11 startups that became unicorns last year
Unacademy
Unacademy raised $260 million in funding last year. By the way, the tag of unacademy is let's crack it but it seems that the founder of unacadmey has definitely cracked how to make start up grow. Because they have raised funding three times that year. In February 2020, they raced a $110 million funding round in a Series E round. After that he became a unicorn. Then in September they ran a $150 million funding race in a Series F round. And then in November also they raised an undisclosed amount of funding. After which the valuation of Unacademy has now reached 2 billion dollars. Education related startups have benefited a lot during the pandemic. Because all the schools and colleges were closed during the pandemic and during this time all the students were doing their studies through online, so the education startup got a very good response during the pandemic.
Razarpay
Razorpay raised $100 million in Series D rounds in October 2020. After raising this funding razorpay has become a unicorn. Razorpay has started with a payment gateway, we all know that when the shops were closed in Pandemic, the way of payment had changed, people were paying from the payment gateway when they used to buy any goods online, that's why people of online transactions Used a lot. Razorpay is used by big startups and big companies today and Razorpay is used by more than 8 lakh companies today. And after this funding Razorpay has also become a unicorn.
Postman
Postman has raised $150 million in funding in its Series C round. And after this funding, the valuation of Postman has gone straight from $ 350 million to 2 billion-dollar. Postman has also become a unicorn after raising funding.
Zenoti
The start has raised $160 million in funding in its Series D round. And who has not become this startup even after raising this funding. Basically here startup is a software as a service startup. This Startup Salon Spa targets all these segments and the service provided by zenoti such as online booking, marketing, billing all these things this startup provides.
Zerodha
Zerodha is a stock trading platform. At least 70 thousand to 1 lakh clients used to come to Zerodha every month, but in pendemic this number has doubled. Zerodha has not raised any funding.
Car 24
This company has raised $ 200 million in funding in its Series E round, this company is a used car market company. And this company has also become a unicorn company with the raising of funding.
Pinelabs
This company has raised undisclosed amount of funding in January last year and then raised $100 million funding after that, after which the valuation of this company has become two billion-dollar. The company has been started in 1998 and this company does business in online and offline retail transactions. Here the company has also become a unicorn company.
Nykaa
This company has also raised $22.6 million in funding in its Series F round. Nykaa sells beauty and wellness products. Now nykaa is also focusing on man. And this year Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt have also invested in nykaa.
First cry
This company has raised a funding of $296 million in its Series E round. This company makes products for baby. This company has raised this funding from soft bank. The total valuation of this company has become 1.2 billion dollars and this company has 300 stores in 125 cities.
Dailyhunt
Dailyhunt is a news and content aggregate. And dailyhunt has also raised $100 million in funding and has become a unicorn. It provides Masala News and has partnered with 1300 publications. And it provides content in 14 languages. Their monthly user is also big in Pandemic.
Glance
The company has also raised a funding of $145 million. Here too a unicorn company has been formed, this company gets the content provider through the lock screen.
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