590 unicorns globally, with the majority based in the United States and China.
As of April 2023, ByteDance, the Chinese tech company which owns TikTok, was valued at about 200 billion U.S. dollars, which made it the highest valued unicorn globally. A unicorn is a privately held company with a market valuation of one billion U.S. dollars or more. As of 2021, there were over Leading unicorns worldwide as of April 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)
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Key markets
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Equity funding
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- Premium Statistic Unicorn equity funding volume worldwide as of January 2020, by region
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Exits
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Leading unicorns worldwide as of April 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], Hurun Research Institute, April 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/407888/ranking-of-highest-valued-startup-companies-worldwide/