Prime Unicorn Index Blog

Week of October 30 – November 5, 2025 Quick Summary Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we’ll give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. BillionToOne goes public; Verkada, KoBold authorize new rounds; Cerebras sees a bump in secondaries, and publics

Week of October 23 – October 29, 2025 Quick Summary Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we’ll give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. Primaries picked up; secondaries were mixed (Cerebras up, Anduril/SpaceX down); publics mostly higher, led by CoreWeave.

The Rise Carta built itself into an essential tool in the private-markets ecosystem. Founded to manage cap-tables and equity plans for startups and investors, Carta amassed sensitive, private data: investor identities, shareholdings, company valuations, cap tables, and secondary transactions. It became ubiquitous in the venture / startup world. The Fall:

Week of October 16 – October 22, 2025 Quick Summary Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we’ll give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. It was a busy week with primary rounds, secondary trades, and acquisitions. Publics pulled back. Index

Today’s Throwback Thursday is highlighting Dropbox, a former unicorn that helped reshape how we work and share files. Dropbox at a Glance Founded in 2007, Dropbox gave us the concept of “the folder in the cloud” with seamless file-syncing across devices. Its freemium model caught on rapidly in both consumer

The Prime Unicorn Index and Prime Unicorn 30 have completed their quarterly reconstitution, reflecting the latest private-market activity across U.S. venture-backed unicorns. This quarter saw ten new components added to the Composite Index and three removed following acquisitions, bringing the total component count to 225. Meanwhile, the Prime Unicorn 30