Forbes August 13, 2024
Artificial intelligence dominates this year’s list of 25 venture-backed startups we think most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation.
Edited by Amy Feldman, Forbes Staff
Editorial Operations: Elisabeth Brier
Reporters: Thomas Brewster, Kenrick Cai, Katie Jennings, Brit Morse, Rashi Shrivastava
Damn, we’re good. For the tenth year running, Forbes has teamed up with TrueBridge Capital Partners to search for the 25 U.S. venture-backed companies most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation. Of the list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling, although 21 of those are now worth less than $1 billion. Forty-two were acquired; only three (1%) went public for less than $1 billion. There have been surprisingly few...