Prime Unicorn Index Blog

From Crypto Payments to Financial Infrastructure Welcome back to Unicorn Spotlight, a series where we highlight standout companies within the Prime Unicorn Index. Founded in 2012, Ripple has spent more than a decade building infrastructure around blockchain-based payments and digital assets. While the company is still closely associated with XRP

The Second Camera Angle Auditors Don’t Have When a referee makes a call on the field, the booth doesn’t just take his word for it. It pulls an independent camera angle and checks the call against it. Ask an auditor to review a fund’s fair-value mark on a private Series

Back to School, Back Online As students return to classrooms and campuses, the communities shaping their lives will remain active beyond school walls. Study groups, campus organizations, gaming communities, and friendships operate through digital spaces after the final bell. Few companies illustrate that shift better than Discord, which has grown

Week of September 10 – September 16, 2026 Quick Summary Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. The IPO calendar stole the spotlight: Anthropic is reportedly targeting an October Nasdaq listing north of

Week of September 3 – September 9, 2026 Quick Summary Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. A firmer, holiday-shortened week saw chip and AI-infrastructure names rebound. In the headlines, OpenAI unveiled its

A hedge fund can tell you, to the penny, what much of its public book was worth moments ago. Ask what the private stake sitting next to it is worth, and the answer may still depend heavily on a financing round completed eighteen months ago, supplemented by valuation models and