Alongside IDG (which operates a corporate venturing affiliate in Vietnam) in backing VYE are Vietnam's HCM City National University, local university Stanford's Technology Ventures Programme and venture capital firm VinaCapital.

Viet Youth Entrepreneurs (VYE), a US-based non-profit organisation backed by US publisher International Data Group (IDG), has started offering students work as interns in entrepreneurial environments, including start-up companies and venture capital funds.

The move follows its first bootcamp to encourage start-ups in Vietnam’s capital (pictured) last year with people going on to competitions in the US and Singapore through the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students and Start-up@Singapore respectively.

Alongside IDG (which operates a corporate venturing affiliate in Vietnam) in backing VYE are Vietnam’s HCM City National University, local university Stanford’s Technology Ventures Programme and venture capital firm VinaCapital.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.