Valuation of French unicorn companies 2021

In 2020, the number of unicorns in France was quite low, especially regarding those raising several hundred million dollars. According to an objective set by Emmanuel Macron, France aims to reach the milestone of 25 unicorns by 2025. Thus, in 2021, there were already 15 unicorns born in France. The latest companies to join this very closed club were Vestiaire Collective (March 2021), health insurer Alan (April 2021), as well as more recent Shift Technology and Back Market (May 2021). Back market ranked in first as the most valued company, reaching 3.2 billion U.S. dollars.

Leading unicorn companies in France in 2021, based on valuation (in billion U.S. dollars)

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Release date

May 2021

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Region

France

Survey time period

2021

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French unicorn companies

Supplementary notes

Unicorn companies: term for unlisted companies valued at 1 bn U.S. dollars or more.

The research was conducted by Statista. The data was consolidated from different sources:
Data for Back Market, Contentsquare, BlaBlaCar, Alan, Mirakl, Deezer, Voodoo, Doctolib, OVHcloud, Veepee, Meero, Vestiaire collective and Shift Technology were extracted from CB Insights.
* Data for Ivalua were extracted from Ivalua and Le Figaro
** Data for Daitaku were extracted from Le Monde
*** According to insights from the source, the data is not exact.

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