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City Startup Atlas

A Kurums Startup pillar series

The City Startup Atlas

One city at a time, mapped. Each atlas plots a city's startup clusters on an interactive district map β€” which companies sit where, what they sell, when each industry took root, and the founding stories behind the pins, with filters for cluster, era and story type, and fact cards along the way.

Now mapped

Atlas β„–1 β€” Shenzhen, the Hardware Capital

China Β· Guangdong

Shenzhen

25 companies across 10 districts: from Shekou's 1980s joint-stock experiments (Ping An, Vanke) to Huaqiangbei's electronics bazaar, Huawei's Bantian campus, BYD's EV empire in Pingshan and Nanshan's robot wave β€” DJI, UBTech, Pudu and the $200M-funded humanoid lab LimX. Plus 8 fact cards, a 5-era timeline and a district cheat sheet.

Open the Shenzhen atlas β†’
The format

How every atlas works

πŸ—Ί A schematic mapDistricts drawn for readability, pins placed on founding or HQ locations, colored by cluster.
⏳ A cluster timelineWhen each industry concentrated in the city β€” and which companies anchored each wave.
πŸ” Filters & storiesFilter by cluster, founding era or story type β€” dorm-room starts, spin-offs, cautionary tales β€” and open any company's file.

Every atlas is editorial: no company pays for a pin, and inclusion is not a recommendation. Figures come from official statistics and public company information, cited in each atlas's methodology note.

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The atlas grows continuously β€” new cities, new pins and updated figures land on this page first.

Last Updated: October 2026 · Reviewed by the Kurums Startup editorial team.