Anastasia Gnezditskaia | October 10, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Belgium’s Het Mediahuis, the owner of a number of classified sites in Belgium and the Netherlands, invested €1.5 million ($1.8 million U.S.) for a minority stake...
Andrzej Sowula | October 09, 2017 | Financials / Deals
In Finland, Sanoma's Oikotie, a horizontal platform for apartments, vehicles and jobs, acquired LKI-Asiantuntijapalvelut Oy, manufacturer of software for real...
Andrzej Sowula | October 06, 2017 | Financials / Deals
MZN Property (formerly Morizon Group), owner of Polish real estate search engines Morizon.pl and several other real estate verticals, increased its revenue and...
Radhika Sachdev | October 06, 2017 | Financials / Deals
In less than two years, GoZefo, a recommerce site for used furniture, home appliances, and electronics goods, has raised $15.2 million U.S. from a slew of...
Angela Hawksford | October 05, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Australia’s ANZ Bank made a push into real estate with the acquisition of proptech start-up REALas, an app that provides property price predictions. The...
Christo Volschenk | October 05, 2017 | Financials / Deals
U.S. private equity investor Hellman & Friedman, the single biggest shareholder of Germany's Scout24 Group, and unnamed managers today sold altogether ten...
AIM Group | October 04, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Axel Springer's Immoweb.be partnered with Italy's Real Web to purchase a 70-percent stake in Luxemburg real-estate platform Immotop.lu. The financial terms of the...
Louisa Steyl | October 04, 2017 | Financials / Deals
South Africa’s second-biggest property vertical PrivateProperty.co.za announced a new deal almost one year after it had announced its intention to get in bed...
Cila Warncke | October 01, 2017 | Financials / Deals
British used-car platform Tootle.co.uk raised £2.5 million ($3.3 million U.S.) in venture capital from incubator Hambro Perks, bringing its total funding to a...
Marian Jacob | September 29, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Frontier Digital Ventures (FDV) informed the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), where it is listed, that it had divested from IMCongo, a 4-language, real...
Cila Warncke | September 29, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Ikea, the Swedish home goods giant purchased peer-to-peer jobs platform TaskRabbit for an undisclosed sum. News site Recode reported that TaskRabbit will be an...
Christo Volschenk | September 28, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Rocket Internet (Code: RKET), released the financial results of Jumia Group for H1 of FY2017 (to end June) in Berlin yesterday. It was the first ever glimpse in...
Marian Jacob | September 28, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Singapore-based Sea Group, formerly known as Garena, officially filed for its much-anticipated IPO in the U.S.. The company, which is valued at about $3.75 billion...
Léo Siqueira | September 28, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Moving, a real estate site in Brazil owned by media group Estadão, received an investment of undisclosed size from a new partner, Engebanc, a real estate company...
Tom Marling | September 27, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Baixing.com (百姓网), a leading horizontal platform in China, played the role of angel investor when it pumped 5 million RMB ($750,000 U.S.) into the 4-month-old...
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | September 25, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Immoweb.be, the leading Belgian property site owned by German media group Axel Springer, acquired ConstructR, a start-up that has been called the Pinterest for...
Tom Marling | September 25, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Renrenche (人人车), one of China’s leading c-to-c used-auto platforms, reportedly secured $200 million U.S. in funding from ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (滴滴出行). At...
AIM Group | September 22, 2017 | Automotive, Financials / Deals, Intel
Naspers has confirmed that it is in the process of acquiring AutoTrader.co.za, South Africa’s leading auto vertical. The transaction is currently at the local...
Andrzej Sowula | September 21, 2017 | Financials / Deals
In Lithuania, the Media Bitės company has signed a letter of intent with Stichting Administratiekantoor Kemplake to buy the media group Zurnalu Leidybos Grupe...
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | September 21, 2017 | Financials / Deals
The French marketplace for preloved children's clothes Patatam raised €3 million ($3.6 million U.S.) to expand across Europe. The funding comes from a group of new...
Tom Marling | September 21, 2017 | Financials / Deals
51job Inc. (前程无忧, NASDAQ: JOBS), the leading jobs site in China as measured by total users, today announced that it had agreed to become the majority shareholder...
Radhika Sachdev | September 20, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Two recent events have apparently pushed the market capitalization of InfoEdge, the listed holding company of a clutch of online classifieds, over the mark of $2...
Cila Warncke | September 19, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Boatjump.com, a boat rental platform based in Valencia, raised €500,000 ($598,000 U.S.) from angel investors. Founded in 2016, the Spanish start-up aspires "to...
Louisa Steyl | September 19, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Naspers has confirmed that it is in the process of acquiring AutoTrader.co.za, South Africa’s leading auto vertical. The transaction is currently at the...
Kate Rodriguez | September 19, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Zenjob, a platform that places university students in temp jobs, raised €8 million ($9.5 million) in its second funding round this year, the company announced (in...
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | September 19, 2017 | Financials / Deals
The US-based investment company General Atlantic has come up with an offer to buy a 25-40% stake in the dominant property site of the Netherlands Funda valuing the...
Radhika Sachdev | September 14, 2017 | Financials / Deals
In India, the matchmaking and wedding-services company Matrimony.com successfully placed new shares in two steps. First, it allotted shares to ten so-called anchor...
Marian Jacob | September 13, 2017 | Financials / Deals
Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) invested in Infocasas, a leading property site in Uruguay and Paraguay, and the No. 2 in Bolivia. (Full news release.) The...
Kate Rodriguez | September 12, 2017 | Financials / Deals
StepStone, the jobs platform owned by Axel Springer, announced today the acquisition of Turijobs.com effective immediately. The site is Spain’s largest dedicated...
Radhika Sachdev | September 11, 2017 | Financials / Deals
China's Tencent Holdings, in which Naspers holds a 34-percent stake, reportedly is in advance talks with Jaipur-based Girnar Software, owner of used-car automotive...
