TEHRAN – A startup event on marine apps will be held on the sidelines of the 4th national exhibition of maritime technological achievements, IRNA reported.

The event will be held from October 23 to 25 at the Sacred Defense Garden Museum in Tehran.

Sponsored by the science and technology vice presidency, the event aims to attract capital for startups active in the field of marine innovation.

The investors will hold meetings with startups in order to support them during the event.

Startups can apply for registration through logging to website www.irandarya.com until October 11.

As Startup Wharf, the first Accelerator specific to the Maritime sector, wrote on its website, maritime was dubbed by TechCrunch as the hidden Trillion Dollar sector, with huge opportunities to improve and disrupt the current business models with digital technologies.

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