Prosus
Internet Investment division of Naspers
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| February 24 2025 | Prosus reached an agreement to acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com for €4.1 billion in cash. |
| December 2024 | Prosus entered into an agreement to acquire Despegar, a Latin American travel agency, for USD 1.7 billion. |
| October 2022 | Prosus agreed to sell its Avito platform to Kismet Capital Group for $2.4 billion, following criticism about the platform's services potentially being used by the Russian army for recruiting purposes. |
| August 19 2022 | Prosus acquired iFood, a prominent food delivery service, in a $1.9 billion deal, further diversifying its investment in digital platforms. |
| March 2022 | Prosus announced it was writing off its 25.9% stake in VK (worth approximately US$700m) after the company's CEO was placed on a U.S. sanctions list. |
| February 2022 | During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Prosus was slow to announce disinvestments or scaling back of operations in Russia, unlike most Western companies. |
| June 15 2021 | Prosus purchased GoodHabitz, an online learning platform, for $257 million, expanding its educational technology portfolio. |
| June 3 2021 | Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion, marking a significant investment in the technology and knowledge-sharing platform. |
| 2019 | Prosus attempted to acquire Just Eat but lost the bidding war to Takeaway.com. |
| September 2019 | Prosus listed its ordinary shares on Euronext Amsterdam and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, completing its initial public offering (IPO) and becoming the largest consumer Internet company in Europe by asset value. |
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