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The 25 Most Valuable Unicorn Startups Worldwide (2026)

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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.

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OpenAI 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)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersAndrej 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 SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsTPG, 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)
HeadquartersHawthorne, California, United States
Year Founded2002
FoundersElon Musk
Funding Amount$11.8B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsSequoia 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)
HeadquartersBeijing, Beijing, China
Year Founded2012
FoundersRubo Liang, Yiming Zhang
Funding Amount$9.5B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusPrivate Equity
Top InvestorsHSG, 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)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersDaniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown
Funding Amount$33.7B
Company SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsGeneral 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
HeadquartersHangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Year Founded2014
FoundersJack Ma
Funding Amount$28.5B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsSequoia 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
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Year Founded2006
FoundersMukesh Ambani
Funding Amount$8.3B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusPrivate Equity
Top InvestorsTPG, 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)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2013
FoundersAli Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin
Funding Amount$21.8B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusSeries J
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, 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)
HeadquartersSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2010
FoundersJohn Collison
Funding Amount$9.4B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsFounders 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)
HeadquartersLondon, England, United Kingdom
Year Founded2015
FoundersNikolay Storonsky, Vlad Yatsenko
Funding Amount$1.9B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusUndisclosed
Top InvestorsBond, 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)
HeadquartersSingapore, Central Region, Singapore
Year Founded2008
FoundersChris Xu, Yangtian Xu
Funding Amount$4.1B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusPrivate Equity
Top InvestorsTiger 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.

Unicorn StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedValuation
Reliance Jio logo Reliance JioMedia2010$28.4B$58B
xAI logo xAIAI2023$22.7B$50B
Waymo logo WaymoAI2009$11.1B$45B
Canva logo CanvaAI2013$2.5B$42B
Ripple logo RippleCrypto2012$793.8M$40B
Checkout.com logo Checkout.comFintech2012$1.8B$40B
Figure logo FigureAI2022$1.9B$39B
JUUL logo JUULRetail2015$16.4B$38B
Safe Superintelligence logo Safe SuperintelligenceAI2024$3B$32B
Anduril Industries logo Anduril IndustriesMobility2017$6.2B$31B
Fanatics logo FanaticsGaming2002$4.9B$31B
Cruise logo CruiseAI2013$16B$30B
Alibaba Bendi Shenghuo Fuwu Gongsi logo Alibaba Bendi Shenghuo Fuwu GongsiEnterprise2018$4B$30B
Anysphere logo AnysphereAI2022$3.4B$29.3B
Scale AI logo Scale AIAI2016$15.9B$29B

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