All China Unicorns between 2014 and 2020 (Part I)

As a venture capitalist who focuses on Greater Southeast Asia market, I want to get some hints on which sector to look at, by analyzing what kinds of startups have grown rapidly and/or received massive funding and became unicorns in a somewhat similar market, China.
And since timing is one of the most important factors in venture investment, I also want to find out in what order that each sector has seen a rapid growth.
On the other hand, I will point out the companies that had been shut down, despite their unicorn status, and study their failures in future blog articles.
I also hope that the potential entrepreneurs in Greater Southeast Asia as well as people who are interested in working at startup companies could start thinking about which industry or sector they should enter.

For part I, I will simply consolidate the lists of unicorns I found through my research, and provide basic information for each company.
For later on, I will tag each company with multiple labels, such as “fintech”, “vertical EC”, “established by large corporates”, “established in less than 3 years”, “merged with competitor later on”, etc., and visualize the result with charts and graphs.

All China Unicorns – Companies that already became Unicorns before 2014:

Companies that became Unicorns in 2014:

All China Unicorns – Companies that became Unicorns in 2015:

All China Unicorns – Companies that became Unicorns in 2016:

All China Unicorns – Companies that became Unicorns in 2017:

Companies that became Unicorns in 2018:

All China Unicorns – Companies that became Unicorns in 2019:

All China Unicorns – Companies that became Unicorns in 2020:

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