Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2024

Mumbai:

The variety of unicorns — corporations price over USD 1 billion — within the nation has declined for the primary time in 4 years to 67, a report stated on Tuesday.

The nation, nonetheless, maintained the tag of being the third greatest hub for unicorns internationally, in response to the Hurun World Unicorn Index 2024.

Grappling with a slew of points, edtech firm Byju’s, which was valued at over USD 22 billion a 12 months again, dropped off from the record, that means it’s price lower than USD 1 billion at current.

The drop in valuation for Byju’s made it the largest dip throughout any startup on the planet, as per the Hurun report.

The 2008-founded Byju’s misplaced its coveted place because it restructured operations and minimize prices after growing losses, the report stated, including, “the previous unicorn missed its income goal for the monetary 12 months ending in March final 12 months and is working to resolve a USD 1.2 billion debt”.

Commenting on Byju’s, Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf stated that some startups certainly fail and obtain large media consideration within the course of, however added that such corporations are very important to an economic system.

Meals supply platform Swiggy and fantasy sports activities centered Dream11 are essentially the most beneficial unicorns from India valued at USD 8 billion every, and are adopted by Razorpay at USD 7.5 billion, the report stated.

The 2 top-valued Indian unicorns are ranked 83rd within the record globally, whereas Razorpay is at 94th place.

There have been some additions within the record of unicorns like the factitious intelligence platform Krutrim, Hurun India’s chief researcher Anas Rahman Junaid stated.

Nonetheless, the identical 12 months has seen 60 AI-focused startups from the US and 37 from China break into the unicorn membership, he stated.

Rahman stated the general drop within the variety of Indian corporations within the record of 1,453 unicorns is because of lack of investments into startups regardless of good-looking good points on the fairness indices.

He additionally added {that a} tendency to begin an organization outdoors the nation amongst founders has additionally dented the prospects for India, stating that founders hailing from India began 109 unicorns outdoors of the nation, in comparison with 67 inside the nation.

This led to the addition of 24 unicorns to take the general variety of corporations valued at over USD 1 billion to 340 through the 12 months.

The unicorn record was led by 2012-founded Bytedance, proprietor of Tiktok, with a valuation of USD 220 billion, and was adopted by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX at USD 180 billion and Microsoft-backed OpenAI price USD 100 billion. 

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