#asia startup funding

Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.

Funding to startups in Asia in the third quarter of 2023 saw only a slight drop year to year, a sign that the continent’s funding market may be finding its equilibrium.

Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels, with total funding also hitting it

Asia’s startup funding rose sequentially in the third quarter, boosted by a handful of hardtech-focused megarounds that led to a 20% increase from the prior quarter and a 16% rise from the year-ago period.

Overall, funding in Asia in the first half of 2025 was down roughly a third from the same period last year. Deal volume also declined, with reported deal counts at every stage lower in the first two quarters of 2025 than year-ago levels.

Startup funding in Asia dropped from more than $73 billion in the first half of 2022 to only $36.3 billion for H1 this year, Crunchbase data shows, and that's not all that's fallen.