Fortune evaluation of the TOP 11 'Unicorns'. They’re called “unicorns”—companies that have soared to a $1 billion valuation or higher, based on fundraising. See Fortune’s list of unicorn startups below, ranked by valuation. (Where there are ties, rankings are based on alphabetical order.) The list is based on a combination of data from PitchBook, CB Insights, news reports, and our own investigation.

1. DISRUPTIVE
STARTUPS
UNICORNSaka
based on
updates by
Fortune
25 August 2015
by
Amit Jadhav
www.amitjadhavs.com

2. Photograph by Brent Lewin — Bloomberg via Getty Images
$51B
Valuation
CEO - Travis Kalanick
2009
Founded
San
Francisco
H.O.

3. Photograph by ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images
$46B
Valuation
CEO - Lei Jun
2010
Founded
Beijing
H.O.

4. Photograph by Robyn Twomey
$25.5B
Valuation
CEO - Brain Chesky
2008
Founded
San
Francisco
H.O.

5. Courtesy of Palantir
$20B
Valuation
CEO - Alex Karp
2004
Founded
Palo
Alto
H.O.

6. Photograph by Jae C. Hong — AP
$16B
Valuation
CEO - Evan Spiegel
2012
Founded
Venice
CA
H.O.

7. Photograph by Imaginechina/AP
$15B
Valuation
CEO - Wei Cheng
Dexter Chuanwei Lu
2012
Founded
Beijing
H.O.
Didi Kuaidi

8. Co-founders Sachin Bansal, CEO, left and Binny Bansal, COO.
Courtesy of Flipkart
$15B
Valuation
CEO
Sachin Bansal
2007
Founded
Bangalore
H.O.

9. Photograph by Benjamin Lowy — Getty Images/Fortune
$12B
Valuation
2002
Founded
Hawthorne
CA
H.O.
CEO - Elon Musk

10. Photograph by Tomohiro Ohsumi — Bloomberg
via Getty Images
$11B
Valuation
2008
Founded
San
Francisco
H.O.
CEO - Ben Silbermann

11. Photograph by Tristan Fewings — Getty Images
$10.4B
Valuation
2007
Founded
San
Francisco
H.O.
CEO - Drew Houston

12. Photograph by Lauren Kallen — WeWork
$10B
Valuation
2010
Founded
New
York
H.O.
CEO - Adam Neumann

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