Startup Designations · Private-market roster ·

Who's a Unicorn, really

Every private company we track, sorted by the venture shorthand: Pony, Unicorn, Decacorn and Hectocorn by valuation, plus Centaur by revenue and a Zombie watch by time since the last priced round. Each label is worked out from the company's own disclosed numbers, none are hand-tagged.

Every valued company on one line companies with a disclosed mark, on a log scale. Hover a dot for the company and click it to open the profile; hover a band to isolate a tier, click it to filter the table below.
HectocornDecacornUnicornPonyCompanies without a mark aren't drawn; they're counted in the ladder.

The valuation ladder

One tier per company, cut on its current disclosed mark. Left bars count companies; right bars add up their marks.

Designations that sit on top of the ladder

These don't replace the valuation tier. A company can be a Unicorn and a Centaur, or a Decacorn on the Zombie watch.

The top of the ladder

All Hectocorns and Decacorns by current mark.

Find a company

Search the full roster and filter by designation. Click a column header to sort.

How the labels are worked out

Rules

  • Hectocorn $100B+ · Decacorn $10B–$100B · Unicorn $1B–$10B · Pony under $1B, all from the current disclosed mark. No mark means no tier. We don't guess one.
  • Centaur: $100M+ estimated annual revenue. Shown only where revenue is known, so the true count is higher.
  • Zombie watch: no priced round in 36+ months, and not a Centaur. It's a prompt to look, not a verdict. A profitable company that simply stopped raising looks the same on these fields.
  • Dragon (a company that returns a whole venture fund) isn't computed. It needs fund size and ownership data.

What the data can and can't say

  • Labels are recomputed from the roster on every load, so a company's tier moves the day its mark does. Nothing is hand-tagged.
  • companies have no disclosed mark, including some with multi-billion revenue. They're counted, not tiered.
  • Revenue is known for companies, so Centaur coverage is partial.
  • Zombie watch is a list to check, not a verdict. Self-funded and profitable companies that stopped raising appear on it.