Recently, I took look at the 13 NYC unicorns that have post money valuations exceeding $1B in New York City as a result of their last funding round. Today, we took a look at some NYC startups that approaching unicorn status using some data from our friends at Crunchbase. In addition to dollar amount of the most recent valuation, I have included total equity funding, year founded, and number of funding rounds to further the analysis. To keep the focus on companies that are approaching unicorn status, companies that have raised down rounds were excluded. This list was compiled from that data retrieved on 1/20/16 and does not include companies that underwent liquidity events (acquisitions or IPOs).
CAN YOU GUESS ALL 8 SOON TO BE NYC UNICORNS?
- Handy $500M
Total Equity Funding: $110.73M
Year Founded: 2012
# of Funding Rounds: 6
- Betterment $500M
Total Equity Funding: $105M
Year Founded: 2008
# of Funding Rounds: 5
- Wheels Up $540M
Total Equity Funding: $115M
Year Founded: 2013
# of Funding Rounds: 2
- Yext $570M
Total Equity Funding: $116M
Year Founded: 2006
# of Funding Rounds: 6
- Casper $605M
Total Equity Funding: $70M
Year Founded: 2013
# of Funding Rounds: 3
- Dataminr $700M
Total Equity Funding: $180M
Year Founded: 2009
# of Funding Rounds: 5
- Harry’s $750M
Total Equity Funding: $287M
Year Founded: 2011
# of Funding Rounds: 6
- Compass $850M
Total Equity Funding: $123M
Year Founded: 2012
# of Funding Rounds: 4
