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The unicorn club is a startup community not quoted on the Stock Market with a total revenue of over 1 billion dollars in the last exercise.
The amount of startups has increased since the beginning of the project, reaching 78 in January 2014.
According to the Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones Venture Source the majority of these companies is based in the USA, whereas Asia follows up in the distance with 17 startups and Europe is last with a lame number of 7 corporations.
Are we facing a new bubble?
Here we have a wide variety of arguments. It is obvious that many members of this exclusive group will fall apart in the next few years, but maybe some other ones will end up with a commercial value of 2, 3 or even 100 times of their current value. This means that investors find extremely attractive to put effort on them even being aware of the risks involved in the process.
Sometimes it looks like a pure kids’ board game, where commissions and speculation on every action are a must. At this point the good ol’ Goldman Sachs arrives, being able to sell the frozen hell to the very same Devil.
| Company | Latest Valuation | Total Equity Funding | Last Valuation |
| Xiaomi | $46.0 billion | $1.4 billion | December 2014 |
| Uber | $41.2 billion | $2.8 billion | December 2014 |
| Palantir | $15.0 billion | $1.0 billion | September 2014 |
| Snapchat | $15.0 billion | $815 million | March 2015 |
| SpaceX | $12.0 billion | $1.1 billion | January 2015 |
| Flipkart | $11.0 billion | $2.5 billion | November 2014 |
| Airbnb | $10.0 billion | $800 million | April 2014 |
| Dropbox | $10.0 billion | $607 million | January 2014 |
| Theranos | $9.0 billion | $400 million | June 2014 |
| Meituan | $7.0 billion | $1.1 billion | January 2015 |
| Square | $6.0 billion | $495 million | August 2014 |
| $5.0 billion | $764 million | 01/05/14 | |
| WeWork | $5.0 billion | $569 million | December 2014 |
| Cloudera | $4.1 billion | $670 million | March 2014 |
| Spotify | $4.0 billion | $521 million | November 2013 |
| Stripe | $3.5 billion | $190 million | December 2014 |
| Didi Dache | $3.5 billion | $828 million | December 2013 |
| Jawbone | $3.3 billion | $531 million | February 2014 |
| Fanatics | $3.1 billion | $320 million | June 2012 |
| VANCL | $3.0 billion | $512 million | December 2011 |
| Legendary Entertainment | $3.0 billion | $900 million | September 2014 |
| Pure Storage | $3.0 billion | $470 million | April 2014 |
| Moderna | $3.0 billion | $675 million | January 2015 |
| Bloom Energy | $2.9 billion | $1.2 billion | September 2011 |
| Kuaidi Dache | $2.8 billion | $880 million | January 2015 |
| Powa | $2.7 billion | $156 million | November 2014 |
| InMobi | $2.5 billion | $216 million | December 2014 |
| Lyft | $2.5 billion | $860 million | March 2015 |
| Houzz | $2.3 billion | $215 million | October 2014 |
| Dianping | $2.0 billion | $569 million | February 2014 |
| trendy Group | $2.0 billion | $200 million | February 2012 |
| Nutanix | $2.0 billion | $312 million | August 2014 |
| Magic Leap | $2.0 billion | $592 million | October 2014 |
| Snapdeal | $2.0 billion | $1.0 billion | October 2014 |
| Coupang | $2.0 billion | $418 million | December 2014 |
| Instacart | $2.0 billion | $275 million | December 2014 |
| Delivery Hero | $1.9 billion | $1.2 billion | February 2015 |
| Intarcia Therapeutics | $1.8 billion | $598 million | March 2014 |
| MongoDB | $1.6 billion | $311 million | December 2014 |
| DocuSign | $1.6 billion | $237 million | March 2014 |
| Adyen | $1.5 billion | $500 million | December 2014 |
| Koudai Shopping | $1.4 billion | $364 million | October 2014 |
| Jasper Technologies | $1.4 billion | $204 million | April 2014 |
| Deem | $1.4 billion | $474 million | September 2011 |
| Social Finance | $1.3 billion | $399 million | February 2015 |
| Sunrun | $1.3 billion | $295 million | March 2014 |
| AppNexus | $1.2 billion | $251 million | August 2014 |
| Automattic | $1.2 billion | $190 million | 01/05/14 |
| Gilt Groupe | $1.1 billion | $275 million | April 2011 |
| Slack | $1.1 billion | $180 million | October 2014 |
| Actifio | $1.1 billion | $208 million | March 2014 |
| Proteus Digital Health | $1.1 billion | $354 million | June 2014 |
| AppDynamics | $1.1 billion | $177 million | July 2014 |
| IronSource | $1.1 billion | $103 million | August 2014 |
| Nextdoor | $1.1 billion | $215 million | March 2015 |
| Home24 | $1.0 billion | $20 million | December 2014 |
| Yello Mobile | $1.0 billion | $112 million | December 2014 |
| CloudFlare | $1.0 billion | $72 million | December 2012 |
| Evernote | $1.0 billion | $302 million | 01/05/12 |
| Good Technology | $1.0 billion | $388 million | April 2013 |
| Eventbrite | $1.0 billion | $200 million | March 2014 |
| Tango | $1.0 billion | $367 million | March 2014 |
| InsideSales.com | $1.0 billion | $139 million | April 2014 |
| Mogujie | $1.0 billion | $200 million | June 2014 |
| Kabam | $1.0 billion | $245 million | August 2014 |
| Lookout | $1.0 billion | $284 million | August 2014 |
| JustFab | $1.0 billion | $250 million | August 2014 |
| Honest Co. | $1.0 billion | $122 million | August 2014 |
| Credit Karma | $1.0 billion | $194 million | March 2014 |
| Qualtrics | $1.0 billion | $220 million | September 2014 |
| Razer | $1.0 billion | $50 million | October 2014 |
| Shopify | $1.0 billion | $122 million | December 2013 |
| Ola Cabs | $1.0 billion | $277 million | October 2014 |
| Shazam | $1.0 billion | $170 million | January 2015 |
| Beibei | $1.0 billion | $124 million | January 2015 |
| Grabtaxi | $1.0 billion | $340 million | December 2014 |
| SimpliVity | $1.0 billion | $276 million | March 2015 |
| Farfetch | $1.0 billion | $195 million | March 2015 |
*1 USA billion equals 1.000 European millions.
Besides the ones we find in psychedelic raves, we still have not seen any unicorns around in Spain, which should make us think whether things are being done correctly or not, both from a private and public point of view: Obviously NOT.