Native name | کافه بازار |
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Company type | Private |
Founded | 6 April 2011 |
Founder | Hessam Armandehi, Reza Mohammadi |
Headquarters | |
Key people | Shahab Khodabakhsh (CEO) |
Total equity | €380 million |
Website | cafebazaar |
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]