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The Rising Investors Behind The New Unicorn Class

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Crunchbase News - Funding Ma Title: The Rising Investors Behind The New Unicorn Class Date: 2026-03-17 11:00 Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/unicorn-investment-momentum-ai-sequoia-a16z-2025/ <p>The race to back the next generation of billion-dollar startups accelerated last year as the stable of unicorn sta…

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Cutting-edge companies in today's market risk being taken over by AI developments which erode their advantage and wipe away their lead
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The pace of new unicorn creation picked up each quarter in 2025 and has shown no signs of slowing in 2026
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Nearly half of the new unicorns are very young: 94 of them are less than 5 years old
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187 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2025, up 61% from the previous year, driven largely by the AI boom
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AI-native companies accounted for 47 of last year's new unicorns, or 25% of the total
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Investors who want to back the next market winners need to keep investing
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The Rising Investors Behind The New Unicorn Class

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