Report: Initial public offering of startups in Iran and America

In the past months, Iran’s capital market has been booming and has been welcomed by a large number of people. The positive atmosphere in Iran’s capital market has made Iranian startups think about their initial public offering.
IPO is one of the ways of financing and exiting the shareholders of startups. But it should be noted that entering the capital market has its own rules and conditions. In this report, an attempt has been made to answer this question with the help of available statistics from Iranian and foreign technology-oriented companies: “With the positive atmosphere prevailing in the capital market and the initial public offering of a large number of companies, is it the right time for the initial public offering of startups?” ».

This report includes the following:
Advantages and disadvantages of IPO
US initial public offering rules
The statistics of initial public offering of startups in 2018 and 2019 on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq
Laws of IPO in the capital market of Iran
Company stock valuation methods
Financial statistics of technology-oriented companies in Iran’s capital market
Comparison of Iranian startups with similar foreign examples
The opinion of Iranian capital market experts about the initial offering of startup shares

This report was prepared with the cooperation of Iran Technology Development Financial Fund. Iran’s technology development financial fund was established in 1368 with the aim of venture capital investment in innovative projects.

We are grateful to Dr. Babak Tedin and Dr. Peyman Molvi, the consultants of the report, who helped us in preparing this report.