| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.04.2026 | OLX Launches AutoGPT: Agentic AI Assistant Transforming Automotive Search Across Europe | OLX Group, Europe and South Africa’s largest and fastest-growing platform for vertical transactions, has launched AutoGPT — a conversational AI assistant that transforms how people search for and buy cars. Built in partnership with OpenAI a... |
| 24.11.2025 | OLX Group Reports Record Profitability with 49% Margin and Strong 22% Revenue Growth | OLX Group (“OLX”), a global online classifieds leader with nearly 60 million daily listings across seven markets1 and a subsidiary of Prosus, has reported strong financial results for the first six months ended 30 September 2025.
“I am very... |
| 17.04.2025 | Украинское приложение для подготовки военных DrillApp привлекло $100 тыс | В DrillApp сообщили, что привлеченные средства планируют инвестировать в создание курса по FPV-дронам, модуль по международному гуманитарному праву, программу психологической стабилизации и B2B-платформу для профессионального оборонного обу... |
| 14.02.2025 | Carbin Africa takes on the ‘messy middle’ in Lagos’ car market | Despite soaring inflation and a crumbling local currency, car dealer Precious Okoedion says no week goes by without a car sale at any one of his three dealerships across Lagos State, Nigeria. Okoedion says many of these sales—over 30 since ... |
| 22.01.2025 | How CarDekho navigated Carro, Carsome to find space in SEA | Premium Content
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Samreen Ahmad · 1d ago · 6 min readHow CarDekho navigated Carro, Carsome to find sp... |
| 02.12.2024 | Naspers plans more IPOs after Swiggy success | Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Naspers and its European-listed subsidiary, Prosus
Technology investor Naspers said on Monday its Prosus e-commerce subsidiary plans more listings after last month’s Indian initial public offering (IPO) of Swiggy, as... |
| 22.11.2024 | Naspers and Prosus go all-in on AI | Naspers and its European-listed subsidiary Prosus are taking advantage of group-wide synergies to advance the use of AI, with Brazilian online food delivery platform iFood and online classifieds platform OLX taking the lead.
According to Eu... |
| 28.06.2024 | Brasil participa de operação da Interpol contra golpes online | Agente da Polícia Federal realiza detenção na Operação First Light 2024 (Imagem: Divulgação/Interpol)
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A prática de golpes na internet levou à prisão de 3.950 pessoas de... |
| 23.04.2024 | Nigeria: How E-Commerce Can Leverage Computer Vision Technology to Boost Sector - NCC | The rapid adoption of Computer Vision Technology (CVT) has revolutionized business operations and transformed e-commerce by improving efficiency in a variety of ways.
CVT is the process of using algorithms and artificial intelligence to pro... |
| 18.03.2024 | 'Correction cleared some smallcap froth, but largecaps still better placed' | While the risk/reward remains favourable in the largecap space, investors with a high-risk appetite and under-allocation to smallcaps may consider increasing exposure to companies that have experienced stock price corrections, says HARISH K... |
| 15.03.2024 | 3 Easy Ways To Buy Gift Cards In Nigeria: A Comprehensive Guide | Have you ever found yourself desperately searching for a place to buy gift cards in Nigeria, only to come up empty-handed or frustrated with the lack of options? I know that struggle all too well. As a proper Nigerian, I have found the best... |
| 15.03.2024 | Expansion, AI campus, green hydrogen plans on cards for Linde in India: CEO | Linde plc is bullish on India’s growth story and has investment plans of $1 billion for three to five years. Sanjiv Lamba, Chief Executive Officer, Linde talks to Amritha Pillay about the global chemical company's blueprint for India, which... |
| 16.02.2024 | Increasing the Security of Online Trade and Payments by Dmytro Zarakhovych | Ukrainian e-commerce is constantly growing despite all the difficulties. Thanks to the joint work of IGAMA.tech, OLX, the biggest international trade marketplace, and UAPAY, Ukrainian national payment service, even one of the biggest obstac... |
| 20.06.2023 | Olx Group cuts 800 jobs as it shuts down some markets | Olx Group, the online marketplace and classifieds business arm of Prosus, has cut around 800 jobs globally. Today’s move comes as the company started to close operations of its automotive business unit Olx Autos in some markets after long e... |
| 25.01.2023 | “Most active investor” FJ Labs closes on $260M across two new funds | Fabrice Grinda says he never intended to run a venture firm. He just really (really) enjoyed angel investing. In fact, by late 2013, when he was on the verge of selling the global classifieds marketplace OLX — his third business — he says h... |
| 02.06.2021 | Prosus to acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8 Billion | Congratulations to Stack Overflow, founders Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and team on the company's acquisition by Prosus for $1.8bn.
