Zilingo Pte

At first glance, the implosion of vaunted fashion startup Zilingo Pte looked jarringly sudden. The Singapore tech darling suspended its 30-year-old chief executive officer Ankiti Bose over complaints about alleged financial irregularities in March.

Zilingo Pte was until recently a rising star in the world of fashion e-commerce, and its glamorous leader Ankiti Bose was a model young achiever.

Ankiti Bose, who was fired last week as chief executive officer of the Singapore startup Zilingo Pte, says she'll keep fighting to clear her name.

Zilingo Pte, one of Singapore's highest-profile startups, has suspended Chief Executive Officer Ankiti Bose after an effort to raise new funding led to questions about the company's accounting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Zilingo Pte's path to becoming a fashion platform with a valuation approaching $1 billion began in December 2014 when Ankiti Bose, then an analyst at Sequoia India, chatted with a neighbor at a house party in the Indian tech capital Bengaluru.

At first glance, the implosion of vaunted fashion startup Zilingo Pte looked jarringly sudden. The Singapore tech darling suspended its 30-year-old chief executive officer Ankiti Bose over complaints about alleged financial irregularities in March.

Zilingo Pte was until recently a rising star in the world of fashion e-commerce, and its glamorous leader Ankiti Bose was a model young achiever.

Ankiti Bose, who was fired last week as chief executive officer of the Singapore startup Zilingo Pte, says she'll keep fighting to clear her name.

Zilingo Pte, one of Singapore's highest-profile startups, has suspended Chief Executive Officer Ankiti Bose after an effort to raise new funding led to questions about the company's accounting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Zilingo Pte's path to becoming a fashion platform with a valuation approaching $1 billion began in December 2014 when Ankiti Bose, then an analyst at Sequoia India, chatted with a neighbor at a house party in the Indian tech capital Bengaluru.