According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Sorena Sattari, the vice president for science and technology affairs, visited two startups of Sana Gostar Sabz knowledge-based company, emphasizing the increased welcome of startups by the society and improvement of knowledge-based business by promotion of startup culture. In this regard, he stated: the society has learned about this type of businesses through the role playing of creative businesses an service startups. In addition, welcoming of startups is more highlighted every day by promotion of knowledge-based economy and connection between the society of information and communication technology.

According to Sattari, the positive impacts of startups on solving small and large society problems are tangible. He continued: these startups can be expanded in all areas of the society, which in addition to creating added value and occupation, can solve the challenges of the society with a new plan.

President of the knowledge-based economy, technology and science development headquarter added: today is the time to witness the effects and role of startups in knowledge-based economy, especially in areas of occupation and entrepreneurship. The fact that an application can lead to the recruit of more than 5000 individuals is the unique property of service startups.

Growth of Service Startups

Sattari pointed out that each of these startups has the growth capacity of 50 times in a year along with creating considerable occupations. In this respect, he continued: each of these companies can have a weekly growth of 10%, which is normal for a startup. Meanwhile, a large production unit can have the best growing trend within a year in such conditions. 

President of national elites foundation continued: these startups have recently entered the urban transportation area. Entering of creative businesses to these areas has led to increased occupation capacity of these startups by being active in several fields, such as idea making and coding by academics.

Mentioning the increased criteria for activities of service startups in the county, Sattari asserted: today, the activities of these startups are not limited to the capital and are expanding to other provinces. In terms of urban transportation, there are some startups that are active in more than 25 cities.

Startups of Advanced Technologies and Development of Smart Software

The vice president for science and technology affairs stated the favorable development of startups in the area of advanced technologies, expressing: while the activities of these startups might not be as tangible as service startups, all of the technologies used in service startups, including artificial intelligent, algorithms and software structure, are extracted from advanced technology companies.

Sattari added: startups of advanced technologies have recently entered the smart software section with an acceptable growth pace, in a way that significant developments will be observed in various areas, such as e-health and smart transportation, in the near future.

A New Foundation to Provide In-Home Services

In the first part of his visit, the vice president for science and technology affairs visited the startup of “Achareh”, which is one of the platform products of Sana Gostar Sabz knowledge-based company.

The main goal of this innovative business is eliminating the needs of customers regarding in-home services and creating the foundation for in-home services. According to this infrastructure, the majority of those with the ability to do technical work or have failed to introduce themselves due to lack of sufficient asset and connection with the final customer, can find work.

Furthermore, service customers can receive their required needs through this startup and with a higher quality, compared to traditional services.

This startup has laid the foundation for creating interactions between cleaning, nursing, gardening, repairing and installing services for customers at any time and in any place.

This innovative business has predicted the creation of 100 thousand job opportunities until the year of 2018.

A New Perspective toward Urban Transportation

“Ubar” is the title of another startup of the same knowledge-based company visited by the vice president for science and technology affairs.

This service startup has aimed to establish a transportation network to process the latest technologies and use the information in old transportation market.

It is noteworthy that Sattari was accompanied by Esmail Ghaderifar, president of strategic technologies development center, Parviz Karami, secretary of knowledge-based economy, technology and science development headquarter, and Mahdi Faghihi, secretary of information, communication and cyberspace technologies development headquarter.