Unicorn Startup
It is this rapid rise in the number of Unicorn Startups that has led some to speculate that high investor confidence and rapid increase in the number of unicorns may precede bursting of a speculative bubble.
Fortune Magazine now even maintains a list of Unicorn Startups called the “The Unicorn List”. As of 2015 here is the latest list:
- Xiaomi
- Uber
- Airbnb
- Palantir
- Snapchat
- SpaceX
- Flipkart
- Dropbox
- Theranos
- Didi Dache-Kuaidi Dache
- Spotify
- Meituan
- Square
- WeWork
- Snapdeal
- Zenefits
- Cloudera
- Dianping
- Stripe
- Pure Storage
- Fanatics
- Atlassian
- Jawbone
- Machine Zone
- Bloom Energy
- Moderna Therapeutics
- Vancl
- Legendary Entertainment
- Sogou
- Global Fashion Group
- Slack
- Powa
- Lyft
- Vice Media
- Olacabs
- Houzz
- Nutanix
- Coupang
- Magic Leap
- Instacart
- InMobi
- SurveyMonkey
- Trendy Group
- Mogujie
- Domo
- Delivery Hero
- Prosper Marketplace
- Tanium
- DocuSign
- Intarcia Therapeutics
- MongoDB
- Adyen
- LivingSocial
- IronSource
- Tango
- InsideSales
- Oscar
- Deem
- Koudai Shopping
- Jasper Technologies
- Sunrun
- Evernote
- Lynda
- Social Finance (SoFi)
- Lazada
- Actifio
- Automattic
- AppNexus
- Infinidat
- Sprinklr
- Warby Parker
- Proteus Digital Health
- Good Technology
- Eventbrite
- MediaMath
- AppDynamics
- JustFab
- Tinder
- Nextdoor
- Twilio
- Shazam
- Lookout
- Pluralsight
- Qualtrics
- Hootsuite
- Credit Karma
- Razer
- Yello Mobile
- GrabTaxi
- CloudFlare
- Kabam
- BeiBei
- Farfetch
- SimpliVity
- Funding Circle
- Docker
- Illumio
- Zomato
- Quikr
Also a new buzzword, “decacorn,” is now used for companies valued over $10 billion, which includes companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Uber.