In 2003 Kocharli opened her first bookstore on fountain square in downtown Baku. She christened her first store Ali & Nino after the popular classic Azerbaijani novel, about a romance between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku during the years 1918–1920.

Robakidze’s platform to create straightforward and clear API documentation became extremely popular and so she teamed up with fellow Georgian Maria Doliashvili to start Theneo.

TajRupt was the first NGO from Central Asia to receive financial backing from the European Endowment for Democracy. In 2018 Azimi’s success as a social entrepreneur was recognised by Forbes who included him in their annual ’30 under 30’ list, he is the first ever Tajik to receive the honour.

In June 2019 Codify LMS was founded as a socially oriented IT company with three divisions: Codify Academy, Codify Consulting and Codify Solutions. For Ruslan it is important to create projects in the social sphere.

In 2009, with the support of an angel investor, Zafar Hoshimov, founder of one of Uzbekistan’s biggest supermarket chains, Paiziev’s company became the first in Uzbekistan to receive a mapping licence.

Buta Art & Sweets, founded in 2017, addresses social exclusion by empowering women with special needs through training programmes which provide them with an additional income.

SupportYourApp started as a 3-people operation, but today it has over 1,000 people on the team around the world and 200 customers.

Zaure Rozmat’s goal for The Steppe is to focus on education, technology, cultural economics, and tourism, while avoiding gossip, tabloids, and clickbait. The Steppe was one of the first media outlets to utilise native advertising in Kazakhstan.

Krivenko achieved incredible success by focusing his supermarket chain on healthy and responsibly sourced products, as well as local producers. With more than 1,000 stores across Russia, the chain is now among the top-10 food retailers and continues to expand rapidly.

Production at the factory in Ditsi was delayed for a year and a half as the boundary line between Georgian-controlled territory and the breakaway region of South Ossetia runs through the village.