This chapter provides an overview of the start‐up landscape in Thailand and legal landscape of some highlighted industries.

The growth of Thailand’s digital industry over recent years has been substantially driven by the flourishing creativity and strong entrepreneurial spirit of Thailand’s technology talents of the digital generation. At the front line of the new digital world, Thailand has seen its economy continuously show an ability to quickly adapt and deal with new opportunities that arise because of global disruptive innovations. Tech startups in the FinTech, E-Commerce Marketplaces, Logistics, InsurTech, Media, FoodTech and Restaurants have been attractive sectors for investments mainly by corporate venture capital investors in Thailand. Investments in HealthTech, MedTech, EdTech, AgriTech, Deep Tech, and MARTech sectors in Thailand occur occasionally, but mostly involve investors engaging in the same line of business.