Global Unicorn Rankings 2026

Snapshot 2026-09-14. The main table uses the Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026. Valuations are as of 1 January 2026, with material updates to the June release. A unicorn here is a firm founded after 2000, worth at least US$1 billion, and still private. SpaceX has listed and leaves this main table. Anthropic is first at US$965 billion. Zhang Yiming is on the China rich list.

Hurun global unicorns top ten

The list has 1,603 firms. Combined value is US$8 trillion, up 43%. The top ten are worth US$3.9 trillion. The floor for this ten is US$61 billion. The United States has 806 names, China 381. The UK has 80 and sits ahead of India’s 61. San Francisco has 222 and keeps the “unicorn capital” line. Dollars come from the English release and the list page. Yuan comes from the Chinese release. Ant Group has no yuan figure there, so that cell stays blank.

How this list is ranked

Snapshot 2026-09-14. The main table follows the Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026. Cut-off 1 January 2026, with material valuation updates to publication. Firms founded after 2000, worth at least US$1bn, not yet listed. Bands by US$bn: 800+ S, 200–799 A, 100–199 B, 70–99 C, the rest of this ten D. Dollars come from the English release and the Hurun list page. Yuan comes from the Chinese release. Ant Group has no yuan figure in the Chinese text; we leave that cell blank. Zhang Yiming sits on the China rich list. Consulting firms: 2026 consulting rankings. Names: docs/glossaries/global-unicorns-2026-glossary.md.

China names on the same Hurun list

The China names in the world top ten are ByteDance, Ant Group, and Shein. DeepSeek is the highest new entry at US$50 billion / CNY 340 billion and sits in the world top 15. Xiaohongshu is also CNY 340 billion / US$50 billion. Moonshot AI is CNY 136 billion / US$20 billion. StepFun is CNY 41 billion / US$6 billion. DJI is CNY 250 billion in the Chinese release, inside the world top 20; the English release does not give a dollar figure. Zhipu, SJSemi, and Moore Thread have listed and sit with the graduates, not on this unicorn main table.

CB Insights public table

The CB Insights page says March 2026. This snapshot is 2026-09-14. The public table has about 1,404 firms and about US$7.4 trillion combined. The rows below are high valuations printed on that page, without ranks. OpenAI is US$840 billion here and Databricks is US$100 billion; keep them off the June Hurun main table. This retrieval did not show SpaceX, Ant Group, or Binance as company rows. Anduril is US$14 billion on this table.

SpaceX leaves the unicorn list

Hurun treats SpaceX as a graduate after the IPO. The Chinese release puts the public value near CNY 16 trillion. The English release says over US$2 trillion. The two units stay as published.