Yearly Archives: 2015

Namlik is a producer and distributer of curated audio content in Iran. Or as the founders mention, “It’s Flipboard in audio”. The content on Namlik’s website is provided either by Namlik themselves, or their media partners in Iran.

After Iran's nuclear talks and reaching the agreement to lift Iran's international sanctions, Iran's first operator MCI found two international bidders. This fact shows that our young country is a great market of telecommunication business.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging service Telegram, accused the Ministry of Communications of Iran for requesting to access user’s data and censoring some specific contents on Telegram.

There are few services and TV shows that have a large audience and more importantly people are connected through their cellphones to these programs, namely: The 90 TV show and Iran’s subsidy system. Based on the stats of these programs we can come up with estimate market share of these companies.“ based on the stats of these programs, MCI’s penetration rate is more than 60% in Iran” said Sadoughi, CEO of MCI.

Recently one of the executive board members of “Information Technology Organization of Iran” stated that they recently had some guests from Oracle and their competitor companies. But the executives of Oracle Corporation deny any of such meetings.

The smartwatch business is a booming industry, with new products coming out every day. Blocks is the world’s first modular smartwatch in the making.

18 months after the announcement of its concept for a modular wearable, London-based Blocks Wearables announced the launch of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, a modular smartwatch.

The 21st Elecomp fair, the biggest Electronics, Computer and e-Commerce International exhibition in Iran will be held on 14th to 17th December at Tehran’s international permanent fair ground.

Startup Istanbul, one the leading startup event in Eurasia was held on October 3rd to 5th. More than 100 startups from over 40 countries were selected to attend the event along with 1500 people.

The good, the bad and the exciting! What I've learned about Iran's startup ecosystem after spending a few months in Tehran.