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People in the startup ecosystem | StartupNetwork

Ecosystem directory

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Founders, investors and figures who have shaped the startup ecosystem in Iran and the world.

165 entries

All · 1,253 Startups and companies · 677 Venture capital firms · 98 Angel investors · 11 Accelerators and incubators · 38 Corporate investors · 15 Funds and institutions · 7 University programs · 89 Science and technology parks · 9 Associations · 6 Support programs · 21 Crowdfunding platforms · 11 Communities · 15 Media and newsletters · 50 Events · 27 Research and data · 14 People · 165

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165 entries

Eric Ries
Ecosystem figure
Author of The Lean Startup and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange.
San Francisco, United States
Eric Yuan
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Zoom.
San Jose, United States
Evan Spiegel
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Snap.
Santa Monica, United States
Fadi Ghandour
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Aramex and Wamda, a key figure in Arab entrepreneurship.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Farzad Nazem
Ecosystem figure
Former chief technology officer of Yahoo.
Sunnyvale, United StatesIranian diaspora
Fei-Fei Li
Ecosystem figure
Stanford professor who created ImageNet and co-founded World Labs.
Stanford, United States
Fred Wilson
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Union Square Ventures and author of the AVC blog.
New York, United States
Gabe Newell
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Valve and the Steam store.
United States
Garrett Camp
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Uber, StumbleUpon and Expa.
Calgary, Canada
Garry Tan
Ecosystem figure
President and chief executive of Y Combinator, co-founder of Initialized Capital.
San Francisco, United States
Guillermo Rauch
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Vercel and creator of Next.js.
San Francisco, United States
Hadi Partovi
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Code.org and early investor in Facebook, Dropbox and Airbnb.
Seattle, United StatesIranian diaspora
Hamid Mohammadi
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Digikala, Iran's largest online retailer.
Tehran, Iran
Harry Stebbings
Ecosystem figure
Host of the 20VC podcast and founder of the fund of the same name.
London, United Kingdom
Hesam Armandehi
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Cafe Bazaar and Divar.
Tehran, Iran
Hosain Rahman
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and former chief executive of the wearables company Jawbone.
San Francisco, United StatesIranian diaspora
Ilkka Paananen
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Supercell.
Helsinki, Finland
Ilya Sutskever
Ecosystem figure
OpenAI co-founder who went on to found Safe Superintelligence.
Palo Alto, United States
Ion Stoica
Ecosystem figure
UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale.
Berkeley, United States
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Andela and Flutterwave and founder of Future Africa.
Lagos, Nigeria
Jack Dorsey
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Twitter and Square.
San Francisco, United States
Jack Ma
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Alibaba Group.
Hangzhou, China
Jade Raymond
Ecosystem figure
Producer behind Assassin's Creed who founded Haven Studios in Montreal.
Canada
Jan Koum
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of WhatsApp, who emigrated from Ukraine as a teenager.
Mountain View, United States
Jason Calacanis
Ecosystem figure
Angel investor, early Uber backer and podcast host.
San Francisco, United States
Jeff Bezos
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin.
Seattle, United States
Jensen Huang
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia.
Santa Clara, United States
Jessica Livingston
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Y Combinator and author of Founders at Work.
Palo Alto, United States
John Collison
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and president of Stripe.
San Francisco, United States
John Hanke
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Niantic; earlier he co-founded Keyhole, which became Google Earth.
United States
Kamran Elahian
Ecosystem figure
Iranian-American serial entrepreneur and investor who co-founded several Silicon Valley companies.
Palo Alto, United StatesIranian diaspora
Keith Rabois
Ecosystem figure
PayPal alumnus and investor at Khosla Ventures.
Miami, United States
Kevin Systrom
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Instagram.
San Francisco, United States
Kim Jung-ju
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Nexon, the online games company.
South Korea
Kristo Käärmann
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Wise.
London, United Kingdom
Kunal Shah
Ecosystem figure
Founder of CRED and co-founder of FreeCharge.
Bengaluru, India
Larry Page
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Google.
Palo Alto, United States
Lei Jun
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Xiaomi.
Beijing, China
Lenny Rachitsky
Ecosystem figure
Former Airbnb product lead and author of Lenny's Newsletter.
San Francisco, United States
Linda Rottenberg
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Endeavor.
New York, United States
Lisa Su
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of AMD, credited with its turnaround.
Santa Clara, United States
Luis von Ahn
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Duolingo and creator of reCAPTCHA.
Pittsburgh, United States
Ma Huateng
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Tencent, known as Pony Ma.
Shenzhen, China
Mahdi Bahrami
Ecosystem figure
Iranian independent developer of the geometric puzzle game Engare.
Iran
Marc Andreessen
Ecosystem figure
Co-creator of the Mosaic browser, Netscape co-founder and co-founder of a16z.
Menlo Park, United States
Marc Benioff
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Salesforce.
San Francisco, United States
Marc Merrill
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Riot Games.
United States
Marcos Galperin
Ecosystem figure
Founder of MercadoLibre.
Buenos Aires, Argentina