Deb Stowe | November 15, 2022 | Automotive, Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Truck driver recruitment platform Drive My Way has secured $4.4 million in Series A funding. It will use this investment to significantly increase headcount,...
Deb Stowe | November 12, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Singapore-based sneaker and streetwear marketplace NovelShip has received $9.5 million U.S. in a Series A funding round, according to a report in Deal Street Asia....
Deb Stowe | November 12, 2022 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Brazil-based freelancer market GetNinjas has posted BRL 14.3 million ($2.7 million U.S.) in net revenue in the third quarter of 2022, a fall of 13% year on year,...
Deb Stowe | November 11, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Luxury resale marketplace The RealReal has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in total revenue to $143 million in the third quarter. Its gross merchandise value (GMV)...
Deb Stowe | November 11, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
Fashion resale marketplace Yaga, which operates in several developing markets, has announced that it has raised €2.2 million ($2.2 million U.S.). Based in Estonia,...
Deb Stowe | November 10, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
U.K.-based television channel ITV has entered the resale space via its new media brand Woo, which has launched a wellness-oriented marketplace. The site will...
Deb Stowe | November 10, 2022 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Fiverr has posted an 11% year-on-year increase in revenue the third quarter to reach $82.5 million. The gain came on the back of a 3% rise in the number of active...
Damian Shore | November 09, 2022 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Valencia-based used-bicycle marketplace Tuvalum has raised €3 million ($3.0 million U.S.) in equity in a series A investment round, newspaper El País reports. The...
Deb Stowe | November 07, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Vestiaire Collective has released its 2022 Trust Report, in which the luxury marketplace outlines its efforts to keep counterfeit items off its marketplace. “We’ve...
Deb Stowe | November 04, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Streetwear-resale marketplace Grailed has started selling womenswear. The New York-based company has traditionally served a young, male demographic. Based on...
Deb Stowe | November 04, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
China-based luxury resale platform Plum has secured $100 million in a Series C round, according to reports. The investment comes from ZhuanZhuan Group, a general...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | November 04, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
South Korea-based niche c-to-c marketplace Kream has sold more than 50,000 shares to raise an estimated KRW170 billion ($120 million U.S.) from investors. Kream...
Deb Stowe | November 03, 2022 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Building-access software maker SwiftConnect has announced that it has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which the company will use to grow its portfolio...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | November 02, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
South Korea-based luxury goods marketplace Trenbe has spun off its appraisal service, with the latter now an independent company. Korea Genuine Appraisal Center...
AIM Group | November 01, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Niche marketplace Whoppah.com has closed a €5 million ($5.0 million U.S.) seed funding round from informal investors to improve its operational efficiency in the...
Deb Stowe | October 30, 2022 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Freelancer marketplace UpWork posted a 24% year-over-year hike in total revenue to reach $159 million in the third quarter of 2022. The gross services volume (GSV)...
Damian Shore | October 25, 2022 | Niche Marketplaces
According to Pádraig Power, the company’s marketing manager in Ireland (LinkedIn profile), Refurbed has sold products to 2% of Irish households since it...
Deb Stowe | October 21, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Amazon.com has deepened its partnership with secondhand luxury reseller What Goes Around Comes Around (WGACA). This will see the latter sell designer bags, jewelry...
Deb Stowe | October 21, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Fashion retailer Zara is moving into resale with the launch of a secondhand service in the U.K. According to a report in the Guardian, from Nov. 3, consumers will...
Dualta Mac Lochlainn | October 20, 2022 | Automotive, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Belgium-based vehicle-leasing site Lizy has announced a round of funding totaling €40 million ($39.2 million US) led by Alychlo, fintech venture capital fund...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 20, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Japan-based general goods marketplace Mercari has invested €1.4 million ($1.37 million U.S.) in the Series A funding round of Beebs SAS, operator of a c-to-c...
Deb Stowe | October 14, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Los Angeles-based sneaker-resale marketplace Goat Group is poised to acquire streetwear-resale platform Grailed, according to a Bloomberg report. The financial...
Deb Stowe | October 12, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Depop has reported a £84.5 million ($93.4 million U.S.) operating loss for 2021, versus profit of £400,000 the year before. Its 2021 revenue stood at £50.1...
Deb Stowe | October 11, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Vietnam-based used-fashion marketplace Piktina has raised $1 million U.S. in seed funding from Touchstone Partners. It will use this funding to “accelerate its...
Lars Herlin | October 11, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Lithuania-based Vinted has moved to establish itself in Sweden with the launch of its website and smartphone app in Swedish. Vinted is a marketplace for buying,...
Deb Stowe | October 07, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, People on the Move
U.S.-based non-profit Goodwill Industries, the thrift-store retailer, is expanding in the online resale sector with the launch of a secondhand marketplace. The...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 05, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces
Fashion resale startup PopChill has pivoted to become a luxury-goods marketplace in a strategic transformation, while adding an AI-powered authenticity and...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 04, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
South Korea-based Naver is to acquire U.S.-based c-to-c secondhand fashion marketplace Poshmark in a deal worth $1.2 billion U.S., according to a statement issued...
Damian Shore | October 04, 2022 | Niche Marketplaces, People on the Move
Flash-sale company Veepee has officially appointed Anja Brehm (LinkedIn profile) as country manager for Spain, according to a media statement published on its...
Deb Stowe | October 03, 2022 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Secondhand fashion-resale aggregator Gently has raised $2 million U.S. in a pre-seed funding round that it will use to scale up, the company has announced. San...
