Currently, the world has 1,229 unicorns, which together are worth around $3.8 trillion — a value comparable to Germany's GDP.Of this list, more than 30% of unicorns are in enterprise technology, followed by financial services with 18% of the total and consumer and retail with 17%.
Recently, the enterprise technology group has seen strong growth. Approximately half of the unicorns born in the last twelve months are in this category, driven by new generative AI players such as 01.AI from China, Krutrim from India and ElevenLabs from the US. All three were founded in the last 2 years.