INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Such is the mission of eight-year-old Startup Genome, composed of a group of researchers and entrepreneurs who, every year, interview
2014, just 14 percent of so-called unicorns were based in China
Between the start of last year through today, that percentage has shot up to 35 percent, while in the United States , the number of
homegrown unicorns has fallen from 61 percent to 41 percent of the overall global number.You could argue that investors are simply assigning
China-based startups overly lofty valuations, as happened here in the United States , and we partly believe that to be true
many crypto- and blockchain-related patents registered in China last year
too, including, least surprisingly, adtech, which has seen a roughly 35 percent drop in funding over the last five years
No doubt that ties directly to the growing dominance of Facebook and Google, which accounted for 73 percent of all United States digital
In this case, while funding for adtech has dropped, virtual reality and augmented reality could well inject some new growth into the
able to produce sizable startups at a meaningful rate, versus Chicago, whose ecosystem is ostensibly three times bigger
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