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  Australia’s Different starts operations in Sri Lanka Source:EconomyNext Different Co-Founder Ruwin Perera (Left) and Head of Growth Joel Pinkham (Right) ECONOMYNEXT- ‘Different’, an Australian tech company with a real estate app, started its back-office operations in Sri Lanka and is planning on growing investment and hires, a top official said. “We have now started operations in our Colombo office,” Co-Founder Ruwin Perera told reporters in Colombo early this month. “We are also planning on tripling the size of the Sri Lankan team from where it is now,” he said. Perera said Different has doubled down on its investment in the country through a multi-million dollar investment into its Colombo office, making senior personnel hires and moving key operational functions, including real-time customer management, customer experience, maintenance, and supplier relationships, to Sri Lanka. Currently, 18 people work in the Colombo office, and the firm has plans to recruit up to ...