20 Startups Unicorns that You Didn't Know

Yesterday these were mere startups, where founders sweat away to build from ground zero. Today they are already billion dollar unicorns, when you are not paying attention. From ... type ... type type.. type. There are now more than 100 "startups" that became unicorns! Unicorn companies by definition has more than $1 billion in valuation. Trivia: a lesser known "decacorn" can be used to describe ten-billion-dollar ultra unicorns like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, Pinterest, Dropbox,

• Uber valued at $51 Billion August 2015
• Airbnb valued at $25.5 Billion  June 2015
• Palantir valued at $20 Billion July 2015
• Snapchat valued at $16 Billion May 2015
• SpaceX valued at $12.0 billion January 2015
• Pinterest valued at $11.0 billion February 2015
• Dropbox valued at $10.0 billion January 2014
• WeWork valued at $10.0 billion June 2015
• Spotify valued at $8.5 billion April 2015
• Square valued at $6.0 billion August 2014
• Stripe valued at $5.0 billion July 2015
• Zenefits valued at $4.5 billion May 2015
• Cloudera valued at $4.1 billion March 2014
• Jawbone valued at $3.3 billion February 2014
• DocuSign valued at $3.0 billion April 2015
• Bloom Energy valued at $2.9 billion September 2011
• Slack valued at $2.8 billion March 2015
• Lyft valued at $2.5 billion March 2015
• Houzz valued at $2.3 billion October 2014
• Instacart valued at $2.0 billion December 2014
• Domo valued at $2.0 billion March 2015
• Blue Apron valued at $2.0 billion June 2015
• Github valued at $2.0 billion July 2015
• Honest Co. valued at $1.7 billion August 2015
• MongoDB valued at $1.6 billion December 2014
• BuzzFeed valued at $1.5 billion August 2015
• Social Finance (SoFi) valued at $1.3 billion February 2015
• Medallia valued at $1.3 billion July 2015
• Warby Parker valued at $1.2 billion April 2015
• Gilt Groupe valued at $1.1 billion April 2011
• AppDynamics valued at $1.1 billion July 2014
• 23andMe valued at $1.0 billion June 2015
• CloudFlare valued at $1.0 billion December 2012
• Evernote valued at $1.0 billion May 2012
• Eventbrite valued at $1.0 billion March 2014
• Kabam valued at $1.0 billion August 2014
• Shazam valued at $1.0 billion January 2015
• Pluralsight valued at $1.0 billion August 2014
• Twilio valued at $1.0 billion July 2015

For more unicorns and non-US unicorns visit Wall Street Journal's The Billion Dollar Club visualization and table.  There are a few that made an exit : Shopify, Lending Club Fab.com. The reality is that unicorns take many years if not a full decade to materialize. With a few exceptions, many companies many famous products and but are still quite small in valuation. 

A sortable list of startup unicorns, its valuation,
geo location, industry and investment partners.

On CBInsights you can see a sortable table of unicorns by geographic location, industry and investors. It's very helpful for entrepreneurs thinking about founding a startup or raising funds. CBInsights The Unicorn List: Current Private Companies Valued At $1B And Above

On Fortune.com The Unicorn List is stylized with pictures of legendary company founders. 

The lesser known founder of Didi Kuaidi a Chinese startup unicorn
which is No.6 on the Fortune's Unicorn List