It is hard to find an industry that is as highly centralized as the Venture Capital industry: centralized in the US, and specifically in one street in Silicon Valley: Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. However, this is gradually changing as the VC industry is developing fast in many sometimes unexpected places. You might call them ‘Valleys of the East’: Silicon Valley type areas that are emerging across Asia Pacific and present a huge opportunity for technology innovation and investments:
Fortitude Valley and the Silicon Beach initiative in Australia Bandung’s developers that feed the startups in Jakarta, Indonesia Silicon Gulf around Davao City, and the outskirts of Makati & Manila in the Philippines Bangalore Valley in India Zhongguancun in Haidan district, Beijing, often referred to as China’s Silicon Valley.
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