over half of the 69 unicorns headquartered in Europe. A unicorn is a privately held company worth one billion U.S. dollars or more. Note that the figures provided here are based on unicorns that did not go public via an IPO and were not at some point acquired by another company.
As of April 2020, the United Kingdom was home to 27 unicorns, whereas only 15 were headquartered in Germany. These two countries accounted for Number of unicorns in Europe as of April 2021, by country
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