Startup launches a market place for people to sell services

Find great services only from handpicked providers.

There are many marketplaces where people can sell products such as Ebay, Amazon, Qoo10 but where is the marketplace for people to sell services?

FlagAHero bills itself as one of the first marketplaces in the region built and designed dedicatedly for people in the profession of selling services.

FlagAHero (Pte Ltd) is a technology company that specializes in building ecommerce marketplace solutions for various industries verticals.

People can now have a great platform to discover interesting local services such as magicians, pet groomers, photographers, makeup artists and all kinds of niche skill providers in the community.

One of ideas.Inc Business Challenge 2012's Top Incubation Award Winner, FlagAHero is supported by Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and received funding through the ACE Start-ups Grant.

FlagAHero, founded by Ken Toh and Yumi Wong, is also supported by Youth Business Singapore under their YBS Entrepreneurship Programme.

In June 2012, FlagAHero launched an alpha prototype and for the next 9 months, underwent various iterations to study and validate market needs

In May 2013, FlagAHero re-launched into beta phase with enhanced marketplace features and optimized business processes.
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Company Profile:

Name of the company: FlagAHero Pte Ltd
Founder/Founders: Ken Toh & Yumi Wong
Website: www.flagahero.com
Major Investors: Private Angels
Total funding at hand: 100K to 200K
Target fund: 1M
Source of funding: Private Angels & ACE Grant
Start of operation: April 2012

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