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.

23andMe
Startup or tech company
Consumer genetic testing company.

Andreessen Horowitz
Venture capital firm
Silicon Valley venture firm known as a16z, with large content and platform teams.
Anne Wojcicki
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of the genetics company 23andMe.

Benchling
Startup or tech company
Cloud software for life-science research.

BioNTech
Startup or tech company
mRNA company that co-developed the first approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Daphne Koller
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Coursera and founder of insitro.
Flagship Pioneering
Venture capital firm
Bioplatform company that creates and builds biotech firms such as Moderna.

Ginkgo Bioworks
Startup or tech company
Synthetic biology platform for engineering organisms.
IndieBio
Accelerator or incubator
Biotech accelerator run by SOSV.

Isomorphic Labs
Startup or tech company
Alphabet's AI drug discovery company, spun out of DeepMind.

KU Leuven
University program
Belgian research university with a strong record of spin-outs.

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

SOSV
Accelerator or incubator
Deep-tech venture firm running HAX and IndieBio.