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FORBES.COM JUNE 30, 20 19FRONTRUNNERAcross the planet, our 35 licensed
editions span fi ve continents, 28
languages and 24 time zones. They all
share the same mission: celebrating
entrepreneurial capitalism in all its
guises.GEORGIA
Four startups in Indonesia
have a $1 billion valuation
or higher, including
ride-hailing startup Go-
Jek—more unicorns than in
the rest of Southeast Asia
combined.INDONESIA
Doctolib, which makes
soft ware for scheduling
patient appointments,
is the country’s fourth
unicorn aft er a new $170
million funding round in
March.FRANCE
On the cover: LVMH’s
Greater China group
president draws
back the curtain on
the mainland’s most
fashionable city.BRAZIL CHINA
ANGOLA
CYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC
INDIA
Oscar Farinett i, the
Eataly founder, likens a
new venture to a peach.
A project “starts from
the center, from the
core. For example, the
opportunity to off er
high-quality food. And
then you have the skin.
That is the marketing—the
actions that make the
project famous. In the
pulp, there are the ideas,
the experiences that
you want customers to
experience.”GREECE ITALY
Gyula Feher, who sold his
streaming-video startup,
Ustream to IBM for a
reported $150 million, is
working on a new Hungary-
based VC fi rm, Oktogon
Ventures: “Sooner or later
a youngster will come and
surpass the success of
Ustream. I want to be part
of that story, at least on the
bench.”HUNGARY
Morris Kahn’s SpaceIl
nonprofi t wants to explore
the moon. Try, try again:
The billionaire’s fi rst
att empt to get there ended
with his spacecraft ’s failed
landing in April.ISRAEL
Georgia is the world’s
third-largest miner
of cryptocurrency.
“Blockchain... improves
the systems and services
that people around the
world use every day,” says
Valery Vavilov, cofounder
of crypto unicorn Bitfury.ARGENTINA
Sisters Aya and
Mounaz Abdel
Raouf created
Okhtein (“sisters”
in Arabic), a line of
thousand-dollar
accessories
including
handbags inspired
by Egyptian
antiquity. Celebrity
customers include
Beyoncé, Gigi
Hadid and Emma
Watson.EGYPT
WORLD
OFFORBES
Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner’s possible return
to power worries investors
like BlackRock’s Latin
America chief Armando
Senra. Says Senra, “Any
electoral change that
reverses the reforms will
have a negative impact
on Argentina’s economic
recovery.”Aegean, the largest Greek airliner, makes the nation’s
biggest private purchase ever, agreeing to pay $5 billion for
up to 42 new Airbus planes.Three-year-
old delivery
startup
Tupuca is
expanding
beyond the
capital,
Luanda;
its “motor
boys” schlep
everything
from medicine
to restaurant
orders.The country’s 30 Under
30 list includes Kim
Kataguiri, 23, whose Tea
Party-like Free Brazil
Movement helped oust
President Dilma Roussef.Energy billionaire Daniel
Kretinsky is now investing
in retail and media
(French daily Le Monde).Restaurant king Lysandros
Ioannou aggressively
expanded through a 2013
fi nancial crisis, bringing in
U.S. franchises like Pizza
Hut, KFC and Burger King.Indian professionals can
expect a 10% average
raise in 2019. Workers in
tech, car manufacturing
and retail will see some of
the biggest increases.