Hurun's "Global Unicorn List in 2022": Douyin won the latest on the first banana, Zhongtong Express, Jane Ai, etc.

On August 30, the Hurun Research Institute released the "Global Unicorn Index 2022 Half-LERFOR REPORT" in the Hurun Research Institute. Essence The deadline for the calculation of this list is June 30, 2022. This is the fourth time the Hurun Research Institute released the global unicorn list.

The Hurun Research Institute stated that it found a total of 1312 unicorn companies worldwide, distributed in 48 countries and 259 cities. Among them, the valuation of 592 unicorn companies has increased within half a year, of which 369 are on the list. 228 valuations declined, 81 of which "downgraded" last year -the valuation fell below $ 1 billion and withdrew from the list. 34 unicorn last year "upgraded" and withdrew from the list (25 were listed and 9 were acquired). 573 valuations remain unchanged.

Hu Run, chairman and chief research officer of Hu Runbaifu, said: "In the past six months, 59 new unicorn on the list in China, this number exceeds the total number of unicorn companies owned by a British country. The total number of beasts ranks fourth in the world. "

"Daily Economic News" reporter learned that the first unicorns on the list were Chicago Fintech CITADEL Securities (valuation of 150 billion yuan), followed by Miro (valuation of 117 billion yuan), the online visualization collaboration platform of San Francisco, the headquarters of the headquarters. Essence Elon Musk's tunnel mining company The Boring Company became one of the top ten new faces with a valuation of 38 billion yuan.

Other new Chinese unicorn also include banana (valuation of 20 billion yuan), Zhongtong Express (valuation of 15 billion yuan) and Jane Ai (valuation of 8 billion yuan) and so on.

It is worth mentioning that in 2012, Douyin, headquartered in Beijing, is still the highest -value unicorn in the world. Although the valuation has fallen from 2.3 trillion yuan to 1.3 trillion yuan, it is mainly regulated by industry supervision such as antitrust. Impact. In addition, Didi and Ruixing Coffee, which have been delisted, returned to the unicorn list.

Top 10 global unicorn companies

China occupies "half of the country"

The list mentioned that the number of global unicorn companies increased by 254 or 24%in the half year as of June 2022 to 1,312. The United States is still leading, adding 138, reaching 625, close to half of the total number of unicorns worldwide. China ranks second with 312, adding 11.

The reporter learned that 369 unicorn was on the list and 59 in China.

As far as the unicorn is concerned, San Francisco is still the capital of the world's unicorn. It has 176 unicorn and increases 25. New York replaced Beijing second with 120, adding 35. Beijing ranked third with 90, which was reduced by one. Shanghai maintained fourth with 69 and reduced 2. In China, Guangzhou is the fastest growing city in the six months.

In addition, the list mentioned that the top ten unicorn this year accounted for 17.6%of the total value of global unicorn companies. Five of them are from China, 3 from the United States, and one from Britain and Malta.

Observe the top ten to find out that Douyin has won the throne of the world's highest unicorn. The Hurun Research Institute mentioned that in May this year, the byte beating is renamed Douyin Group. Overseas version of Douyin TIKTOK has 1.2 billion monthly active users.

The second place is SpaceX, which was founded by the world's richest man, Elon Musk in 2002. It is the largest unicorn in the United States. Since its establishment, SpaceX has raised $ 9.5 billion in 53 rounds of financing, and the latest round of financing has a valuation of US $ 125 billion (840 billion yuan).

Hangzhou's Ant Group ranked one to third, with a valuation of 800 billion yuan. The Hurun Research Institute mentioned that from Alibaba in 2014, Ant Group became the highest -value unicorn in 2019 and 2020, but has shrunk by 30 billion US dollars since then. Impact.

Several new faces appeared in the top ten unicorn list in the world. At the same time, KLARNA, Canva, Instacart, Revolut and Cainiao Network quit the top ten.

Quick Fashion Cross -border E -commerce SHEIN ranks fifth with a valuation of RMB 400 billion. The Hurun Research Institute believes that it has an innovative flexible supply chain system and meets the personalization and diversification of consumption in the retail industry.

In addition, the valuation of Weizhong Bank, headquarters Shenzhen, increased by 20 billion yuan to 220 billion yuan, ranking 3 to eighth. JD.com, headquarters Beijing, has maintained a valuation of 200 billion yuan, ranking by 2 to ninth.

Hu Run mentioned that 34 unicorn last year "upgraded" the list, of which 25 were listed and 9 were acquired. The proportion of "upgrades" is 90%lower than last year, mainly because the global capital market has performed well in the past six months, and the pace of unicorn listing has slowed down.

He also said, "Under the influence of the global economy, 81 unicorn 'relegation' last year, that is, the valuation fell below $ 1 billion and withdrew from the list. Among them, the highest valuation last year was Ping An Medical Insurance Technology and two electronics. Business companies are modest and orange. "

Didi and Ruixing Coffee, which have been delisted, returned to the global unicorn list. In this regard, Hurun commented: "Didi and Ruixing returned to the unicorn list this year because they have been delisted. Although they have recently faced some troubles for different reasons, they still subvert their own industries and give early investment to early investment. The person has created a lot of benefits. "

Sequoia China has the largest number of Chinese unicorn

Ali hatched 5 unicorn beasts

The report issued by the Hurun Research Institute also includes the "Top 100 Global Unicorn Investment Institutions in 2022" and "Top 30 Chinese Unicorn Investment Institutions in 2022".

