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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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49 entries

Aalto University
University program
Finnish university whose students started the Slush startup event.
Espoo, Finland
American University of Beirut
University program
Leading regional university with an entrepreneurship and innovation hub.
Beirut, Lebanon
Amirkabir University of Technology
University program
Major technical university in Tehran with an active incubator and startup community.
Tehran, Iran
Berkeley SkyDeck
University program
UC Berkeley's accelerator with its own investment fund.
Berkeley, United States
Boston Dynamics
Startup or tech company
Robotics company spun out of MIT, known for its walking robots.
Waltham, United StatesAcquired
Cambridge Judge Accelerate
University program
Entrepreneurship programs at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Carnegie Mellon University
University program
Leading university for computer science and robotics, origin of Duolingo.
Pittsburgh, United States
CDL Creative Destruction Lab
Accelerator or incubator
Objectives-based program for science-based startups, founded at the University of Toronto.
Toronto, Canada
Celonis
Startup or tech company
Process mining software that grew out of the Technical University of Munich.
Munich, GermanyUnicorn
Climeworks
Startup or tech company
ETH Zurich spin-out that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air.
Zurich, Switzerland
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Startup or tech company
MIT spin-out building compact fusion power plants with high-temperature superconducting magnets.
Devens, United StatesUnicorn
Coursera
Startup or tech company
Online learning platform founded by two Stanford professors.
Mountain View, United StatesPublic company
Databricks
Startup or tech company
Data and AI platform from the creators of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley.
San Francisco, United StatesUnicorn
Duolingo
Startup or tech company
Gamified language-learning app born at Carnegie Mellon.
Pittsburgh, United StatesPublic company
edX
Startup or tech company
Online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT.
Cambridge, United StatesAcquired
EPFL Innovation Park
University program
Innovation park at EPFL hosting startups and corporate labs.
Lausanne, Switzerland
ETH Zurich
University program
Swiss technical university with a large spin-off program.
Zurich, Switzerland
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
University program
Largest university in eastern Iran with research centres and startup support.
Mashhad, Iran
Formlabs
Startup or tech company
Desktop 3D printer maker from MIT Media Lab that launched on Kickstarter.
Somerville, United StatesKickstarterUnicorn
Google
Startup or tech company
Search engine started by two Stanford PhD students that became Alphabet.
Mountain View, United StatesPublic company
Harvard Innovation Labs
University program
Harvard's startup hub for students and alumni.
Boston, United States
HoYoverse
Startup or tech company
Chinese studio also known as miHoYo, maker of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail.
Shanghai, China
IIT Bombay SINE
University program
Technology business incubator at IIT Bombay.
Mumbai, India
Imperial Enterprise Lab
University program
Imperial College London's hub for student and staff founders.
London, United Kingdom
Iran University of Science and Technology
University program
Technical university in Tehran with engineering research centres and an incubator.
Tehran, Iran
Isfahan University of Technology
University program
Leading technical university in Isfahan linked to the Isfahan Science and Technology Town.
Isfahan, Iran
K. N. Toosi University of Technology
University program
Technical university known for electrical, computer and aerospace engineering.
Tehran, Iran
KAUST
University program
Saudi research university with a venture fund and accelerator.
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
KTH Innovation
University program
Startup support at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Stockholm, Sweden
MIT
University program
Institute whose labs and alumni have created thousands of companies.
Cambridge, United States
MIT delta v
University program
Summer accelerator for MIT student teams run by the Martin Trust Center.
Cambridge, United States
MIT Engine
University program
Venture firm backing tough-tech companies from MIT and beyond.
Cambridge, United States
National University of Singapore
University program
Leading Asian university whose enterprise arm runs overseas startup colleges.
Singapore, Singapore
Oxford Foundry
University program
University of Oxford's entrepreneurship centre for students.
Oxford, United Kingdom
Shahid Beheshti University
University program
Major Tehran university with science, engineering and management schools and an incubator.
Tehran, Iran
Sharif University of Technology
University program
Leading engineering university whose alumni founded many of Iran's best-known startups.
Tehran, Iran
Sharif University Technology Park
Science and technology park
Technology park supporting companies founded by Sharif University students and alumni.
Tehran, Iran
Shiraz University
University program
Leading university in southern Iran with engineering and medical research.
Shiraz, Iran
SkyDeck Europe
Accelerator or incubator
European program of Berkeley SkyDeck.
Milan, Italy
Stanford StartX
University program
Nonprofit accelerator for Stanford-affiliated founders.
Stanford, United States
Stanford University
University program
University at the heart of Silicon Valley whose alumni founded Google, Nvidia and many more.
Stanford, United States
Tsinghua University
University program
Top Chinese engineering university with the TusPark science park.
Beijing, China
UC Berkeley
University program
Public research university behind Apache Spark, RISC and many startups.
Berkeley, United States
University of Tehran
University program
Iran's oldest modern university, with incubators and an entrepreneurship faculty.
Tehran, Iran
University of Toronto
University program
Birthplace of modern deep learning research and many AI startups.
Toronto, Canada
University of Waterloo Velocity
University program
Incubator at the University of Waterloo, Canada's top engineering school for founders.
Waterloo, Canada
UnternehmerTUM
University program
Europe's largest university-linked startup centre, at TU Munich.
Munich, Germany
Wayve
Startup or tech company
Cambridge spin-out building end-to-end AI for self-driving cars.
London, United KingdomUnicorn