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Michael Bruce
Co-founder & CEO, Purplebricks · Birmingham
Co-founded Solihull-headquartered hybrid online estate agent Purplebricks with brother Kenny; it floated on AIM in 2015 at a £240m market cap. He left in 2019; the business was sold to Strike for £1 in 2023.
- Company
- Purplebricks
- Sector
- Tech › Proptech
- Founded
- 2012
- Funding
- AIM IPO 2015 (£240m market cap)
- Based in
- Birmingham
- Status
- acquired
Michael Bruce in the press
- Purplebricks founder considers takeover bidTheBusinessDesk · 2023-03-02
- Purplebricks to cut 10% of jobs in bid to become profitable by 2024UKTN · 2022-12-21
- Founder Michael Bruce exits PurplebricksBusinessCloud · 2019-05-07
- Estate agent disrupter Purplebricks expands into AustraliaBusinessCloud · 2016-08-30
- PurplebricksWikipedia
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Photo: UKTN