Top 20 VC Funds & Investors in Iran (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Smartup Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | Iran, Latvia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, E-Commerce, CRM | |
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Shenasa
VC Fund
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6 | Iran | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | |
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Parsian Bank
VC Fund
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5 | Iran | Seed, Secondary Market, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Film | |
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Saman Bank
VC Fund
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5 | Iran | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Advertising, Information Technology, CRM | $71k–$320k |
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Sarava
VC Fund
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3 | Iran, Austria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Leisure, E-Commerce, Advertising | $3M–$22M |
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Trigup Acceleration Center
VC Fund
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3 | Iran | Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Training | |
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DMOND Accelerator
VC Fund
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3 | Iran | Pre-Seed, Seed | Music, EdTech, Education | |
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IranTalent.com
VC Fund
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2 | Iran | Series A | Software, SaaS, Human Resources | |
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Pomegranate Investment AB
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Series A | Audio, Books, Podcast | |
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Iran Technology Development Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Seed | Leisure, Tourism, Travel Agency | |
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Iran France Investment Company
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Series A | Content, Freelance, Outsourcing | |
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TECENTER
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Seed | B2B, Software, IT Infrastructure | |
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Davin Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Seed | Medical, Training, Education | |
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, France | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $114k–$30M |
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Brahman Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Seed | Legal, Legal Tech | |
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Samsung NEXT
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.7M–$93M |
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Zharfa accelerator
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Information Technology | |
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Turquoise Venture Capital Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Iran | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, Content | |
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TOSHA
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Pre-Seed | Travel, Internet, Hospitality | |
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Karafarin Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Iran | Convertible Note | Banking, Financial Services | |
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Smartup Ventures is a venture capital, a company that creates value by helping businesses grow faster. We create ventures by joining forces with everyone who shares our values and ambitions. By building strong partnerships with entrepreneurs, talents, business developers, angel investors, and venture investors.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Iran, Latvia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Shenasa is a venture capital fund that identifies and supports innovative and profitable businesses in the area of new technologies. The company is primarily focused on information and communication technology in the form of venture capital. Shenasa was founded in 2012.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linom — Linom is an innovative Elearning startup passionately committed to revolutionizing medical education. Our mission is to create a truly delightful and immersive learning experience tailored exclusively for medical students. We understand that becoming a proficient and empathetic doctor requires more than just acquiring knowledge; it demands atransformative educational journey.
- Heymed — Heymed is the first Iranian startup that has succeeded in producing a smart inhaler. The goal of this startup is to improve the quality of life of patients with lung diseases, and it has been working since 2019. The first investor of this startup is Trigup Accelerator.
- vitrin net — A B2B platform that connects buyers and sellers of industrial machinery, tools and supplies
offers all banking and financial services commensurate with the requirements of customers, using advanced banking tools.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Film
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- 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.
Saman Bank provides investment advisory, commercial banking, corporate banking, SME banking, and project financing services.
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- Industry: Advertising, Information Technology, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $71k–$320k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Leisure, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Iran, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Trigup helps create and grow stable and competitive startups in domestic and foreign markets. Trigup Accelerator started working in 2013 with the aim of supporting startups and young people motivated by the entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing a network of domestic and international experts, investors, and successful people, and connecting withinfluential institutions in this field, this collection accompanies young and dynamic entrepreneurs on the winding path of setting up a successful business.Founded in 2015, Trigup has started working as the third Iranian startup accelerator. In 2017, Trigup joined Shenasa, the Venture Capital Company of Pasargad Financial Group, and has been accelerating 24 startup teams since then.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Training
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linom — Linom is an innovative Elearning startup passionately committed to revolutionizing medical education. Our mission is to create a truly delightful and immersive learning experience tailored exclusively for medical students. We understand that becoming a proficient and empathetic doctor requires more than just acquiring knowledge; it demands atransformative educational journey.
- Heymed — Heymed is the first Iranian startup that has succeeded in producing a smart inhaler. The goal of this startup is to improve the quality of life of patients with lung diseases, and it has been working since 2019. The first investor of this startup is Trigup Accelerator.
