Across the planet, our 45 licensed editions span six continents, 27 languages and 14 time zones. They all share the same mission: celebrating entrepreneurial capitalism in all its forms.

As the share price of logistics software firm WiseTech Global steadily rose to a record high $55 in June, so did the fortune of cofounder and CEO Richard White. The Sydney billionaire’s net worth has increased fivefold since 2020, to $5.5 billion.

In 2021 Brazilian Flávia Montebeller founded Mboom, a company that develops makeup lines for influencers. After launching collaborations with two of Brazil’s social media stars, she expects to bring in some $33 million in revenue this year.

“I have always believed that I can achieve anything. My dreams were big, and owning my own business was the only way to achieve such a scale.”

In December, HIF Global opened its first “eFuels” plant in Chile, using wind power to generate carbon-neutral fuels such as green hydrogen. Chief operating officer Clara Bowman says the company plans to build two larger plants in Texas and Tasmania starting next year.

Forbes Colombia highlights the country’s ten highest-billing law firms. In 2022, collectively the firms helped finalize merger-and-acquisition deals worth more than $6.4 billion, about 2% of Colombia’s GDP.

As Costa Rica sees rapid growth in its digital tech workforce—adding 13% more jobs each year—Marianela Núñez sees great opportunity for women in STEM. She is rector of the Latin American University of Science and Technology, whose engineering student body is now 55% women.

Model Pavlína Němcová fronts Forbes Czech’s list of the country’s most influential women, while widowed billionaire Renáta Kellnerová tops the ranking. Němcová has returned home after 30 years in France; she runs a jewelry line and a beauty salon in Prague.

Forbes Ecuador planned to profile Santiago Gangotena Gonzáles, cofounder of the country’s first private university. He died in a bus accident a week before his interview. Nine of his friends, colleagues and family members remember him as an entrepreneur, academic, artist and spiritual leader.

To boost the Egyptian economy, Rami El-Dokany, executive chairman of the Egyptian Exchange, the country’s stock exchange, is discussing attracting private companies by easing dividend tax rates, facilitating permit procedures and moving toward digitization.

Entrepreneur Anthony Bourbon, 35, recently launched Paris-based Blast.Club to democratize venture capital and support French founders. Anyone can join, investing as little as €1,000 (less than $1,100). About 3,500 members have signed on, raising a total of $109 million.

Diana Kiguradze, Visa’s regional manager in Georgia and Armenia, is pushing for a cashless economy. While navigating the war in Ukraine and the pandemic, she has propelled contactless payment and business-to-business global transfers in the region.

In 1993, Nikolas Tsakos founded Athens-based Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited. The shipping company, which he took public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2002, had $860 million in revenue and record profits of $204 million in 2022.

At age 15, Kevin Diller began selling mobile phone cases made in China. Seven years later, his Mobilfox business manufactures in southwestern Hungary. Sales last year exceeded $13 million. The brand focuses its marketing on TikTok, where it counts more than 760,000 followers.

Tesla is the latest company eyeing a manufacturing facility in India. After months of uncertainty, senior officials of the electric vehicle maker reportedly met with government officials in New Delhi in May to discuss the possibility of a factory in the country.

In a little over a decade, Israeli brothers Eyal (left) and Idan Ofer tripled the value of their $10 billion inheritance. They’re worth about $20 billion and $14 billion, respectively, after expanding beyond shipping into energy, tech, real estate, sports and more.

In April, Italy’s association of investment advisory firms elected a new president, Massimo Doris, a billionaire banker who took over his father’s Milan-based Banca Mediolanum in 2008. The publicly listed firm, dating to 1982, manages close to $120 billion in assets.

Next year, Kankoro Ueshima will open a new art exhibit in Tokyo. The Japanese businessman, who started his collection in 2022, has already acquired more than 600 contemporary works from artists including Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and Banksy.

Forbes Kazakhstan ranks Farrukh Makhmudov as the country’s 22nd-richest businessman, worth $385 million. With his brother, he owns holding company Orbis Group, which recorded $1.2 billion in sales last year. Its automotive arm includes production of KIA vehicles, as well as sales of Hino trucks.

Forbes Africa profiles entrepreneurs who are improving the continent’s agricultural productivity. Some 26,000 farmers use sensors and software from UjuziKilimo, a Kenyan startup cofounded by Brian Bosire (far left), which analyzes soil and recommends the highest-yield crops and fertilizers.

Forbes Mexico presents some of the country’s most influential economists, including Jonathan Heath, deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico; Gabriela Siller Pagaza, director of economic analysis at BASE Financial Group; and Gabriel Casillas, chief economist for Latin America at Barclays.

In 2021, Peruvian José Miguel Noblecilla and Brazilian Victor Bernardino cofounded Arado (formerly called Clicampo), an agricultural marketplace that serves as a middleman between farmers and the food service industry. The outcome: higher profits, cheaper products and reduced waste.

In its issue focused on the most valuable AI startups, Forbes Poland features Miron Mironiuk, Polish founder of Singapore-based Cosmose AI. Valued by private investors at $500 million, the company compiles shoppers’ location data and browsing habits to recommend products from clients such as L’Oréal and Estée Lauder.

Forbes Portugal highlights the 50 most powerful Portuguese businesswomen. Featured on the cover (front center) is the youngest of the bunch: 29-year-old Francisca Albarran-Bonde, vice president of the investment banking division of Bank of America.

Forbes Afrique profiles the world’s most-followed TikToker, Khaby Lame, a 23-year-old content creator born in Senegal and raised in Italy. His silent video sketches rely on gestures and facial expressions to entertain 160 million subscribers regardless of the language they speak.

Forbes Slovakia features Maspoma, one of the top family businesses in the country and the largest producer and distributor of spices in the area. This year, the company expanded into the Balkans and the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Woongjin Group, a Seoul-based conglomerate founded in the 1980s, is on the rebound after falling into court receivership a decade ago and halving its number of subsidiaries—which ranged from food to education to small appliance rentals. Second-generation exec Sae-Bom Yoon saw revenue rise about 8% each of the past three years to $789 million in 2022.

Countries all over Western Europe, including Spain, are experimenting with a four-day workweek. Some Spanish companies claim the trial has boosted productivity and employee happiness while maintaining sales growth.

Alisha Lehmann, a forward for the Swiss national soccer team, is competing in the World Cup this summer. Her 22 million–plus Instagram and TikTok followers make her Switzerland’s most-followed athlete.

Pablo Bocchi turned around Uruguay-based Berkes, increasing turnover from $1 million to $200 million in 25 years. The company, which has energy, construction and electrical branches, just signed three new contracts for more than $100 million in South America and Europe.

Forbes Vietnam reports that combined revenue and after-tax profit of the country’s 50 largest public companies rose 25% and 18%, respectively, in 2022. Le Ngoc Lam heads the second-largest bank, Hanoi-based BIDV, which saw revenue rise 11% to $6 billion.