Startup ecosystem directory

Alchemist Accelerator

Accelerator or incubator

Accelerator focused exclusively on enterprise startups.

Algolia

Startup or tech company

Search-as-a-service API used by thousands of websites.

Co-founder and chief executive of Replit, born in Amman.

ArvanCloud

Startup or tech company

Cloud infrastructure, CDN and security services provider.

Maker of Jira and Confluence, bootstrapped with a credit card.

Auth0

Startup or tech company

Authentication for developers, founded by two Argentines and bought by Okta in 2021.

Cafe Bazaar

Startup or tech company

Iran's main Android app store, connecting millions of users with local developers.

Codecademy

Startup or tech company

Interactive coding courses.

Maker of Devin, an AI software engineer, which also bought the Windsurf code editor in 2025.

Computer Guild Organization

Association or industry body

National guild body for Iran's IT and software companies.

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

Ethereum software company behind the MetaMask wallet.

Cursor

Startup or tech company

AI-first code editor built by Anysphere.

Datadog

Startup or tech company

Monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

Secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js.

Dev.to

Community or network

Open community where software developers write and share.

Docker

Startup or tech company

Container platform that changed how software is packaged and shipped.

Elastic

Startup or tech company

Company behind Elasticsearch, the search and analytics engine.

Epic Games

Startup or tech company

Maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine.

Fly.io

Startup or tech company

Cloud that runs apps close to users in many regions.

Google Developer Group community in Tehran running meetups and DevFest.

SMS sending platform and API for businesses.

GitHub

Startup or tech company

Code hosting and collaboration platform acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

Free developer tools for students.

GitLab

Startup or tech company

Open-core DevOps platform built by a fully remote company.

Godot Engine

Startup or tech company

Free, open-source game engine used by a fast-growing community of independent developers.

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

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

Y Combinator's community news site for technologists and founders.

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.

Hugging Face

Startup or tech company

Hub for open-source machine learning models and datasets.

JetBrains

Startup or tech company

Maker of IntelliJ IDEA and the Kotlin language, bootstrapped and profitable.

SMS and voice messaging API for developers.

LangChain

Startup or tech company

Open-source framework and platform for building applications on language models.

LeetCode

Startup or tech company

Coding practice platform for technical interviews.

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

Linear

Startup or tech company

Issue tracking tool for software teams.

AI app builder that grew from the open-source GPT Engineer.

MongoDB

Startup or tech company

Document database company, listed on Nasdaq.

Workflow automation tool with source-available code and AI agents.

Serverless Postgres database, bought by Databricks in 2025.

Netlify

Startup or tech company

Platform for deploying websites and web apps from Git.

PagerDuty

Startup or tech company

Incident response platform for engineering teams.

Pinecone

Startup or tech company

Vector database used to build search and memory for AI applications.

Plaid

Startup or tech company

API that connects apps to users' bank accounts.

PlanetScale

Startup or tech company

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