Ankiti Bose, CEO of Zilingo, shares
her must-have gadgets, industry
picks and top Singapore spots.
Edited by Dena Giannini CHRIS CARROLL; JEROD HARRIS/GETTY IMAGES128TECHHEADSTA RTWith her Singapore-based
technology and e-commerce
platform Zilingo, co-founder
Ankiti Bose has made great
strides in traceability, sustainability and the
levelling of the fashion playing field. Through
her company, which launched in 2015,
smaller independent fashion retailers can
sell direct to consumers, while accessing
production, logistics and marketing tools and
support. As her company valuation nears the
billion-dollar mark, Bose is fast becoming a
global tech celebrity. n“Singapore is like
Wakanda from Black Panther.
At Gardens by the Bay, there
are man-made solar trees that
act as vertical gardens,
harness renewable energy
and harvest rainwater.”
Gardensbythebay.com.sg“I always travel
with my Harman
Kardon Esquire
Mini 2 speaker.
I dance while
I’m getting ready,
so if I don’t have
it, my day is
dampened.” From
£130, Harman
kardon.co.ukSTART-UPS TO WATCH
Mad Street Den (Vue.ai)
co-founded by Ashwini Asokan
“Mad Street Den, a neuroscientist-
led AI architecture start-up, is
reimagining the possibilities and
future of artificial intelligence.
Ashwini is committed to taking AI out
of science labs and into the hands of
the world in a meaningful way.”Love Bonito founded by Rachel Lim
“This fashion start-up makes shopping
more fun with in-store augmented-reality
runways and smart queue systems.”“Most of the factories
I work with use
Android, and the
brands I work with
seem to use iPhone,
so I use both. I need my
Google Assistant at all
times and I’m a big fan
of the Samsung Galaxy
S10+ [left].” From
£899, Samsung.com“Whitney
Wolfe, who
founded
Bumble, is
my idol.”TECH IDOL“I work around the
clock, so I often take
my laptop to the spa
with me. Singapore
is filled with 24-hour
ones, but my favourites
are Mei 1880, at
InterContinental
Singapore Robertson
Quay, and the one at
the Four Seasons
Hotel [below].”04-20-FOB-Tech_2032913.indd 128 13/02/2020 08:28