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Looking for an apartment to rent? Find it easily on 99.co

New start-up gets $700K in seed funding from VCs

Published Wed, May 7, 2014 · 10:00 PM
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[SINGAPORE] Just five months after launching room rental site Homie.co, serial entrepreneur Darius Cheung is back with his newest start-up 99.co - an apartment rental site, and also Homie's sister site and parent company.

99.co, which lists entire apartments in Singapore for rent (not just rooms, like on Homie.co), has secured $700,000 in seed funding from various venture capital (VC) firms, including 500 Start-ups, East Ventures, Fenox VC and Golden Gate Ventures.

According to Mr Cheung, this was inspired by his desire to reform the local property search market, which he claims has…

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