market value, while North America is out in front.
As of 2021, unicorns active in the industries of business management, as well as financial services, accounted for approximately 35 percent of all unicorn companies worldwide. In terms of value, Asia had the highest distribution, in terms of overall Distribution of unicorns worldwide as of November 2022, by industry
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