Top 9 Computer Unicorns in 2024

Updated:

January 22, 2024

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Unicorns

The Computer industry is filled with successful companies that have raised millions of dollars in VC funding that came from some of the top investors in the world.

Many of these successes have turned into unicorns — private companies worth over $1 billion.

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If you want to build the next unicorn in the Computer space, these 9 companies should be your inspiration.

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9 Computer Unicorns Companies

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1) Nova Systems

SambaNova Systems is building the next-generation computing platform, bringing the efficiency and capability of cloud computing to unstructured data.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $5.00B (April 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: Palo Alto

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Christopher Ré, Kunle Olukotun, Rodrigo Liang

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $1,132.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

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2) WeRide

WeRide is developing and commercializing advanced software and hardware technologies for self-driving cars.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $4.40B (December 2020)

  • Country: China

  • State: Guangdong

  • City: Guangzhou

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Qing Lu, Tony Han, Yan Li

  • Number of employees: 500-1,000

  • Funding: $789.00M

  • Funding rounds: 9

  • Number of investors: 26

You can find their website here.

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3) VAST Data

VAST Data is revolutionizing the storage tiering space with a platform that allows enterprises to easily scale flash in the datacenter.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.70B (April 2020)

  • Country: United States

  • State: New York

  • City: New York

  • Started in: 2016

  • Founders: Jeff Denworth, Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $263.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

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4) Blockstream

Blockstream is one of the global leaders in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Their products form the foundations of the future economy.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.20B (August 2021)

  • Country: Canada

  • State: British Columbia

  • City: Vancouver

  • Started in: 2014

  • Founders: Alex Fowler, Erik Svenson, Gregory Maxwell, Jonathan Wilkins, Jorge Timón, Mark Friedenbach, Matt Corallo, Pieter Wuille

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $311.00M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 29

You can find their website here.

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5) PsiQuantum

PsiQuantum is building a large-scale, general-purpose silicon photonic quantum computer with at least 1 million physical qubits.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.15B (July 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: Palo Alto

  • Started in: 2016

  • Founders: Jeremy O'Brien, Mark Thompson, Peter Shadbolt, Terry Rudolph

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $728.50M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 13

You can find their website here.

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6) 1047 Games

Splitgate is an operator of a remote video game developer studio.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.50B (September 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: Nevada

  • City: Zephyr Cove

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Ian Proulx

  • Number of employees: 10-50

  • Funding: $126.50M

  • Funding rounds: 4

  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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7) Next Silicon

NextSilicon provides a new approach to HPC architecture that drives the industry forward by solving its biggest, most fundamental problems.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.50B (June 2021)

  • Country: Israel

  • City: Tel Aviv

  • Started in: 2018

  • Founders: Elad Raz

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $226.60M

  • Funding rounds: 4

  • Number of investors: 19

You can find their website here.

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8) Figment

Figment supports the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.40B (December 2021)

  • Country: Canada

  • State: Ontario

  • City: Toronto

  • Started in: 2018

  • Founders: Andrew Cronk, Lorien Gabel, Matt Harrop

  • Number of employees: 1-10

  • Funding: $163.84M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 31

You can find their website here.

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9) Timescale

TimescaleDB is a time-series database that is open source and optimised for fast ingest and complex queries.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (February 2022)

  • Country: United States

  • State: New York

  • City: New York

  • Started in: 2015

  • Founders: Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman

  • Number of employees: 101-250

  • Funding: $181.10M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 15

You can find their website here.

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