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Vancouver has produced 7 unicorn companies in the past 7 months

Vancouver has produced 7 unicorn companies in the past 7 months

The city has produced six companies worth $1 billion or more in 2021 alone.

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William Johnson
Jun 07, 2021
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Update: At least 13 $1B businesses in British Columbia since December 2020: » Read the new list.

“Welcome to Unicorn Country”

Back in 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee wanted a word to make it easy to describe private tech companies worth $1 billion or more. “I played with different words like ‘home run,’ ‘megahit,’ and they just all sounded kind of ‘bl…

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