OfferUp has named seasoned financial executive Rodrigo Brumana as its new chief financial officer. Brumana's experience includes helping RetailMeNot with its initial public offering in 2013 when he served as its vice president of finance.
Hungary's leading real estate vertical Ingatlan.com has appointed Géza Radimeczky as its new head of digital financial services.
Naspers' OLX Group has invested R1.4 billion ($94.4 million U.S.) in the SA car buying service WeBuyCars.co.za. This comes as the company announced plans to unbundle its pay-TV business MultiChoice and separately list it on the JSE.
Red Arbor, the company founded by David Gonzalez Castro, has acquired a 20 percent share in peer-to-peer education platform TusClasesParticulares.com ("your private classes") and sister site ClassGap.
Mexican No. 1 horizontal SegundaMano has appointed Ariel Cilento as the company's new CEO. Cilento replaces Pål Hauff Hvattum, who assumed a VP Global Markets role at Schibsted.
Following eight years as the CEO of Marktplaats.nl, including five years as the head of EBay Classifieds Benelux, Olivier Van Duijn will step down from November 1, Dutch media reported.
Kenya-based, niche, blue-collar startup Lynk.co.ke has been chosen as one of the four regional winners of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy's 2018 global economic prize, the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) in Africa.
Barcelona-based incubator Antai Venture Builder has received €20 million ($23.3 million U.S.) in new funding. The digital venture capital arm of Banco Sabadell InnoCells and insurance firm Mutua Madrileña, each invested €5 million ($5.8million U.S.).
The Mitula Group has appointed Mathew Campbell as the new CEO of DotProperty. He will replace the site's founder Ben Neve, who continued as CEO after Mitula acquired DotProperty in September 2016.
Pål Hauff Hvattum, who has been the CEO of Schibsted's Mexican horizontal SegundaMano for over five years, has assumed a new role.
