$1-9M
REVENUE
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Lhamour
Twelve days after opening, thieves stole everything. Khulan caught the thief at the airport herself, survived three floods, built Mongolia's natural beauty export leader
Ulaanbaatar 🇲🇳
Export Ready
Brands with products, packaging, and certifications prepared for international markets.
16 Brands
Cross-Border Now
Export infrastructure means immediate international revenue potential without years of preparation. Certifications, packaging, and systems are already in place—these brands can start generating foreign currency tomorrow.
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Research in Progress
Villa Zvezda
The winemaker incubator: Co-founders later launched Usadba Sarkel (Forbes Top 100) and Vinabani (30+ autochthon varieties).
Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
Belbek
A ceramic artist from Sevastopol planted experimental vines in 2012. Three years later, his Cabernet Sauvignon won Grand Prix as Russia's 'Best Red Wine.'
Fruktovoe village, Belbek River valley 🇷🇺
Dacha Serdyuka
Ten kilometers from where the Krasnostop Zolotovsky grape was born, Sergey Serdyuk makes Russia's only wine without sulfur dioxide.
Kanygin village (vineyards), Novocherkassk (production) 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
Domaine Lipko
A lawyer and Florida-trained golf professional turned winemaker on a Crimean Paleolithic archaeological site.
Sevastopol, Balaklava district, Chernaya River valley 🇷🇺
$25-50M
REVENUE
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SoleRebels
$6,000 on grandmother's land. 100,000 jobs created. Ethiopia's first global fashion brand. Artisan production as competitive moat.
Addis Ababa
$60M+
REVENUE
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SUGAR Cosmetics
Rejected ₹1 crore after two failures. Third startup reached $500M. Solved what L'Oréal overlooked: makeup for India's diverse skin tones.
Mumbai 🇮🇳
$5-15M
REVENUE
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Walk of Shame
Fashion editor turned founder. Dinner party joke became Galeries Lafayette success. Authentic Russian storytelling that sanctions couldn't silence.
Moscow
Research in Progress
Yaila
Russia's first still wine from Pinot Meunier. First orange wines from Kokur. First bourbon barrel aging.
Sevastopol (winery), Gurzuf terroirs (vineyards) 🇷🇺
$60-80M
REVENUE
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Abrau-Durso
In 1870, Tsar Alexander II issued an imperial decree creating what would become Russia's answer to Champagne.
Novorossiysk 🇷🇺
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Derbent Cognac Factory
₽2.7B spirits producer specializing in cognac and brandy, with minor wine production for local Dagestan markets.
Derbent 🇷🇺
$80-100M
REVENUE
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Fanagoria Estate Winery
Russia's largest winery by vineyard area doesn't just grow grapes—it operates a Beijing flagship store, ships 800,000 bottles annually to China, and produces wines scoring 80-97 Robert Parker points from its own cooperage's Old Russian Oak barrels.
Sennoy 🇷🇺
Profiled
Inkerman
Fifty-five thousand square meters of cathedral-like chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain, where ancient stone quarries became Soviet sparkling wine cellars.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Profiled
Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point.
Temryuk 🇷🇺
Profiled
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn—the nobleman who introduced méthode champenoise to Russia—founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars.
Yalta 🇷🇺
$10-20M
REVENUE
Profiled
Vedernikov Winery
A single bottle sold for 750,000 rubles at auction—a record for Russian wine.
Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺
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