Xcout IntelHow many unicorns are there?
According to Xcout Intel, 500 private companies had a latest funding-round valuation of $1 billion or more as of 2 November 2026; 51 of them are valued at $10 billion or more.
324 are in North America, 66 in Europe and 65 in Asia-Pacific. 27 became unicorns in the last 90 days, and 181 were last valued more than 24 months ago.
| Company | Valuation band | Country | Valued in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| OpenAI | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| Databricks | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| Anduril | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| Ramp | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| DeepSeek | $10B+ | China | 2026 |
| Cognition | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| Project Prometheus | $10B+ | United States | 2026 |
| Ripple | $10B+ | United States | 2025 |
| Moonshot AI | $10B+ | China | 2026 |
How we know
Xcout Intel counts a private company as a unicorn when its latest valuation from a priced funding round is $1 billion or more. A valuation counts only when the round is between 1% and 70% of it, or when a second source agrees; stock-market capitalisations never count.
Full figures: The world's unicorns (frozen edition: 2026-11-02). How every report is built: methodology.
What this does not show
- Listed, acquired, bankrupt and private-equity-owned companies are left out, so this count is lower than lists that keep them.
- "Unicorn" here means we hold a sourced $1B+ valuation; a company without one may still be worth more.
- 181 of the valuations are more than two years old and may no longer hold.
How to cite
Xcout Intel, The world's unicorns, 2 November 2026, intel.xcout.app/answers/how-many-unicornsQuote with attribution under the licence. These figures update with each edition of the report; cite the frozen edition for a figure that will not move.