Founders, investors and figures who have shaped the startup ecosystem in Iran and the world.
165 entries
Shahram Shahkar
Ecosystem figure
Former chief executive of Snapp during its early growth.
Shahrzad Rafati
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of the media-tech company BroadbandTV.
Shola Akinlade
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Paystack.
Soner Aydemir
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Dream Games, maker of Royal Match.
Sorena Sattari
Ecosystem figure
Former Vice President for Science and Technology who championed Iran's knowledge-based companies law.
Steve Blank
Ecosystem figure
Serial entrepreneur and father of the customer development method behind lean startup.
Steve Huffman
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Reddit.
Steve Jobs
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Apple and Pixar's longtime chief executive.
Steve Wozniak
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Apple who designed its first computers.
Stewart Butterfield
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Flickr and Slack.
Sundar Pichai
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of Google and Alphabet.
Tim Sweeney
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine.
Tobias Lütke
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Shopify.
Tony Fadell
Ecosystem figure
Co-creator of the iPod and iPhone and founder of Nest.
Tony Xu
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of DoorDash.
Travis Kalanick
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber.
Vinod Khosla
Ecosystem figure
Sun Microsystems co-founder and founder of Khosla Ventures.
Vitalik Buterin
Ecosystem figure
Co-creator of Ethereum.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Bumble and co-founder of Tinder.
Xavier Niel
Ecosystem figure
French telecom entrepreneur who founded Free and the Station F campus.
Zhang Yiming
Ecosystem figure
Founder of ByteDance, the parent of TikTok.