Deb Stowe | July 27, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
U.S. online apparel resale platform ThredUp is poised to launch its international expansion with the $28.5 million acquisition of Remix Global AD, a Bulgarian...
AIM Group | July 27, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global executive search firm SRI Executive has acquired c-suite job board Marquee Search for an undisclosed sum. Operating for last two decades with focus on...
AIM Group | July 23, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces
AboveBoard, a U.S.-based recruitment marketplace for senior executives, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by a number of angel investors. Launched...
Deb Stowe | July 21, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Second-hand clothing resale app Flyp announced that it has raised $3.2 million in its latest round of funding. The app connects people who want to sell their used...
Greg Spencer | July 16, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces
Mave, a niche job board, launched this month in Tampa, Fla., with the hope of creating a community for smaller software vendors and salespeople. Although it’s not...
Greg Spencer | July 05, 2021 | Real Estate, Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Stagerie is a new marketplace connecting real estate agents and home sellers with home-staging specialists. In the U.S. real estate market, many believe an...
Greg Spencer | June 30, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Doximity, a niche networking site for physicians, went public last week, and within days posted a market cap of $10 billion, an astonishing feat for a firm little...
Lucy Barnard | June 30, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Turkish home decor marketplace Dekopasaj.com has launched the UAE’s first second-hand furniture vertical, Decosouq. The website aims to disrupt big players...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | June 30, 2021 | Real Estate, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Zameen.com, the leading real estate marketplace in Pakistan, has teamed up with a home furnishing e-commerce website to promote exclusive properties, according to...
Rachel Velebny | June 28, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces
ThredUp has released its annual Resale Report projecting that the fashion resale market will grow eleven times faster than retail over the next five years, pushing...
Rachel Velebny | June 25, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
The California-based marketplace has raised $195 million in a Series F investment round and according to Goat Group this raises its valuation to $3.7 billion, more...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | June 14, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
BizReach, a Japan-based recruitment marketplace, saw sales exceed the pre-pandemic level during the third quarter ending in April, with V-shaped recovery in hiring...
AIM Group | June 12, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Here’s a different kind of marketplace. As Covid-19 vaccine availability grows around the world, it provides an opportunity for traditional marketplaces to offer...
Rachel Velebny | June 14, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Catawiki.com, a Dutch online auction marketplace, has reported its first profitable year since its first auction in 2011. Its full year 2020 net profit grew to...
Prabhu | June 04, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Home services business Urban Company has raised $255 million in a Series F funding round, taking its post-money valuation to over $2.1 billion. Led by Prosus...
Rachel Velebny | June 03, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Depop, the fashion resale marketplace favored by Gen Z, is being acquired by Etsy, a popular marketplace for selling and buying handmade, crafting, and vintage...
Rachel Velebny | June 01, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces
European fashion resale marketplace Vinted has announced its launch in Canada, where over one-third of consumers already purchase secondhand clothing, according to...
Rachel Velebny | May 27, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Freightlancer.com, part of Freelancer.com-owner Freelancer Ltd, has announced its acquisition of Loadshift for $7.7 million AUD ($5.9 million U.S.), backed by a...
Greg Spencer | May 20, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Kaiyo, a marketplace that helps apartment dwellers move house by offering an easy way to offload and acquire used furniture, has raised $5 million in venture...
Rachel Velebny | May 14, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Fashion resale marketplace Poshmark has reported Q1 2021 net revenue of $81 million, up 42% y-on-y, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and...
Rachel Velebny | May 14, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
ThredUp has made its first quarterly report as a publicly traded company announcing Q1 2021 revenue of $55.7 million, up 15% year-on-year, and gross profit of...
Rachel Velebny | May 12, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
European fashion resale startup Vinted announced that it closed an all-equity investment round of €250 million ($303 million U.S.), putting the company’s pre-money...
Rachel Velebny | May 11, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
The RealReal, a San-Francisco-based luxury fashion resale marketplace, has reported Q1 FY2021 revenue of $98.8 million, a 27% increase year-on-year, and gross...
Greg Spencer | April 22, 2021 | Automotive, Niche Marketplaces
Work Truck Solutions, operator of the niche commercial vehicle marketplace Comvoy, has launched a new search tool to help dealers find inventory. VAST (short for...
Rachel Velebny | April 12, 2021 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
StockX, a streetwear resale marketplace, has announced a new valuation of $3.8 billion after raising $195 million through a secondary tender offering and $60...
Greg Spencer | April 06, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces
RigZone, a recruitment site catering to the oil industry, has won a $3 million civil case against its founder for stealing trade secrets and using them to launch a...
Rachel Velebny | April 02, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
StockX, a Michigan-based streetwear resale marketplace, has expanded its categories to include electronics such as game consoles, virtual reality headsets and...
Rebeka Shaid | March 30, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Several marketplaces launched a coalition on Tuesday to protect small e-commerce sellers from being required to post personal information and other contact...
Cila Warncke | March 26, 2021 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces
Adevinta Spain’s market-leading recruitment portal InfoJobs.net has launched a tech recruitment portal in collaboration with Barcelona Tech City. The niche...
Rachel Velebny | March 26, 2021 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
ThredUp, a fashion resale marketplace, has filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and will begin trading on the...
