 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
UAE-headquartered proptech startup Huspy has acquired rival Dubai-based mortgage and property consultant Home Matters for an undisclosed sum. In a statement, Huspy...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 14, 2022 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Japan-based car trader Idom managed to ease the impact of growing selling, general and administrative expenses on its operating profit for the nine-month period to...
Deb Stowe | January 14, 2022 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
WorkStep, a workforce hiring and retention SaaS platform for the supply chain, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The company says it plans to use the...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 14, 2022 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Taiwan-based job site operator 104 Corporation finished last year with double-digit growth in sales and profit, owing to steady progress in its recruitment and...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 14, 2022 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
DIP Corp. will keep its purse strings loose for promotional spending during the last quarter to sustain growth in its market share, despite a dent to its...
AIM Group | January 13, 2022 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
A special committee of the board of directors at 51Job.com, the Chinese recruitment marketplace, is considering a new offer to take the company private that...
Danielle le Clus-Rossouw | January 12, 2022 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Prolific technology investor Prosus, which includes all of Naspers’ internet investments, has had a busy week. On Jan 11. Prosus was one of several investors...
Jacopo Natali | January 12, 2022 | Automotive, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
Singapore-based automotive marketplace Carro has raised a $5 million U.S. C funding round from Malaysia-based car distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional Berhad...
Angela Hawksford | January 11, 2022 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG), the marketplace operator with a focus on real estate, has acquired the real estate assets of OLX Indonesia for an...
Greg Spencer | January 11, 2022 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
U.S. discount homes brokerage Redfin is stepping deeper into mortgages, having agreed to buy Bay Equity Home Loans, a nationwide lender, for $135 million in cash...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2022 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
South Korea-based general marketplace Bunjang.co.kr has received 82 billion won ($68.8 million) of investment from existing and new investors, within one year of...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2022 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japan-based recruitment company Career Bank turned a profit in the first half, a turnaround from its loss in the comparable period last year. The profitability was...
Deb Stowe | January 10, 2022 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Berlin-based hybrid broker McMakler has received a further €50 million euros ($56.5 million U.S.) in investment, taking its total valuation to €800 million ($906...
Danielle le Clus-Rossouw | January 11, 2022 | Financials / Deals
Bob van Dijk, CEO of Prosus and Naspers, has purchased $10.1 million U.S. of Prosus shares on the open market, putting his money where his mouth is in a key sign...
Deb Stowe | January 10, 2022 | Real Estate, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Germany-based media group Funke is to acquire 75.1 percent of shares in Musterhaus.net, an independent house-building portal. The terms of the deal were not made...
Jacopo Natali | January 10, 2022 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
Malaysia-headquartered c-to-b-to-c automotive marketplace Carsome has raised $300 million U.S. in its latest financing round, led by funds linked to Singapore’s...
Leanne Wang | January 12, 2022 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Fangdd Network Group Ltd. (DUO), a Chinese online real estate marketplace, may be forced to delist from Nasdaq as the company’s ADS closed below $1 per share for...
Jacopo Natali | January 10, 2022 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Singapore-based marketplace Carousell is discussing a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to go public with blank-cheque company L Catterton...
Jacopo Natali | January 10, 2022 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Indonesia-based second-hand vehicle marketplace Moladin has raised $10 million in its Series A round led by Global Founders Capital. The Jakarta-headquartered...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 10, 2022 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Two leading recruitment specialists in Japan have recently deployed new HR technologies to increase the employability of job seekers and improve financial...
Danielle le Clus-Rossouw | January 10, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
SweepSouth, the only cleaning service marketplace in the Naspers portfolio and the frontrunner in home cleaning services in South Africa, has acquired 100% of...
Andrzej Sowula | January 07, 2022 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
NO-CV, a Lithuanian recruitment app, has received its third investment worth €212,500 ($240,284 U.S.). It came from the business angels of Lithuanian Business...
Ben Salisbury | January 07, 2022 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
British rental platform Plentific has acquired lettings software company TouchRight for an undisclosed sum. Plentific, which manages around 400,000 properties in...
Léo Siqueira | January 06, 2022 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Lifull Connect, the global marketplace operator, has acquired Latin America-focused real estate platform Properati from OLX Group for an undisclosed sum, the...
Deb Stowe | January 06, 2022 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
U.S.-based hourly recruitment marketplace SnagAJob has secured a $65 million loan from Runway Growth Capital LLC. Runway — which provides growth loans to...
Greg Spencer | January 06, 2022 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Financially thriving job site ZipRecruiter is issuing its first ever junk bonds with the intention of raising $500 million in fast cash. Though junk bonds are...
