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$4.69M funded
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Applecrumby
Nine years between funding rounds—surviving on margins while competitors burned cash. Now holds the world's first TCF diaper patent.
Petaling Jaya 🇲🇾
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RM10-20M (estimated)
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A Cut Above
A 428-square-foot salon became Malaysia's premier hairstyling academy after an 8-location express chain taught its founder when to cut losses.
Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
Undisclosed
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Ghee Hiang
168 years old, seven years in court. Four families at war nearly destroyed Malaysia's oldest confectionery. Sesame oil—not pastries—now generates 70% of revenue.
George Town, Penang 🇲🇾
$40-50M
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Dezan Shira & Associates
A misspelled surname, $500, and Deng's Southern Tour. Thirty-two years later: 40+ offices, $50M revenue, six crises survived by staying put.
Hong Kong 🇨🇳
$5-10M
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Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreat
Launched during SARS into Shanghai's missing middle. Academy-trained consistency made quality exportable—China's first service brand abroad.
Shanghai 🇨🇳
~USD 1.1-1.8M
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ADA Serviced Office
From 200 sq ft during the 2008 crash to 100,000 sq ft across 7 locations. ISO 9001 certified. VC-backed rivals folded; ADA survived both crises.
Bayan Baru, Penang 🇲🇾
~USD 200M
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Sela
Hebrew name. Israeli design. Chinese production. Russian stores. Boris Ostrobrod disguised "Russian" as "foreign" when domestic meant cheap.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
$1.8M
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ESSE
Igor Samsonov died at 46. Eleven months later, Forbes crowned ESSE Winery of the Year. His quality systems outlived him—Crimea's boldest bet.
Dolinnoe, Crimea 🇷🇺
$1-9M
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Lhamour
Mongolia's first refill station—seven years before Western clean beauty. When consumers can't afford packaging, necessity becomes moat.
Ulaanbaatar 🇲🇳
$5-15M
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Walk of Shame
Provincial Ufa to Paris Fashion Week. Zero ad budget, Instagram-first. 150 stockists at peak—yet founder admits "endless doubts" despite success.
Moscow 🇷🇺
$60M+
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SUGAR Cosmetics
200K Fab Bag subscribers became SUGAR's secret weapon. Failed subscription transformed into intelligence moat L'Oréal can't replicate.
Mumbai, Maharashtra 🇮🇳
$916M
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Perfect Diary
Zero TV ads. Zero magazine spreads. 15,000 KOL partnerships. Perfect Diary proved trust networks beat ad budgets—#1 on Tmall.
Guangzhou, Guangdong 🇨🇳
Profiled Brands
Château André
28 trips to French wine regions over six years—before planting a single vine. Now his daughter manages succession toward 1 million bottles.
Krymsk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Galitskiy & Galitskiy
After building Russia's largest retail chain, Forbes billionaire Sergey Galitskiy gave his son-in-law 49% of a winery—not for profit but legacy.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Elbuzd
A tax office worker borrowed at 24% interest to build Russia's first gravitational winery—and nearly lost everything before 2022 profitability.
Elbuzd, Rostov 🇷🇺
$25-50M
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SoleRebels
$5,000 on grandmother's land. 100,000 jobs created. Ethiopia's first global fashion brand. Artisan production as competitive moat.
Addis Ababa 🇪🇹
Uzunov
Four generations: Soviet workers → Fanagoria Chief Winemaker (35 years) → Russia's first family farm license → both sons involved.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
$5-10M
REVENUE
Lefkadia Valley
How does a Russian winery crack the World's Best Vineyards Top 30? Hire the man who made Château Mouton Rothschild a legend: Patrick Leon.
Moldavanskoe, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
$10-20M
REVENUE
Vedernikov Winery
750,000 rubles for one bottle at auction—a Russian wine record. The grapes? Krasnostop Zolotovsky, grown nowhere else commercially.
Konstantinovsk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Listed Brands
Isa Musaev Winery
'Best sommelier/winemaker of Dagestan' making 5 ultra-premium wines integrated with Caspian wine tourism.
Derbent, Dagestan 🇷🇺
Uppa Winery
Russian winery founded by Pavel Shvets in Krasnodar Krai. Listed brand with CEO verification.
Rodnoye 🇷🇺
Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka, Rostov 🇷🇺
Villa Zvezda
The winemaker incubator: Co-founders later launched Usadba Sarkel (Forbes Top 100) and Vinabani (30+ autochthon varieties).
Malaya Martynovka, Rostov 🇷🇺
Usadba Sarkel
Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.
Sarkel, Rostov 🇷🇺
Marko
Grandfather's 20-year passion project: Stavropol's sixth farm winery with ungrafted Krasnostop vines, named for grandson Mark.
Donskaya Balka, Stavropol 🇷🇺
Krinitsa
French enologist (now Russian citizen) + young Russian winemaker = Double Gold Terravino 2024 winner with gravity-flow facility.
Krinitsa, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Dva Romana
Two friends named Roman (lawyer + engineer) running a 5,000-bottle nano-winery with entirely manual production.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Antonenko Family Winery
Family hobby-to-business transition with two Anapa tasting rooms and full family operational involvement.
Anapa, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Domaine Lipko
A lawyer and Florida-trained golf professional turned winemaker on a Crimean Paleolithic archaeological site.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Dacha Serdyuka
Ten kilometers from where the Krasnostop Zolotovsky grape was born, Sergey Serdyuk makes Russia's only wine without sulfur dioxide.
Novocherkassk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Belbek
Ceramic artist planted vines in 2012. Three years later, Grand Prix as Russia's 'Best Red Wine.' Artisan craft from clay to vine.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Yaila
Crimean natural wine pioneer founded by Vitaliy Marinchuk. Russia's first still Pinot Meunier (2017), pioneered orange wines from Kokur (2018), first bourbon barrel aging. 30,000-50,000 bottles annually, 10-year cult following.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Shumrinka
Decanter World Wine Awards winner combining Serbian Probus grapes, drone monitoring, and traditional handwork at scale.
Gai-Kodzor, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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