40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years 

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A total of 40 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July, the highest monthly total in more than four years, with three joining at values greater than $10 billion.

Leading sectors by count were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and the semiconductor industry.

In the past two months, the board added more than $100 billion each month in value from newly minted unicorns. Three companies joined the board at decacorn values. Crypto.com, Kling AI and Ant International together added $49 billion in the past month.

The U.S. counts 19 new unicorn companies, just under half of the newly minted unicorns in July. China, the second-largest country, numbered eight. From the U.K., there were three companies, and from Singapore, two. Lithuania, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Australia, India, Israel and Hong Kong each count one.

Among the newly minted unicorns, 15 were less than 3 years old. And seven companies were more than 10 years old.

So far this year, the count of new unicorns has accelerated. A total of 195 companies joined in H1 this year, already exceeding the total for all of 2025.

New unicorns in July

Here are July’s new unicorn companies:

Financial services

  • Singapore-based Ant International, an affiliate of the private payments company Ant Group, raised a $1.2 billion Series A funding round with participation from Ant Group and Alibaba Group. Ant International was spun out in 2024 and was valued at $11.2 billion in this recent funding.
  • Lumin Digital, a digital banking platform for banks and credit unions, raised $115 million in private equity funding led by Light Street Capital. The 9-year-old San Ramon, California-based company that supports customer retention and services was valued at $1.6 billion.
  • Budapest-based Ominimo, an auto insurance provider using AI, raised a $23 million Series B funding round led by EBRD Venture Capital. The almost 2-year-old company, founded by a Serbian team, was valued at $1.6 billion.  Ominimo reports $350 million in gross written premiums and is approaching 1 million customers. It operates in Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden, and plans to expand across Europe and to the U.S. in 2027.
  • Flex, an AI-native private bank for high net worth business owners, raised a $70 million Series B led by The Halo Fund. The 4-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1.2 billion.
  • Super.com, a membership and savings app for U.S. consumers, raised $65 million in Series D funding led by TPG. The 10-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1.2 billion. Surpassing $200 million in net revenue in 2025 from membership and transactional revenue, the company says it is growing 50% year over year and is approaching 1 million members.
  • London-based Moneybox, a savings app which has become a digital wealth management platform, raised a $60 million secondary market transaction led by Apis Partners. The 11-year-old company was valued at $1.1 billion. The secondary sale is to provide liquidity for long-term employees. The company is profitable and has helped 200,000 people buy their first home.

Robotics

  • Guangdong-based humanoid robotics company LimX Dynamics raised $200 million in pre-IPO funding. The 4-year-old company is focused on entertainment, hospitality, and service for humanoid robotics, not manufacturing, with half of its orders coming from outside of China. The company was valued at $2.2 billion.
  • Shenzhen-based Yimu Technology, a builder of precision tactile sensing technology for robotics, raised $148 million in Series E funding. The 10-year-old company was valued at $1.5 billion.
  • London-based Humanoid, a humanoid robotics company for manufacturing, retail and logistics, raised a $152 million Series A funding led by Prime Movers Lab. The 2-year-old company was valued at $1.4 billion and plans to roll out its wheeled beta version robots to customers in Q4. It has also developed a software brain, KinetIQ, to reason and execute complex tasks alongside humans.
  • Full-stack physical AI company Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with a $300 million seed funding led by Deviation Capital and Toyota. The less-than-1-year-old Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company focused on manufacturing and logistics was valued at $1.1 billion.
  • Morphi Robot, an embodied intelligence company, raised a $147 million seed funding round led by Alibaba Group and Tencent. The less than 1-year-old Nanjing, China-based company is focused on closed-loop learning, building robotics for manufacturing with the ultimate goal of building a general-purpose robot for the home. The company was valued at $1 billion.
  • Dexterous hand robotics company Xynova raised a $74 million Series A funding led by Meituan. The 1-year-old Hangzhou, China-based company was valued at $1 billion.

AI

  • Lithuania-based Oxylabs, a public data web scraping service useful for AI applications and agentic AI, raised its first external financing, a $130 million Series A led by Warburg Pincus. The company reports $350 million in ARR serving 350,000 tech teams. The 11-year-old company was valued at $3.6 billion.
  • Spain-based Multiverse Computing, a compression technology for AI that improves efficiency and cost, whether on device or in the cloud. It raised a $570 million Series C led by BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund, Bullhound Capital and Forgepoint Capital. The 7-year-old company was valued at $2.3 billion.
  • Simile, creator of synthetic users for consumer research, raised a $200 million Series B led by Greenoaks and Index Ventures. The company raised a $100 million Series A five months earlier. The 1-year-old Palo Alto-based company was valued at $2 billion.
  • Prime Intellect runs a full-stack platform for companies to train models and agents. It raised a $130 million Series A funding led by Radical Ventures. The 2-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1 billion.
  • Spectro Cloud, an enterprise infrastructure management platform for AI, raised a $100 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The 7-year-old San Jose, California-based company was valued at $1 billion.