We are here as an Iranian accelerator/Incubator to find, nurture, fund and cultivate ideas and concepts to sustainable and profitable businesses
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- Industry: Music, EdTech, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
IranTalent is the leading job site for professionals. Find the best jobs & career opportunities and send your CV to International & Iranian companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Human Resources
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hire.Camp — Hire.Camp is an Application Tracking System (ATS). It works as web-based cloud software and provides via SaaS model (Software as a Service). Hire.Camp is the brainchild of a team of experts in the field of HR and Software Technology. Hire.Camp 1.0 was introduced to the market in Autumn 2018 and as more reputable organizations started using it theteam modified/ updated/ expanded the system. In July 2020, a cooperation and investment contract was signed between Hire.Camp with Iran Talent (the largest job board of Iran). This cooperation is intended to create potential added value to the most respectable organizations and strategically expand the market for Hire.Camp.
- Boyer Data — Boyer Data Company (Boyer Data Asia) was established in 2017 with the registration number 10197
Swedish Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Audio, Books, Podcast
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
ITDF, is a non-governmental organization representing Iran’s venture capital and angel investor sector
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- Industry: Leisure, Tourism, Travel Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Industry: Content, Freelance, Outsourcing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
torfeh negar started its business in 1989, having more than half million customers in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, is the biggest accounting software company in Iran. holoo software is the main brand, having more than 70% of Iran's aforementioned market.in 2016, due to the market shift to more online and innovative startups, this companystarted investing on startup through TECENTER, and is mainly focusing on investing on startups which have same potential market.having the most important former generation entrepreneurs in this company made TECENTER one of the best places for startups in Iran to join with.
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- Industry: B2B, Software, IT Infrastructure
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- omdex — OMDEX represents the forefront of wholesale trade platforms, harnessing the power of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to serve buyers and suppliers across Iran. As a dynamic platform, we are constantly refining our services to empower businesses, uncover new opportunities, and facilitate seamless transactions. Our overarching mission is torevolutionize the landscape for Iranian SME manufacturers, offering them intuitive tools fueled by ML. These technologies enable manufacturers to effortlessly expand their market presence, connect with a wider audience, and showcase their products with precision. Concurrently, we empower buyers by leveraging advanced algorithms for swift and accurate product discovery, ensuring they can efficiently locate desired products and reliable suppliers.
Davin Investment backs cultural businesses with capital, fostering economic resilience.
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- Industry: Medical, Training, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linom — Linom is an innovative Elearning startup passionately committed to revolutionizing medical education. Our mission is to create a truly delightful and immersive learning experience tailored exclusively for medical students. We understand that becoming a proficient and empathetic doctor requires more than just acquiring knowledge; it demands atransformative educational journey.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$30M; Debt Financing $114k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BURN — Experience clean, safe, and affordable cooking with BURN's innovative cookstoves. Impact lives, reduce emissions, and enjoy delicious meals. Shop now!
- GOGO Electric — Bodawerk is an innovations and engineering company. Our products are created to serve the needs of people at the bottom of the pyramid.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
Brahman Capital Corp. is a New York based investment manager founded in 1989. We focus on identifying exceptional CEOs who are uniquely shareholder driven.
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- Industry: Legal, Legal Tech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 465
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M; Series A $7M–$32M; Series B $10M–$93M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Function Health — Test your whole body and own your health. Function, co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, is a lifelong routine of 100+ lab tests for the whole body including thyroid, hormones, fertility, autoimmunity, heart, kidney, liver and more. Lab results direct to you with insights from top doctors.
Zharfa is an accelerator in Sanandaj
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- Industry: E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nazarto — Nazarto is the biggest Iranian review platform founded at Sanandaj focused on Iran e-commerce market
Turquoise Venture Capital Fund is a financial services company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
Tosse-eh Tajrobe Shayesteh Safar
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- Industry: Travel, Internet, Hospitality
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TripeMa — TripeMa is a travel marketplace with focus on accommodations.
Karafarin Bank offers retail and corporate banking services. The bank services include deposits, loans, safebox, foreign currency deposits, documentary credits, guarantees. The bank offers mobile, internet banking. The bank also offer brokerage, investments, leasing, insurance.
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- Industry: Banking, Financial Services
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Iran
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZarinPal — ZarinPal is a pioneer online payment gateway in Iran.
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