1) We found 39 companies belong to what we call the “Unicorn Club”
(by our definition, U.S.-based software companies started since
2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market
investors). That’s about .07 percent of venture-backed consumer
and enterprise software startups.
2) On average, four unicorns were born per year in the past
decade, with Facebook being the breakout “super-unicorn”
(worth >$100 billion). In each recent decade, 1-3 super
unicorns have been born.
