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.

Embracer Group
Startup or tech company
Swedish games group built through hundreds of acquisitions.

Etsy
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for handmade and vintage goods.
Startup or tech company
Social network founded at Harvard, now Meta Platforms.

Fawry
Startup or tech company
Egyptian electronic payments network.

Figma
Startup or tech company
Collaborative interface design tool that runs in the browser.

Fiverr
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for freelance services.

Freshworks
Startup or tech company
Customer service software company founded in Chennai.

Ginkgo Bioworks
Startup or tech company
Synthetic biology platform for engineering organisms.

GitLab
Startup or tech company
Open-core DevOps platform built by a fully remote company.

Gojek
Startup or tech company
Indonesian super-app that merged with Tokopedia to form GoTo.

Startup or tech company
Search engine started by two Stanford PhD students that became Alphabet.

GoPro
Startup or tech company
Action camera company.

Grab
Startup or tech company
Southeast Asian super-app for rides, food and payments.

Hamrah-e Aval
Corporate venture capital
Iran's largest mobile operator, which runs its own digital services and innovation programs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Krafton
Startup or tech company
Publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, founded as Bluehole.
Lemonade
Startup or tech company
AI-driven home and renters insurance.

Lyft
Startup or tech company
Ride-hailing company and Uber's main US rival.

Makuake
Crowdfunding platform
Japanese crowdfunding platform for new products.

Marqeta
Startup or tech company
Card issuing platform behind many modern payment apps.

Meituan
Startup or tech company
Chinese super-app for food delivery and local services.

MercadoLibre
Startup or tech company
Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech company.

Mercari
Startup or tech company
Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace app.
Microsoft
Startup or tech company
Software company behind Windows, Office and Azure.

Moderna
Startup or tech company
mRNA biotech company spun out of Flagship Pioneering.

monday.com
Startup or tech company
Work management platform for teams, listed on Nasdaq.

MongoDB
Startup or tech company
Document database company, listed on Nasdaq.

MTN Group
Corporate venture capital
African telecom group that has invested in Iranian internet companies through a joint venture.
Naspers
Corporate venture capital
South African group and early investor in Tencent, through its Prosus arm.

Nazara Technologies
Startup or tech company
Indian listed gaming and sports media group.

Netflix
Startup or tech company
DVD-by-mail service that became the leading streaming company.

Netmarble
Startup or tech company
One of South Korea's largest mobile game publishers.

Nexon
Startup or tech company
Online game pioneer founded in Seoul and listed in Tokyo, maker of MapleStory.

Nubank
Startup or tech company
Digital bank with tens of millions of customers in Latin America.

Nvidia
Startup or tech company
Graphics chip maker that became the backbone of modern AI computing.

Nykaa
Startup or tech company
Indian beauty and fashion marketplace founded by a former investment banker.

Ocado
Startup or tech company
Online grocer and warehouse robotics technology provider.
Okta
Startup or tech company
Identity and sign-in platform for companies, listed on Nasdaq.
Oracle
Startup or tech company
Database and enterprise software company.