South African billionaire Koos Bekker to retire as Naspers chair by 2028
Koos Bekker will retire as chair of Naspers and Prosus in the year to March 2028, ending three decades at the company he built around Tencent.
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Koos Bekker will retire as chair of Naspers and Prosus in the year to March 2028, ending three decades at the company he built around Tencent.
Koos Bekker's Prosus sold a 5 percent Delivery Hero stake to Hong Kong's Aspex for €335 million in its second EU-mandated divestment.
Steve Pacak, the former M-Net finance boss who served Naspers and Prosus for nearly four decades, has died at 71 after a battle with cancer.
Naspers unit Prosus has agreed to sell a 4.5% stake in Delivery Hero to Uber for about $290 million, cutting its holding to comply with European Union regulatory conditions.
Koos Bekker's Naspers has declared its transformation into a global AI operator complete, with the Toqan platform rolling out to 5 million Prosus partners.
South African billionaire Koos Bekker’s net worth fell by $200 million after a pullback in Naspers and Prosus shares.
Flexion recently raised $50 million in a Series A round, led by Prosus Ventures with participation from global investors.
iFood acquires Advolve to accelerate its ads growth and strengthen Prosus’s retail-media expansion.
Koos Bekker’s Prosus partners with Accel to back India’s early-stage startups in AI, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
Prosus, chaired by Koos Bekker, secures 90% of Just Eat Takeaway in a $4.73 billion deal, marking its biggest European acquisition in years.
The all-cash deal, valued at $1.3 billion, gives Prosus’s classifieds arm OLX its first major foothold in France, Europe’s second-largest car market.
Prosus, chaired by Koos Bekker, invests $221.76 million in India’s Rapido, deepening its push into mobility after Swiggy’s exit.
Prosus, chaired by Koos Bekker, raised its stake in India’s Urban Company to 7.35% with a $139 million investment ahead of its IPO.
The round also drew backing from VentureSouq, DASH Ventures, Taz Investments, and Sanabil 500.
Prosus, chaired by Koos Bekker, led a $12.5 million Series A in Intella, backing Arabic-first AI tools for enterprises across MENA.
Prosus, led by Koos Bekker, is in talks to invest $200 million in Indian ride-hailing firm Rapido, valuing it above $2.5 billion.