Investors in Iran

The Technology Development Business Trust (TAKFA) was founded in 2007 by a group of expert, creative and well-experienced individuals in the knowledge-based ecosystem of the country. TEKFA team from the beginning, " helping to create and develop businesses based on technology and innovation " and " strengthen communicating effectively between companies and technology organizations outreach " as its basic goals adopted. In this regard, we have been able to provide specialized management, financial and investment services to more than 5 innovative technology companies on the one hand, and to knowledge-based funders and institutions such as the Innovation and Development Fund.On the other hand, we are taking great strides in achieving our goals.

Banian is a group of founders and investors who support entrepreneurship through angel investing and mentoring startups they back.

HAMAVA Innovation Factory is the first innovation factory in the middle east which is formed by the merge of Avatech, Nouava, and Shezan. It is an innovation hub that invests in high potential and passionate entrepreneurs. We offer custom business incubation programs, mentorship, seed funding, entrepreneurship-focused training and an inspiring co-working space located in Tehran, Iran.

Karaya Angel Investors Group, is a unique hub for raising smart money which includes capital, guidance, counseling and relations. We provide capital, expertise and network to help entrepreneurs. Furthermore, We connect experienced investors with selected entrepreneurs.

SARAWA is an Iranian private equity firm that provides the managerial experience and capital needed for high-tech entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who are working to create value and jobs in the fields of business, marketing, design, technology, talent management, finance and legal. We empower talented entrepreneurs on the path to success by transferring their knowledge and experience of global alignment and unique support.

Avatech is a startup accelerator that provides entrepreneurs with the necessary ingredients to succeed. We provide aspiring entrepreneurs with mentorship, entrepreneurial training, seed funding and a creative workspace through Avacamp and Accelerator.

The mission of startups, as the name implies, is to help startups. Businesses that emerge in addition to being startups in emerging markets and new industries based on science and technology. Our core service is validating innovative ideas, and accelerating business creation. Helping formulate the right business plan, forming a team, and implementing ideas to the point where the business is ready to invest or enter the market, including emerging services.

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.

Shenasa (a.k.a. Pishgaman Amin Sarmayeh Pasargad) was founded in 2012 as the Venture Capital arm of Pasargad financial group, one of the largest private financial institution in Iran. Shenasa Is the pioneer venture capital firm founded in Iran, and one of the major players in Iran entrepreneurship ecosystem. In fact, due to our financial capacity, we can invest in high‐growth potential technology ventures throughout their development cycle using our patent investment.We at Shenasa proudly assess our applications considering innovation, social responsibility, and profitability all‐together.

Damond Accelerator started operating in 2009 with the goal of helping start-ups grow. Damond's main activity is to provide services including training, collaborative workspace, Mentorship, infrastructure services and the creation of a growth environment for start-up teams in a six-month acceleration and pre-acceleration period.

Hasin Technology is a high-tech software company which aims in providing its customers with state-of-the-art Smart card, E-Banking and mobile VAS solutions. Benefiting from its knowledge and experiences on E-Banking, Security and Smart card technology, Hasin© technology offers products and services to its local and international customers.

The development of "Bahman entrepreneurship" has been developed by a collective of technological and innovative entrepreneurship activists with over ten years of experience in this ecosystem. During his two-year activity, Bahman has made many efforts to attract the world's venture knowledge and skills, create the correct culture of interaction with entrepreneurs and develop appropriate financial and legal frameworks in Iran. The basic strategy of Bahman is entering the business stages (Early Stage) and the presence of investor partners (CO-investors) and a good network of fellow investors.

The Barkat Ventures as a knowledge-based institute is established as the Imam's Command's Executive arm is in the development of knowledge-based economy. Our mission is creation and expansion of the ecosystem and infrastructure for the development of knowledge and knowledge-based activities of scholars in the country based on Islamic-Iranian models. In this regard, we have relied on and made use of the potential of domestic scientists and experts, the use of global experience and knowledge, and effective cooperation with institutions active in the field of science, technology and economics.

