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Last updated: July 5, 2026, 2:30 PM ET

Venture Capital & Unicorns

The pace of new "unicorn" valuations accelerated this year, with nearly 90 startups achieving the $1 billion-plus threshold, fueled by intense investor interest in artificial intelligence. Among these, the relatively unknown Italian tech firm Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, has quietly amassed a portfolio serving over a billion users, underscoring the potential for significant, yet underrecognized, growth in the venture capital space.