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The ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ reached a new milestone in August, cresting above $6 trillion in total value for the first time.

Still, only four companies joined the unicorn board last month — the lowest count so far this year, mirroring the slower pace of venture funding in August.

August’s newly minted unicorns

Here are last month’s four new unicorns, by sector.

AI

• takes live video and transforms its own GenAI models. Last month, the company raised a $100 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation. The 2-year-old San Francisco-based company raised from existing investors , and along with new investor .

Robotics

• , developer of robotic AI software for industrial-use autonomous robotics, raised  $314 million at a $2 billion valuation. Investors in the 2-year-old Mission Viejo, California-based company include , and .

Web Design

• Website design platform raised a $100 million Series D led by and. The 10-year-old Amsterdam-based company is used by hundreds of thousands of active websites and was valued at $2 billion.

Biotechnology

• , a gene therapy biopharma company that targets chronic disease, raised a $313 million Series C led by and . The 6-year-old Palo Alto, California-based company was valued at $1.7 billion.

Value jumped in 2025

Year to date through August, the value of the board has increased by close to $600 billion — including valuation additions from existing and new unicorns on the board — a significant increase from 2024 and 2023.

Of that, $154 billion was added by 91 newcomer companies who joined in the first eight months of the year.

The most highly valued new unicorns this year so far are AI lab at $12 billion, healthcare clinical notetaker at $5.3 billion, and 27-year-old AI data storage company at $5 billion.

But by far the largest new value added to the board this year so far was by companies that initially joined in prior years. The largest valuation increases through August went to , , , and .

And while August saw a slowdown in unicorn creation, two large raises by unicorns Anthropic and in the first few weeks of September have already pushed the ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ’s total valuation further this month, to $6.2 trillion as of this writing.

Related ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ unicorn lists:

• (1,607)
• (98)

• (112)
• (102)
• (802)
• (498)
• (214)
• (38)
• (458)

Related reading:

• Global Startup Funding In August Fell To Lowest Monthly Total In 8 Years As Seed And Late-Stage Investors Retreated
• Global Unicorn Count Tops 1,600, With 13 Additions In July
• The Rise Of The Ultra-Unicorns: $5B+ Startups Are Leading The Private-Market Herd In 2025

Methodology

The ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ is a curated list that includes private unicorn companies with post-money valuations of $1 billion or more and is based on ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data. New companies are 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 .

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. ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ 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 ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ long after the event was announced, foreign currency transactions are converted at the historic spot price.