Asia

Hong Kong - Cyberport & Hong Kong Science Park

Core verticals: fintech and payments (cross-border finance), Web3 / crypto (regulated), microelectronics/hardware research.

Strong financial services heritage combined with incubators (Cyberport / Science Park) makes Hong Kong a compact site for learning about regulated fintech, investor relationship-building, and Greater Bay Area-linked partnerships.

Cyberport Hong Kong

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Engineering & productisation: abundant, cost-efficient developer talent and maturing SaaS spin-outs; Fintech & payments: rapid domestic adoption of wallets and QR payments; Manufacturing & applied AI: SHTP and FPT investments are building local production and AI capacity.

Curated HCMC visits enable teams to meet AI production owners (FPT), inspect SHTP manufacturing pilots, and run workshops with engineering teams converting outsourcing projects into product roadmaps.

Core verticals: Software engineering / outsourcing → productization, fintech & payments (domestic scalability), logistics / e-commerce enablement, manufacturing tech and applied AI.

Saigon Hi-Tech Park

Jakarta, Indonesia

National gateway for Southeast Asia’s consumer & fintech innovation

Jakarta is Indonesia’s commercial heart and the primary gateway to one of the world’s fastest-growing digital consumer markets. The city is the operational centre for major home-grown platform groups and a high-velocity testbed for fintech, e-commerce and logistics solutions that must scale for very large, price-sensitive populations.

Jakarta is critical for studying scaling consumer models and ecosystem dynamics in a large emerging market. The city is a useful contrast to Singapore: higher consumer scale, different regulatory and talent dynamics. It also offers a live laboratory for product-market fit at scale and for experiments in unit economics and mass digital financial inclusion.

For corporate and learning delegations Jakarta is ideal for learning how to design commercially viable consumer and fulfilment pilots in a large emerging market.”

Core verticals: Fintech & payments, e-commerce / marketplaces, logistics, travel & on-demand services, agritech.

Sudirman business district, Jakarta

Kuala Lumpur

‘KL’ (Kuala Lumpur) is a policy-driven gateway for technology scale-ups in ASEAN that blends national incubation programmes, emerging high-tech precincts and growing corporate R&D investments.

It is now positioning itself as a pan-regional node for semiconductor design, cloud/AI infrastructure, healthtech and fintech initiatives – offering a favourable cost base, multilingual talent pools and improving access to capital through public incentives.

Visits in KL provide access to policy-level briefings, data-centre and cloud infrastructure tours, semiconductor-design initiatives and healthtech pilot partners – valuable for corporates planning regional AI, medtech or design-led investments.

Kuala Lumpur

Seoul / Pangyo Techno Valley (Korea)

Gaming & media: global IP exporters and monetisation exemplars; AI: enterprise production pilots across manufacturing and media; Semiconductor tools: strategic capex drives local supplier demand; Biotech: emerging cluster with targeted municipal support. Korea combines rapid product-market execution with strong corporate R&D.

Core verticals: gaming / media, AI, semiconductor tools, biotech.

Curated visits in Pangyo enable teams to study IP-driven product economies (games/media), observe industrial capex impacts on supplier ecosystems, and meet applied-AI production owners and growing biotech founders.

Pangyo Techno Valley

Singapore

Singapore is Asia’s regulatory and operational gateway – combining a pro-innovation regulator (MAS), concentrated R&D precincts (one-north / Biopolis) and investor networks that accelerate fintech, medtech and enterprise AI programmes across Southeast Asia.

Core verticals: Fintech & regtech, AI & enterprise software, biotech / medtech (Biopolis), cleantech / climate solutions, advanced services for SEA expansion.

Singapore is the best single stop for regulatory briefings, corporate innovation centres, high-quality university labs and investor access across SEA – ideal for executive briefing days and curated speaker sessions. Corporate learning visits to Singapore enables practical learning on how to convert pilots into regional rollouts.

