Value of capital investments in tech startups in Vietnam 2013-2022

In 2022, the capital investment in tech startups in Vietnam reached a record-high value of over 634 million U.S. dollars, indicating a strong decline compared to the investment value in 2021. The value of tech investment increased sharply due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Vietnam as an emerging startup nationAs of 2022, there were 3.8 thousand startups operating in Vietnam, with 11 having a valuation of at least 100 million U.S. dollars and four being classified as unicorn startups. The growth of this sector has also been characterized by the increasing number of startup investment deals, the growing number of large deals, and the increase in the number of funds invested in the country. While fintech and e-commerce startups have long been in the investors’ spotlight, Vietnam has recently emerged as a blockchain startup hotspot, with over a thousand startup projects, including a unicorn working in blockchain tech. Vietnamese unicorn startupsIn 2014, VNG, a Vietnamese startup, was valued at over one billion U.S. dollars, making it the first startup to reach unicorn status in Vietnam, and the second in Southeast Asia. VNG owns Zalo, Vietnam’s leading social messaging app, which has been the second most popular social media channel in the country after Facebook. Since then, three more startups from Vietnam have achieved the same title. The two fintech unicorns MoMo and VNLife are behind the leading digital payment services in Vietnam, while Sky Marvis is the country’s first blockchain unicorn, specializing in publishing decentralized games and ecosystems.

于2022年，越南科技初创企业的资本投资额达到了创纪录的6.34亿美元以上，相较于2021年的投资额呈现显著下降。这一数值的急剧上升，主要归因于2021年COVID-19疫情的影响。作为新兴的初创国家，截至2022年，越南运营着3.8千家初创企业，其中11家估值至少达到1亿美元，并有4家被划分为独角兽初创企业。该领域的增长亦表现为初创企业投资交易的增多、大型交易数量的增加以及对越南国内投资的基金增长。尽管金融科技和电子商务初创企业长期受到投资者的关注，但越南近期已成为区块链初创企业的热点，拥有超过一千个初创项目，其中包括在区块链技术领域工作的独角兽企业。越南的独角兽初创企业方面，2014年，越南初创企业VNG的估值超过10亿美元，使其成为越南首个达到独角兽地位的企业，也是东南亚地区的第二家。VNG拥有越南领先的社交消息应用Zalo，该国第二大最受欢迎的社交媒体平台，仅次于Facebook。自那时起，越南又有三家初创企业实现了同样的成就。两家金融科技独角兽MoMo和VNLife是越南领先的数字支付服务背后的企业，而Sky Marvis则是该国的首个区块链独角兽，专注于发布去中心化游戏和生态系统。