CB Insights October 20, 2021
In 2020, 50 private blockchain companies from 14 countries made it to the CB Insights Blockchain 50. They were selected from a pool of 2,700 companies based on factors including business models, market potential and momentum, competitive landscape, team strength, investor profiles, data submitted by the companies, and proprietary Mosaic scores.
Since announcing the list in December 2020, the Blockchain 50 winners have kept busy. Here’s what they’ve achieved (as of October 2021):
- 2 of the winners have gone public
- 4 have been acquired
- 9 are unicorns (private companies valued at $1B+), with an aggregate valuation of $35.4B
- 23 (or 46%) have raised additional equity funding, totaling $3.3B across 29 deals
- 4 winners have acquired a total of 9...