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

Grab
Startup or tech company
Southeast Asian super-app for rides, food and payments.
Grafana Labs
Startup or tech company
Company behind Grafana, the open-source dashboards for monitoring.
Gram Games
Startup or tech company
Mobile puzzle studio with teams in London and Istanbul, maker of Merge Dragons, bought by Zynga in 2018.

Grammarly
Startup or tech company
AI writing assistant founded by Ukrainian engineers.
Graphcore
Startup or tech company
AI chip startup acquired by SoftBank.
Gravity Blanket
Startup or tech company
Weighted blanket brand that took off on Kickstarter.

Groq
Startup or tech company
Chip company whose processors run AI models very fast.

Groww
Startup or tech company
Investing app for stocks and mutual funds in India.

Gumroad
Startup or tech company
Platform for creators to sell digital products directly.
Gumtree
Startup or tech company
UK classifieds site.

Gusto
Startup or tech company
Payroll, benefits and HR software for small businesses.

Gymshark
Startup or tech company
Fitness clothing brand started by a teenager in his parents' garage.

Hamkaran System
Startup or tech company
One of Iran's largest enterprise software and ERP vendors.

Hamrah Mechanic
Startup or tech company
On-site car repair, inspection and used-car services.

Hamravesh
Startup or tech company
Container-based cloud platform for deploying applications.
Harvey
Startup or tech company
Generative AI platform for law firms.

HashiCorp
Startup or tech company
Maker of Terraform and Vault, bought by IBM in 2025.

Headspace
Startup or tech company
Meditation and mental health app that began as an events company in London.

Hepsiburada
Startup or tech company
One of Turkey's largest e-commerce marketplaces, listed on Nasdaq.

Heroku
Startup or tech company
Developer-friendly cloud platform acquired by Salesforce in 2010.
Hesabfa
Startup or tech company
Online accounting software for small businesses.
Hezardastan
Startup or tech company
Technology group behind Cafe Bazaar, Divar and Balad.

Hims & Hers
Startup or tech company
Telehealth and wellness brand, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Hinge Health
Startup or tech company
Digital physical therapy company.
Hooshvare
Startup or tech company
Persian natural language processing team behind the open-source ParsBERT model.
Hopper
Startup or tech company
Travel booking app that predicts prices.

Housemarque
Startup or tech company
Finnish studio behind Returnal, bought by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2021.

HoYoverse
Startup or tech company
Chinese studio also known as miHoYo, maker of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail.

HubSpot
Startup or tech company
Inbound marketing and CRM platform born at MIT.

Hugging Face
Startup or tech company
Hub for open-source machine learning models and datasets.

Humble Bundle
Startup or tech company
Pay-what-you-want game bundles that raised money for charity, bought by IGN in 2017.
IDPay
Startup or tech company
Online payment gateway and payment links for small businesses.

iFood
Startup or tech company
Brazil's leading food delivery app.
Ihome
Startup or tech company
Online property listings for buying, selling and renting.

Insider
Startup or tech company
Customer engagement platform and Turkey's first unicorn.

Instacart
Startup or tech company
Online grocery delivery and pickup from local stores.

Startup or tech company
Photo-sharing app acquired by Facebook for one billion dollars in 2012.
Intercom
Startup or tech company
Customer messaging and AI support platform from Dublin.

Interswitch
Startup or tech company
Nigerian payments infrastructure company.
InVision
Startup or tech company
Design collaboration platform that shut down in 2024.

Iranicard
Startup or tech company
Services for paying for international online purchases and subscriptions.

Iranserver
Startup or tech company
Web hosting, servers and domain services.

Isomorphic Labs
Startup or tech company
Alphabet's AI drug discovery company, spun out of DeepMind.

itch.io
Startup or tech company
Open marketplace where independent developers sell and share their games.

Jabama
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for booking villas, cottages and hotels in Iran.

Jahez
Startup or tech company
Saudi food delivery app listed on the Saudi exchange.

Jajiga
Startup or tech company
Short-term rental marketplace for villas and homes across Iran.

Jam City
Startup or tech company
Mobile game maker of Cookie Jam and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.