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.

Oscar Health
Startup or tech company
Technology-driven health insurer.

PagerDuty
Startup or tech company
Incident response platform for engineering teams.

Palantir
Startup or tech company
Data analytics software for governments and enterprises.

Paradox Interactive
Startup or tech company
Strategy game publisher of Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings and Cities: Skylines.

Payoneer
Startup or tech company
Cross-border payments for freelancers and businesses.

PayPal
Startup or tech company
Online payments pioneer whose alumni became known as the PayPal Mafia.
Paytm
Startup or tech company
Indian digital payments and financial services company.

Peloton
Startup or tech company
Connected fitness company.

Pinduoduo
Startup or tech company
Chinese group-buying e-commerce platform.

Startup or tech company
Visual discovery engine for ideas and inspiration.

Planet Labs
Startup or tech company
Fleet of small satellites that photograph the whole Earth every day.

Playtika
Startup or tech company
Mobile games company behind Slotomania and Bingo Blitz, listed on Nasdaq.
Pomegranate Investment
Venture capital firm
Swedish listed investment company that has held stakes in leading Iranian internet companies.

Prosus
Corporate venture capital
Global consumer internet investor, majority-owned by Naspers.

Rakuten
Startup or tech company
Japanese e-commerce and fintech group.
Raspberry Pi
Startup or tech company
Low-cost single-board computer for learning and making.

Startup or tech company
Network of online communities organised by interest, from Y Combinator's first batch.

Remedy Entertainment
Startup or tech company
Finnish studio behind Max Payne, Alan Wake and Control.

Rivian
Startup or tech company
Electric truck and SUV maker.

Robinhood
Startup or tech company
Commission-free stock trading app.

Roblox
Startup or tech company
Platform where users create and play games.

Rocket Lab
Startup or tech company
Small-satellite launcher founded in New Zealand, listed on Nasdaq.

Salesforce
Startup or tech company
Pioneer of cloud software and the CRM market.

Saman Electronic Payment
Startup or tech company
Payment service provider known as SEP.
Samsara
Startup or tech company
Connected operations platform for fleets and industry.

Sea Limited
Startup or tech company
Parent of Shopee, Garena and SeaMoney.

SentinelOne
Startup or tech company
AI-driven endpoint security company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

ServiceTitan
Startup or tech company
Software for home and commercial service contractors, founded by Armenian-Americans.

Shopify
Startup or tech company
Commerce platform powering millions of online stores.

Slack
Startup or tech company
Team messaging app that began as a game company's internal tool; acquired by Salesforce.

Snap
Startup or tech company
Camera company behind Snapchat, started at Stanford.
Snowflake
Startup or tech company
Cloud data warehouse that set a software IPO record in 2020.

SoFi
Startup or tech company
Student loan startup that grew into a digital bank, listed on Nasdaq.

Spotify
Startup or tech company
Music and podcast streaming service.

Square
Startup or tech company
Card reader for small merchants that grew into Block.

Swiggy
Startup or tech company
Indian food and grocery delivery company.

Swvl
Startup or tech company
Mass transit and shared bus platform founded in Cairo.

Talabat
Startup or tech company
Food and grocery delivery platform owned by Delivery Hero and listed in Dubai.

Tempus AI
Startup or tech company
Precision medicine company that applies AI to clinical and molecular data.
Tencent
Startup or tech company
Internet group behind WeChat and a leading game publisher.

Tesla
Startup or tech company
Electric vehicle and energy company.
Toast
Startup or tech company
Restaurant point-of-sale and management platform.

Trip.com
Startup or tech company
China's largest online travel agency.

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

Uber
Startup or tech company
Global ride-hailing and delivery platform.

Udemy
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for online courses.

UiPath
Startup or tech company
Robotic process automation company founded in Romania.

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