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    Does yesterday’s Goodlord staff clearout include its CEO?

    Richard White, the founder and CEO of online rental viewings and digital tenancy processing company Goodlord is about to leave the company, it has been reported. The news comes just a day after it was announced Goodlord has let 40 of its employees go, reducing its headcount down to 96 from 136. 31-year-old Richard, who is both a director and company secretary of Oh Goodlord Ltd, started out in the property industry as a Foxtons negotiator before moving to lettings company Capital Living. He then founded and helped raise £2m in start-up cash plus a further £7.2 million in March last year. At the time Richard told The Negotiator that he would be spending the extra cash on expanding the company’s headcount, and that Goodlord had signed up several big names to its service including Strutt & Parker. The company currently says its has 365,000 landlords and tenants who have used its service, and processed 151,000 tenancies. But Goodlord’s management would appear to have taken it in a new direction following the reduction in staff this week. Richard White’s reported imminent departure has been predicted on website Techcrunch, which also says Goodlord’s CTO Andrew Done may also be leaving the…

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    Online lettings platform Goodlord raises £7.2m in extra funding

    Online rental viewings and digital tenancy processing platform Goodlord says it has signed up 300 agents, transacted over 50,000 tenancies worth £200m since launching in August last year, and that is has raised an extra £7.2 million in funding. Goodlord also says it has signed up several big names including Strutt & Parker, Remax and London-based LiFe Residential, as well as 121,240 tenants and landlords. The three-year-old company, which spent two years in incubation and preparation before coming to market, raised the extra cash from several sources including Californian venture capital fund Ribbit Capital and two existing investors. The extra cash will be spent on expanding its headcount and Goodlord expects to have 117 employees by June this year, up from 11 last year. “This funding will allow us to move to the next stage in our plan to revolutionise the way that rental property lettings are done, taking away the pain for both landlords and tenants,” says Chief Executive Richard White (pictured, below). The company received £2m of start-up cash in May 2016 from German venture capital firm Global Founders Partners, one of the contributors to its latest round of funding. Goodlord’s platform and smartphone app is one way for…

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