unicorns

The French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy as of this year, Marina Ferrari, revealed this year’s laureates during VivaTech week in Paris. According to its promoters, this fifth…

Gideon Valkin’s solo VC firm Andrena Ventures is raising $12 million from backers, including several VCs and entrepreneurs, and made its first investment into AI startup Nustom.

A new study that zeros-in on the founders of so-called “unicorns” — companies worth over a billion dollars — has found most have “underdog” founders who are often drawn from…

Cowboy Ventures predicts that “given the hard shift to enterprise,” we can “hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years.”

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We’ve witnessed an incredible unicorn stampede over the last 10 years.

From a handful of billion-dollar startups to a stampede to an aging cohort — what an insane, fun, and wild decade it has been.

We asked Latin American investors where they are placing their bets, when they think Brazil’s IPO window might reopen, how to best pitch them, and more.

We should forget the whole unicorn debate and instead ask: How many startups can reach the $100 million revenue mark for a given period?

The majority of unicorns are valued at less than $2 billion, which makes it likely that most won’t keep that status after their next raise.

Given that private equity has been rich for some time, and tech valuations didn’t collapse overnight, why haven’t we seen more Coupa-esque deals in recent quarters? Because capitulation takes time.

If unicorns are not able to raise as much this year as they did in, say, 2019, how many of the billion-dollar-plus startups are going to survive?

Provided that you have a memory longer than the average fish, there’s nothing to be so scared about. Yet.

Unexited unicorns represent one of the largest pools of paper wealth in the world. And the best companies — often also the most valuable — are actually not as overvalued…

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If Instacart, which was able to raise aggressively during the pandemic, is actually worth a fraction of what investors calculated last year, what about other unicorns?

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes there will be 100 French unicorns by 2030. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, 10 homegrown decacorns. But shouldn’t we all dream of centaurs instead?

Zendesk agreed to sell itself to an investor collective for $10.2 billion. An 11-figure sale of any company is notable, but in the case of Zendesk, it’s not for the…

If you feel cloud and software stocks should not trade for less than their historical average, then you have cause to cheer. But is that a valid perspective?

“We’re not a startup, we’re a scaleup.” Why would a tech company say that? Let’s explore.