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.
Aileen Lee
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Cowboy Ventures, who coined the term unicorn.
Anne Boden
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Starling Bank.
Anne Wojcicki
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of the genetics company 23andMe.
Anousheh Ansari
Ecosystem figure
Iranian-American entrepreneur, chief executive of the XPRIZE Foundation and the first female private space explorer.
Daniela Amodei
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and president of Anthropic.
Daphne Koller
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Coursera and founder of insitro.
Fei-Fei Li
Ecosystem figure
Stanford professor who created ImageNet and co-founded World Labs.

Girls Who Code
Community or network
Nonprofit closing the gender gap in computing.

Golden Seeds
Angel investor or network
Angel network investing in women-led companies.

Hepsiburada
Startup or tech company
One of Turkey's largest e-commerce marketplaces, listed on Nasdaq.
Jessica Livingston
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder of Y Combinator and author of Founders at Work.
Linda Rottenberg
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Endeavor.
Lisa Su
Ecosystem figure
Chief executive of AMD, credited with its turnaround.
Mary Meeker
Ecosystem figure
Investor famous for her Internet Trends reports, founder of Bond Capital.
Melanie Perkins
Ecosystem figure
Co-founder and chief executive of Canva.

Nykaa
Startup or tech company
Indian beauty and fashion marketplace founded by a former investment banker.
Sara Blakely
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Spanx, who built the company without outside investors.
Shahrzad Rafati
Ecosystem figure
Founder and chief executive of the media-tech company BroadbandTV.

Spanx
Startup or tech company
Shapewear brand built without outside investment.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Ecosystem figure
Founder of Bumble and co-founder of Tinder.

Women Who Code
Community or network
Global nonprofit that supported women in engineering careers.