40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years

A total of 40 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July, the highest monthly total in more than four years, with three joining at values greater than $10 billion. Leading sectors by count were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and the semiconductor industry. In the past two months, the board added more than $100 billion each month in value from newly minted unicorns. Three companies joined the board at decacorn values. Crypto.com , Kling AI and Ant International together added $49 billion in the past month. The U.S. counts 19 new unicorn companies, just under half of the newly minted unicorns in July. China, the second-largest country, numbered eight. From the U.K., there were three companies, and from Singapore, two. Lithuania, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Australia, India, Israel and Hong Kong each count one. Among the newly minted unicorns, 15 were less than 3 years old. And seven companies were more than 10 years old. So far this year, the count of new unicorns has accelerated. A total of 195 companies joined in H1 this year , already exceeding the total for all of 2025. New unicorns in July Here are July’s new unicorn companies: Financial services Singapore-based Ant International , an affiliate of the private payments company Ant Group , raised a $1.2 billion Series A funding round with participation from Ant Group and Alibaba Group . Ant International was spun out in 2024 and was valued at $11.2 billion in this recent funding. Lumin Digital , a digital banking platform for banks and credit unions, raised $115 million in private equity funding led by Light Street Capital . The 9-year-old San Ramon, California-based company that supports customer retention and services was valued at $1.6 billion. Budapest-based Ominimo , an auto insurance provider using AI, raised a $23 million Series B funding round led by EBRD Venture Capital . The almost 2-year-old company, founded by a Serbian team, was valued at $1.6 billion. Ominimo reports $350 million in gross written premiums and is approaching 1 million customers. It operates in Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden, and plans to expand across Europe and to the U.S. in 2027. Flex , an AI-native private bank for high net worth business owners, raised a $70 million Series B led by The Halo Fund . The 4-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1.2 billion. Super.com , a membership and savings app for U.S. consumers, raised $65 million in Series D funding led by TPG . The 10-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1.2 billion. Surpassing $200 million in net revenue in 2025 from membership and transactional revenue, the company says it is growing 50% year over year and is approaching 1 million members. London-based Moneybox , a savings app which has become a digital wealth management platform, raised a $60 million secondary market transaction led by Apis Partners . The 11-year-old company was valued at $1.1 billion. The secondary sale is to provide liquidity for long-term employees. The company is profitable and has helped 200,000 people buy their first home. Robotics Guangdong-based humanoid robotics company LimX Dynamics raised $200 million in pre-IPO funding. The 4-year-old company is focused on entertainment, hospitality, and service for humanoid robotics, not manufacturing, with half of its orders coming from outside of China. The company was valued at $2.2 billion. Shenzhen-based Yimu Technology , a builder of precision tactile sensing technology for robotics, raised $148 million in Series E funding. The 10-year-old company was valued at $1.5 billion. London-based Humanoid , a humanoid robotics company for manufacturing, retail and logistics, raised a $152 million Series A funding led by Prime Movers Lab . The 2-year-old company was valued at $1.4 billion and plans to roll out its wheeled beta version robots to customers in Q4. It has also developed a software brain, KinetIQ, to reason and execute complex tasks alongside humans. Full-stack physical AI company Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with a $300 million seed funding led by Deviation Capital and Toyota . The less-than-1-year-old Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company focused on manufacturing and logistics was valued at $1.1 billion. Morphi Robot , an embodied intelligence company, raised a $147 million seed funding round led by Alibaba Group and Tencent . The less than 1-year-old Nanjing, China-based company is focused on closed-loop learning, building robotics for manufacturing with the ultimate goal of building a general-purpose robot for the home. The company was valued at $1 billion. Dexterous hand robotics company Xynova raised a $74 million Series A funding led by Meituan . The 1-year-old Hangzhou, China-based company was valued at $1 billion. AI Lithuania-based Oxylabs , a public data web scraping service useful for AI applications and agentic AI, raised its first external financing, a $130 million Series A led by Warburg Pincus . The company reports $350 million in ARR serving 350,000 tech teams. The 11-year-old company was valued at $3.6 billion. Spain-based Multiverse Computing , a compression technology for AI that improves efficiency and cost, whether on device or in the cloud. It raised a $570 million Series C led by BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund , Bullhound Capital and Forgepoint Capital . The 7-year-old company was valued at $2.3 billion. Simile , creator of synthetic users for consumer research, raised a $200 million Series B led by Greenoaks and Index Ventures . The company raised a $100 million Series A five months earlier. The 1-year-old Palo Alto-based company was valued at $2 billion. Prime Intellect runs a full-stack platform for companies to train models and agents. It raised a $130 million Series A funding led by Radical Ventures . The 2-year-old San Francisco-based company was valued at $1 billion. Spectro Cloud , an enterprise infrastructure management platform for AI, raised a $100 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives . The 7-year-old San Jose, California-based company was valued at $1 billion. Multimodal AI Beijing-based Kling AI , a text prompt-to-AI short video startup, raised a $2.8 billion funding round led by BlueFive Capital , Citic Securities , CPE Yuanfeng , Guofang Venture Capital , Tencent and Zhongguancun Science City Science . The 2-year-old company, a subsidiary of Kuaishou with plans to spin out, was valued at $18 billion. Meshy AI , a company that creates 3D visualization from text or image prompts, raised a $400 million Series B funding led by IDG Capital , Matrix Partners China and Monolith Capital . The 5-year-old Sunnyvale, California-based company, used in gaming, 3D printing and design, was valued at $1.5 billion. Venice , which provides access to leading models for text, video, image and audio while retaining user privacy, raised a $65 million Series A led by Dragonfly . The service stores communication on a user’s device. The 2-year-old Wyoming-based company was valued at $1 billion. Beijing-based HiDream.ai , a multimodal model developer, raised a $222 million Series C led by Dunhong Capital Management , Hongyi Asset Management , ICBC Capital and Sichuan Revitalization Science and Technology Innovation Fund . The 3-year-old company, used for film, marketing, and social media content creation, was valued at $1 billion. Energy Munich-based nuclear fusion company Proxima Fusion raised a $470 million Series B led by East X Ventures , Google , RWE and XTX Ventures . The company has offices in Munich, Zurich and Oxford. The 3-year-old company was valued at $2.7 billion. Antora Energy, a provider of thermal energy storage for data centers, raised a $550 million Series C funding led by Eclipse and G2 Venture Partners . The 8-year-old San Jose, California-based company was valued at $2.5 billion. ENN Fusion , a hydrogen-boron fusion company, raised an undisclosed seed round led by CAS Star , Loon