A top 50 website globally, Stack Overflow is the go-to destination for develop... |
| 05.01.2021 | Startup ecosystem of Paris
Numbers and facts
Strong sides
Negative aspects
Governmental support
Success stories
Investors
Business angels
Education
What’s next? | Startup ecosystem of Paris |
| 05.01.2021 | Стартап-экосистема Парижа
Цифры и факты
Сильные стороны
Негативные стороны
Государственная поддержка
Истории успеха
Инвесторы
Ангелы
Образование
Что дальше?... | Стартап-экосистема Парижа |
| 10.04.2019 | Southeast Asia’s Carousell snags $56M from Naspers-owned OLX | It’s taken some time to come around, but Naspers — the early Tencent investor that’s also behind the world’s top listings service — finally has a piece of Southeast Asia’s Carousell. TechCrunch broke news of talks between the two sides last... |
| 04.04.2019 | Consolidation in Africa as classifieds player Jiji acquires their main competitor OLX | As we saw from our recent TechCrunch Battlefield in Africa last year, the continent is producing bigger and bigger tech players, and one can see this in the consolidation in the market.
Today Jiji, one of the largest marketplaces for classi... |
| 30.04.2018 | Kyiv event awards best Ukrainian e-commerce companies | On April 20, the sixth edition of the Ukrainian E-commerce Awards, the annual ceremony to honor top Ukrainian e-commerce players, was held in Kyiv (Kiev).
Over 300 Internet projects participated in the contest. The winning companies were ch... |
| 08.09.2017 | Copycats versus disruptors in Latin America | Francisco Coronel Contributor
Francisco Coronel is a founding partner at NXTP Labs, an early-stage fund for tech companies in Latin America.
When a company expands to Latin America, it requires a great deal of effort to adapt the language, ... |
| 24.05.2017 | Frontier Car Group Closes $22 Million Investment | Good morning.
Frontier Car Group has closed a $22 million investment, which was co-led by Balderton Capital, EchoVC and TPG/Saty. The Berlin-based holding company runs a network of online used-car marketplaces that is focused on emerging ma... |
| 12.05.2017 | Kyiv event awards best Ukrainian e-commerce companies | The fifth edition of the Ukrainian E-commerce Awards, the annual ceremony to honor top Ukrainian e-commerce players, was held last month in Kyiv (Kiev).
Over 200 Internet projects participated in the contest. The winning companies were chos... |
| 12.05.2017 | Naspers invests €387M in European food delivery business Delivery Hero | Continuing its massive spending spree in Europe, the global technology and media investment conglomerate, Naspers, has invested €387 million ($421.3 million) in the online food ordering and delivery business Delivery Hero.
The investment, w... |
| 09.11.2016 | A serial founder on Trump: “He’s a startup that disrupted the establishment” | Fabrice Grinda, a longtime New Yorker, has helped create hundreds of jobs for Americans and others. Among the companies he has started is OLX, one of the largest free classifieds sites in the world — one that was acquired over time by the A... |
| 03.09.2015 | Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S. | Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? A company called letgo aims to find out. Its app, which lets users buy and sell items locally, has quietly grown to over 2 million downloads since its launch earlier this y... |
| 14.05.2015 | Classifieds site, Vendito is Rocket Internet’s answer to OLX, Ady | Share this article:
So I’m just going to go ahead and say what everyone is thinking: Rocket Internet is in absolutely everything these days. Along with its ability to give companies quirky, yet appropriate names, Rocket Internet has perfect... |
| 13.05.2015 | The “ZocDoc of Europe,” DocPlanner Announces $10M Series B Funding | DocPlanner, the largest Eastern European service for finding and booking appointments with medical and dental professionals, announced today a $10 million Series B funding round. The round was led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and... |
| 17.04.2015 | Naspers Drops Off $40 Million For Brazilian Mobile Conglomerate Movile | The on-demand delivery market has now raised more money in the first four months of 2015 than it did in all of 2014, and the latest beneficiary is the Brazilian mobile application and content developer Movile .
