When the term of the unicorn was first introduced by Astan Startowy 2013Private VC corporations with values price a billion dollars were still relatively rare creatures.
As it seems.
This week, Geneatic AI weight Anthropic He became the latest one -time unicorn, which crossed the valuation threshold price $ 60 billion.
An organization based in San Francisco announced On Monday, that he secured $ 3.5 billion with a valuation price $ 61.5 billion in the round run by LightSpeed Partners. Financing took place after the latest version of the popular AI Chatbot and Agent, Claude.
There was a time when a supported undertaking of such a high value could be in lonely brackets. Recently, nonetheless, the ranks of the Ultra high value look more and more crowded.
Currently, at least seven American private corporations have recently submitted valuations exceeding $ 45 billion. There are also supposedly a few on the verge of recent financing at much higher values.
Here is a quick summary:
- Spacex: Established in 2002, SpaceX from Hawthorne in California is not a startup. However, this is the most valued American private, supported by the company’s enterprise, which has reached the application A valuation price $ 350 billion In the second sales of the shares at the end of last yr.
- Openai: Opeli with headquarters in San Francisco secured a valuation of $ 157 billion, when he collected the last round, financing price $ 6.6 billion. Recently Altman itself-AI like AI generative company You are looking for a lift $ 40 billion in Softbank-dacked in the valuation of the $ 260 billion project.
- Stripe: STIPE Payment Infrastructure Supplier, based in South San Francisco, obtained a valuation of $ 91.5 billion for the offer offer announced Last week to make sure the liquidity of current and former employees.
- Databicks: San Francisco Data Analytics Platform Databicks in January confirmed that she has finished previously announced $ 10 billion in financing the capital of Jeries J with a valuation of $ 62 billion.
- XAI: The last round for 2-year-old XAI was a C series with a value of $ 6 billion with a valuation of $ 50 billion. In February, the company was supposedly discussion Financing round about $ 10 billion with a valuation of $ 75 billion.
- Waymo: Autonomous spinoff from Alphabet, closed $ 5.6 billion of the C series last summer Valuation reported $ 45 billion.
More profits at the front?
In addition, the pace of the public market from the last two weeks appears to be on the side of high -value unicorns. In particular, the leading startups from artificial intelligence showed the ability to quickly lift subsequent rounds at continuous prices.
We hope that more of those names will reach public markets in the coming quarters. If not, it appears that evidently there is a lot of capital to survive.