“2021 Global Unicorns List” released by Byte Beat as the largest unicorn
Changsha Prosperity Select Wenheyou Weiniu on the list
Changsha Evening News, December 20 (all-media reporter Shu Yuanzhen) On the 20th, the Hurun Research Institute released the “2021 Global Unicorn List”, which is the third time that the Hurun Research Institute has released the global unicorn list. The deadline for the valuation calculation of the list is November 30 this year. It lists the global non-listed companies that were established after 2000 and valued at more than 1 billion U.S. dollars.
This time, a total of 1,058 unicorn companies worldwide are on the list. The total value of unicorn companies is 23.7 trillion yuan, and the average age is only 8 years old. ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, has become the world‘s largest unicorn, with a valuation of 2.3 trillion yuan. Ant Group ranked second with a valuation of 1 trillion yuan. SpaceX is valued at 640 billion yuan, rising two places to third, becoming the largest unicorn in the United States.
The list shows that there are 1,058 unicorn companies in the world, an increase of 80% over last year (472 companies). Among them, the United States ranked first with 487, an increase of 254 from last year; China ranked second with 301, an increase of 74 from last year. The United States and China accounted for 74% of the total number of unicorns in the world. 673 unicorns are new to the list, including 347 in the United States and 146 in China. New unicorns on the list include Yuanqi Forest (valued at 95 billion yuan), Didi Cargo (valued at 65 billion yuan) and Weilong (valued at 60 billion yuan).
Which industries have the greatest potential? Half of the world‘s unicorns are companies in the fields of financial technology, software services, e-commerce, artificial intelligence and health technology. Network security and blockchain have entered the top ten industries this year.
Where do unicorns like to set up their headquarters? The reporter noted that 50% of the unicorns in China and the United States are concentrated in the top two cities with the largest number of unicorns: Beijing and Shanghai in China, and San Francisco and New York in the United States. Among them, San Francisco became the most concentrated city of unicorns in the world, with an increase of 83 from last year to 151; Beijing ranked second with 91; New York ranked third with an increase of 52 to 85; Shanghai increased by 24 to 71. Ranked fourth; Shenzhen remained fifth with 32. Six of the top ten cities with the largest number of unicorns are in China and the United States.
The reporter combed and found that among the Chinese companies on the list, there are 3 unicorns headquartered in Changsha. They are the well-known Prosperity Optimal (79, 45 billion yuan), Wenheyou (526, 10 billion yuan). Yuan) and Webull (779 people, 6.5 billion yuan). Public information shows that Xingsheng Optimal is a new Internet retail platform, which is mainly positioned to meet the daily needs of household consumers, including selected products of all categories such as vegetables and fruits. Wenheyou is committed to the study of traditional folk-custom dining culture, digging out local folk snacks, and combining trendy culture to form a “Wenheyou Dining Mode”. Weiniu, founded by the former head of Xiaomi Finance Wang Safety in 2016, belongs to the financial technology industry.
Source: Changsha Evening News
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