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.

Behance
Startup or tech company
Creative portfolio network acquired by Adobe.

Black Forest Labs
Startup or tech company
German maker of the FLUX image generation models, started by creators of Stable Diffusion.
Canva
Startup or tech company
Online design platform used by hundreds of millions of people.

Dribbble
Startup or tech company
Community for designers to share work.
Dylan Field
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Figma.

Envato
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for creative assets such as themes and templates.

Figma
Startup or tech company
Collaborative interface design tool that runs in the browser.

Framer
Startup or tech company
Design and website building tool.

Glowforge
Startup or tech company
3D laser printer that set a crowdfunding pre-order record.
InVision
Startup or tech company
Design collaboration platform that shut down in 2024.
Mahdi Bahrami
Ecosystem figure
Iranian independent developer of the geometric puzzle game Engare.
Melanie Perkins
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Canva.

Midjourney
Startup or tech company
Independent lab behind a popular AI image generator.

Miro
Startup or tech company
Online collaborative whiteboard.
Peak Design
Startup or tech company
Camera and travel gear company built on a series of Kickstarter campaigns.

Picsart
Startup or tech company
Photo and video editing app founded in Armenia.

Runway
Startup or tech company
AI video generation and editing tools.
Sketch
Startup or tech company
Mac design tool that popularised modern UI design workflows.

Squarespace
Startup or tech company
Website builder started by its founder in a college dorm.

Unsplash
Startup or tech company
Free stock photo library acquired by Getty Images.

Webflow
Startup or tech company
Visual website builder for designers.

Weebly
Startup or tech company
Website builder acquired by Square.

Wix
Startup or tech company
Drag-and-drop website builder, listed on Nasdaq.