The Malaysia Startup Ecosystem is a regional Leader in innovation, ranked at number 40 globally, and shows a positive momentum 8 spots since 2020. Malaysia also ranks at number 2 for startups in South East Asia.
There are 5 cities ranked in the top 1,000 in Malaysia and the top ranked city in Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur at 80 globally. Kuala Lumpur is followed by George Town at 349 and Johor Bahru at 748. Malaysia is an ideal place to locate for Ecommerce & Retail, Foodtech and Hardware & IoT startups. As the most popular industries in the country, there is a sample of 77 Ecommerce & Retail startups in Malaysia, 50 Foodtech startups in Malaysia and 42 Hardware & IoT startups in Malaysia, on the StartupBlink Map. On the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map there is a sample of 294 startups in Malaysia, 2 accelerators in Malaysia, 18 coworking spaces in Malaysia, 2 organizations in Malaysia and no leaders in Malaysia.View top ecosystems:
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
George Town, Malaysia
Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Senai, Malaysia
Sandakan, Malaysia
2021 National Rank & Change | City | Global Rank & Change | Total Score | Quantity Score | Quality Score | Business Score |
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1st 0 | 80th + 14 | 6.298 | 1.25 | 1.98 | 3.06 | |
2nd new | 349th new | 0.695 | 0.04 | 0.13 | 0.53 | |
3rd new | 748th new | 0.191 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.14 | |
4th new | 916th new | 0.131 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.10 | |
5th new | 953rd new | 0.108 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.08 |