(Israel21c) Abigail Klein Leichman - A privately held company worth $1 billion is known as a unicorn. Israel has more unicorns per capita than any other country. "Counting just the unicorns that have their main operations or headquarters in Israel, the count is 14," says Yaron Samid of the TechAviv Israeli startup founders club. "With a population of just 8.9 million, that's 1.58 unicorns per capita and makes Israel No. 1 in the world." If you count all Israeli-founded unicorns, regardless of their HQ location, "the count is a staggering 41 unicorns." Silicon Valley houses 12 Israeli-founded unicorns and New York is home to 9. These do not include Israeli companies that had unicorn valuation when private but have gone public - such as JFrog, Lemonade, Fiverr, Checkmarx and Waze.
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