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Corporate governance: The cornerstone of tech start-ups

Willy Leow
Willy Leow • 4 min read
Corporate governance: The cornerstone of tech start-ups
Allegations of financial irregularities in March prompted an investigation into fashion e-commerce startup Zilingo, valued at US$970 million in 2019, and led to the dismissal of CEO Ankiti Bose in May / Photo: Bloomberg
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Everyone loves a successful moonshot. In Singapore, some tech start-ups have been reaching the skies, with more than 10 homegrown companies achieving unicorn status. Zilingo could have been another sterling example if not for a series of incidents which exposed its corporate governance lapses.

Things were going well and reportedly, Zilingo was negotiating a new funding round earlier this year which, if successful, would have elevated it to unicorn status.

However, complaints of alleged financial irregularities led to a forensic investigation that eventually saw the termination of co-founder and CEO Ankiti Bose in May.

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