Alireza Jozi

Bamilo sets up a public new year's expo from March 2nd to 17th at the Bamilo expo right before Nowruz, the Persian new year.

Like in every startup ecosystem, finding co-founders, talents and a team is not a one day effort. Iran startup scene was no different. Fundamental elements for every emerging startup ecosystem to get off the ground, can be categorized to human capital, financial capital and infrastructure.

Avatech announced its application opening of its 4th acceleration cycle in a press conference on February 29th. In the press conference a brief history on its previous acceleration cycles was presented by the founder and CEO Mohsen Malayeri.

Adro changes the Iranian online advertising landscape by becoming Iran’s first ad exchange. Iran’s ad tech scene started from almost nothing few years back, and local ad exchange means could be considered a metric of growth of this industry and the next big thing.

2nate, a Local crowdfunding platform for social impact projects, launches a new feature called “Crowd Judgement” for the first time in the world. In an event organized by 2nate, social activists, charity organizaitons, the press and NGOs were invited to get introduced to 2nate and its new features.

The question that why doesn’t Iran startup ecosystem have co-working spaces could be a mystery to many. Co-working spaces are a key element of a startup ecosystem when it comes to providing startup needs in seed stages.

The upcoming Iran parliament election on 26th of February is heating up as candidates launch their fierce advertising campaigns. Within this tough competition are the voters themselves overwhelmed with online and offline advertising content from the few hundred candidates.

It took a village to raise a child. Just over 3 to 4 years ago there was barely any farsi search results on Google about the term "startup" from Iran. Now the term really wants to make itself viral through newspapers and magazines.

When it comes to governmental startup initiatives, Startup Chile has many lessons to learn from. The concept of importing entrepreneurs rather than just businesses is a proven method of fostering economical growth and innovation.

On January 27th 2016, Hackarestan held its first hackathon with the subject of "innovation in education" targeting Iran’s 4 million school students. Hackarestan aims to have a positive impact on Iran’s educational system by providing a platform for Iranian talent to come up with innovative educational methods based on technology.