AIM Group | July 23, 2021 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Another day, another IPO-through-SPAC. PropertyGuru, a leading marketplace in Singapore, Saturday announced plans for a merger with Bridgetown 2 Holdings Ltd., a...
Greg Spencer | July 27, 2021 | Marketplaces
A former security officer for EBay has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $15,000 for his part in a harassment campaign carried out in 2019 against a...
AIM Group | July 27, 2021 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Global staffing group Randstad NV reported stable revenue from its recruitment marketplace Monster.com during the second quarter, while the group’s total revenue...
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...
Peter M. Zollman | July 26, 2021 | Marketplaces
Serial entrepreneur Brad Inman, founder of the residential real estate community Inman, has sold the company to a Canadian private equity company, Beringer...
AIM Group | July 26, 2021 | Financials / Deals
Naspers Foundry, an investment arm of South Africa-based internet group Naspers, invested R34 million ($2.3 million) in a digital insurance service provider Ctrl....
AIM Group | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
U.S.-based HRTech firm SmartRecruiters, which lets businesses hire talent on-demand, raised $110 million in Series E funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation....
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech
Sri Lanka-based recruitment marketplace Xpress.Jobs extended a partnership with a HRM software Blue Lotus 360 to let recruiters source candidates directly from its...
Greg Spencer | July 26, 2021 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, People on the Move
Konect Ai, a software vendor for car dealerships, has named Cox Automotive veteran Jerry Salerno as president. The 10-year-old company has charged Salerno with...
Danielle le Clus-Rossouw | July 26, 2021 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Transaction Capital bought a 49.9% share of WeBuyCars in September 2020, increasing its share to 74.9% on approval by the South African Competition Commission on...
Ben Salisbury | July 26, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
British real estate portal Boomin will launch what it claims to be “the most interactive and accurate online valuation tool on the market”. SmartVal, the new tool,...
Ben Salisbury | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech
British recruitment marketplace Reed.co.uk has announced a new partnership with JobAdder, a global recruitment software provider that will provide jobseekers with...
Ben Salisbury | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech
CV-Library, Britains no. 4 recruitment vertical has announced it will be extending its existing partnership with recruitment software company Firefish. Firefish...
Alina Zaiets | July 26, 2021 | Real Estate
According to research by Russia-based consultancy RBC Market Research, Russian real estate experienced a boom in 2020 thanks to interest-rate subsidies that drove...
Alina Zaiets | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment
The leading recruitment marketplace and one of the leading services marketplaces in Russia have teamed up to create a new product — YouDo Business. The...
Alina Zaiets | July 26, 2021 | Recruitment
Ukrainian recruitment classified Work.ua has overhauled its services to increase convenience for users. The recent updates include an unlimited number of free...
Rebeka Shaid | July 24, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Axel Springer classifieds subsidiary Aviv Group has appointed Bettina Curtze as the new chief financial officer. Curtze is an expert in capital markets, M&A,...
Greg Spencer | July 23, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech, People on the Move
CareerBuilder has hired a new CEO: Sue Arthur, a tech industry leader who’s held senior positions at Hewlett Packard and Electronic Data Systems and most recently...
Andrzej Sowula | July 23, 2021 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Alma Career, which houses Alma Media‘s recruitment businesses in ten countries in Eastern Central Europe, saw its revenue and adjusted EBITDA increase in H1 of...
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...
Greg Spencer | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Nextdoor, the neighborhood networking app, has hired David Roady as head of communications. He replaces Jenny Mayfield, who moves from the role of head of...
Greg Spencer | July 22, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Properly, a Canadian real estate brokerage that entices listings prospects with a guaranteed price, has closed a $35 million U.S. funding round. Bain Capital...
John Zappe | July 22, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
U.S.-based programmatic recruitment marketer PandoLogic is being acquired for $150 million. The buyer is Veritone, creator of an operating system for artificial...
Greg Spencer | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces
A pair of ecommerce bloggers are suing EBay, its former CEO Devin Wenig, and several others in connection to a harassment campaign alleged to have taken place in...
AIM Group | July 22, 2021 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Australia-based HR tech business EmploymentHero has raised A$140 million ($103 million U.S.) in a Series E funding round led by U.S.-based venture capital firm...
Léo Siqueira | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global marketplaces operator Adevinta reported that revenues for OLX-Brazil in Q2 this year rose 148% year-on-year. Revenue growth for OLX-Brazil includes the...
Greg Spencer | July 21, 2021 | Marketplaces
The general-goods app Mercari announced the U.S.-wide roll out of same-day, local delivery through a tie-in with Uber. The service lets buyers and sellers located...
Greg Spencer | July 21, 2021 | Real Estate
U.S. residential rental site Zumper has rolled out an in-app chat tool to connect prospective renters with landlords and property managers. Zumper says the feature...
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...
