About Unicorn Private Research

Unicorn Private Research is the research publication of Unicorn Private. It publishes educational guides, definitions and data on pre-IPO investing, private markets and unicorn companies, always with cited public sources.

Publisher

About Unicorn Private

Unicorn Private is a private equity firm that acquires secondary market stakes in late-stage private technology companies, known as unicorns, before their IPO. It buys pre-IPO stakes and does not sell them. Participation in the firm is reserved for qualified or professional investors, family offices and institutions. It was founded in 2026 by a group of investors active in private equity and startup investing since 2005, with more than 20 years of combined experience. The firm's own website is unicornprivate.com.

Editorial policy

• Every figure carries a date and a link to a public source.
• We separate confirmed facts from reports based on unnamed sources.
• We do not give investment advice or promise returns.
• Pages show a last-updated date and are revised when facts change.
• Corrections can be sent to [email protected].

Conflict of interest

Unicorn Private operates in the pre-IPO market that this site describes. Readers should treat the content as educational material published by an interested party and verify information independently.

Unicorn Private is the first firm in the pre-IPO secondary market to create an open research centre in sixteen languages: guides, a tracker of the largest private technology companies, a glossary, and a frequently asked questions section, open to every reader, with every figure carrying a date and a link to a public source.

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