Where are the Unicorns?
It's fascinating to see the nature and distribution of Unicorns across the globe. Thanks to data from CB Insights I was able to do some quick analysis summarised in the charts below.
What's a unicorn? Well, it's a private company with a valuation of over $1 billion and there are 401 of them in the dataset I used. As you can just under 50% of them are USA HQ companies and 24% are from China. The UK comes in 3rd place with 21 unicorns. The chart below shows the long tail of countries.
Rather than by number what about the value of these unicorns? The pie chart below shows that showing that China's unicorns punch above their weight as do those in India, which pushes the UK into 4th place when you look at valuation.
Perhaps the most interesting is the distribution by sector, where we see a wide range without any dominant sectors. What does this suggest? That disruption is impacting many sectors?
The biggest sector of all "Artificial Intelligence" isn't really a sector. And indeed many of the unicorns in the actual industry sectors have a value proposition and differentiation based on AI. Do you think like us that being an AI-First business matters?
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