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> one of our few “unicorns”

“There are currently 37 private $1b+ businesses headquartered in the UK—a further 14 have exited, whilst 2 are no longer active

13 UK companies became unicorns in H1 2021—the largest concentration of new unicorns to date”

from: https://www.beauhurst.com/research/unicorn-companies/




True and really it’s not a Unicorn as it’s been public before.

You inspired me to have a look at how many “Unicorns” are in the US for comparison. Depending on source it’s between about 400-480 in the US. So about 12x as many with about 4.8x the population.


Or about 12x as many with 11x GDP.


A lot of these seem to be consumer retail, e-commerce or housing related which says a lot about the UK economic landscape. Hardly the kind of company ARM would want to be swimming amongst.




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