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The number of new unicorns on The Crunchbase 糖心视频 continued to fall, with 12 companies joining the board in August 2022.

That number remains the lowest count since August 2020, when nine unicorns joined the board. The 12 new unicorns added $19 billion in value to the board in August, which is still down from July when 14 new companies added $26 billion in value.

China brought two transportation unicorns to the board with a new electric vehicle company and a robo taxi service. Other overseas unicorns include an e-commerce wholesaler from Korea, a delivery platform in India, and a fintech application from Indonesia. The seven new unicorns from the U.S. focus on healthtech, blockchain, energy and entertainment.听

Of the new unicorns, enjoys the highest number of investors, with 44 including and . And counts 31 investors including and .听

Transport

• Shanghai-based electric vehicle company raised a Series A funding of $444 million valued at $4.4 billion. The company was jointly created by the and .
• Chinese state-owned automaker SAIC鈥檚 autonomous taxi service arm raised $193 million at a value of around $1 billion. Based in Shanghai, SAIC Mobility is partnering with autonomous vehicle provider to develop the service.听

E-commerce and logistics

• South Korea-based , a wholesaler for buyers and sellers of agricultural produce, raised a $37 million Series D at a value of $2.7 billion led by . It last raised a $60 million funding a year ago led by .
• New Delhi-based e-commerce logistics platform for shipping raised $33 million at a value of $1.3 billion. The funding was led by existing investors and.

Health care

• Nurse recruitment platform , based in San Francisco, raised an $80 million Series B led by and New York-based . The company was valued at $1.7 billion. The company also it鈥檚 signing up more than 10,000 nurses every week and has reduced the average time to hire from 82 days to 14.
• Cambridge-based biotech raised $221 million at a $1.5 billion valuation led by . The company is developing RNA therapeutics to treat cancer, infectious diseases and genetic disorders.听

Web3

• Northern California-based , a blockchain billing and payments platform for business- to-business transactions, acquired Mexico-based , reaching a unicorn valuation through the transaction. Together, the companies have processed $5 billion in payments and connected 500,000 businesses.
• San Francisco-based raised $8.5 million, which valued the company at $1 billion. Zebec is built on the Solana blockchain, and its first product allows users to receive their payroll in USDC or stablecoins. , and invested in the funding.听

Entertainment

• New York-based ticketing platform raised a $238 million Series E valued at $1.2 billion, led by , which also led its Series B. The company raised funding as it pulled back on a SPAC deal.听

Energy

• Washington state-based nuclear energy company raised $750 million in funding led by , its founder and chairman, and South Korea-based . TerraPower is a developer of nuclear energy solutions as well as nuclear medicine.听

Fintech

• Indonesia-based , a digital wallet application, has raised $555 million, some of it in a secondary financing. Now valued at more than $1 billion, the company is part owned by . The funding was led by and . The company says it has 115 million users in Indonesia for its fintech application.听

Real Estate

• Residential real estate company , founded by , raised $350 million in an initial funding led by , valuing the company at $1 billion. The company is based in New York and is seeking to build a new service model for renters and homeownership.听

Methodology

Funding rounds included in this report are seed, angel, venture, corporate-venture and private-equity rounds in venture-backed companies. This reflects data in Crunchbase as of Sept. 7, 2022.听

The Crunchbase 糖心视频 is a curated list that includes private unicorn companies with post-money valuations of $1 billion or more and is based on Crunchbase data. New companies are as they reach the $1 billion valuation mark as part of a funding round.听

Funding to unicorn companies includes all private financings to companies that are tagged as unicorns, as well as those that have since graduated to .听

Please note that all funding values are given in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Crunchbase converts foreign currencies to U.S. dollars at the prevailing spot rate from the date funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs and other financial events are reported. Even if those events were added to Crunchbase long after the event was announced, foreign currency transactions are converted at the historic spot price.

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