Rayan Ventures is a venture capital firm that aims to bridge the vacuum in the country's venture capital ecosystem and provide the services needed to successfully transition ideas to start-ups and start-ups to cohesion and avoid abandoning projects. Those who have left the country acceleration network have been established. In other words, Ryan's is an Early Stage VC firm.

Griffon Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth companies. The firm primarily invests in consumer-driven companies with a focus on consumer packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, ancillary services, retailing and e-commerce, and consumer services sectors. It typically invests in Iran. The firm considers investments between $10 million and $15 million. It also makes co-investments. Griffon Capital is headquartered in Tehran, Iran with an additional office in London, United Kingdom and Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

The BR Opportunities - Growth Capital Investments , is a manager of private equity funds that drives companies emerging high impact that improve Brazil, and its proposal to invest in these organizations, accelerate their growth and transform them into effective leaders in their markets of acting. For this, our strategy is to lead to the same management and professional governance, increased visibility and transparency and networking. Within this proposal, we implement high value-added success models. Founded in 2010 by Carlos Miranda, BR Opportunities believes in innovation and sustainable and exponential growth as a way to reach a successful model and, therefore, we carry out deep analysis and study. The dynamics of a Growth Capital seek to position these organizations in the leadership, turning them into benchmarks of innovation and growth, generating even more value as quickly as possible for shareholders and investors.

Disrupt the way we design and maintain creative ICT solutions. This is our challenge to entrepreneurs and this is what we invest in. Our Mission is simple, but our goal is even more straightforward: to be recognized by entrepreneurs and industry alike as a value-add partner and thought-leader in bringing innovation and efficiency gains to the way they make people's lives easier.

Fairford is a family-owned investment company for the Osseiran family, focusing on long-term value creation through the acquisition and development of companies across Europe.

Top Media Group was born in 2007 with extensive coverage of local advertising in Tehran and along the way developed it was able to establish a large family of "Top Media Group". Currently the premier media group works with more than 5 ideas and innovations, using powerful print, digital and active media forces to further their mission of promoting cultural excellence and enhancing social awareness through production. We know valuable content across all media platforms.We also have a mission to provide local businesses with a variety of advertising platforms along with providing effective sales and branding services. To this end, the top media group will deliver its advertising services as the technology evolves into a diverse portfolio of advertising opportunities and a mix of specialist sales consultants in business development.

Iran Biotech Fund invest in Iran and Iran related biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with exceptional technologies or product opportunities based on strong scientific rationale and commercial potential. Our key asset is a unique team of nearly 25 Venture Advisers, comprised of renowned industry leaders and professionals who, together with the fund’s managing partners, provide our portfolio companies with hands-on guidance and support. We provide our portfolio companies with the necessary resources for long-term sustainable growth. We provide them with access to network, executive talent, strategic, operational, and business development resources.

Sharif Accelerator is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate Sharif University’s startups by providing them with seed money, mentorship, education, work space and access to organized community of entrepreneurs; no charge or equity is taken for those services. The acceleration process for each team lasts from 2 to 6 months. The primary way to join our program is through SETAK community. Setak endeavors to help commercialize ideas through creating an innovative and creative thinking atmosphere and by nurturing creative entrepreneurial ideas in the university and also by lowering the risk of starting out.

