“When I started Cowboy in the summer of 2012, I made a list of companies that would have been great investments 10 years earlier. I put together a blog post with some of those insights and, in the ...

Ten years ago today, Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee penned a column for TechCrunch that brought the term “unicorn” into the world. Defined at the time as “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 ...

PitchBook’s unicorn tracker contains all new unicorn companies formed since the beginning of 2016. Explore trends in unicorn formation by filtering the chart below by time period or geography. Click ...

In the world of finance, a unicorn company is a private company with a valuation of at least $1 billion. Many current and recent unicorns are tech startups located in the Silicon Valley region of ...