According to CB Insights’ unicorn tracker, unicorns have raised a combined total of nearly $257 billion. Data by startup and venture capital intelligence firm show a total of 310 private companies around the world valued at more than $1 billion as of January 2019. Last year, 112 new companies joined the global unicorn club, a 58% increase from the 71 new unicorns in 2017. CB Insights The collective worth of all unicorns currently identified by CB Insights — and published in a new infographic under 13 categories — is $1,052 billion. They have raised a combined total of nearly $257 billion. Credits: CB Insights The top 10 unicorns by market value are: Bytedance (valued at $75 billion) ($72 billion) Uber Didi Chuxing ($56 billion) ($47 billion) WeWork Airbnb ($29.3 billion) SpaceX ($21.5 billion) and ($20 billion) Palantir Stripe Juul Labs and Epic Games ($15 billion) Pinterest, Bitmain Technologies, and Samumed ($12 billion) , GrabTaxi, and Global Switch ($11 billion) Lyft In terms of countries represented in the list, most of the unicorns come from: 🇺🇸 United States with 150 unicorns, or 49% of the total — up 2 percentage points since August 2018; 🇨🇳 China (84, including 1 in Hong Kong), or 26% — down from 30% last summer; 🇪🇺 33 in the European Union (🇬🇧 16 in the UK, or 6%; 🇩🇪 9 in Germany; 🇫🇷 2 in France; 1 each in 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden); 🇮🇳 14 in India, or 4% The largest unicorns by valuation in each region are: 🇨🇳 Bytedance in China (valued at $75 billion); 🇺🇸 in the US ($72 billion); Uber 🇸🇬 GrabTaxi in Singapore and 🇬🇧 Global Switch in the UK (both valued at $11 billion); 🇮🇳 One97 Communications in India ($10 billion); 🇰🇷 Coupang in South Korea ($9 billion); 🇨🇭 Roivant Sciences in Switzerland and 🇮🇩 in Indonesia (both $7 billion). Tokopedia The 10 oldest unicorns are: VANCL (China), a unicorn since December 2010; (US) since May 2011; Palantir Airbnb (US) since July 2011; (Sweden) since December 2011; Klarna Trendy Group International (China) since February 2012; Pinterest (US) since May 2012; Fanatics (US) since June 2012; (US) and SpaceX (US) since December 2012; Cloudflare Mu Sigma (US) since February 2013; Automattic (US) since May 2013.

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