Top 10 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Iran (September 2026)

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• Paraj — A platform for cinema, television, and actors — a comprehensive hub where users can explore movies, TV series, and biographies of actors, keep up with the latest industry news, read reviews, and discover in-depth content about the world of entertainment.
• Digikala — Digikala is an online store that sells sports and entertainment, arts and culture, and digital products as well as appliances and personal items with a 7-day return back guarantee option and an express delivery service. Customers can review, select, and purchase products via the website. Digikala is operated from Tehran, Iran.
• Vindad — We help Businesses manage their legal needs by providing access to everything they need to start and run their business, including blogs and legal guides, over 50 legal and commercial documents.
Vanda Legal forms are common business legal documents that range from Investment, trademark, incorporation, NDAs, and Human resources. There is simplestep-by-step instructions help businesses customize documents for their specific needs. And to be sure it's done right; they can have their document reviewed by an attorney from our hand-picked network.

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• Landin — With landin, you can easily create your landing pages And convert click to customers
• Vindad — We help Businesses manage their legal needs by providing access to everything they need to start and run their business, including blogs and legal guides, over 50 legal and commercial documents.
Vanda Legal forms are common business legal documents that range from Investment, trademark, incorporation, NDAs, and Human resources. There is simplestep-by-step instructions help businesses customize documents for their specific needs. And to be sure it's done right; they can have their document reviewed by an attorney from our hand-picked network.
• Salam Sakhteman — A platform that connects home-owners and builders to qualified service professionals such as painters, carpenters, electricians, etc.

Portfolio highlights

• Paraj — A platform for cinema, television, and actors — a comprehensive hub where users can explore movies, TV series, and biographies of actors, keep up with the latest industry news, read reviews, and discover in-depth content about the world of entertainment.
• Helpical — Helpical is a ticketing software (also known as issue tracking system) with advanced features and lower complexity. There is no limit on tickets, users, and departments quantity. This software can be purchased both in SaaS or On-Premis modes.
• NovinHub — NovinHub provides an online social media management platform that allows businesses and content creators to schedule and publish content across various social media channels such as Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, and Facebook. The platform offers tools for analyzing social media performance, managing and downloading comments, and driving meaningfulengagement. It is designed to streamline social media activities and enhance the efficiency of managing multiple accounts from a single dashboard.

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• Ponisha — Ponisha is an outsourcing platform intended to connect freelancers and entrepreneurs. It also has an online marketplace that provides jobs on its portal and gets bids from freelancers for various tasks such as programming, writing, translation, design, engineering, data entry, marketing, sales, accounting, and anything else that can be done anddelivered online, helping companies get quality services. Their goal is to go global, and they are taking steps and making attempts to do so.

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• Ponisha — Ponisha is an outsourcing platform intended to connect freelancers and entrepreneurs. It also has an online marketplace that provides jobs on its portal and gets bids from freelancers for various tasks such as programming, writing, translation, design, engineering, data entry, marketing, sales, accounting, and anything else that can be done anddelivered online, helping companies get quality services. Their goal is to go global, and they are taking steps and making attempts to do so.

Portfolio highlights

• Ponisha — Ponisha is an outsourcing platform intended to connect freelancers and entrepreneurs. It also has an online marketplace that provides jobs on its portal and gets bids from freelancers for various tasks such as programming, writing, translation, design, engineering, data entry, marketing, sales, accounting, and anything else that can be done anddelivered online, helping companies get quality services. Their goal is to go global, and they are taking steps and making attempts to do so.
• Net Zero Now — Net Zero Now adopts a sector based approach to making powerful climate action accessible to small and medium sized businesses. Working with the industry bodies, trade associations and larger corporates we start by creating a consistent sector protocol that defines what net zero means for businesses in that sector, offers guidance on how to getthere and a standard against which those that do, can be certified. We then configure our platform to enable businesses in the sector to go through the process in a simple way and offer this on subscription as SaaS. Our industry partners in each sector then provide a cost effective route to market, promoting a net zero solution to their members or customers. The approach aligns with all relevant global standards (GHG Protocol, SBTi, Oxford Principles) and has been endorsed by the UK Government Net Zero team. Andrew Griffith MP, the UK's Net Zero champion, is on record saying at COP26 "We love Net Zero Now"
• Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.

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• Laminor — Laminor is an online music learning platform helping instruments' learners access cost-effective, practical and right to the point courses while enhancing their music performance skills. We launched our 1st MVP by providing guitar chords then online guitar lessons. Laminor's main revenue streams are selling training videos, providingonline courses and offering offline learning classes.
• Mibarim — Mibarim offers an application for carpooling services. It provides a service for requesting a shared car, mobilizing all against pollution and traffic.
• AfraFile — AfraFile is a Marketplace for Digital Files

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• Navaar — Navaar started with the vision of bringing a convenient audiobook service to the Farsi speakers throughout the world, at the moment Navaar has the highest production rate of the Farsi spoken-word products (more than 30+ titles per month) and has more than 1.5M+ users (and growing fast) in terms of the customer base.

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• ZORAQ.COM — Zoraq is an online travel agency offers a platform for online hotel and flight reservation services. The site consists of more than 400K hotels around the world, flights of more than 900 airlines, and a deal of encyclopedic free travel guides and articles. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tehran, Iran.
• Alibaba.ir — Alibaba.ir is a website for online purchases of plane, train, and bus tickets. They provide domestic and international flight, train, and bus ticketing, as well as tour packages and car rental services.
• Adro Ad Exchange — Adro Ad Exchange is a real-time advertising platform that connects a range of suppliers and real-time exchanges to secure the ad placements on various websites and applications. The platform’s direct integration enables its users to work with a variety of publishers across private and public market places.Adro Ad Exchange works with over 50,000publishers through its suppliers to deliver a monthly reach that represents more than 76% of online Persian users. The platform launched its demand-side platform for ad buyers and supply-side platform for inventory suppliers.Launched in 2014 by Masoud Khosravi and Sayed Ali Jafari, Adro Ad Exchange is operated from Tehran, Iran.

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• OTEX — OTEX is an online classified and car inspection services platform.
• Navaar — Navaar started with the vision of bringing a convenient audiobook service to the Farsi speakers throughout the world, at the moment Navaar has the highest production rate of the Farsi spoken-word products (more than 30+ titles per month) and has more than 1.5M+ users (and growing fast) in terms of the customer base.