30 companies have been newly valued at a decacorn valuation in 2021 so far, Crunchbase data shows. This contrasts with half that count at 15 in 2020 and five new decacorns in 2019.

it’s only been 14 years since the first decacorn emerged. That was Facebook, now Meta, which became the first decacorn when it was valued at $15 billion in a funding round in 2007 via a strategic investment from Microsoft.

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After Facebook’s debut as the first decacorn in 2007, the next didn’t come along until two years later—that, by our calculation, was Alibaba, which was valued north of $10 billion in 2009 in a funding led by global growth equity investors General Atlantic.

Then no companies were newly valued at $10 billion until 2014, per Crunchbase data.

A total of 84 decacorns have been minted since the first private $10 billion valuation in 2007. Of these, 33 have since exited, leaving 51 decacorns still seated atop the The Crunchbase Unicorn Board