Cleantech Park, Singapore
Singapore port

Europe

Copenhagen (Denmark) / Medicon Valley

Copenhagen and the cross-border Medicon Valley (eastern Denmark + southern Sweden) are one of Europe’s most effective life-science and health-innovation ecosystems: a compact, highly networked region that pairs world-class pharma and venture capital strong translational infrastructure and a dense pipeline of biotech, medtech and healthtech scaleups. Complementing life sciences, the region also leads in clean-energy transition projects and design-driven digital services – making Copenhagen an ideal destination for investor briefings, clinical translation workshops and policy-to-pilot learning programmes.

Denmark has committed substantial public funding to the green transition (including a DKK 53.5 billion Green Fund and other targeted green investment programmes) that accelerates clean-energy pilots and commercialisation.

Cleantech: policy-backed funding and deployment projects; Design services: human-centred design embedded in product development.

BioInnovation Institute Cobis Copenhagen
Medicon Village
Medicon Village, Lund Photo: News Øresund - Johan Wessman.

Estonia - Tallinn & Tartu (e-Estonia)

Estonia is Europe’s compact digital-state laboratory: a country that has turned national digital identity, e-government and cyber-resilience into exportable capabilities and a high-velocity startup engine. Tallinn and Tartu combine strong developer talent, an outsized rate of unicorn formation, and a focused cluster of cybersecurity and govtech expertise – making Estonia an ideal destination for delegations studying secure digital platforms, identity-first product design and rapid public–private prototyping. Estonia ranks very highly per capita for startups and unicorns in Europe – an indicator of repeatable product and go-to-market capabilities.

Core verticals: Cybersecurity, developer platforms, fintech, govtech / digital identity, deep-tech.

Visits in Tallinn deliver rare access to national digital-ID practices, live cyber-exercise observation, and meetings with product teams behind globally scaled fintech and identity platforms – ideal for delegations designing secure, identity-centric digital services.

Veriff
Tehnopol healthtech

Helsinki (Finland)

Helsinki is a compact innovation city centred on world-class events (Slush) and the Otaniemi tech campus. Helsinki has a founder-focused innovation cluster that combines world-class developer talent, leading game studios, deep-tech research (Aalto, VTT) and an internationally visible investor funnel (Slush). It functions as Finland’s commercialization engine for cleantech and healthtech spinouts while Espoo (Otaniemi/Aalto) and Tampere provide complementary industrial R&D, manufacturing and IoT muscle.

Finland’s cleantech scene benefits from coordinated public funding and focused corporate partnerships. Helsinki is becoming a hub for climate-tech spinouts and scalable pilots (food-tech, energy materials, mobility), supported by national programmes and investor interest.

Curated Helsinki visits deliver hands-on sessions with gaming studios, VTT/Aalto spin-outs, Slush networking access and factory-scale industrial IoT briefings in Tampere – ideal for teams seeking research partnerships and productisation pathways.

Core verticals: Gaming, deep-tech (IoT, embedded systems), SaaS, cleantech, healthtech spinouts from university research. Tampere and Espoo add manufacturing and industrial IoT capabilities.

Tampere University

Stockholm (Sweden)

As Europe’s “unicorn factory”, Stockholm is Northern Europe’s product-led innovation engine: a high-value, export-oriented ecosystem that consistently produces global winners across fintech, enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, gaming and cleantech. The city combines strong founder culture, deep developer talent and a dense investor funnel

Versus Nordic peers, Stockholm is the primary fintech and SaaS engine – distinguished by cluster depth in consumer payments, developer talent and gaming IP.

Core verticals: Fintech, enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, gaming, cleantech (e.g., H2 Green Steel), medtech/biotech clusters in Lund & Uppsala; advanced mobility/manufacturing in Gothenburg.

Fintech: cluster-defining BNPL and payments firms; SaaS & AI: engineering-led scaleups with strong unit economics; Gaming: world-class IP and live-ops expertise; Cleantech: accelerating pilot activity in urban and industrial decarbonisation.

Stockholm is an ideal stop for delegations focused on product monetisation, scaling developer-led teams and corporate-startup collaboration. Curated Stockholm visits offer direct access to payment-product teams, gaming studios, AI/SaaS founders and research labs.

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