The Hurun Research Institute released the "Global Unicorn Index 2023" (Global Unicorn Index 2023) in Guangzhou today, listing non-listed companies around the world that were established after 2000 and are valued at more than US$1 billion. The cut-off date for the valuation calculation of this list is December 31, 2022. There are currently 1,361 unicorn companies in the world, distributed in 271 cities in 48 countries. The total value of global unicorn companies is 4.3 trillion US dollars (about 30 trillion yuan), an increase of 17% from a year ago and more than double that before the epidemic. From the perspective of the number of unicorns, the financial technology industry has the fastest growth, an increase of 32 compared with a year ago. There are 171 unicorns in financial technology, which is the industry with the largest number of unicorn companies in the world, followed by software services (136 home), e-commerce (120) and artificial intelligence (105). The U.S. leads with 666 unicorns, China ranks second with 316, India maintains third and the U.K. ranks fourth.

ByteDance is still the world's most valuable unicorn with a value of 1.38 trillion yuan, Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX ranks second with a value of 945 billion yuan, and Telegram, a communication application headquartered in Dubai, ranks among the top Ten, worth 207 billion yuan.

There are 53 unicorns in the blockchain industry, 23 more than a year ago, led by Malta-based Binance (138 billion yuan), followed by San Francisco-based Ripple (105 billion yuan) and New York-headquartered OpenSea ( 90 billion yuan). These unicorn enterprises accounted for 3.9% of the total number of unicorns in the world, with a total value of 1.4 trillion yuan.