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Vietnam

Asia · Pop. 101M · #35 startup ecosystem by EV

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$34.3B+73%
Combined startup EV
$461.5M
VC invested (last 12mo)
616
Tracked startups
#62/ 67
Unicorns per 1M people · world rank
🦄 Unicorns
4
4 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
1
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Vietnam grew 151.9× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Vietnam that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $10B $20B $30B $40B Vietnam · $34.9B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Vietnam: top 2 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Ho Chi Minh $28.3B
2 Hanoi $3.9B
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Hanoi 15×
2 Ho Chi Minh 14×

Startup funnel

Vietnam's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed
90
Seed
93
Series A
66
Series B
30
Series C
13
Unicorn
4

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Vietnam

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 4
Sky MavisVNGVNLifeMomo
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 1
VNG

Academia

Vietnam's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Vietnam.

University-linked startup formation
3
University spinouts
51
Total alumni-founded companies
35
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
13
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
3
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Vietnam stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Asia cluster within ±70% of Vietnam's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$64.8B
$59.4B
$55.7B
Vietnam
$34.3B
$33.6B
$21.2B
$14.3B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 9.0× 3.2× 172.9× 342.6× $12.3B $267B $5.8T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) China India Israel South Korea Singapore Japan Vietnam

Top overview

Asia ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Vietnam's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 China $5.8T 3.2× 479 $33.4B 24.5K
2 India $884B 7.1× 125 $13.9B 13.3K
3 Israel $600B 5.6× 128 $10.7B 4,762
4 South Korea $439B 15.6× 41 $8.2B 7,931
5 Singapore $359B 9.6× 38 $3.3B 3,900
6 Japan $255B 6.4× 19 $4.3B 7,794
7 Hong Kong $186B 13.0× 21 $3.6B 1,222
8 United Arab Emirates $79.1B 10.6× 21 $3.9B 1,553
9 Indonesia $64.8B 5.0× 12 $485.3M 1,208
10 Taiwan $59.4B 7.9× 5 $209.1M 621
11 Türkiye $55.7B 20.7× 8 $714.3M 2,031
12 Vietnam $34.3B 15.3× 4 $461.5M 616

Patent intelligence

Vietnam startup IP portfolio: 252 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Vietnam. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
252
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
2.50 patents per million residents · #53 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Ho Chi Minh 223
2 Hanoi 29

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Sector breakdown
Where Vietnam's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Vietnam's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Vietnam's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Vietnam's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Vietnam
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Vietnam
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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