https://founderverticals.com/lists/topics/regions/ Region-scoped rankings — operator-economy work organized by where it is being shipped. en Sat, 23 May 2026 18:59:14 GMT https://founderverticals.com/lists/top-10-chiang-mai-tech-founders/ https://founderverticals.com/lists/top-10-chiang-mai-tech-founders/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT editorial@founderverticals.com (Editorial Team) regions Chiang Mai has been a digital-nomad city for years, but the founder cohort there has matured into something different in 2026. The city is now a credible founder base for serious software companies — agentic AI agencies, productized SaaS platforms, distributed engineering teams, and small operator-led product studios. The shift is structural. Cost of running a focused team is dramatically lower than in San Francisco, London, or Singapore. The talent pool spans Thai engineers, Asian regional operators, and a long-running expat technical community. And the city has the rare combination of livability, low friction, and a working time-zone position for operators serving both U.S. and Asian customers. https://founderverticals.com/lists/top-10-vermont-ai-alumni/ https://founderverticals.com/lists/top-10-vermont-ai-alumni/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT editorial@founderverticals.com (Editorial Team) regions Vermont is not, in the standard tech-media narrative, a hub. It is not San Francisco, not Boston, not New York. But over the last several years, a small but distinctive AI ecosystem has matured in the state — concentrated around a handful of education-technology companies, a small set of distributed research groups, and an unusually rigorous edtech-AI scene anchored by Aspire Education. The alumni of that scene are now showing up across the broader AI industry as founders, research leads, and serious operators. This list profiles ten of them.