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Startup ecosystem directory: Iran and the world | StartupNetwork

1,253 entries in 16 sections

Startup ecosystem directory

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.

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All · 1,253 Startups and companies · 677 Venture capital firms · 98 Angel investors · 11 Accelerators and incubators · 38 Corporate investors · 15 Funds and institutions · 7 University programs · 89 Science and technology parks · 9 Associations · 6 Support programs · 21 Crowdfunding platforms · 11 Communities · 15 Media and newsletters · 50 Events · 27 Research and data · 14 People · 165

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151 entries

Picsart
Startup or tech company
Photo and video editing app founded in Armenia.
Yerevan, ArmeniaUnicorn
Pieter Levels
Ecosystem figure
Solo founder known for building profitable products such as Nomad List alone.
Pinecone
Startup or tech company
Vector database used to build search and memory for AI applications.
New York, United States
Pioneer
Accelerator or incubator
Online tournament-style accelerator for founders anywhere.
San Francisco, United States
Reid Hoffman
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock and host of Masters of Scale.
Palo Alto, United States
Replit
Startup or tech company
Browser-based coding platform with an AI agent.
San Francisco, United StatesY CombinatorUnicorn
Runway
Startup or tech company
AI video generation and editing tools.
New York, United StatesUnicorn
Safe Superintelligence
Startup or tech company
AI lab focused only on building safe superintelligence.
Palo Alto, United States
Sahab
Startup or tech company
Data and AI company offering analytics and machine learning services.
Tehran, Iran
Sakana AI
Startup or tech company
Tokyo AI lab that draws on ideas from nature, co-founded by a co-author of the Transformer paper.
Tokyo, JapanUnicorn
Salesforce Ventures
Corporate venture capital
Salesforce's investment arm for enterprise software companies.
San Francisco, United States
Sam Altman
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator.
San Francisco, United States
Samsung Next
Corporate venture capital
Samsung's innovation and venture arm.
New York, United States
Satya Nadella
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of Microsoft since 2014.
Redmond, United States
Scale AI
Startup or tech company
Data labelling and evaluation infrastructure for AI models.
San Francisco, United StatesY CombinatorUnicorn
Sebastian Thrun
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Udacity and Google X, pioneer of self-driving cars.
Palo Alto, United States
SentinelOne
Startup or tech company
AI-driven endpoint security company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mountain View, United StatesPublic company
Sequoia Capital
Venture capital firm
One of the oldest and most successful venture firms, early investor in Apple, Google and WhatsApp.
Menlo Park, United States
Sergey Brin
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Google, born in Moscow.
Palo Alto, United States
Sharif University of Technology
University program
Leading engineering university whose alumni founded many of Iran's best-known startups.
Tehran, Iran
Sierra
Startup or tech company
Conversational AI agents that handle customer service for large companies.
San Francisco, United States
SoftBank Vision Fund
Venture capital firm
The largest technology fund ever raised, led by Masayoshi Son.
Tokyo, Japan
Spark Capital
Venture capital firm
Boston and San Francisco venture firm, backer of Twitter and Oculus.
Boston, United States
Stability AI
Startup or tech company
Company behind the open Stable Diffusion image model.
London, United Kingdom
Stanford University
University program
University at the heart of Silicon Valley whose alumni founded Google, Nvidia and many more.
Stanford, United States
Station F
Accelerator or incubator
World's largest startup campus, in a former Paris rail depot.
Paris, France
Sundar Pichai
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of Google and Alphabet.
Mountain View, United States
Suno
Startup or tech company
App that writes and sings complete songs from a text prompt.
Cambridge, United States
Synthesia
Startup or tech company
AI video generation platform with digital avatars.
London, United KingdomUnicorn
TechCrunch Disrupt
Event
Startup conference famous for its Startup Battlefield competition.
San Francisco, United States
Tempus AI
Startup or tech company
Precision medicine company that applies AI to clinical and molecular data.
Chicago, United StatesPublic company
Thinking Machines Lab
Startup or tech company
AI research and product company founded by Mira Murati, former chief technology officer of OpenAI.
San Francisco, United States
Thrive Capital
Venture capital firm
New York firm that invested early in Instagram and OpenAI.
New York, United States
Together AI
Startup or tech company
Cloud platform for training and running open-source AI models.
San Francisco, United StatesUnicorn
Tsinghua University
University program
Top Chinese engineering university with the TusPark science park.
Beijing, China
UC Berkeley
University program
Public research university behind Apache Spark, RISC and many startups.
Berkeley, United States
UiPath
Startup or tech company
Robotic process automation company founded in Romania.
Bucharest, RomaniaPublic company
University College London
University program
London university whose researchers co-founded DeepMind.
London, United Kingdom
University of Edinburgh
University program
Scottish university with a long history in artificial intelligence research.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University of Toronto
University program
Birthplace of modern deep learning research and many AI startups.
Toronto, Canada
University of Washington
University program
Public research university in Seattle, close to Microsoft and Amazon.
Seattle, United States
Village Global
Venture capital firm
Network-driven pre-seed fund backed by tech leaders.
San Francisco, United States
Visionaries Club
Venture capital firm
Berlin fund backed by European business leaders.
Berlin, Germany
VivaTech
Event
Europe's biggest startup and tech event, held in Paris.
Paris, France
Waymo
Startup or tech company
Self-driving car company that started as Google's project.
Mountain View, United States
Wayve
Startup or tech company
Cambridge spin-out building end-to-end AI for self-driving cars.
London, United KingdomUnicorn
Web Summit
Event
One of the world's largest tech conferences, now held in Lisbon.
Dublin, Ireland
Weights & Biases
Startup or tech company
Tools for tracking machine learning experiments, bought by CoreWeave in 2025.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired