Sarava
VC Fund
Tehran, Iran
Sarava is a venture capital firm specialized in providing early-, mid-, and growth-stage; and startup investments.The firm seeks to make investments in the internet, mobile, e-commerce, games, cloud computing, and SaaS-based sectors. It primarily invests in Iran and seeks to invest up to $0.03 million per deal.Sarava was founded in 2011 andis based in Tehran, Iran.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
- Fund size:
- $300M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sarava invests in
Stages Sarava invests in
Countries Sarava invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $1.5M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Leisure 2 (29%)
- E-Commerce 2 (29%)
- Advertising 2 (29%)
- Advertising Platforms 2 (29%)
- Audio 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (57%)
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- Iran 5 (71%)
- Austria 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Alibaba.ir
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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. | $22M / Series A / Dec 04, 2017 | |
Adro Ad Exchange
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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. | Series A / Oct 10, 2016 | |
ZORAQ.COM
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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. | $1M / Series B / Jun 27, 2016 | |
Navaar
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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. | $250K / Seed / May 20, 2016 | |
Anetwork
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Anetwork is the largest CPC (cost per click) platform in Iran. They display your banners in 6100 different websites and you only pay when your target audience clicks on your banners. They help you to introduce and sell your products and services on the internet. | $3M / Series A / Feb 01, 2016 | |
2nate
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2nate is an Iranian donation platform that is currently focusing on fundraising projects that have social impacts. It allows people to easily create a campaign and start raising funds for its cause. 2nate.com raises money for causes and projects people care about and love. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 15, 2016 | |
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ZORAQ.COM
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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. | $1.5M / Series A / Mar 19, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Sarava invest in?
Sarava invests primarily in Leisure, E-Commerce and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Iran. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sarava's check size?
Sarava typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sarava participates in.
When did Sarava last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sarava closed in Dec 2017. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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