Greg Spencer | January 20, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, People on the Move
Online used-car dealer Vroom has laid off 275 workers, or 20% of its staff, in an effort to stay afloat following poor third-quarter earnings and a deteriorating...
Ben Salisbury | January 20, 2023 | Marketplaces
A survey suggests that U.K. consumers will be adding millions of listings to marketplaces over the coming weeks by selling Christmas presents to help them combat...
Ben Salisbury | January 20, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
Germany-based used-vehicle marketplace Adesa has consolidated its domestic platform Adesa GWListe and its U.K. counterpart into a single business unit —...
Ben Salisbury | January 20, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
U.K.-based recruitment agency marketplace Hiring Hub has secured a multi-million pound investment in a funding round led by private equity fund MonacoSol to scale...
Ben Salisbury | January 20, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Recruitment technology company Haystack has raised £500,000 ($617,000 U.S.) in a funding round led by the North East Venture Fund (NEVF). The company, based in...
AIM Group | January 20, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
South Africa-based proptech company FlowLiving has closed a R78 million ($4.5 million U.S.) pre-series A funding round to drive its b-to-b growth strategy....
AIM Group | January 20, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, People on the Move
Henek Lo (above) has started a new position as chief operating officer at WristCheck, a marketplace for buying and selling watches, he announced in a LinkedIn...
Deb Stowe | January 20, 2023 | Marketplaces, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Sneaker marketplace The Edit Ldn has secured $4.8 million in a seed funding round that it will use to step up its international expansion. According to The Edit...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 20, 2023 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Real estate marketplace PropertyFinder has committed additional investment in Egypt. Without specifying the sum, the Dubai-based company, which is active in six...
Patrick Kosmider | January 22, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
Auto1 Group SE, an online platform for buying and selling secondhand motors in Europe, has signed a lease for a production center in Oosterhout, the Netherlands,...
Damian Shore | January 20, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Turnover at Barcelona-based general marketplace Wallapop rose by 65% between 2020 and 2021, from €31 million to €51 million ($34 million to $55 million U.S.),...
Ben Salisbury | January 20, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
U.K.-based proptech platform HomeMove has raised £350,000 ($432,000 U.S.) in pre-seed funding for its service that connects buyers, sellers and tenants with vetted...
Patrick Kosmider | January 20, 2023 | Financials / Deals
Everon, a Zurich-based fintech company that specializes in digital asset management, has closed a CHF2.5 million ($2.7 million) seed funding round. As a result of...
Patrick Kosmider | January 20, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, People on the Move
Chief financial officer (CFO) Benedikt Manigold and chief operating officer (COO) Gerrit Ahlers have both been appointed co-managing directors of Germany-based...
Jacopo Natali | January 20, 2023 | PropTech & IBuying, People on the Move
Indonesia-based proptech company PinHome has appointed Fibriyani Elastria as its new chief marketing officer (CMO). Elastria (LinkedIn profile) is an industry...
Alina Zaiets | January 19, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Intel
The aggregator is looking to diversify product offering via Venture Lab First investment already made in Indonesia-based e-training site JayJay Aims to invest up...
Greg Spencer | January 19, 2023 | Real Estate
Zillow has launched Listing Media Services, a new product that aims to offer real estate agents a convenient way to book photography services and showcase...
Christian Allred | January 19, 2023 | Real Estate, Intel
Rapid same-day transactions for secondary homes or investments Business model based on commission and property management Fractional approach could expand to...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 19, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, People on the Move
Imarat Group has appointed Usman Latif (pictured) head of digital growth to lead initiatives in its real estate marketplace and other proptech companies....
AIM Group | January 19, 2023 | Real Estate
Netherlands-based real estate marketplace Pararius.nl has launched a special section for new builds and off-plan property. Once a developer registers a project...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 19, 2023 | Recruitment
Recruitment marketplace JobKorea has unveiled an employer-review service for job applicants. According to the company, this will provide applicants with...
Lars Herlin | January 19, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
VNV Global, a Sweden-based investor in new tech and marketplaces, saw a 56% drop in net asset value (NAV) in 2022 and a quarterly loss of $77.9 million, in a weak...
Jacopo Natali | January 19, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, People on the Move
Singapore-based PropertyGuru Group, which operates real estate marketplaces in Southeast Asia, has appointed Disha Goenka Das as its chief marketing officer (CMO)....
Jacopo Natali | January 19, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Singapore-based marketplace horizontal Carousell has appointed Gijs Verheijke to lead its luxury category. Gijs Verheijke (LinkedIn profile) is the CEO and founder...
Jacopo Natali | January 19, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Seek Asia, which operates such recruitment marketplaces as JobStreet and JobsDB in Southeast Asia, notes a growing demand for tech talent in Singapore, despite...
Greg Spencer | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment
Hire Sales Talent has launched as an avenue for sales people to find work amid the recent wave of technology-sector layoffs. Since launching in November 2022, the...
Léo Siqueira | January 18, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
Brazil-based IBuyer Loft has expanded into Campinas, a city in São Paulo state in the southeast of the country, according to a news release from the company. The...
Ben Salisbury | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Shift-worker recruitment platform Sona has acquired occupational mobile messaging app Yapster. Both companies are based in the U.K. Founded in 2015, Yapster offers...
Greg Spencer | January 18, 2023 | Automotive
CarOffer, an online vehicle wholesaler majority owned by CarGurus, has announced that it has beefed up vehicle inspections to provide dealers with a service that’s...
Ben Salisbury | January 18, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Microsoft and Indian-based HR tech unicorn Darwinbox will collaborate to help global companies leverage “the right tools to succeed in the evolving world of work,”...
