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.

ArvanCloud
Startup or tech company
Cloud infrastructure, CDN and security services provider.

Auth0
Startup or tech company
Authentication for developers, founded by two Argentines and bought by Okta in 2021.

Chainalysis
Startup or tech company
Blockchain analysis used by governments and exchanges to trace crypto transactions.

Check Point
Startup or tech company
Israeli pioneer of the commercial firewall, listed on Nasdaq.
Cloudflare
Startup or tech company
Network security and CDN company protecting millions of websites.

CrowdStrike
Startup or tech company
Cloud-native endpoint security company.

Darktrace
Startup or tech company
AI cybersecurity company from Cambridge, taken private by Thoma Bravo.

Fireblocks
Startup or tech company
Infrastructure for storing and moving digital assets for financial institutions.

Ledger
Startup or tech company
Hardware wallets for securing cryptocurrency.

Mozilla
Startup or tech company
Nonprofit behind the Firefox browser.
Okta
Startup or tech company
Identity and sign-in platform for companies, listed on Nasdaq.
Ring
Startup or tech company
Video doorbell company acquired by Amazon after being rejected on Shark Tank.

SentinelOne
Startup or tech company
AI-driven endpoint security company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Signal
Startup or tech company
End-to-end encrypted messaging app run by a nonprofit.

Snyk
Startup or tech company
Security tools that find and fix vulnerabilities in code and dependencies.

Startup Wise Guys
Accelerator or incubator
B2B accelerator in the Baltics and Central Europe.

Tailscale
Startup or tech company
Private networks between devices built on WireGuard, with little setup.

Wiz
Startup or tech company
Cloud security company founded by Israeli veterans of Microsoft; Google agreed to buy it in 2025 for 32 billion dollars.