Hurun Global Unicorn Index - the list gained 43% in value and 903 of 1,603 did not move

Hurun's June edition counts 1,603 unicorns across 52 countries, worth US$8tn together, up 43% in a year on AI alone. The interesting part is not the total but how unevenly it landed.

- The top 10 hold US$3.9tn of that US$8tn, nearly half the list in ten companies, with Anthropic first after adding close to US$1tn in a single year
- 903 unicorns saw no valuation change at all, 88 dropped below the US$1bn line entirely, and 308 new ones arrived against the 2021 peak of 700
- Europe reads differently from the headline: the UK took third place with 80, overtaking India, while EU countries total 112, down four on last year

Read it as a structural map, not a live ticker - the cut-off is 1 January 2026 and it was published in June. The number worth keeping is the quiet one: average unicorn age 10.3 years, founders 35 when they started.

https://www.hurun.net/en-us/info/detail?num=N5C7D1KGTE8G

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