Cafe Bazaar

Cafe Bazaar
Native name
کافه بازار
Company typePrivate
Founded6 April 2011
FounderHessam Armandehi, Reza Mohammadi
Headquarters
Key people
Shahab Khodabakhsh (CEO)
Total equity€380 million
Websitecafebazaar.ir

Cafe Bazaar (Persian: کافه بازار) is an Iranian app store for the Android operating system, founded in April 2011 by Reza Mohammadi and Hessam Armandehi. Cafe Bazaar tailors its services specifically towards Persian-speaking users[1] and offers more than 25,000 downloadable Iranian and international apps for gaming, social media, messaging and other uses.[2]

In April 2019 Cafe Bazaar announced it has surpassed 40 million users.[2] It gets roughly 20 million visits a week within Iran[3] and its value is estimated at €380 million.[4]

Cafe Bazaar is by far the most popular app store among Iranians, controlling 97%[5] of the market. Cafe Bazaar is owned by Hezardastan Information Technology Development Group which also operates Divar (lit. The Wall), a popular online classified ad service similar to Craigslist.[6] According to an April 2018 report,[7] Cafe Bazaar has 36 million users, with 29 million using the platform every month and 5.3 million using it every day. In 2017, Cafe Bazaar participated in t event in Barcelona, the world's largest mobile gathering, to introduce Iran's local mobile ecosystem resulting in many new partnerships.[8]

  1. ^ "About Us". Cafebazaar.ir. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Iranian Android Market Records 40 Million Active Users". Financial Tribune. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Technology Startups Take Root in Tehran". Wall Street Journal. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ^ Amos, Deborah (25 October 2014). "Iranian Entrepreneurs Make Pitches That Are Just Practice, For Now : Parallels". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  5. ^ "How developers can make money in Iran's app market?". AzerNews.az. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  6. ^ Jozi, Alireza (23 August 2016). "Cafe Bazaar and Divar Expand to Afghanistan". TechRasa. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Cafe Bazaar Annual Report" (PDF). Cafe Bazaar. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  8. ^ Azali, MohammadReza (3 March 2017). "Cafe Bazaar Introduces Iran's Local Mobile Ecosystem at MWC". TechRasa. Retrieved 11 March 2019.

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