{"id":9299,"date":"2026-08-16T02:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/40-companies-joined-the-unicorn-board-in-july-the-highest-count-in-4-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:33:43","slug":"40-companies-joined-the-unicorn-board-in-july-the-highest-count-in-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/40-companies-joined-the-unicorn-board-in-july-the-highest-count-in-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

A total of 40 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board<\/a> in July, the highest monthly total in more than four years, with three joining at values greater than $10 billion.<\/p>\n

Leading sectors by count were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n

In the past two months, the board added more than $100 billion each month in value from newly minted unicorns. Three companies joined the board at decacorn values. Crypto.com<\/a>, Kling AI<\/a> and Ant International<\/a> together added $49 billion in the past month.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. counts 19 new unicorn companies, just under half of the newly minted unicorns in July. China, the second-largest country, numbered eight. From the U.K., there were three companies, and from Singapore, two. Lithuania, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Australia, India, Israel and Hong Kong each count one.<\/p>\n

Among the newly minted unicorns, 15 were less than 3 years old. And seven companies were more than 10 years old.<\/p>\n

So far this year, the count of new unicorns has accelerated. A total of 195 companies joined in H1 this year<\/a>, already exceeding the total for all of 2025.<\/p>\n

New unicorns in July<\/h2>\n

Here are July\u2019s new unicorn companies:<\/p>\n

Financial services<\/h2>\n