The company has received a $4... |
| 11.03.2015 | The Internet Is Flat, Now What? | Alec Oxenford Contributor
Editor’s note: Alec Oxenford is founder and Americas CEO of OLX, a global online classifieds platform.
The Internet is getting very flat, very quickly, and traditional roles in its economy have already been thrown ... |
| 01.07.2014 | Buy and Sell Gadgets Online with HCPK.PK | Gone are the days when you would have to head out to buy and sell gadgets. Now you can easily operate from your house and get access to the market right on your laptop screen. We have featured different online sellers before, HCPK.PK is yet... |
| 04.04.2014 | Seattle Roundup: Tidal Turbine, IDRI, Tango Card, Codementor, TAGS | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week’s roundup includes a green-light from federal regulators for a Snohomish County PUD tidal turbine project in Puget Sound; more tuberculosis research funding for IDRI... |
| 24.03.2014 | One-On-One Programming Help Site Codementor Raises $600,000 | Codementor, a one-on-one learning platform for software developers, has raised $600,000 in seed funding. The Techstars-backed site, which launched to the public last week and currently has more than 600 programming experts, will use the cap... |
| 28.02.2014 | The Rise And Future Of The New York Startup Ecosystem | Contributor Contributor
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Like many who have been active in the New York startup ecosystem over the past decade, I a... |
| 25.11.2013 | Host Analytics Launches Platform To Make Excel Models More Reusable | Host Analytics has launched a new platform to move Excel models into a cloud service that allows users to take spreadsheet data and reuse it for other purposes without manual intervention.
The new platform, AirliftXL, is built on what the c... |
| 07.11.2011 | Aksel Raises $500K From 500 Startups & More To Bring European Men’s Fashion To The U.S. | Aksel Group, the company behind AkselParis.com, a direct-to-consumer online men’s fashion store, announced this week that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. The round was led by Inspiration Ventures, with participation from Dave McClur... |
| 26.08.2010 | Naspers Makes Strategic Investment In Craigslist Competitor OLX | We’ve been hearing recently that South African media conglomerate and recent DST investor Naspers was sniffing around Crasiglist competitor OLX. Today, we confirmed with OLX co-founders Alec Oxenford and Fabrice Grinda that Naspers has made... |
| 24.03.2010 | Captalis.com capta €1 millón de business angels para seguir creciendo en España | 24/03/2010
Nota de Prensa
CAPTALIS.COM CAPTA UN MILLÓN DE EUROS PARA SEGUIR CRECIENDO EN ESPAÑA.
• Entre los nuevos accionistas se encuentran inversores privados (business angels) del prestigio internacional de Michael Van Swaaij, CEO de... |
| 14.12.2009 | MercadoLibre and Why South America Shouldn’t Settle for Quick and Easy | Back before Brazil was the darling economy of Latin America, all eyes were on Argentina—or at least the dot com “eyeballs” were. In the late 1990s, when VCs, private equity houses and wealthy individuals where throwing Internet money around... |
| 06.08.2009 | OLX And hi5 Join Forces For International Expansion Plans | OLX and hi5, both challengers to dominating juggernauts in their respective fields (online classifieds and social networking), have teamed up to expose each others’ admittedly vast but geographically spread audience to one another. OLX says... |
| 12.05.2009 | Overseas Craigslist rival OLX brings in $5M to fuel rapid growth | OLX, a self-styled Craigslist competitor that has gained traction abroad, announced that it’s raised $5 million in a third-round of capital to continue its expansion in 87 countries and 39 languages. It will use the money to improve its sit... |
| 08.05.2009 | Classifieds listing site gets funded again | OLX snags $5 million in funding from Nexus Capital India
OLX, a free online classifieds website has raised a $5 million third round of funding from Nexus Capital India, according to this report.
The classifieds site is basically what Craigs... |
| 07.05.2009 | Craigslist Competitor OLX Scores $5 Million For Online Classifieds | OLX, the Craigslist for the rest of the world, has raised $5 million in funding from from Nexus Capital India. The company raised $13.5 million in Series B funding in April 2008 from General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fou... |
| 11.04.2008 | Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M | According to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.” And now it’s also the most funded classified site no one has ever heard of, having secured an additional $13.5M in Series B fund... |
| 29.05.2006 | Comment Of The Day - Pondering eBay | … it’s also a great
opportunity for eBay to extend the use of PayPal across the largest
collection of content, subcription, and shopping properties on the web.
these days, the value of eBay is more & more based on the value
of PayPal… a... |
