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.

1Password
Startup or tech company
Password manager for people and companies, bootstrapped for 14 years.

Airtable
Startup or tech company
Spreadsheet-database hybrid for building workflows.

Asana
Startup or tech company
Work management platform founded by a Facebook co-founder.

Basecamp
Startup or tech company
Project management tool from the makers of Ruby on Rails.
Calendly
Startup or tech company
Scheduling tool built by a Nigerian-born founder.
ClickUp
Startup or tech company
All-in-one productivity app for tasks, docs and goals.

Dropbox
Startup or tech company
Cloud file storage and sharing service, one of Y Combinator's early breakout companies.
Eric Yuan
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of Zoom.

Grammarly
Startup or tech company
AI writing assistant founded by Ukrainian engineers.

Krisp
Startup or tech company
AI noise cancellation for calls, built in Armenia.
Lenny Rachitsky
Ecosystem figure
Former Airbnb product lead and author of Lenny's Newsletter.

Lenny's Newsletter
Media, podcast or newsletter
Popular newsletter and podcast on product, growth and careers.

Linear
Startup or tech company
Issue tracking tool for software teams.

Loom
Startup or tech company
Async video messaging tool acquired by Atlassian.

Miro
Startup or tech company
Online collaborative whiteboard.

monday.com
Startup or tech company
Work management platform for teams, listed on Nasdaq.
n8n
Startup or tech company
Workflow automation tool with source-available code and AI agents.

Notion
Startup or tech company
All-in-one workspace for notes, docs and projects.

Obsidian
Startup or tech company
Private note-taking app built on local Markdown files.

Slack
Startup or tech company
Team messaging app that began as a game company's internal tool; acquired by Salesforce.
Stewart Butterfield
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Flickr and Slack.

Trello
Startup or tech company
Kanban-style project boards acquired by Atlassian.

Zapier
Startup or tech company
No-code automation tool that connects thousands of apps.
Zoom
Startup or tech company
Video conferencing platform that became essential during the pandemic.