Mazzaneh 
Document-backed
ALPHA package economics
The original page's strongest financial visual is retained because it directly shows the package and discount structure.
Lisbon 2025 · strongest documented cycle
Keep the strong parts. Tighten the claims.
The original festival page already contained useful material. The core Web Summit record stays; only language that overstated what the program “validated” has been narrowed to what the documents directly support.
Selection
ALPHA startup programme
Mazzaneh entered Web Summit Lisbon 2025 through the ALPHA startup path. The paid invoice and later Startup Success correspondence tie the programme record directly to Mohammad Rahimi / Mazzaneh.
Package
€9,950 → €995
The existing package screenshot records a €9,950 ALPHA Startup Package with an €8,955 discount and €995 subtotal. A separate Web Summit invoice records the €995 amount as paid in full.
Exhibition
Board confirmed and printed
Startup Success confirmed that Mazzaneh's exhibition board had been completed and sent to print, with exhibition-day and venue details to follow.
Representation
Iran flag-carrier selection
Web Summit selected the startup to represent Iran (Islamic Republic of) in the opening-night flag ceremony. The opportunity was explicitly limited to one person per startup.
Public evidence layer
Show enough to verify the signal—without publishing the inbox.
The page keeps the strongest first-party visuals from the earlier version, with unnecessary identifiers removed. Full correspondence remains better suited to controlled review.
Document-backed
Country-representation opportunity
The existing flag-carrier visual stays because it states the selection directly. Recipient header information has been removed from the public image.
Correspondence-backed
Exhibition preparation completed
Web Summit's Startup Success team later confirmed that Mazzaneh's exhibition board was complete and had been sent to print. This is stronger and more precise than simply saying the company was “invited.”
Other Phase 1 program signals
Keep them in the record—at the right evidence level.
The existing festival corpus also records Slush and WSA recognition. They remain useful Phase 1 context, but Web Summit is currently the best document-backed public sequence in this page.
Slush
Slush 100 — historical recognition record
The existing MZN corpus records a 2025 Slush 100 selection. Keep it as a Phase 1 external-program signal; move its underlying primary artifact into the same public/controlled evidence format when reviewed.
WSA
World Summit Awards — historical recognition record
The existing MZN corpus records a 2025 WSA national-nominee signal. It belongs beside the other Mazzaneh-era program responses, not as validation of the later Phase 2 portfolio.
Evidence discipline: “external recognition” here means an outside program made a selection, invitation, nomination or follow-up decision. It does not mean the program independently verified every product metric or later MZN claim.
After Lisbon · continued Web Summit contact
The relationship continued. Attendance still did not.
Later Qatar and Lisbon correspondence is useful because it shows that the event path did not simply disappear; at the same time, the documents do not justify turning every follow-up into an “acceptance.”
December 2025 · Qatar 2026
Application entered review and the startup team followed up
Web Summit Qatar acknowledged the startup-program application and described a conversation as the next selection step. Ricardo Lima, Head of Startups, then followed up twice to discuss the company's plans and the Qatar experience. The public claim should therefore be “active application and organizer follow-up,” not “Qatar acceptance,” unless a separate acceptance record is produced.
May 2026 · Lisbon 2026
MZN asked how a phase-separated, one-person-formation case should be presented
Mohammad wrote to Web Summit explaining the distinction between Mazzaneh Phase 1 and a broader Phase 2 AI-native asset/IP portfolio, and asked whether to enter with a specific product or the broader MZN structure. This contemporaneously records that the fit with standard event routes was not obvious.
July 2026 · Lisbon 2026
The conversation shifted from repeating Mazzaneh to presenting the evolved structure
In later correspondence, MZN proposed MZN as parent, Zoyan as the Phase 3 direction, Mazzaneh as Phase 1 execution evidence, and the Phase 2 portfolio as the underlying architecture/IP layer. Web Summit's João Bandeira replied that a new assessment would be needed only if the previously submitted product had changed, that product branding should be used, that PITCH and investor-to-startup routes were available, and that an updated overview could be sent for review.
Why the pause
Formation took priority over visibility
Physical attendance in the earlier cycle did not happen. Later founder correspondence records travel/attendance constraints around 2025; in parallel, the founder chose to prioritize Phase 2 formation rather than continue accumulating festival appearances while the one-person AI-native work and its presentation boundary were still being formed.
OPU boundary: the festival pause can provide historical context, but festival selection, non-attendance, future attendance and event networking are not evidence for or against the bounded Phase 2 One-Person Unicorn provenance claim.
Next chapter · living event log
From recognition without attendance
to the first intended in-person cycle.
With Phase 2 formation substantially complete and the three phases now easier to present separately, MZN intends to resume international event participation from around September 2026. The initial focus is expected to include selected UAE- and Türkiye-region events, including GITEX-related routes where registration, selection and logistics are confirmed. This is a visibility, product, partnership and commercialization path—not an OPU proof exercise.
Phase 1
Present Mazzaneh clearly
Show the operating product, its modular architecture, market learning and the historical external-recognition record.
Selected Phase 2
Present what was built afterward
Introduce selected technical products/assets where they are ready for public presentation or controlled partner review.
Phase 3
Move into partners and commercialization
Use events for real conversations around validation, integration, partnership, licensing and operating pathways.
Live sectionPlannedAppliedSelectedAttendingPresented
Update policy: this section should be updated event-by-event. Until an event is actually registered, selected or confirmed, it remains labeled as intended/targeted rather than presented as completed participation.