23January 2024, Straits Times
Singapore’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2024
Nimbus Group was named one of Singapore's fastest-growing companies in 2024, joining the list of 100 companies compiled by The Straits Times and Germany-based global research firm Statista. This ranking is based on the companies’ revenue growth from 2019 to 2022.
Read more about the origin story of Nimbus Homes:
Get cleaning help fast: S'pore firm builds app for quick access to housekeeping services
“We focused on two essential factors: to provide complete quality cleaning services beyond homes, as well as a win-win situation for both customers and crew”
18 June 2023, Parents In Tech
How to Successfully Work with Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Work-Life Balance with Dan and Michelle
Daniel and Michelle are co-founders of Nimbus Group, a provider of corporate and residential cleaning services. They discuss working together, establishing a business, and raising their nine-year-old daughter, Camellia.
"So when I met Michelle and when we got married, I asked her to help me out with the business (sales). We were basically directly involved in the same KPIs because I was also the founder and CEO. This meant a lot of crossfire, as I had a lot of input on what she was doing. And that didn't go so well in the sense that because, couples, when you all work together, you get more sensitive over criticisms or feedback, etc."
13 Sep 2021, DollarsAndSense.sg
A Mission To Clean: How Daniel Thong, Co-Founder Of Nimbus Tackles The Cleaning Industry With A Purpose
There are many jobs out there that would make no difference to our quality of life and society if they were suddenly gone tomorrow, but just one day where frontline blue-collar workers do not perform their work (like the clearing of trash), the impact will be keenly felt. Yet, such essential jobs are often lowly paid, due to the rampant sourcing of cheap labour that takes place in the industry.
This is why I started Nimbus, to change the perception of cleaning, and to make a difference by giving good livelihoods to workers in this industry through good service and more efficient ways of performing the work.”
2 Dec 2018, Straits Times
Cleaning start-up makes it a point to pay higher wages: CEO
Mr Daniel Thong, 29, co-founder and chief executive of office-cleaning start-up Nimbus, readily admits that the services offered by his company "are definitely not the cheapest on the market".
But, as he shared at The Sunday Times Roundtable on wages in an age of disruption on Friday, this was the start-up's intention from the outset - to fix the "broken" cleaning industry by lifting wages for cleaners.
31 Dec 2016, Mothership
Almost Famous: Young S'porean entrepreneur goes from LSE/Oxford to freelance cleaning
"Why are you cleaning? You have a Master's degree. What are you doing??"
Having given up an offer for a cushy job in the UK at KPMG, after coming in first in an international case competition and graduating top in his academic programmes, Thong also readily admits how difficult it was telling his parents about his efforts to dive headlong into a start-up.
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