A unicorn company is a private company with a valuation of more than $1 billion, and today there are over 1,000 unicorn companies around the world!
- This dataset contains a csv table with 1,074 records, one for each company
- Each record contains details on the company's current valuation, total funding, country of origin, industry, select investors, and the years they were founded and became unicorns
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- Fintech, E-commerce and Internet Software industries have the highest number of Unicorn companies, valuation and funding.
- Top five most valued unicorns are Bytedance, SHEIN, SpaceX, Stripe and Klarna. Of the five, four Unicorn companies belong to United States and China.
- United States has the highest number of Unicorns and the highest number of Unicorns are headquartered in San Franscisco.
- Internet Software, E-commerce and Fintech Unicorns are the highest in North America, Asia and Europe regions respecively.
- 2021 was the year of Unicorns, 54% of them attained the Unicorn status in 2021. AI, E-commerce, Ed-tech, Fintech and Health industries boomed in 2021 inspite of the pandemic.
- Sequoia Capital China, Tiger Global management and Tencent Holdings are the most popular investors.
- On average, it takes 7 years to become a unicorn. Some companies have become unicorns within a year of founding!
- Analysed the rows with missing city value and dropped them. Performed data cleaning and wrangling on the dataset.
- Cleaned Valuation and Funding columns and cast it to float type
- Corrected the spelling mistake for "Artificial Intelligence" in Industry column
- Duplicate entries of Bolt company were identified. They were made unique by appending the country the company was founded in.
- Exploded the Select Investors column into individual rows
- Derived the year in which the company reached $1 billion in valuation
- Derived the ROI metric-> Valuation-to-funding ratio
- Derived the time taken to reach $1 billion in valuation
Produced a 1-pager dashboard using Tableau.
Tableau: Unicorn Companies 2022
