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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 🇲🇾
Premium Positioning
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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 🇲🇾
<$10M
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Unhasu
UN sanctions banned chemical imports. Unhasu pivoted to indigenous ingredients in weeks—6x production growth, 13x export surge by 2023.
Pyongyang 🇰🇵
$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 🇲🇳
$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 🇮🇳
$60-80M
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Abrau-Durso
When 2022 sanctions shut Western markets, Abrau-Durso tripled China sales in 90 days—152 years of heritage opening doors startups can't.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Profiled Brands
Usadba Mezyb
The Russian Orthodox Church spent eight years preparing to make wine. Their winemaker won 'Winemaker of the Year' 2024 after just three vintages.
Gelendzhik, 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 🇷🇺
$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
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Vedernikov Winery
750,000 rubles for one bottle at auction—a Russian wine record. The grapes? Krasnostop Zolotovsky, grown nowhere else commercially.
Konstantinovsk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Myskhako
One year before Abrau-Durso existed, Fyodor Geyduk founded Myskhako in 1869. After 156 years of political transitions, 2021 capital revived it.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Novyi Svet
Russia's champagne birthplace. Prince Golitsyn carved cellars into coastal cliffs in 1878—tunnels that supplied tsars and outlasted regimes.
Sudak, Crimea 🇷🇺
Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point. Russia's largest producer runs a dual-brand playbook.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars. Seven tunnels now preserve over a million bottles dating to the 18th century.
Yalta, Crimea 🇷🇺
$80-100M
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Fanagoria Estate Winery
Russia's largest winery ships 800,000 bottles to China yearly—scoring up to 97 Parker points from its own cooperage's Russian Oak.
Sennoy, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Listed Brands
Usadba Sarkel
Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.
Sarkel, Rostov 🇷🇺
Skalisty Bereg
ArchDaily Building of the Year 2021 finalist: Architectural landmark gravity-flow winery with 2022 debut vintage.
Varvarovka, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Shumrinka
Decanter World Wine Awards winner combining Serbian Probus grapes, drone monitoring, and traditional handwork at scale.
Gai-Kodzor, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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