According to the "Top 30 Chinese Unicorn Investment Agency in 2022", Sequoia China still captures the largest number of investment institutions in China, followed by CICC Capital, Tencent, IDG Capital, and Gaoma Capital.

In addition, Sequoia Capital has become the world's most successful unicorn investment institution for the third consecutive year, and has invested 234 unicorn in the world, adding 28. SoftBank surpassed the Tiger Global Fund to become the second and invested 180. Tiger Global Fund invested 169, ranking third. The top three investment institutions invested a total of 44%of the world's unicorn. Tencent invested 90, ranking from eighth to fourth. Y Combinator entered the top ten for the first time.

"The investment institutions behind the unicorn are very important to the entrepreneurial ecology. Not only because they can insight into the future development trend, but also their incubation of these potential unicorn is also very valuable. Finally, it can help unicorn to become a top 500 enterprise. "Hu Run said.

In addition to analyzing the investment institutions behind unicorn companies, the Hurun Research Institute also analyzed the industry in unicorn companies.

It is reported that in the past six months, 369 unicorn beasts were on the list, of which one -third came from fintech, software services, blockchain and corporate services. 80 % of the sales software and services, 20 % of the sales of physical products. 65%are B2B companies, and 35%are directly facing consumers.

Hu Run said: "Which industries are the most potential? Nearly half of the world's unicorn companies come from fintech, e -commerce, software services, health technology and artificial intelligence industries, corporate services and logistics this year's new top ten industries. The field is the most smart capital in the world is investing in. "

In addition, he mentioned that compared with the unicorns of China and the United States, the top three industries with the most unicorns in China are health technology, artificial intelligence, e -commerce and semiconductor. The top three industries with the most unicorns in the United States are software Service, fintech and health technology.

Hu Run said that in his opinion, Southeast Asia will be the fastest -growing area in the next two or three years. He mentioned that on the list, there were 28 unicorn companies in Southeast Asia, including 12 in Singapore, 5 each in Indonesia and Vietnam, 3 in the Philippines, 2 Thailand, and 1 Malaysia. These unicorn companies are mainly engaged in fintech and e -commerce, followed by games and logistics.

It is worth mentioning that some unicorns are hatched by strong parent companies.

The Hurun Research Institute said that Alibaba has hatched the most unicorn, with 5; followed by Geely, 4; JD.com, GAC and Baidu have 3. Among them, Guangzhou Jiwan Technical Research is a hybrid high -tech enterprise incubated within the GAC Group. It focuses on the R & D, production, sales and services of XFC rapid fast charging power batteries and its systems.

Hurun talks about entrepreneurs:

Continuous entrepreneurs are a clear trend

The ups and downs of unicorn are closely linked to the personal destiny of entrepreneurs.

The Hurun Research Institute mentioned that the average age of these unicorn companies was 44 years old. Unicorn companies have two co -founders average.

It is worth noting that one -third of these founders are continuous entrepreneurs who sell their previous startups. 40%of the co -founders met in the previous job, and one -eighth was met in college. Computer science and business are the most commonly studied majors in the founders. At least one fifth of the unicorn companies from unicorn are outside the country.

"The founder of the global unicorn company created the company at the age of 36. As the technical requirements increase, more and more unicorn founders who have graduate degree are increasing. After graduation, they have accumulated 5 years in other companies after graduation for 5 years His work experience, then started his first business at the age of 29. "Hu Run said.

He said that continuous entrepreneurs are now an obvious trend. After the first successful entrepreneurship, a entrepreneur can also incubate more excellent enterprises for the second and third occasions. "It is difficult to imagine that in addition to Tesla, the world's richest man, the world's richest man, also has time to incubate 3 unicorn companies, including SpaceX, which ranked second on the list, and more than 100 tunnel mining companies in the list The Boring Company and more than 300 artificial intelligence research companies OpenAI. Li Shufu has 4 unicorn on the list, of which Jiwen Automobile is one of the fastest -growing unicorn. "

It is attractive that the 30 overseas unicorn are the co -founders or heads of Chinese descent, adding 7 more.

Among them, the highest valuation is the headquarters Malta's virtual currency trading platform Binance (valued at 300 billion yuan). The 45 -year -old Zhao Changpeng was born in Jiangsu. Citadel Securities, a fintech company, was born in Beijing after 80s (valuation of 150 billion yuan). Li Jie and 53 -year -old Chen Mingyong was born in Sichuan. While released the list, Hurun also expressed his views on unicorn companies.

He believes that the global economy is showing a new trend through the global unicorn list. "From the first global unicorn list in 2019, there are nearly 1,200 new unicorn. These new unicorn are changing financial services, corporate management, medical health and retail industries. Especially in the past six months, financial services, financial services And the corporate management industry is the most affected by the new unicorn, "Hu Run said.

In Hu Run's view, unicorn is the most exciting company in the world. "If a unicorn, especially the company in our global unicorn list, once it is listed, it will cause the world’s Follow, such as changing the SpaceX of the space flight industry. "

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