Davide Rasconi | March 13, 2023 | HRTech, Marketplaces
Italy-based services marketplace Ernesto aims to expand internationally, with France, the U.K. and Portugal its initial target markets, according to founder and...
Deb Stowe | March 10, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
France-based electric bike (e-bike) marketplace UpWay has launched in the U.S. The move follows its recent $25 million U.S. Series A funding round, led by Sequoia...
AIM Group | March 10, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Niche marketplace Whoppah.com says it has built the first marketplace in the world with an AR tool for prospective buyers to preview a 3D model of secondhand...
AIM Group | March 09, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals, People on the Move, Intel
The sale process begins for Jofogas and HasznaltAuto in Hungary New MD finally announced to lead LeBonCoin in France Germany is top performer in company’s latest...
Léo Siqueira | March 09, 2023 | Real Estate, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Frontier Digital Ventures (FDV), which operates marketplaces in emerging markets, aims to reach the $100 million U.S. revenue mark in Latin America in the medium...
Damian Shore | March 09, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Ellie Walters, CEO and co-founder of ReFunk; Source: LinkedIn Co-founded in October 2020 by Ellie Walters (LinkedIn profile), Anna Sheehan (LinkedIn profile),...
Damian Shore | March 09, 2023 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Belgium-based media company MediaHuis Group has provided an overview of the performance of its marketplaces in its annual report for 2022, noting a "relatively...
David Loji | March 09, 2023 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
Mexican horizontal SegundaMano will cease operations on 31 March, a separate Navent company said in a recent email to users. “We have taken the difficult decision...
Deb Stowe | March 08, 2023 | Marketplaces
Ecommerce giant EBay UK is to hold a pop-up event where attendees will be able to swap branded sneakers. The “Swap ‘Em Out Store” will take place in London’s...
Damian Shore | March 08, 2023 | Real Estate, Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Barcelona-headquartered Badi, a property portal that focused on room rentals (Badi Marketplace), is steadily expanding Badi Homes, which offers ‘designer’ rooms at...
Adegoke Seun | March 07, 2023 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Pan-African tech talent marketplace Gabeya Inc has joined the Mastercard Foundation to launch Mesirat (“to work”), a $48 million U.S. five-year program to support...
Lars Herlin | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Schibsted Ventures, a subsidiary of Norway-based marketplaces horizontal Schibsted, has participated in a SEK100 million ($9.6 million U.S.) funding round for...
Alina Zaiets | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Yandex Group, which owns Russia's No.1 automotive vertical Auto.ru, No.2 real estate vertical Yandex.Realty, and No.4 recruitment vertical Yandex.Jobs, saw its...
Jacopo Natali | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
Advertising and digital media company Catcha Digital has appointed Patrick Grove as its new chairman and completed its acquisition of digital firm iMedia Asia Sdn...
Andrzej Sowula | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
In Bulgaria, media company Rezon Media has acquired horizontal Pozvanete.bg. The acquisition is part of Rezon Media’s strategy to expand its general classified...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Hyundai LivArt, a leading interior design company based in South Korea, has launched a marketplace for the trading of used furniture, Ogugagu. Those looking to...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
South Korea-based marketplace horizontal HelloMarket has pivoted to secondhand fashion, rebranding as Second Wear. HelloMarket launched in 2011 as a c-to-c...
Lars Herlin | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Schibsted Ventures, a subsidiary of Norway-based marketplaces horizontal Schibsted, has participated in a SEK100 million ($9.6 million) funding round for...
Alina Zaiets | March 07, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Avito, the leading marketplace horizontal in Russia, has appointed Evgenia Odintsova to lead its branding efforts. Prior to joining Avito, Odintsova worked for...
Damian Shore | March 06, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Spain-based used clothing reseller Percentil is now handling 40,000 garments a month at its processing center in Madrid, with 120,000 garments currently listed on...
Lars Herlin | March 06, 2023 | Marketplaces
Schibsted is working with startup Wanda and sporting goods retailer Xxl to sell reconditioned electric bikes in Norway under the brand Trill Videre (which means...
AIM Group | March 06, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Russia-based classified giant Avito has appointed Sergei Piven as its chief financial officer. Piven, who has an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, has...
Lars Herlin | March 06, 2023 | Marketplaces
In August last year, some Norwegian users of Scandinavia-based classified app Tise were invited to test a new concept --- Tise Treasure --- and Tise is now...
Lars Herlin | March 06, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Lasse Wulff Hansen (LinkedIn profile) has replaced Bjarne Werner Munck as CEO of Denmark-based general marketplace GulogGratis, MediaWatch reports, citing the...
Patrick Kosmider | March 06, 2023 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
Germany-based media company Axel Springer SE will become a "digital-only" business within a few years, according to CEO Mathias Döpfner. He said that Welt and...
Deb Stowe | March 03, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
U.S.-based Juicy Couture is launching a secondhand marketplace. The casualwear fashion brand will run Rejuiced in conjunction with circular economy technology...
Andrzej Sowula | March 03, 2023 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Adevinta has started the sale process of its Hungarian assets and announced it in its Q4 2022 report. The business has been under strategic review since November...
Patrick Kosmider | March 02, 2023 | Marketplaces
Switzerland-based Goldbach and SMG Swiss Marketplace Group — a joint venture between Scout24 Switzerland and TX Markets — are expanding their marketing...
Angela Hawksford | March 01, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Just as reporting season was almost over, Australia-based The Market Herald, currently in the midst of boardroom turmoil, scraped in under the wire with its...
Greg Spencer | March 01, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Social app Nextdoor posted a quarter of declining revenue, blaming widespread advertising cutbacks, but said its user base continues to grow. Nextdoor reported $53...
