Europe saw a unicorn rebound in 2025: 27 companies crossed the $1bn valuation mark, making it the third most prolific unicorn-creating year on record, behind only the boom years of 2021 and 2022.
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Hessa Alabbas is a data analyst at Sifted, based in London. You can find her on LinkedIn.

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