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Led By DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Rush Onto The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In June
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A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value.
Key facts
- 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 $29.3 billion
- 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
- 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
Summary
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. Other leading sectors with multiple companies were in robotics and AI infrastructure, with four companies in each. Of the new unicorns, 16 are U.S-based, while eight are from China.