Tech Unicorns With Valuations of $10 Million

Or Moreby Eyal Yechezkell

XiaomiPrimarily a smartphone company,

Xiaomi employs roughly 5,000 people around the world and

only released its first smartphone in 2011. Its rapid

growth in China has helped make it the third largest smartphone

maker in the world. It is currently the most valuable

private tech company. !

UberUber has a knack for making headlines. Just today they made

headlines worldwide after Paris arrested Uber employees in their Paris office for operating an illegal taxi service. But despite

headlines like these or perhaps because of them Uber has raised a war chest that has them at a $40 billion valuation.

A big data, software and services company that started by doing data analysis for American

intelligence agencies. They have since expanded to

providing services for the private sector. Their

decision to say private is deliberate, stating that it would make running their

company difficult.

FlipKartFlipKart exclusively

operates in India for now but that hasn’t stopped it from growing into an e-commerce powerhouse focusing mostly on

electronics. They’ve used their extensive funding for

various acquisitions.

Pinterest is the photo sharing and storage social network launched five years ago. Some are predicting their next step is to

become a search engine and rival Google.

AirBnB grew very quickly after taking part in the

biggest tech accelerator, Y Combinator. The disruptive company allows users to rent out rooms or entire homes. It now operates in

over 190 countries.

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DropBox

Another Y-Combinator startup, Dropbox has been

able to keep strong market share despite tech giants like Google getting into

the cloud storage business. Their competitor Box

recently had their IPO and their stock has steadily

declining since.

Snapchat

The ephemeral messaging app turned teen social media powerhouse have been making headlines for its huge user

engagement numbers and even bigger funding rounds from the likes of Prince Alwaleed and Alibaba

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