For Founders
You will not build alone
A cohort of peers, a mentor who stays with you, a curriculum that covers the parts nobody taught you, and warm introductions when you are ready for them.
Most founders fail in private. They hit the problem nobody warned them about, they do not know who to ask, and by the time it is visible from the outside it has already cost them a year. The isolation is not a side effect of building a company. For a lot of Iranian and diaspora founders, it is the main obstacle.
The program is built against exactly that. You come in with a cohort, not alone. You are paired with a mentor who knows your company by name and stays with you through the whole thing. And when you need an introduction to an investor, a partner, or your first engineer, it comes from someone inside the flock rather than a cold email.
You do not need a deck, a co founder, or revenue to apply. You need to be building something and to be willing to be helped.
What you get
- A batch of founders going through the same thing at the same time
- One dedicated mentor from the diaspora, for the whole journey
- Structured education across fundamentals, product, fundraising, and go to market
- Warm access to investors and talent inside the flock
What we ask
Show up for your cohort the way you want them to show up for you, and stay reachable for your mentor. That is genuinely it. Simorgh does not take equity.
Before you ask
You will not build alone.
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The other four doors
You may be more than one of these, and plenty of people are.