Charting the last 10 years of the unicorn era
Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her ? Only 39. And at the time, nobody could have guessed that more than a thousand private tech companies would eventually reach the coveted $1…
Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her ? Only 39. And at the time, nobody could have guessed that more than a thousand private tech companies would eventually reach the coveted $1 billion valuation tag. Sure, it helped that we’ve since broadened our definition to include startups from around the world instead of focusing on the U.S. market, but still .
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Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her ?
We’ve witnessed an over the last 10 years, until their birth pace dramatically slowed since the second half of 2022. But the numbers are so telling, and the geographical spread so interesting, that we decided to put this into charts, with data from Crunchbase and Dealroom .
Based on reporting by techcrunch.com.