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
Jawbone
Startup or tech company
Wearables and audio company that shut down in 2017.

JetBrains
Startup or tech company
Maker of IntelliJ IDEA and the Kotlin language, bootstrapped and profitable.

Jibit
Startup or tech company
Payment and settlement infrastructure for Iranian online businesses.
Jibo
Startup or tech company
Social home robot from an MIT professor, launched on Indiegogo.

Jobinja
Startup or tech company
Job board and employer branding platform for Iranian companies.
Jobvision
Startup or tech company
Online recruitment platform with job listings and candidate tools.

Jumia
Startup or tech company
Pan-African e-commerce platform listed in New York.

Kahoot!
Startup or tech company
Game-based learning platform used in classrooms worldwide.

Kakao
Startup or tech company
Korean internet company behind the KakaoTalk messenger.

Kano
Startup or tech company
Build-it-yourself computer kits for children.

Karnameh
Startup or tech company
Used-car inspection, pricing and buying platform.

Kaspi.kz
Startup or tech company
Kazakh super-app for payments, marketplace and banking.

Kavak
Startup or tech company
Used-car marketplace and Mexico's first unicorn.
Kavenegar
Startup or tech company
SMS and voice messaging API for developers.

Ketabrah
Startup or tech company
Digital bookstore for Persian e-books and audiobooks.

Khan Academy
Startup or tech company
Nonprofit offering free world-class education online.
Kilid
Startup or tech company
Property search platform for buying and renting homes in Iran.

King
Startup or tech company
Mobile games company behind Candy Crush Saga, bought by Activision Blizzard in 2016 for 5.9 billion dollars.
Kingdom Death Monster
Startup or tech company
Miniatures board game whose second campaign raised over 12 million dollars.
Kitopi
Startup or tech company
Cloud kitchen platform for restaurant brands.

Klarna
Startup or tech company
Buy-now-pay-later and payments company.

Klook
Startup or tech company
Travel activities booking platform in Asia.

Kopi Kenangan
Startup or tech company
Grab-and-go coffee chain and Southeast Asia's first F&B unicorn.

Krafton
Startup or tech company
Publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, founded as Bluehole.

Kraken
Startup or tech company
One of the oldest US cryptocurrency exchanges.

Krisp
Startup or tech company
AI noise cancellation for calls, built in Armenia.

Lambda
Startup or tech company
GPU cloud and AI hardware company.

LangChain
Startup or tech company
Open-source framework and platform for building applications on language models.

Lattice
Startup or tech company
People management software for reviews, goals and engagement.

Lazada
Startup or tech company
Southeast Asian marketplace controlled by Alibaba.

Ledger
Startup or tech company
Hardware wallets for securing cryptocurrency.

LeetCode
Startup or tech company
Coding practice platform for technical interviews.
Lemon Squeezy
Startup or tech company
Payments and tax platform for digital products, acquired by Stripe.
Lemonade
Startup or tech company
AI-driven home and renters insurance.
Liara
Startup or tech company
Platform-as-a-service for deploying web apps and databases.
LIFX
Startup or tech company
Wi-Fi smart light bulb that started on Kickstarter.
Lilith Games
Startup or tech company
Mobile game maker of AFK Arena and Rise of Kingdoms.

Lime
Startup or tech company
Shared electric scooters and bikes.

Line
Startup or tech company
Messaging app popular in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Linear
Startup or tech company
Issue tracking tool for software teams.

Startup or tech company
Professional network acquired by Microsoft in 2016.
Lockitron
Startup or tech company
Smart lock project that crowdfunded on its own site after Kickstarter declined it.

Loom
Startup or tech company
Async video messaging tool acquired by Atlassian.
Lovable
Startup or tech company
AI app builder that grew from the open-source GPT Engineer.

Lyft
Startup or tech company
Ride-hailing company and Uber's main US rival.
M-Pesa
Startup or tech company
Mobile money service launched by Safaricom that transformed payments in Kenya.
Mailchimp
Startup or tech company
Bootstrapped email marketing company acquired by Intuit for 12 billion dollars.

Maktabkhooneh
Startup or tech company
Online learning platform with university and professional courses in Persian.