Anastasia Gnezditskaia | May 19, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Proprioo, a hybrid real estate agency in France, has raised €20 million ($22 million U.S.) from GFC, Rocket Internet, and Picus Capital. The fresh capital will be...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 17, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japanese recruitment vertical KyuJinBox saw a 617.1 percent year-on-year growth in revenue during the fourth quarter ended Mar. 31. This was mainly due to growth...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 17, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Leading Japanese crowdsourcing company Crowd Works managed to slash its losses to Y39.6 million ($359,964 U.S.) in the first half of the financial year. That’s...
Tom Marling | May 17, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Chinese property site Fang.com (NYSE: SFUN) has set May 28 as the date on which it will spin-off China Index Holdings (CIH) --- the holding firm for its China...
Tom Marling | May 17, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Zhuan Zhuan co-founder and GM Xiang Chanfeng says the used goods marketplace unicorn has suspended ongoing efforts to acquire JD.com's PaiPai marketplace. Zhuan...
Lars Herlin | May 16, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
The NetJobs Group presented its ninth negative quarterly report on Wednesday. But the loss is decreasing and the company is showing strong growth in Sweden. The...
Prabhu | May 16, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Bengaluru-based home rental start-up NestAway Technologies has raised $10 million (INR 69.83 crores), courtesy of Tiger Global and Chiratae Ventures... Join now to...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 16, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japanese tech-focused staffing firm En-Japan Inc. recorded a 27.9 percent year-over-year increase in profit to ¥8.1 billion ($74 million U.S.) for the fiscal year...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 16, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Asia Pacific-focused recruitment business Persol Holdings Limited posted a staggering more than two times surge in net profit to ¥24.3 billion ($222 million U.S.)...
Tom Marling | May 15, 2019 | Financials / Deals
Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported the slowest pace of sales growth since it went public in 2004, with year-over-year sales gains of just 14 percent. This is despite...
Tom Marling | May 15, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) saw Q4 revenue surge 51 percent year-on-year, reaching 93.5 billion RMB ($13.9 billion U.S.) and beating analyst...
Lars Herlin | May 15, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Vostok New Ventures has released its Q1 report, but there's not much news since the company sold it Avito shares in January. The sale did, however, have a huge...
Lars Herlin | May 15, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Classifieds giant Schibsted has released its first Q1 report since spinning off its international marketplaces as Adevninta. Norwegian horizontal Finn.no has been...
Louisa Steyl | May 15, 2019 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
After months of waiting, the South African Competition Commission has recommended that the local Competition Tribunal block the sale of WeBuyCars to Naspers. The...
Andrzej Sowula | May 15, 2019 | Financials / Deals
Polish media group Agora reported a slight decline in revenue and profit for its internet division in Q1 FY2019. Revenue from the division amounted to 37.6 million...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 14, 2019 | Financials / Deals
Global staffing giant Recruit Holdings reported a 14.9 percent increase in profit to ¥174.2 billion ($1.6 billion U.S.) for FY2018. The group’s revenue rose 6.3...
Greg Spencer | May 14, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
NextDoor, the neighborhood networking site with growing classified listings, has raised $123 million amid an expansion into Sweden and Denmark. That brings the...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 14, 2019 | Financials / Deals
The €5.7 billion ($6.4 billion U.S.) takeover offer for Scout 24 AG from U.S. private equity houses Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone has failed despite...
Greg Spencer | May 14, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Flat-fee homes broker Reali announced it's added $9 million to a B-series investment round started last year, bringing the total to $29 million, according to a...
Lars Herlin | May 14, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Adevinta has delivered its first Q1 results and revenues are up 15 percent, despite display advertising dropping 5 percent. Its verticals are doing well and Global...
Lars Herlin | May 14, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Danish recruitment company JobIndex is anticipating a slowdown in the local job market. In a message to the Danish stock exchange, It said the job market is still...
Cila Warncke | May 14, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Rentals United, a Barcelona-based start-up that provides software for the holiday rental market, has raised €3.8 million ($4.3 million U.S.). The investment round...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 14, 2019 | Financials / Deals
Japanese Lifull Co. Ltd. reported a sharp 39.9 percent year-on-year drop in its net profit to ¥945 million ($8.6 million U.S.) for the six months period ended...
Andrzej Sowula | May 14, 2019 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Recruitment services provider Grupa Pracuj and its partners launched a corporate innovation fund called Pracuj Ventures to invest in HR and education-related...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | May 14, 2019 | Financials / Deals
Japanese flea market operator Mercari Inc. remained mired in red ink as it reported ¥7.3 billion ($66.6 million U.S.) in losses --- attributable to owners of the...
Greg Spencer | May 13, 2019 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
CarGurus, the dominant U.S. vehicle listings site, reported $135 million in revenue during the year’s first quarter --- a better-than-expected 37 percent...
Tom Marling | May 13, 2019 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Chinese c-to-b-to-c second-hand sneaker marketplace Poizon has completed a funding round led by Russian internet investor Digital Sky Technologies (DST). According...
Tom Marling | May 13, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Floundering Chinese property site Fang.com (NYSE: SFUN) has confirmed that it will spin-off China Index Holdings (CIH), the holding firm for its China Index...
Tom Marling | May 13, 2019 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
China's Uhouzz, a listings platform for overseas rental properties, has announced the completion of a series B+ funding round worth more than 10 million RMB ($1.5...
Tom Marling | May 12, 2019 | Financials / Deals
China’s leading industry research and consultancy firm, Qianzhan.com, has released its latest list of China’s most valuable unicorns (in Chinese), with...
