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How 99.Co Makes House Hunting Easier in Singapore
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A decade after he got shunted aside at Facebook Inc., Eduardo Saverin’s found another scrappy internet startup he’s proud to put his name behind.
The billionaire is reinventing himself as an Asian venture capitalist and thinks he’s found a winner in little-known 99.co, a Singaporean house-hunting service founded by local wunderkind Darius Cheung. So much so that Saverin, who’s flown under the radar since making the city-state his home in 2009, has gone to unusual lengths to grant the startup his imprimatur.