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Global gifting app Prezitt lets users treat loved ones to anything from cupcakes and coffee to gift sets or beauty treatments in real time. A recipient who is not happy with what you have chosen for them can swap it for something else on the app, which currently has about 200 partner locations and 5,000 users, explains Prezitt Co-founder and CEO Alicia Tang.

Digital marketplace platform Toby offers services ranging from dance lessons and physiotherapy to cleaning and home renovation. Established in 2016, it currently has nearly a million users across Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore and hosts more than 80,000 businesses and service providers.

Asian economies such as Taiwan and Korea have swiftly grasped the possibilities opening up in the premium television market since the COVID-19 outbreak, and Hong Kong is jumping on the bandwagon.

In his novel Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy held that happy families are all alike but unhappy ones each have their own unique misery.

When French entrepreneurs Julien Labruyere and Adrien Barthel co-founded their cloud-based corporate services platform Sleek in 2017, they knew a one-stop digital solution would make back-office processes quicker and easier for start-ups like themselves.

Access to key East-Asian markets and a firm belief in Hong Kong’s long-term future as a business centre in the region have led Singaporean boutique executive search firm Hofer Tan Partners to set up a branch in the city.