Top industries for unicorns in the U.S. 2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 6, 2025

As of 2024, almost more than one in ten unicorns in the United States were SaaS (software as a service) companies. Fintech was second in the ranking of business sectors with the most unicorns, accounting for 11 percent of the total. AI unicorns also made it to the top three, with nine percent of all unicorns in the U.S. being AI companies.

Top industries for unicorns in the United States as of 2024

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April 2024

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United States

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2024

Supplementary notes

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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