Led By DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Rush Onto The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In June
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI labs, which were collectively valued at $65 billion. Other leading sectors with multiple companies were in robotics and AI infrastructure. Gené Teare A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value.
Key Takeaways
- Ten of those companies were AI labs, collectively valued at $65 billion.
The new unicorn frontier labs are focused on new architectures in AI model development in robotics, physics and self-learning, as well as on open source development, and in the case of one India-based startup, sovereign AI.
- Two new unicorns joined the board from India, Germany and the United Kingdom and one each from Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Big exits remove a trillion Despite the influx of newcomers, the total value of The Crunchbase Unicorn Board dropped by more than $1 trillion in June as SpaceX , its most valuable company, went public.
- 4 billion Series A, its first external financing, in a deal led by CEO Liang Wenfeng .
Flourish is building a new AI architecture based on neuroscience called Cortex AI that promises lower power use.
- Generalist AI , an embodied robotics intelligence company, raised a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures .
The less than 1-year-old company founded by an Alibaba researcher was valued at $2 billion.
- Mirendil , an AI lab seeking to automate AI research for scientific use cases, raised a $200 million seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins .
Stats & Key Facts
- #A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI labs, which were collectively valued at $65 billion.
- #A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI labs, which were collectively valued at $65 billion.
- #Gené Teare A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value.
- #Ten of those companies were AI labs, collectively valued at $65 billion.
Other leading sectors with multiple companies were in robotics and AI infrastructure, with four companies in each. S-based, while eight are from China. Two new unicorns joined the board from India, Germany and the United Kingdom and one each from Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Big exits remove a trillion Despite the influx of newcomers, the total value of The Crunchbase Unicorn Board dropped by more than $1 trillion in June as SpaceX , its most valuable company, went public. Other notable exits from the board last month were Anysphere , the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, which was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion after last being valued at $29. Modular , an AI infrastructure company that operates as a layer on top of GPUs, was acquired by Qualcomm , and customer experience agent Fin was purchased by Salesforce 1 , both for well above their last private valuations.
New unicorns in June Here are June's new unicorn companies: AI labs Hangzhou-based DeepSeek raised a $7. 4 billion Series A, its first external financing, in a deal led by CEO Liang Wenfeng . The 2-year-old company was valued at $50 billion and is said to be planning to list in Shanghai as early as Q2 2027.
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