Q1 2026 · Asia-Pacific
23 Asia-Pacific-based startups across 12 sectors, ranked by GitHub engineering acceleration. opennem (Climate Tech) leads with 31 commits over 14 days (+999% change). Dominant regional signal pattern: Framework migration.
Sorted by commit velocity change (14-day window). Geography from GitHub org profiles. Last updated Q1 2026.
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23 Asia-Pacific-based startups are tracked across 12 sectors in Q1 2026. opennem (Climate Tech) leads with 31 commits over a rolling 14-day window (+999% change). Average 14-day commit velocity across the region is 45 commits.
In Q1 2026, the top sectors by active startup count in Asia-Pacific are EdTech (4), E-commerce Infrastructure (3), Web3 (3), Healthcare (2), Supply Chain (2). The dominant engineering signal pattern across the region is "Framework migration".
Geography is derived from each startup's GitHub organization profile location field, supplemented by a curated enrichment database of known startup headquarters. Regions use broad classifications (Asia-Pacific, etc.) rather than city-level granularity to provide meaningful sample sizes.