As of April 2024, ByteDance, the Chinese tech company which owns TikTok, was valued at about 220 billion U.S. dollars, which made it the highest valued unicorn globally. A unicorn is a privately held company with a market valuation of one billion U.S. dollars or more. As of 2021, there were over 590 unicorns globally, with the majority based in the United States and China.
Chinese unicorns
Headquartered in Bejing, China, ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is one of the nation’s largest and a leading technology company globally. As of 2021, however, the industry with the highest valued unicorns in China was the finance and insurance industry, to which the market value of Ant Group, second largest unicron worldwide in terms of market valuation, contributed significantly.
Unicorns in the U.S. and China
China and the United States remain the locations with highest volume of unicorns worldwide, as well as the highest valued unicorns. While the Chinese market dominated the global unicorn scene in terms of the market values of its unicorns, the United States surpasses them in terms of the number of unicorns within the country.
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A unicorn company is a privately owned startup that has a current valuation of one billion U.S. dollars or over. Once a company has gone public (IPO) or has been acquired it is no longer termed as a unicorn.
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Hurun Research Institute. (April 9, 2024). Leading unicorns worldwide as of April 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 01, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/407888/ranking-of-highest-valued-startup-companies-worldwide/
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