Startup ecosystem directory

Co-founder and chief executive of Databricks, born in Iran.

Alibaba Group

Startup or tech company

Chinese e-commerce giant founded in Jack Ma's apartment.

Amazon

Startup or tech company

Online bookstore that grew into the world's largest e-commerce and cloud company.

Co-founder of Dropbox, who left MIT to build the company.

ArvanCloud

Startup or tech company

Cloud infrastructure, CDN and security services provider.

Cloud credits and support for startups on Amazon Web Services.

Battery Ventures

Venture capital firm

Technology-focused investment firm investing from seed to buyout.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Venture capital firm

One of the oldest venture firms, famous for its anti-portfolio.

Box

Startup or tech company

Cloud content management for businesses, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Network security and CDN company protecting millions of websites.

Data streaming platform built by the creators of Apache Kafka at LinkedIn.

GPU cloud for AI workloads that began as a crypto miner and listed on Nasdaq in 2025.

Databricks

Startup or tech company

Data and AI platform from the creators of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley.

Datadog

Startup or tech company

Monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

DigitalOcean

Startup or tech company

Simple cloud servers for developers and small businesses, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Docker

Startup or tech company

Container platform that changed how software is packaged and shipped.

Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox.

Dropbox

Startup or tech company

Cloud file storage and sharing service, one of Y Combinator's early breakout companies.

Elastic

Startup or tech company

Company behind Elasticsearch, the search and analytics engine.

Fanap

Startup or tech company

Technology group affiliated with Bank Pasargad, building banking, payment and platform services.

Fireworks AI

Startup or tech company

Fast inference platform for open AI models, started by former PyTorch leaders.

Fly.io

Startup or tech company

Cloud that runs apps close to users in many regions.

Google

Startup or tech company

Search engine started by two Stanford PhD students that became Alphabet.

Cloud credits and support for startups on Google Cloud.

Company behind Grafana, the open-source dashboards for monitoring.

Founder and chief executive of Vercel and creator of Next.js.

Hamravesh

Startup or tech company

Container-based cloud platform for deploying applications.

HashiCorp

Startup or tech company

Maker of Terraform and Vault, bought by IBM in 2025.

Heroku

Startup or tech company

Developer-friendly cloud platform acquired by Salesforce in 2010.

Intel's corporate venture arm, one of the oldest in tech.

UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale.

Iranserver

Startup or tech company

Web hosting, servers and domain services.

Lambda

Startup or tech company

GPU cloud and AI hardware company.

Platform-as-a-service for deploying web apps and databases.

M12

Corporate venture capital

Microsoft's venture fund.

Creator of Apache Spark and co-founder of Databricks.

Software company behind Windows, Office and Azure.

Program offering cloud credits and technical support to startups.

Mihan WebHost

Startup or tech company

Web hosting, domains and servers.

MongoDB

Startup or tech company

Document database company, listed on Nasdaq.

Serverless Postgres database, bought by Databricks in 2025.

Netlify

Startup or tech company

Platform for deploying websites and web apps from Git.

Database and enterprise software company.

Cloud servers, hosting and infrastructure services.

PlanetScale

Startup or tech company

Database platform built on Vitess, the system that scaled YouTube's MySQL.

Chief executive of Microsoft since 2014.

Cloud data warehouse that set a software IPO record in 2020.

Supabase

Startup or tech company

Open-source backend platform built on Postgres.