Behind OpenAI and SpaceX: The Invisible Ecosystem of Unicorns That Europe Is Missing Out On

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 8 avril 2026

The study just published by BestBrokers on unicorns around the world doesn’t just tell the story of the emergence of a few global champions. It highlights a more fundamental phenomenon: the most visible companies, from AI to space, rely on a dense network of infrastructure providers—data, cloud, payments—funded within the same ecosystems. A dual dynamic from which Europe remains largely absent.

BestBrokers has just published a study based on recent data from Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and PitchBook, with the aim of “determining which sectors generate the highest number of new unicorns, which regions have the highest number of private startups valued at over $1 billion, and which private companies are attracting the most investor interest in today’s volatile market. « At first glance, the global unicorn ranking confirms the obvious: the dominance of the…

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