The world's most valuable private companies are led by a few major players in high-growth sectors. AI research company OpenAI tops the list with a $500B valuation, followed by aerospace manufacturer SpaceX at $400B.
Beyond AI and aerospace, companies in social media and fintech also hold significant value. For example, China's ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is valued at $300B.
Below is the full list of the 25 Most Valuable unicorn startups at this time.
Top 10 Most Valuable Unicorns in the World
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Get the Sheet for $50OpenAI develops advanced AI models and makes them available through various products and platforms. They are the research company behind ChatGPT, a highly capable conversational AI that has seen massive adoption.
| Valuation | $500B (Joined July 2019) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba |
| Funding Amount | $78B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | TPG, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, Sequoia Capital |
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the world's first reusable orbital-class rockets. Their work has dramatically reduced the cost of access to space, with a long-term mission to enable human life on Mars.
| Valuation | $400B (Joined December 2012) |
| Headquarters | Hawthorne, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Founders | Elon Musk |
| Funding Amount | $11.8B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz |
ByteDance builds global content platforms that use machine learning to personalize discovery and creation for users. Their portfolio includes the massively popular short-form video app TikTok, which has become a cultural phenomenon worldwide.
| Valuation | $300B (Joined April 2017) |
| Headquarters | Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Year Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Rubo Liang, Yiming Zhang |
| Funding Amount | $9.5B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Private Equity |
| Top Investors | HSG, New Enterprise Associates, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley |
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. They are known for their AI assistant, Claude, which is designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
| Valuation | $183B (Joined February 2023) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown |
| Funding Amount | $33.7B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, General Atlantic, TPG |
Ant Group operates a vast digital ecosystem that provides financial services to consumers and small businesses, anchored by its world-leading payments platform, Alipay. The company uses its technology to offer everything from wealth management and insurance to credit scoring, aiming to make financial services more inclusive.
| Valuation | $150B |
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | Jack Ma |
| Funding Amount | $28.5B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, BNP Paribas, General Atlantic, Warburg Pincus |
Reliance Retail operates India's largest and fastest-growing retail business, with a vast network of stores ranging from local shops to large-format supermarkets. They offer a diverse portfolio of products through well-known brands in groceries, electronics, and fashion.
| Valuation | $101B |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Year Founded | 2006 |
| Founders | Mukesh Ambani |
| Funding Amount | $8.3B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Private Equity |
| Top Investors | TPG, Silver Lake, GIC, General Atlantic, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority |
Databricks developed the data lakehouse, a platform that unifies a company's data engineering, analytics, and AI workloads. This architecture allows teams to collaborate on a single source of data, accelerating everything from business intelligence reporting to machine learning model development.
| Valuation | $100B (Joined February 2019) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin |
| Funding Amount | $21.8B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Series J |
| Top Investors | NVIDIA, Gaingels, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, Blue Owl |
Stripe develops economic infrastructure and a suite of APIs designed for internet businesses. Their platform is widely used by companies of all sizes to accept payments, manage revenue, and launch new business models online.
| Valuation | $92B (Joined January 2014) |
| Headquarters | South San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2010 |
| Founders | John Collison |
| Funding Amount | $9.4B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst |
Revolut built a financial super app that combines banking services with foreign exchange, money transfers, and spending analytics. Their platform gives users a single place to manage everything from international payments to daily budgeting.
| Valuation | $75B (Joined April 2018) |
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Nikolay Storonsky, Vlad Yatsenko |
| Funding Amount | $1.9B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Undisclosed |
| Top Investors | Bond, Lakestar, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures, Coatue |
Shein operates a global online marketplace for fashion, beauty, and a wide range of lifestyle products. Their on-demand production model has established them as a leader in fast fashion, enabling them to release a constant stream of trendy apparel at low prices.
| Valuation | $66B (Joined July 2018) |
| Headquarters | Singapore, Central Region, Singapore |
| Year Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Chris Xu, Yangtian Xu |
| Funding Amount | $4.1B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Private Equity |
| Top Investors | Tiger Global Management, Mubadala, General Atlantic, IDG Capital, HSG |
The Next 15 Most Valuable Unicorns
The top ten companies only tell part of the story. Many of the other most valuable startups are also working in AI, and together they have raised over $130 billion.
Some are new to the scene, while others have been growing for years. Here’s a look at the rest of the unicorn startups shaping their industries.