Multimodal AI

Energy

Semiconductor

  • Israel-based Xsight Labs, a fabless semiconductor company building data processing units and chips for data centers and computing systems, raised a $300 million Series E led by Fidelity. The 9-year-old company was valued at $2.8 billion. The next generation of Starlink will be routing via the company’s X2 chip, according to VP of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls.
  • Shanghai-based CygnuSemi, developer of a satellite communication baseband chip for 6G communications, raised an undisclosed amount following a $216 million Series C round earlier this year. The 6-year-old company was valued at around $1.5 billion.
  • Eliyan, a chip company that connects smaller chips to make them more efficient, raised a $145 million Series C led by Seligman Ventures. The 5-year-old Santa Clara, California-based company was valued at $1 billion.

Cryptocurrency

  • Singapore-based Crypto.com, a regulated app for buying, trading, and spending cryptocurrencies, raised a $400 million corporate round. Led by Citadel Securities, this marks the company’s first institutional funding. The 10-year-old company was valued at $20 billion.
  • Augustus, a U.S. stablecoin digital clearing bank for international financial institutions, raised a $180 million Series B led by Tiger Global Management. The 4-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1 billion.

Defense

  • Former Doge employees founded Cathedral to provide AI-driven cyber capabilities to the U.S. military. Cathedral raised a $160 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The less-than-1-year-old Washington, D.C.-based company was valued at $1.4 billion.
  • London-based Kraken Technology Group, a maritime defense company, raised a $175 million Series B led by DTCP. The 6-year-old company was valued at $1 billion.

Marketplace

  • Genius AI, a technology platform for service businesses, raised a $44 million Series D led by Lux Capital. The 10-year-old New York-based company was valued at $1.2 billion. Genius AI operates in the wellness, beauty and health sectors and is approaching a $200 million revenue run rate.
  • Fora, a platform for travel advisers, raised a $60 million Series D led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. The service has 15,000 travel advisers and has booked more than $3 billion in travel over time. The 5-year-old New York-based company was valued at $1 billion.

Data center

  • Mumbai-based Yotta Data Services, a data center service hosting Nvidia GPUs, one of the largest GPU compute providers in India, raised $150 million in funding. The 7-year-old subsidiary of the Hiranandani Group was valued at $3.9 billion.

Insurance

  • Cover Genius, an insurance platform for some of the largest e-commerce customers, raised $100 million in funding. The 12-year-old New York-based company was valued at $1.9 billion. Its customers include Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Booking.com and Uber, to name a few.

Quantum

AI coding

  • Autonomous app building startup Emergent raised a $130 million Series C led by Claypond Capital, Creaegis and Sentinel Global. The 2-year-old Pleasanton, California-based company was valued at $1.5 billion. The company launched a year ago and has enabled non-coders to build applications, with 12 million built on the platform.

Legal

  • Norm AI, an AI legaltech firm that pairs lawyers with agentic AI, raised a $120 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures. The service is client-oriented, with payments based on outcomes rather than billable hours. The 3-year-old New York-based company was valued at $1.2 billion.

Security

  • Glow, an endpoint security firm for the AI era, emerged from stealth, announcing a $100 million Series B led by Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital. In 2025, ahead of launching out of stealth, Glow raised large seed and Series A rounds. The 1-year-old Palo Alto, California-based firm with offices in Tel Aviv was valued at $1.2 billion.

Wearables

  • Hong Kong-based smart glass company Even Realities raised a $150 million Series B led by Meituan and Tencent. Founded by ex-Apple engineers, the startup is not camera-based but rather a display that beams information visible to the wearer.  The 2-year-old company was valued at $1 billion.

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Methodology

The Crunchbase Unicorn Board is a curated list that includes private unicorn companies with post-money valuations of $1 billion or more and is based on Crunchbase data. New companies are added to the Unicorn Board as they reach the $1 billion valuation mark as part of a funding round.

The unicorn board does not reflect internal company valuations — such as those set via a 409a process for employee stock options — as these differ from, and are more likely to be lower than, a priced funding round. We also do not adjust valuations based on investor writedowns, which change quarterly, as different investors will not value the same company consistently within the same quarter.

Funding to unicorn companies includes all private financings to companies that are tagged as unicorns, as well as those that have since graduated to The Exited Unicorn Board.

Exits analyzed here only include the first time a company exits.

Please note that all funding values are given in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Crunchbase converts foreign currencies to U.S. dollars at the prevailing spot rate from the date funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs and other financial events are reported. Even if those events were added to Crunchbase long after the event was announced, foreign currency transactions are converted at the historic spot price.

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