List of unicorn startup companies

This is a list of unicorn startup companies. In finance, a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more. Notable lists of unicorn companies are maintained by The Wall Street Journal,^[1] Fortune Magazine,^[2] CNNMoney/CB Insights,^[3][4] TechCrunch,^[5] PitchBook/Morningstar,^[6] and Tech in Asia.^[7]

Table of the number of unicorn startups by country as of October 7, 2022

Country	Number of unicorns	Number of unicorns per million people
US	702	2.12
China	302[14]	0.21
India	113[15]	0.08
UK	49	0.72
France	34[16]	0.5
Germany	29	0.35
Israel	24	2.77
Brazil	24	0.11
Canada	20	0.48
South Korea	16	0.31
Argentina	14	0.31
Singapore	14	2.39
Japan	12	0.09
Indonesia	8	0.03
Australia	8	0.31
Mexico	8	0.06
Poland	8	0.21
Sweden	8	0.76
Hong Kong	7	1.08
Netherlands	7	0.39
Ireland	6	1.17
Switzerland	6	0.68
UAE	6	0.63
Norway	5	0.91
Turkey	5	0.06
Spain	4	0.08
Vietnam	4	0.04
Russia	3	0.02
Belgium	3	0.26
Thailand	3	0.04
Austria	2	0.33
Denmark	2	0.50
Estonia	10	7.54
Lithuania	2	0.70
Philippines	2	0.02
Bangladesh	2	0.01
Bulgaria	1	0.15
Latvia	1[17]	0.53
Finland	1[18]	0.17

Unicorns are concentrated in developed and some developing global regions, including a few dozen countries. As per CB Insights, as of July 13, 2024, the number of unicorn startups in some developed and developing countries were as follows:^[19]

These companies were formerly unicorns, but exited the list due to IPO or acquisitions by a company or by a group of companies: