1,200 +
In 2013, when the term "unicorn" was coined for billion-dollar startups, only 39 existed. By 2025 there were over 1,200 worldwide, together worth more than $4.3 trillion.
CB Insights — Complete List of Unicorn Companies
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Quick facts
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2.3 %
Of roughly $289 billion in global VC in 2024, all-women founding teams received just 2.3% — about $6.7 billion. At the current pace of change, parity wouldn't arrive until around 2065.
Founders Forum — Women in VC & Startup Funding 2025 · https://ff.co/women-funding-statistics-2025/
3/4 startups
Roughly three out of four venture-backed startups never return cash to their investors. Venture returns run on a power law: a few big winners cover many losses.
Shikhar Ghosh, Harvard Business School
42%
The top reason startups fail isn't running out of cash — it's building something nobody needs. About 42% fail from "no market need"; running out of money (29%) is usually the symptom, not the cause.
CB Insights, startup post-mortem analysis
$368 bln
Nearly a third of all global venture money in 2024 went to a single field: artificial intelligence. Global VC reached about $368 billion, and five US AI startups alone raised $32 billion in one quarter.
KPMG Venture Pulse Q4 2024 · Crunchbase 2024
Reports worth reading
Published annually or quarterly, free to read, and useful for benchmarking your own numbers.
Founders' Portrait 2026
Stanbase & UNDP · Annual
The study is based on 229 survey responses and 25 in-depth interviews with startup founders from different regions of Uzbekistan.