Naboo secures $21M for its concierge-style corporate event booking platform
If you’ve ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you’ll know how onerous a task it can be. You have to contact multiple vendors, wait for quotes,…
ThredUp fashion marketplace offloads its European business, Remix
Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp expanded into Europe in 2021 with the acquisition of Remix, a Bulgarian…
Influur wants to standout from other influencer marketplaces by promising timely payout
As the influencer economy grows, startups like PassionFroot, Agentio, and One Impression, along with social platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok are trying to build marketplaces to connect brands with…
Temu’s low cost marketplace faces formal probe in EU over raft of DSA compliance concerns
The European Union has expanded its scrutiny of online marketplaces by opening a formal proceeding on Chinese low cost ecommerce platform, Temu, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission…
LinkedIn says 10M people have signed up as freelancers on its Services Marketplace
More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice — at least some of them are not…
Cloudflare’s new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is…
Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion
Do you have a much-loved jacket with a torn sleeve or pair of grubby kicks gathering dust at the back of your closet? Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants…
Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries
Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. When users click on an event on…
Apple approves Epic Games’ marketplace app after initial rejections
After multiple rejections, Apple has approved Fortnite maker Epic Games’ third-party app marketplace for launch in the EU. As now permitted by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic announced…
Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a marketplace for college students
Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to…