Successful startups from Iran and the world, venture capital and angel investors, accelerators, technology parks, universities, crowdfunding platforms, media, events and the people who built the ecosystem.

Postman
Startup or tech company
API development platform that began in Bengaluru.
Pushe
Startup or tech company
Push notification and engagement service for app developers.

Quera
Startup or tech company
Programming education, contests and tech hiring platform for Iranian developers.
Replit
Startup or tech company
Browser-based coding platform with an AI agent.

Retool
Startup or tech company
Platform for building internal tools quickly.
Sabzlearn
Startup or tech company
Persian programming and web development courses.

Segment
Startup or tech company
Customer data platform acquired by Twilio.
Sentry
Startup or tech company
Error tracking and performance monitoring that started as an open-source project.

Snyk
Startup or tech company
Security tools that find and fix vulnerabilities in code and dependencies.

Stack Overflow
Community or network
Question-and-answer site for programmers, acquired by Prosus.

Stripe
Startup or tech company
Payments infrastructure for the internet, used by millions of businesses.

Supabase
Startup or tech company
Open-source backend platform built on Postgres.

Temporal
Startup or tech company
Durable execution platform for reliable workflows, from the creators of Uber's Cadence.
Tim Sweeney
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine.

Toplearn
Startup or tech company
Online programming courses in Persian.

Twilio
Startup or tech company
Communications APIs for SMS, voice and video.

Unity
Startup or tech company
Game engine company started in Copenhagen.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University program
Public university where the Mosaic web browser was built.

University of Waterloo
University program
Canadian university known for co-op programmes and student founders.

Vercel
Startup or tech company
Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js.

Weights & Biases
Startup or tech company
Tools for tracking machine learning experiments, bought by CoreWeave in 2025.

Women Who Code
Community or network
Global nonprofit that supported women in engineering careers.