Startups and tech companies from Iran and around the world that inspire the startup community, from unicorns and listed companies to products that began on crowdfunding platforms.
677 entries

CD Projekt
Startup or tech company
Polish maker of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 and owner of the GOG store.

Celonis
Startup or tech company
Process mining software that grew out of the Technical University of Munich.

Cerebras Systems
Startup or tech company
Maker of wafer-scale chips for training and running AI models.

Chainalysis
Startup or tech company
Blockchain analysis used by governments and exchanges to trace crypto transactions.

Character.AI
Startup or tech company
Chatbot platform for conversing with AI characters.

Check Point
Startup or tech company
Israeli pioneer of the commercial firewall, listed on Nasdaq.

Checkout.com
Startup or tech company
Online payment processing for global merchants.

Chegg
Startup or tech company
Student services company.

Chewy
Startup or tech company
Online pet supplies retailer, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Chime
Startup or tech company
US neobank offering fee-free banking.

Chipper Cash
Startup or tech company
Cross-border payments app for Africa.

Cinematicket
Startup or tech company
Online cinema and theatre ticket sales.
Circle
Startup or tech company
Issuer of the USDC stablecoin, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2025.
ClickUp
Startup or tech company
All-in-one productivity app for tasks, docs and goals.

Climeworks
Startup or tech company
ETH Zurich spin-out that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air.

Clip
Startup or tech company
Mexican payments company for small businesses.
Cloudflare
Startup or tech company
Network security and CDN company protecting millions of websites.

Code.org
Startup or tech company
Nonprofit expanding access to computer science in schools.

Codecademy
Startup or tech company
Interactive coding courses.
Cognition
Startup or tech company
Maker of Devin, an AI software engineer, which also bought the Windsurf code editor in 2025.

Cohere
Startup or tech company
Enterprise language model company from Toronto.

Coinbase
Startup or tech company
Largest US cryptocurrency exchange, listed on Nasdaq in 2021.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Startup or tech company
MIT spin-out building compact fusion power plants with high-temperature superconducting magnets.
Confluent
Startup or tech company
Data streaming platform built by the creators of Apache Kafka at LinkedIn.
Consensys
Startup or tech company
Ethereum software company behind the MetaMask wallet.
Coolest Cooler
Startup or tech company
Record-breaking cooler campaign that later failed to deliver to many backers.
CoreWeave
Startup or tech company
GPU cloud for AI workloads that began as a crypto miner and listed on Nasdaq in 2025.

Coupang
Startup or tech company
Korea's largest e-commerce company, listed in New York.

Coursera
Startup or tech company
Online learning platform founded by two Stanford professors.

CRED
Startup or tech company
Rewards platform for paying credit card bills.

Criteo
Startup or tech company
Ad retargeting company listed on Nasdaq.

Critical Role
Startup or tech company
Web series whose animated show campaign raised over 11 million dollars on Kickstarter.

CrowdStrike
Startup or tech company
Cloud-native endpoint security company.

Cruise
Startup or tech company
Self-driving car company acquired by General Motors.

Culture Amp
Startup or tech company
Employee engagement and performance software from Australia.

Cursor
Startup or tech company
AI-first code editor built by Anysphere.

Dailymotion
Startup or tech company
French video-sharing platform.

Daneshjooyar
Startup or tech company
Online courses in software, engineering and design.

Darktrace
Startup or tech company
AI cybersecurity company from Cambridge, taken private by Thoma Bravo.

Databricks
Startup or tech company
Data and AI platform from the creators of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley.

Datadog
Startup or tech company
Monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

Dead Mage
Startup or tech company
Iranian game studio behind Garshasp and the acclaimed action RPG Children of Morta.

Deel
Startup or tech company
Global hiring, payroll and compliance for remote teams.

DeepMind
Startup or tech company
AI research lab acquired by Google, known for AlphaGo and AlphaFold.

DeepSeek
Startup or tech company
AI lab releasing efficient open-weight language models.

Delino
Startup or tech company
Online food ordering from restaurants in Iranian cities.

Deliveroo
Startup or tech company
Food delivery platform in Europe and Asia.

Delivery Hero
Startup or tech company
Global food delivery group operating in dozens of countries.