Booking platform for couples by Singapore duo takes off after Silicon Valley stint

Mr Raimie Tang (right) and his co-founder Arvind Ramesh at SMU on July 10, 2021. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
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SINGAPORE - During his yearlong stint in Silicon Valley, Mr Raimie Tang, 27, attended start-up networking events every night after his 9-5 internship at a creative agency in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.

There in California on the NUS Overseas College (NOC) programme in 2018, the co-founder of dateideas , a booking platform for couples, wanted to learn about data science and virtual reality through these events.

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