As of 2023, unicorns active in the industries of fintech and software-as-a-service (SaaS), and AI accounted for approximately 33 percent of all unicorn companies worldwide.
Industries with the highest share of unicorns worldwide as of 2023
A unicorn company is a privately owned startup that has a current valuation of one billion U.S. dollars or over. Once a company has gone public (IPO) or has been acquired it is no longer termed as a unicorn.
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