Việt Nam attracts international startups | Vietnam Today

[0:01]Camille De Lori, a Belgian national, traveled with her fiance through many countries from Europe to Asia. In search of a place to settle and build their family life. After arriving in Vietnam in 2023, the couple decided this was where they wanted to stay. And we fell in love with the country, with the people, with the energy and everything. So we came back, we moved here. And after three weeks of being in Vietnam, we found this house and we said, we'll open a restaurant by the river in Thao Dien. Choosing Vietnam, Camille and her fiance sought advice from specialists at Moveto Asia to complete the necessary paperwork to settle in the country. many of our clients are either solo entrepreneurs or SMEs, right? So they are type of small scale of companies. But when they consider Vietnam, they also look at the fast growing GDP. So some companies who want to expand to Asia, they may consider Vietnam as a first door to expand and after to grow within Asia. That's the first aspect. The second reason is just because as a foreigner, you can set up a company and then you don't need often in most of the case to have a local Vietnamese partner. And that bring stability and that bring trust from foreigners because for the first understanding, they may not always be sure about their first destination. So that stable environment on the business sense of thing, uh, make it a prime choice to consider Vietnam. So for us, uh, Vietnam was like a perfect choice, uh, at that time already 12 years ago when we made a decision. Vietnam was already one of the fastest growing country in the world with a huge agricultural industry, so we decided to go, uh, Vietnam just after graduation. I think it was about a month after graduation, we took a one way flight ticket straight to Vietnam and started, uh, farming insects, uh, in the countryside. So in the in the Mikong Delta. According to experts, Vietnam's open policies and dynamic economy are key factors that make the country a promising land of opportunity for international entrepreneurs.