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Startup ecosystem directory: Iran and the world | StartupNetwork

1,253 entries in 16 sections

Startup ecosystem directory

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.

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All · 1,253 Startups and companies · 677 Venture capital firms · 98 Angel investors · 11 Accelerators and incubators · 38 Corporate investors · 15 Funds and institutions · 7 University programs · 89 Science and technology parks · 9 Associations · 6 Support programs · 21 Crowdfunding platforms · 11 Communities · 15 Media and newsletters · 50 Events · 27 Research and data · 14 People · 165

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87 entries

Afterpay
Startup or tech company
Buy-now-pay-later pioneer acquired by Block.
Melbourne, AustraliaAcquired
Agoda
Startup or tech company
Online hotel booking site, part of Booking Holdings.
Singapore, SingaporeAcquired
Anova Culinary
Startup or tech company
Sous-vide cooker brand that grew through Kickstarter and was acquired by Electrolux.
San Francisco, United StatesKickstarterAcquired
Auth0
Startup or tech company
Authentication for developers, founded by two Argentines and bought by Okta in 2021.
Bellevue, United StatesAcquired
Baemin
Startup or tech company
Korea's leading food delivery app, acquired by Delivery Hero.
Seoul, South KoreaAcquired
Behance
Startup or tech company
Creative portfolio network acquired by Adobe.
New York, United StatesAcquired
BeReal
Startup or tech company
Photo app that asks friends to post at the same random moment each day, bought by Voodoo in 2024.
Paris, FranceAcquired
Booking.com
Startup or tech company
Online hotel booking site, now part of Booking Holdings.
Amsterdam, NetherlandsAcquired
Boston Dynamics
Startup or tech company
Robotics company spun out of MIT, known for its walking robots.
Waltham, United StatesAcquired
Careem
Startup or tech company
Middle East ride-hailing pioneer acquired by Uber in 2020, now a super-app.
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAcquired
Codecademy
Startup or tech company
Interactive coding courses.
New York, United StatesY CombinatorAcquired
Cruise
Startup or tech company
Self-driving car company acquired by General Motors.
San Francisco, United StatesY CombinatorAcquired
Dailymotion
Startup or tech company
French video-sharing platform.
Paris, FranceAcquired
Darktrace
Startup or tech company
AI cybersecurity company from Cambridge, taken private by Thoma Bravo.
Cambridge, United KingdomAcquired
DeepMind
Startup or tech company
AI research lab acquired by Google, known for AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
London, United KingdomAcquired
Dollar Shave Club
Startup or tech company
Razor subscription company bought by Unilever.
Venice, United StatesAcquired
Dribbble
Startup or tech company
Community for designers to share work.
Salem, United StatesAcquired
edX
Startup or tech company
Online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT.
Cambridge, United StatesAcquired
Envato
Startup or tech company
Marketplace for creative assets such as themes and templates.
Melbourne, AustraliaAcquired
Fitbit
Startup or tech company
Fitness tracker company acquired by Google.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Flickr
Startup or tech company
Photo-sharing site that emerged from a game project.
Vancouver, CanadaAcquired
Flipkart
Startup or tech company
Indian e-commerce leader acquired by Walmart in 2018.
Bengaluru, IndiaAcquired
GitHub
Startup or tech company
Code hosting and collaboration platform acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Glovo
Startup or tech company
Multi-category delivery app, majority-owned by Delivery Hero.
Barcelona, SpainAcquired
Gorillas
Startup or tech company
Quick-commerce startup acquired by Getir.
Berlin, GermanyAcquired
Gram Games
Startup or tech company
Mobile puzzle studio with teams in London and Istanbul, maker of Merge Dragons, bought by Zynga in 2018.
London, United KingdomAcquired
Graphcore
Startup or tech company
AI chip startup acquired by SoftBank.
Bristol, United KingdomAcquired
HashiCorp
Startup or tech company
Maker of Terraform and Vault, bought by IBM in 2025.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Heroku
Startup or tech company
Developer-friendly cloud platform acquired by Salesforce in 2010.
San Francisco, United StatesY CombinatorAcquired
Housemarque
Startup or tech company
Finnish studio behind Returnal, bought by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2021.
Helsinki, FinlandAcquired
Humble Bundle
Startup or tech company
Pay-what-you-want game bundles that raised money for charity, bought by IGN in 2017.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Indie Hackers
Community or network
Community of founders building profitable bootstrapped businesses.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Instagram
Startup or tech company
Photo-sharing app acquired by Facebook for one billion dollars in 2012.
Menlo Park, United StatesAcquired
King
Startup or tech company
Mobile games company behind Candy Crush Saga, bought by Activision Blizzard in 2016 for 5.9 billion dollars.
Stockholm, SwedenAcquired
Lazada
Startup or tech company
Southeast Asian marketplace controlled by Alibaba.
Singapore, SingaporeAcquired
Lemon Squeezy
Startup or tech company
Payments and tax platform for digital products, acquired by Stripe.
Remote, United StatesAcquired
LIFX
Startup or tech company
Wi-Fi smart light bulb that started on Kickstarter.
Melbourne, AustraliaKickstarterAcquired
LinkedIn
Startup or tech company
Professional network acquired by Microsoft in 2016.
Sunnyvale, United StatesAcquired
Loom
Startup or tech company
Async video messaging tool acquired by Atlassian.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Mailchimp
Startup or tech company
Bootstrapped email marketing company acquired by Intuit for 12 billion dollars.
Atlanta, United StatesAcquired
Maktoob
Startup or tech company
Early Arabic web portal acquired by Yahoo in 2009.
Amman, JordanAcquired
Miniclip
Startup or tech company
Browser and mobile games company behind 8 Ball Pool, majority-owned by Tencent.
London, United KingdomAcquired
Misfit
Startup or tech company
Wearables company whose Shine tracker launched on Indiegogo; acquired by Fossil.
San Francisco, United StatesIndiegogoAcquired
Mojang
Startup or tech company
Studio behind Minecraft, acquired by Microsoft.
Stockholm, SwedenAcquired
Neon
Startup or tech company
Serverless Postgres database, bought by Databricks in 2025.
San Francisco, United StatesAcquired
Nest Labs
Startup or tech company
Smart thermostat maker acquired by Google.
Palo Alto, United StatesAcquired
Netscape
Startup or tech company
Web browser company whose IPO helped start the dot-com boom.
Mountain View, United StatesAcquired
Next Games
Startup or tech company
Mobile studio behind The Walking Dead: No Man's Land, bought by Netflix in 2022.
Helsinki, FinlandAcquired