WORLD OF FORBES

Across the planet, our 47 licensed editions span six continents, 78 countries and 30 languages. They all share the same mission: celebrating entrepreneurial capitalism in all its forms.

- BY KERRY A. DOLAN

BELGIUM

Keyrock, a cryptocurrency investment firm, raised new funding in March from investors including U.K. bank Standard Chartered’s venture capital arm and U.S.-based crypto firm Ripple, valuing the Brussels-based company at $1.1 billion—and making it Belgium’s eighth unicorn, Forbes Belgium reports. Former strategy consultant Kevin de Patoul, the CEO (below right), cofounded Keyrock in 2017 with two partners. As a market maker, Keyrock buys and sells cryptocurrencies in large quantities, earning money from the spread as well as providing liquidity. Keyrock has operations in seven countries including the U.K., Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the U.S.

ARGENTINA

Latin America’s biggest YouTuber, with 115 million subscribers, is 29-year-old Alejo Igoa, Forbes Argentina notes. From a small town in northeast Argentina, Igoa started making money at age 13 by setting up websites and selling logo designs. Today the college dropout oversees a team of 40 people in Panama who churn out silly, family-friendly videos ranging from making Minecraft characters from Lego-like Minecraft cubes to filming a 20-something crew’s antics during 24 hours on a remote island. Igoa doesn’t disclose his YouTube earnings but says he prefers it to other social media channels partly because of the monetization.

AUSTRIA

“My father said the only misfortune he had in life was having only two daughters. But it was a stroke of luck for the two daughters, who otherwise wouldn’t have been integrated into the company.”

—Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner, 76, explaining to