Unicorn, a popular term has found its relevence in Indian economy as well.

1. UNICORN
E M E R G E N C E I N I N D I A

2. MEANING
• Privately held STARTUP
• Valued at over $1 BILLION
• Term coined by AILEEN LEE
• DECACORN, over $10 billion.
• HECTACORN, over $100 billion.
• 279 Unicorns as of March, 2018.
• Largest being UBER, XIAOMI, AIRBNB, PINTEREST. Aileen Lee
• Valued by Venture Capital Firm or a much larger company during BUY-OUT.

5. WHAT MAKES A UNICORN?
• Disruptive Innovation
• First Movers Advantages
• Technology Paradigm shift Capitalization
• Consumer Focused
• Private company

7. HOW A UNICORN GROWS?
• Word of mouth
• Start up mantra : “Get big fast”
• Rise in technology
• Super platforms
• Super friendly fundraising environment.
• Nontraditional investors are taking part.

8. SOONICORNS (SOON TO BE UNICORNS)

10. COMPARING MAJOR UNICORNS
(US V/S CHINA)
• China has the largest total valuation of US$37.3B globally, higher than the US$34B total
valuation of American unicorns.
• Yu’ebao, a personal finance service from Ant Financial, reached $165.6B in AUM in April
2017. It surpassed JPMorgan Chase to become the world’s largest money market fund.
• In 2011, Alibaba Group received the highest valuation of US$32B.
• In 2013, Alibaba’s retail e-commerce transactions reached US$248B, larger than the
combined total of eBay and Amazon. By going public in 2014, it became the largest global
IPO having a valuation of US$167.6B
• In 2016, China’s mobile payment transactions surpassed US$8.5 trillion, 70x more than the
US.
• In 2015, China’s online P2P lending industry was roughly worth US$66.9 billion, 4x
higher than the US.

11. SECTOR-WISE CLASSIFICATION

12. INDIA FOR UNICORN : CHALLENGES
• Devaluations: Zomato, Flipkart
• Operational Models : Deep Discounts
• Consolidation : Myntra, TaxiforSure
• Key Personnel exits
• Competitions
• Valuation

13. MAGICAL FACTS ABOUT UNICORN
• Ninety-four percent of the unicorn founders are men. Six percent are women.
• Stanford, Harvard and University of California are the top three alma maters of unicorn
founders.
• California is home to the most unicorn companies
• Sixty-seven percent of the companies were launched by co-founders.
• Sixty percent of the founders who reached the billion-dollar mark are first time founders
• Twenty-nine companies holding their 10-year anniversaries this year are unicorns.
• Thirty-five of the companies on the list were four years old when they achieved unicorn
status.
• There is only one company in the top 10 that was launched in the 1990s: Alibaba, at
number five, started in 1999.
• One-hundred-fifty companies, the majority of the list, are valued between $1 billion and $2

14. T H A N K Y O U