Cathal O Murchu | January 25, 2023 | Marketplaces, Intel
Craigslist is losing traction; Facebook is de-emphasizing Marketplace Mercari U.S. had 2x OfferUp’s revenue in 2021, but growth has flattened Has Mercari stalled?...
Greg Spencer | January 25, 2023 | Marketplaces, Intel
After a post-pandemic bump, Craigslist’s decline resumed A 43% drop in revenue from job ads led the slide Mercari is probably now best positioned to challenge...
Angela Hawksford | January 24, 2023 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals, Intel
REA Group, News Corp., CoStar Group disclose talks for Realtor.com sale ‘There’s no guarantee,’ but a sale could be strategic for all sides com, now No. 2, could...
Greg Spencer | January 27, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
Motobyo is a new online car-auction platform that strives to connect private sellers to private buyers, and spare both from dealer fees. The service offers sellers...
David Loji | January 28, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Latin America-focused job board operator RedArbor has invested €400,000 ($435,00 U.S.) in Spain-based HRTech company Emocional, which uses deep learning, computer...
Greg Spencer | January 27, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
FJ Labs, a venture capital firm that targets marketplaces, has secured commitments of $260 million from clients including family offices, institutional investors...
Alina Zaiets | January 28, 2023 | Automotive, Recruitment
Five employees of Tut.by, formerly the leading independent news site in Belarus, in addition to a marketplace horizontal, went on trial in Minsk earlier this...
Alina Zaiets | January 28, 2023 | Recruitment
Despite the Russian invasion, which began in late February, the Ukrainian tech job market managed not only to survive but to grow in 2022, contributing more than...
Léo Siqueira | January 27, 2023 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Carflip, a Brazilian car subscription service, raised an undisclosed investment from automotive group Stellantis. Carflip is owned by car evaluation service...
Andrzej Sowula | January 27, 2023 | Automotive
Aures Holdings, which owns auto verticals AAAAuto, Mototechna, Auto Diskont, and Driverama.de, is going to hire about 140 people by the end of 2023, according to a...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 27, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Edtech and rectech startup UPSchool has closed its first undisclosed investment, led by Arya Women Investment Platform with participation from Boğaziçi Ventures...
Ben Salisbury | January 27, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
VR workforce learning platform Gemba has closed on an $18 million Series A funding round led by New York investor Parkway Venture Capital. The funds will be used...
Ben Salisbury | January 27, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
France-based hiring platform Welcome To The Jungle has closed a $54 million Series C funding round. The company helps organizations recruit new workers by setting...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 27, 2023 | Real Estate
South Korea-based home-rental app ZipToss has launched ZipToss Academy to deliver practical brokerage training. The academy offers free-of-charge training in...
Lars Herlin | January 28, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
Revenue at Sweden-based property marketplace Hemnet rose by 13.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) to SEK201 million ($19.5 million) in Q4 2022, despite of the fact that the...
Angela Hawksford | January 26, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Openn Negotiation, the publicly traded Australia-based proptech, has raised A$3.7 million ($2.6 million U.S.) through the issue of new shares to fund its expansion...
Greg Spencer | January 26, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
LinkedIn posted revenue growth for the last quarter, but its gains continue to shrink with ad-spend pullbacks and expected reductions in tech hiring. The...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 26, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Professional-networking app operator and rectech company Drama & Co. has launched a job posting service exclusively for individuals on an annual salary of...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 26, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
Digital auto retailer ChexCar will premiere its first "vending machine" in the first half of this year, with plans to set up four or five more such automated...
Ben Salisbury | January 26, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
All-inclusive electric-car subscription service Onto has raised £100 million ($123 million U.S.) in a new credit line provided by global investment group CDPQ and...
Damian Shore | January 26, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
Madrid-based Housell has released a detailed breakdown of its customer profile. The bulk of those (71.1%) that listed properties on the hybrid real estate agency...
Damian Shore | January 26, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
Spain-based hybrid real estate agency Housfy has unveiled Housfy Inversión (Housfy Investment). It aims to standardize the real estate investment process, ranging...
AIM Group | January 26, 2023 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
Netherlands-based marketplace specialist Prosus and parent company Naspers are planning laying off 30% of their corporate workforce, Reuters reports. “We are...
Greg Spencer | January 25, 2023 | Automotive, People on the Move
Automotive Ventures, an early-stage investment firm, has added Cox Automotive veteran Paul Whitworth to its advisory team. Whitworth joins a high-powered team of...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 25, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
Real estate marketplace Hogangnono has unveiled a new feature to save tenants from charter or ‘Jeonse’ fraud while they are looking for new homes. Jeonse is a...
Greg Spencer | January 25, 2023 | Real Estate
Zillow has launched a new feature for rental listings that allows apartment hunters to instantly book property tours online without having to connect with a...
Dualta Mac Lochlainn | January 25, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Leading France-based recruitment company HelloWork Group has announced a record-setting €94 million ($102 million U.S.) in orders for 2022, an increase of 33% on...
Prabhu | January 25, 2023 | Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
India-based used cars marketplace CarTrade has posted $14.2 million U.S. in revenue for Q3, FY22-23 (quarter ended December 2022). Join now to access the full...
Ben Salisbury | January 25, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Recruitment software platform Clovers has agreed to acquire TalVista, the developer of a diversity and inclusion platform that aims to reduce bias in the hiring...
Ben Salisbury | January 25, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
Auto Trader’s car-buying app was downloaded five times more in the U.K. last year than its closest rival, according to analysis by FairBettingSites.co.uk. It...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 25, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
Autorola A/S and Al-Futtaim Automotive have formed a joint venture in the Middle East — Autorola MENA Holding Ltd — with the aim of digitizing and...
