What does unicorn company mean?

Unicorn company generally refers to the name of a company with a valuation of more than $6,543.8 million and a relatively short establishment time in the investment community.

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20 13 Aileen Lee, a well-known American cowboy venture capitalist, classified startups whose private and open market valuations exceeded $ 10 billion, calling them "unicorns". Then the word quickly became popular in Silicon Valley and appeared on the cover of Fortune.

When Li Faming introduced the concept of unicorn, she described a specific historical situation. From 2003 to 20 13, only 39 companies stood out from more than 60,000 competitors and achieved a valuation of $654.38 billion.

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With the rapid development of the Internet, there are more and more unicorn enterprises in recent years. According to the global unicorn list released by CB Insights, the number of unicorn enterprises in China has reached 62, second only to 1 13 in the United States, and far higher than Britain and India in the third and fourth places.

From the perspective of industry distribution, unicorn enterprises in China and the United States are concentrated in the fields of Internet and e-commerce, which also shows the similarities between the two major economies in these two fields. This is also inseparable from our investment in high-tech development and relatively loose political support in recent years. Of course, the emergence of a large number of innovative talents is inseparable from the entrepreneurial craze.

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