globally. In the world of venture capital, unicorns are private companies that are valued at one billion U.S. dollars or over. If that company subsequently goes public (IPO) or is acquired, it is no longer referred to as a unicorn. When a unicorn company does one of these two things, it is called an exit.
The largest unicorn exit in the United States as of July 2021 involved the IPO of Facebook in 2012, with a valuation at the point of IPO of 104 billion U.S. dollars. Facebook was the second largest exit of a unicorn Largest unicorn exits in the United States as of July 2021, by value at point of exit (in billion U.S. dollars)
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