These days, startups have attracted a lot of attention at the national and international level because countries need innovation in their businesses to create a dynamic in the economy, startups or businesses can grow and improve. Startups are usually created from big ideas and evolve to achieve success, but startups face many obstacles to success. One of the obstacles that start-ups and new businesses face is choosing a partner at each stage of the business life cycle, so doing this process is not an easy task and in this regard aspects and criteria should be considered. Identifying and analyzing the relationship between partner selection criteria can help to increase the probability of success and continue the path of startups formed in the ecosystem so that the active people in this ecosystem can make smarter decisions. One of the vital factors of partnership, sustainability and transparency are at the highest priority level and therefore more attention should be paid to these matters. To obtain a complementary, interconnected, and integrated view to examine the research topic and also to fill the existing gaps, this research seeks to do the following: The performance and scientific approach of researchers and people active in the ecosystem to express some selection criteria To be analyzed as a partner and investor in new businesses and start-ups.