Brunei

Malaysia's national capital for finance, applied research and startups. Four districts anchor the ecosystem: a research-commercialisation belt at Bukit Jalil, a central business district at the KL Golden Triangle, a tech and business corridor from KL Sentral to Bangsar South, and Cyberjaya — Malaysia's original purpose-built tech city, 40km south.

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KL Golden Triangle

Central KL's "city-within-a-city" - 3 iconic precincts stitched together by new MRT lines into one corporate, financial, and lifestyle core.

Tun Razak Exchange Precinct

A 70-acre international financial centre wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance, anchored by the Exchange 106 tower. Tenants include Ant International's ASEAN hub, Huawei, Accenture and Agoda, alongside global and regional banks.

KLCC Precinct

Malaysia's most recognisable business address, anchored by the Petronas Twin Towers. Home to Maxis's headquarters at Menara Maxis, Ilham Tower's flexible workspace, and dense professional-services and banking coverage.

Merdeka 118 Precinct

Within the world's second tallest building, Maybank hosts its 7,000-employee headquarters here across 33 floors. Other tenants include owner PNB and Bank of America, with ~10,000 professionals expected once fully let.

KL Sentral-Bangsar South Corridor

KL's deepest concentration of tech companies, including global tech offices, corporate HQs, and a dense founder community, all within a 10-minute drive.

KL Sentral

Transit-linked node connected to KLIA Ekspres and KTM Komuter. Google, Microsoft and Huawei hold offices around Plaza Sentral, alongside corporate HQ towers for Axiata, Shell Malaysia, and CIMB Group.

KL Eco City - Midvalley City

Two adjoining developments linked by pedestrian bridge. KL Eco City sits alongside Mid Valley City — home to Amazon Web Services, Accenture, Oracle, and Sony, among others.

Bangsar South

Long-established base for tech HQs and multinational companies like Alibaba, Razer, Lazada, Touch 'n Go, Honeywell and British Telecom, with coworking operators like Colony and Emspaced feeding the founder community.

Cyberjaya

Malaysia's pioneer tech city, purpose-built in 1997 under the Multimedia Super Corridor initiative as the corporate twin to Putrajaya. Now a mature submarket blending corporate offices with a dense data centre cluster.

Cyberjaya City Centre

Malaysia Digital-status office stock occupied disproportionately by tech companies, multinational shared-service centres, BPOs and fintechs — anchor tenants include Dell, DHL, Aerodyne, Monsta and IX Telecom.

Cyberjaya Data Centre Clulster

30+ facilities from operators including Equinix, NTT, Bridge Data Centres, Vantage, EdgeConneX, AIMS and IP ServerOne, built on legacy MSC-era fibre and power reliability.

Cyberview Living Lab / West Cyberjaya

Cyberview's start-up accelerator (CLLA) and soft-landing co-working programme, anchored by Multimedia University and academia-industry R&D including a 5G OpenLab with DiGi.

MRANTI Park

A 686-acre research commercialization centre, anchored by MRANTI, evolving from a technology park to a full mission-driven innovation district.

Living Lab Precinct

The largest precinct (311 acres), built for sandboxing and live testing: drones and UAVs (Area 57), an autonomous-vehicle experience lab (AVXL), an integrated healthtech hub, a hyperscale data centre, and bio-/agri-tech and smart-manufacturing zones.

Learning & Creative Media Precinct

225 acres hosting creative and education anchors, including Astro and Asia Pacific University (APU) — building the talent pipeline that feeds the rest of the park.

Innovation Gateway Precinct

128 acres housing MRANTI's own headquarters and functioning as the park's major incubation space for startups moving from ideation to commercialisation.

Where it is concentrated

Johor's tech ecosystem is primarily concentrated in the southern corridor—specifically clustered around Kulai, Iskandar Puteri, and Senai.

Kulai - The Data Centre Heartland

Kulai has emerged as the premier district for heavy digital infrastructure, thanks to vast plots of industrial land and dedicated power pathways.

Sedenak Tech Park (STeP): A flagship 700+ acre dedicated data center hub. It hosts massive multi-megawatt campuses like Princeton Digital Group’s (PDG) 150MW JH1 campus and YTL Power’s massive AI Utility Park.
Johor Tech Smart City: A massive RM80 billion, 931-hectare master-planned project developed by Genting Property. It integrates a Knowledge AI Campus and an AgTech Campus focusing on smart agriculture, artificial intelligence, and deep-tech research.

Iskandar Puteri (Nusajaya)

Positioned closer to the Second Link to Singapore, Iskandar Puteri is the preferred hub for software, business services, fintech, and modular data centers.

Nusajaya Tech Park: Strategically situated just minutes from the border, this park hosts major international tech deployments, including regional facilities for GDS Holdings and various advanced electronics manufacturing lines.
Medini: Originally designed as a smart city, it continues to attract digital services, software development firms, and global business service (GBS) centers looking for high-grade office spaces.

Senai

Known historically as an industrial and aviation hub, Senai has successfully pivoted into high-tech manufacturing and hardware engineering.

It serves as the main manufacturing base for critical data center components (such as liquid cooling manifolds and power infrastructure built by Vertiv), as well as advanced electronics, semiconductor assembly, and precision engineering.

Innovation Ecosystems in Malaysia

Malaysia's tech economy doesn't sit in one place — it's distributed across free industrial zones, data-centre corridors, innovation parks and digital villages.