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.

Arm
Startup or tech company
Chip architecture company whose designs power most smartphones.

ASML
Startup or tech company
Sole maker of the extreme ultraviolet machines used to make advanced chips.

Cerebras Systems
Startup or tech company
Maker of wafer-scale chips for training and running AI models.
Graphcore
Startup or tech company
AI chip startup acquired by SoftBank.

Groq
Startup or tech company
Chip company whose processors run AI models very fast.
Intel Capital
Corporate venture capital
Intel's corporate venture arm, one of the oldest in tech.
Jensen Huang
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia.
Kamran Elahian
Ecosystem figure
Iranian-American serial entrepreneur and investor who co-founded several Silicon Valley companies.
Lisa Su
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of AMD, credited with its turnaround.

Nvidia
Startup or tech company
Graphics chip maker that became the backbone of modern AI computing.