Pandemic proof 76 companies reached unicorn status including Gymshark, Udemy and more
As 2020 draws to a close, we look at some of the businesses that have reached unicorn status this year despite the pandemic.
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Will UK unicorns ever scale up to challenge Baidu or Tesla Experts weigh in
Facebook, Baidu, Ant Financial, Uber, Didi Chuxing, and Tesla still rule the roost, so the likes of Darktrace and Monzo may take a while to catch up, according to a new report.
Common characteristics of trailblazing digital companies
By Staff writer
In one of his last keynote speeches before his retirement, John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO of 20 years, predicted over a third of firms today will be dead in ten years, stating the only ones that will survive will be digital companies, and many will fail trying to emulate such firms.
From a barn in Yorkshire to a $1bn valuation and unicorn status
Having just taken up the CFO role at technology Anaplan, a business which has just banked $90m of venture capital investment, James Budge answers a few of our questions on building a fast-growth company and how being cloud-based is unique.
Silicon Valley’s “sub-prime unicorns” have shown UK businesses what not to do
Having seen the UK tech sector’s paced growth for almost a decade, George Mathew, president and COO of Alteryx, warns that Britain may be in danger of too closely following America’s lead, creating “sub-prime unicorns”.
Scrutiny likely to reveal there are a number of donkeys in unicorns clothing in tech market
Richard Windsor of Edison Investment Research explains why so-called unicorns that can’t make money are in fact donkeys with little value.
Revealed: The overvalued $1bn+ unicorns “flying too close to sun”
According to Victor Basta, managing partner of M&A advisory firm Magister Advisors, a “class” of Icarus companies have been discovered in the famous $1bn+ unicorn club.