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Dealroom's unicorn data tools give you a comprehensive view of where breakthrough companies are emerging — who backed them early, how the ecosystem funnels startups towards $1B+ status, and which investors have a proven track record of identifying winners.
Discover all unicorns globally with this search: View all unicorns & $1B exits on Dealroom →
From there, add your own filters to narrow by location, sector, founding year, and more to find unicorns most relevant to your research.
Unicorns & Thoroughbreds
Navigate to
Stats & Insights in the left menu and select
Unicorns & Thoroughbreds. This dashboard tracks the world's most successful private companies —
Unicorns (valued above $1B) and
Thoroughbreds (generating $100M+ in annual revenue) — giving you a comprehensive picture of where exceptional value is being created globally. You can also access it directly at
app.dealroom.co/unicorns-thoroughbreds.
The dashboard offers cumulative unicorn tracking over time, with geographic breakdowns so you can see where value concentrates by region or country. Use the customisable chart builder to filter by year range, geography, industry, company type, and specific investors — tailoring the view to your research focus.
Dig into the founder and employee network data to uncover "mafias" — alumni networks from successful companies who go on to build new high-performers. You can also identify which universities produced the founders of these elite companies, mapping the academic pipelines that feed into unicorn creation. Use website traffic trends to track momentum and market interest across these organisations.
Investor Power Law Ranking
The Power Law Ranking is a Dealroom Premium feature available in the Investors section. It evaluates venture capital investors based on portfolio performance using a proprietary scoring system, ranking VCs by successful outcomes — adjusted for investment stage. The earlier an investor identifies and backs a winner, the higher their score.
The ranking tracks four tiers of portfolio outcomes:
• Unicorns — portfolio companies that reached $1B+ valuation
• $1B+ exits — companies acquired or IPO'd above $1B
• $100M+ revenue companies — Thoroughbreds in the portfolio
• $25M+ revenue companies — strong performers still scaling
Dealroom analysed over 22,000 investors with deal-by-deal analysis, offering unprecedented transparency into investor selection ability and portfolio trajectories.
Use the Power Law Ranking to benchmark VC performance across stages and regions, identify emerging high-performing investors before they become household names, and guide strategic investor outreach. Explore regional rankings, view outcome distributions, and examine individual investor deal history. Higher scores indicate more high-tier outcomes adjusted for investment stage relevance — check regularly to track momentum shifts and evolving investor focus.
Startup Funnel
The Startup Funnel is located under Stats & Insights in the left menu. It measures innovation ecosystems from the earliest startup creation signals all the way through to large-scale outcomes — giving you a full picture of how startups progress from founding to achieving unicorn status.
The funnel is structured as a progression:
• Founder Origins — where founders come from: universities, corporates, accelerators, and prior unicorns (revealing the talent pipelines feeding the ecosystem)
• Newly Created Startups — the top of the funnel, showing ecosystem formation rate
• Seed → Series A → Series B → Series C+ — funding stage progression showing how many startups advance through each round
• Unicorns & Gigacorns — the tip of the funnel, showing how many companies ultimately reach $1B+ valuation
This progression makes it immediately visible how efficiently a given ecosystem converts early-stage startups into high-value outcomes.
The Startup Funnel is fully interactive. Use the location filter to compare how different countries, cities, or regions convert startups to unicorns. Apply sector filters (e.g. Deep Tech, Generative AI, Sustainability) to understand which industries have the most efficient innovation pipelines. This is particularly powerful for ecosystem benchmarking — understanding which geographies are punching above their weight in producing breakthrough companies.
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Pro tip: combine all three tools for a complete unicorn lens. Use the Startup Funnel to identify high-converting ecosystems → the Unicorns & Thoroughbreds dashboard to explore the companies that made it → the Power Law Ranking to find the investors who spotted them earliest.