For our tenth annual Forbes Subsequent Billion-Greenback Startups listing, we’re searching for the 25 corporations more than likely to turn out to be unicorns—and have endurance past that mark.
Tlisted here are greater than 54,000 venture-backed corporations in america. Solely the tiniest fraction will ever attain a $1 billion valuation.
For our tenth annual Forbes Subsequent Billion-Greenback Startups listing, produced in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Companions, we’re searching for the 25 corporations more than likely to hit that mark – and to have endurance past it.
Previous lists have included DoorDash (2015), Opendoor (2016), Plaid (2017), Lemonade (2018), Duolingo (2019), Rippling (2020), Unimaginable Well being (2021), Astera Labs (2022) and Monarch Tractor (2023). You’ll be able to see final 12 months’s listing right here and the 2022 listing right here.
Ship us your nominations for the 2024 list by April 12, 2024. The listing is slated to launch on-line in August and to look within the August/September challenge of the journal.
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Corporations have to be primarily based within the U.S. to qualify; we don’t have a world model of this listing. In addition they have to be privately held and venture-backed with valuations under $1 billion. Lastly, no repeats. Corporations which have been on this earlier than are disqualified from being on it once more.
Enterprise funding has been marked for years by a troubling lact of variety. Provided that backdrop, we hope this listing will likely be as various as potential. For those who’re a feminine founder, a Black or brown founder, an immigrant, a veteran or somebody who lives and works removed from Silicon Valley, we particularly hope that you simply’ll apply.
TrueBridge will run a quantitative evaluation of all corporations primarily based on the monetary data within the nominations. Forbes reporters will likely be in contact with startups that make the primary lower to interview founders and discuss additional.
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