Impact Fund Denmark is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing in the form of equity, mezzanine, loans, debt and guarantees. It makes socially conscious investments. It makes directly & indirectly investments. Under directly investing, it invests in early stage & growth capital investments. Under indirectly investments, it invests in venture capital funds. It specializes in establishing new companies, setting up joint ventures between Danish companies and local business partners and in acquiring existing companies. It provides financing to private-sector projects in the developing countries. The firm can only invest in countries whose 2008 GNI capita income is below $0.03 million with an exemption granted to South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. Also, the host countries of investments must be on the OECD’s DAC list of development aid recipients. It invests where private sector financing is unavailable or insufficient. It invests in sustainable growth and high-impact solutions in developing markets/countries. It does not invest in Forced labor or child labor, Ozone depleting substances, PCB's (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and other specific, hazardous pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides or chemicals, wildlife or products regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Unsustainable fishing methods, Cross-border trade in waste and waste products, unless compliant with the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations, Destruction of High Conservation Value areas, Radioactive materials and unbounded asbestos fibres, Pornography and/or prostitution, Racist and/or anti-democratic media, Alcoholic Beverages (except beer and wine), Tobacco, Weapons and munitions, Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises, Standalone fossil fuelled power plants, Drilling, exploration, extraction, refining and sale of crude oil, natural gas and thermal coal, Storage, supporting infrastructure (pipelines etc.), transportation and logistics, and services primarily related to fossil fuels, Any business using captive coal for power and/or heat generation, Electricity generation from peat and activities leading to deforestation, Investments and/or other projects that aim to produce or make use of agricultural or forestry products, Biomaterials and biofuel production, Export-oriented agribusiness mod, Meat and dairy industries. It prefers investing in commercial services and supplies, biofuels, electric power by solar and wind energy and irrigation systems sector. The firm seeks to invest in climate and Agribusiness. It focuses its investments in Green energy & infrastructure with focus on Clean, affordable renewable energy, Waste recycling and management, Energy efficiency, Water access and management; Financial Services with focus on Microfinance, MSME financing, Development banks and Insurance; Sustainable food systems with focus on Climate farming, Storage and distribution, Processing, Forest and land; Healthcare with focus on Hospitals and clinics, Pharmacy chains, Diagnostic services, Pharmaceuticals & medical equipment. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Africa focusing on North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Central America, Middle East and Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Jordan, Denmark, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep., Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, São Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Asia focusing on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey, Mexico, Kiribati, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Federal States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Western Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, East Timor, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen; Europe focusing on Albania, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Belarus, Balkans, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine; and Latin America with a focus on Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Ecuador, and Jamaica and North Asia, United States of America, Latin America and parts of Europe. It seeks to invest between from DKK15 million ($2.32 million) and DKK500 million ($77.52 million). The firm can invest up to DKK350 million ($51.34 million) per company. The firm seeks to co-invest with Danish businesses in projects based in developing countries. It prefers to take minority stake between 10% to 30% and up to 49 per cent in small projects. It prefers to take a board membership. The firm prefers to exit its investments within five to seven years when the loan has been repaid or the shares have been sold. The firm also offers special assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises which employs less than 300 employees, with an annual revenue of up to DKK 300 million ($53.16 million) and has a positive result in two out of three latest financial years. It also provides advisory services to business investments in developing countries. The firm makes two thirds of its investments in partnership and can also provide additional financing. Impact Fund Denmark was founded in 1967 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional offices across Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa.

Pomegranate Investment AB (publ) is an investment company (VC) based in Sweden, which was founded in 2014 by a pioneering team with a long and successful track record of investing in high growth companies in emerging markets, particularly in the technology sector.Pomegranate seeks opportunities with highly attractive risk-reward profiles, outside of mainstream developed markets. Pomegranate also favours opportunities with a positive social impact and believes in supporting local entrepreneurs to develop their businesses, by providing capital and know-how from its large international network of specialists and successful entrepreneurs.

Nano Fund for Research and Technology Nanotechnology Development is a specialized financial institution specializing in the development and strengthening of high technology based businesses. The Fund was established in 2011 based on the Eleventh Session of the Coordination Committee of Article 100 of the Third Development Plan Act (Article 45 of the Fourth Development Plan Act).

The Albanian-American Enterprise Fund (AAEF) is a U.S. corporation established under the SEED Act of 1989 to promote private sector development in Albania. It has since transitioned its mission to its legacy organization, the Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF).