As of February 2025, the Indian telecommunications company Reliance Jio had the largest equity funding of any unicorn company worldwide, having raised 20 billion U.S. dollars in total. Second in the list was the Chinese Ant Group, with 19 billion U.S. dollars, followed by OpenAI with 18 billion U.S. dollars.
Leading unicorns worldwide as of February 2025, by equity funding value
(in billion U.S. dollars)
A unicorn company is a privately owned startup that has a current valuation of one billion USD 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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CrunchBase. (February 12, 2025). Leading unicorns worldwide as of February 2025, by equity funding value (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 04, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1559929/highest-volume-equity-funding-unicorns-worldwide/
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