What is the full list of US startups that became unicorns?

TechCrunch published a “full list” of US startups that became unicorns, compiled using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook. The article names newly minted unicorns (for example, xAI) and is presented as a roundup rather than an original statistical study.

The highest-intent query is looking for TechCrunch’s roundup titled “60 US startups became unicorns… Here’s the full list.” In that piece, TechCrunch says it tracked newly minted unicorns using third-party databases (Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook) and then lists the companies it identified.

It’s important to treat this as a curated list, not a definitive census of every $1B+ US startup. Different trackers can disagree on when (or whether) a company crossed the $1 billion threshold, and TechCrunch’s methodology is aggregation and reporting, not a peer-reviewed or denominator-based analysis of “unicorn probability” by any factor like name length or syllable count.

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