How Singapore’s startup ecosystem has grown up in the last 5 years (INFOGRAPHIC)

When we talk about Singapore’s tech startup ecosystem today, we kind of take it for granted. Of course we do – it’s ranked among the top 10 startup ecosystems in the world after all. There’s funding, eager entrepreneurs, an international outlook.

It wasn’t always thus.

The growth of Singapore’s startup scene is a relatively recent phenomenon. The market was chugging along but didn’t have much to show for it compared to other startup bastions in the world. But after 2012, a series of seeds planted by the city-state’s government started bringing forth crops. There was a veritable explosion, both in the number of startups founded and in investment flowing into them.

Let’s take a look at what the numbers look like between then and now, in nifty infographic form.