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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

Abridge
Startup or tech company
AI that writes clinical notes from doctor and patient conversations.
Pittsburgh, United StatesUnicorn
Aleph Alpha
Startup or tech company
German AI company building models and tools for governments and enterprises.
Heidelberg, Germany
Alexandr Wang
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Scale AI.
San Francisco, United States
Ali Ghodsi
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Databricks, born in Iran.
San Francisco, United StatesIranian diaspora
Ali Partovi
Ecosystem figure
Founder of the venture firm Neo and co-founder of Code.org.
San Francisco, United StatesIranian diaspora
Amirkabir University of Technology
University program
Major technical university in Tehran with an active incubator and startup community.
Tehran, Iran
Amjad Masad
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Replit, born in Amman.
San Francisco, United States
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture capital firm
Silicon Valley venture firm known as a16z, with large content and platform teams.
Menlo Park, United States
Andrew Ng
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain, founder of DeepLearning.AI.
Palo Alto, United States
Anthropic
Startup or tech company
AI safety and research company that builds the Claude models.
San Francisco, United StatesUnicorn
Aravind Srinivas
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Perplexity.
San Francisco, United States
Arthur Mensch
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Mistral AI.
Paris, France
Betaworks
Accelerator or incubator
New York startup studio and seed investor.
New York, United States
Black Forest Labs
Startup or tech company
German maker of the FLUX image generation models, started by creators of Stable Diffusion.
Freiburg, Germany
ByteDance
Startup or tech company
Parent company of TikTok and Douyin.
Beijing, ChinaUnicorn
Carnegie Mellon University
University program
Leading university for computer science and robotics, origin of Duolingo.
Pittsburgh, United States
CB Insights
Research and data
Market intelligence platform known for its unicorn tracker.
New York, United States
CDL Creative Destruction Lab
Accelerator or incubator
Objectives-based program for science-based startups, founded at the University of Toronto.
Toronto, Canada
Celonis
Startup or tech company
Process mining software that grew out of the Technical University of Munich.
Munich, GermanyUnicorn
Cerebras Systems
Startup or tech company
Maker of wafer-scale chips for training and running AI models.
Sunnyvale, United StatesUnicorn
Character.AI
Startup or tech company
Chatbot platform for conversing with AI characters.
Menlo Park, United StatesUnicorn
Clément Delangue
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Hugging Face.
New York, United States
Coatue
Venture capital firm
Technology investment firm investing in public and private companies.
New York, United States
Cognition
Startup or tech company
Maker of Devin, an AI software engineer, which also bought the Windsurf code editor in 2025.
San Francisco, United States
Cohere
Startup or tech company
Enterprise language model company from Toronto.
Toronto, CanadaUnicorn
CoreWeave
Startup or tech company
GPU cloud for AI workloads that began as a crypto miner and listed on Nasdaq in 2025.
Livingston, United StatesPublic company
Cruise
Startup or tech company
Self-driving car company acquired by General Motors.
San Francisco, United StatesY CombinatorAcquired
Cursor
Startup or tech company
AI-first code editor built by Anysphere.
San Francisco, United StatesUnicorn
Daniela Amodei
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and president of Anthropic.
San Francisco, United States
Daphne Koller
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Coursera and founder of insitro.
San Francisco, United States
Dario Amodei
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic.
San Francisco, United States
Darktrace
Startup or tech company
AI cybersecurity company from Cambridge, taken private by Thoma Bravo.
Cambridge, United KingdomAcquired
Databricks
Startup or tech company
Data and AI platform from the creators of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley.
San Francisco, United StatesUnicorn
DeepMind
Startup or tech company
AI research lab acquired by Google, known for AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
London, United KingdomAcquired
DeepSeek
Startup or tech company
AI lab releasing efficient open-weight language models.
Hangzhou, China
Demis Hassabis
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate in chemistry.
London, United Kingdom
Elad Gil
Angel investor or network
Investor and author of the High Growth Handbook.
San Francisco, United States
ElevenLabs
Startup or tech company
AI voice generation and dubbing company with Polish founders.
New York, United StatesUnicorn
Elon Musk
Ecosystem figure
Entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX and an early PayPal founder.
Austin, United States
Entrepreneur First
Accelerator or incubator
Talent investor that builds companies from individuals before they have a team or idea.
London, United Kingdom
Fei-Fei Li
Ecosystem figure
Stanford professor who created ImageNet and co-founded World Labs.
Stanford, United States
Figure AI
Startup or tech company
Maker of general-purpose humanoid robots.
Sunnyvale, United StatesUnicorn
Fireworks AI
Startup or tech company
Fast inference platform for open AI models, started by former PyTorch leaders.
Redwood City, United StatesUnicorn
Founders Fund
Venture capital firm
Peter Thiel's venture firm known for bold bets on SpaceX and Palantir.
San Francisco, United States
GDG Tehran
Community or network
Google Developer Group community in Tehran running meetups and DevFest.
Tehran, Iran
GITEX Global
Event
One of the world's largest tech events, with the Expand North Star startup show.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Glean
Startup or tech company
AI search and assistant across a company's apps and documents.
Palo Alto, United StatesUnicorn
Google
Startup or tech company
Search engine started by two Stanford PhD students that became Alphabet.
Mountain View, United StatesPublic company