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Our mission is to empower and unite the Persian community within the realms of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation by hosting a series of monthly events (in-person and Online). We aim to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and networking among Persian startup founders, investors, students, tech activists, and top employees of tech giants in the Bay Area, LA and across the globe.
CEO & CO-FOUNDER at WORKERA
FORBES 30 UNDER 30
PRODUCT MANAGER at ROBLOX
Prev. founder @ Tym
Adjunct Professor at Stanford University
Founder of Emergence Program at Stanford
Mehdi Farzanehpour
Founded: 2019
Industry: Deep Tech, AI
Bio:
Central Market Information System is an integrated deep-tech search engine that companies use for market analysis, segmentation, creating audiences, and providing sales teams with client insights. The system is used by product managers to make decisions, marketing teams to create account-based marketing audiences, and sales teams to prospect and prepare for sales calls. It started with scientific papers and patents and is expanding to include patents, client trials, and deep-tech company websites to create a connected graph of people, companies, technologies, patents, discoveries, and budgeting.
Website: https://scitodate.com
Saunon Malekshahi
Founded: 2021
Industry: AI, aviation
Bio:
Moonware optimizes airside operations in airports and vertiports through proprietary software + IoT. HALO - our software platform designed to efficiently manage airline Ground Support Equipment (GSE) fleets - automates airfield logistics by easily tracking, coordinating & dispatching vehicles to service aircraft. We provide airlines with higher flight throughput, maximized asset utility, faster turnarounds, improved safety and reduced fuel costs & emissions. Our long-term vision is to create fully-connected & intelligent airfields that handle aircraft autonomously from touchdown to takeoff.
Website: https://moonware.com
Notable investors:
Farzad Rahbar
Founded: 2021
Industry: AI, aviation
Bio:
Ultra-low frequency wireless power charging technology through existing transmission and distribution lines suitable to power a small drone equipped with edge-computing and AI/ML technologies to achieve autonomous flight capable of swarm deployment, and sensors to monitor assets or provide critical services.
Website: flyxtechnologies.com
Seyed Sajjadi
nFlux is the first no-code platform that enables global manufacturers to accelerate their adoption of Industry 5.0 best practices, including rapid deployment of connected workers powered by AI. With over 70% of manufacturing still requiring human intervention, nFlux is playing a leading role in helping this $6 Trillion sector of the global economy implement smart manufacturing functionalities that amplify and empower the manufacturing workforce. Augmented by go-to-market experts, the core nFlux team members are ex-NASA AI-ML, computer vision technologists with prior successful mission-critical deployments of similar technology.
Founded: 2019
Industry: AI, Mobility, enterprise
Notable investors:
Website: https://www.nflux.ai
Arash Atashnama
Founded: 2021
Industry: AI, Medical Devices
Notable investors:
Website: www.deepmeds.io
Yasaman Rajaee
Frontdoor is building a social discovery network for knowledge. Think of it like Pinterest but for knowledge. The internet is experiencing a content overload and our brains can't cope. We're solving this using the power of human-curation and AI. We've built a an early paid-for community of our users (which generates $12K MRR) and have shipped our product to them (which they love).
Founded: 2022
Industry: AI, enterprise
Notable investors:
Website: https://www.frontdoor.xyz
Sepehr Bigdeli
Soter is a Cognitive engine that enables robots perform autonomous operations across use cases and industry. Sorter is completely hardware & use case agnostic. On the other words, Soter is transforming how organizations perform surveillance and anomaly detection. The Soter SaaS Cognitive platform uses a novel approach to automate recurring processes used in a wide range of industries such as Energy, Security and Agriculture.
Founded: 2022
Industry: AI, Energy, Aviation
Website: https://www.soterai.com
Salman Avestimehr
FedML provides a platform for decentralized and collaborative AI anywhere at any scale, and a marketplace for everyone to monetize their data, ML models, and AI applications.
Founded: 2022
Industry: AI and ML, Deep tech
Notable investors:
Website: https://www.fedml.ai
Novathena
Flyxtechnologies
Driverly
