USA = Many Highly Valued Private Tech Companies Founded By… st 1 Generation Immigrants Immigrant Country MarketValue Immigrant Country MarketValue Company Founder / Co-Founder of Origin ($B) Company Founder / Co-Founder of Origin ($B) JetSmarter Sergey Petrossov Russia $2 Uber Garrett Camp Canada $72 Warby Parker Dave Gilboa Sweden 2 SpaceX Elon Musk South Africa 25 Carbon3D Alex Ermoshkin Russia 2 Palantir Peter Thiel Germany 21 Infinidat Moshe Yanai Israel 2 WeWork Adam Neumann Israel 21 Tango Uri Raz, Eric Setton Israel / France 2 John Collison, Stripe Ireland 9 Patrick Collison Louay Eldada, Lebanon / Quanergy 2 Wish Peter Szulczewski, Tianyue Yu China Canada 9 (ContextLogic) Danny Zhang Zoox Tim Kentley-Klay Australia 2 Moderna Noubar Afeyan, Armenia / 8 Eventbrite Renaud Visage France 2 Therapeutics Derrick Rossi Canada Apttus Kirk Krappe UK 2 Baiju Bhatt, India / Robinhood 6 Vlad Tenev Bulgaria Cloudflare Michelle Zatlyn Canada 2 Stewart Butterfield, Proteus Digital Canada / Andrew Thompson UK 2 Slack Serguei Mourachov, 5 Health Russia / UK Cal Henderson Guy Haddleton, New Zealand / Anaplan 1 Tanium David Hindawi Iraq 5 Michael Gould UK Rubrik Bipul Sinha India 1 Credit Karma Kenneth Lin China 4 OfferUp Arean Van Veelen Netherlands 1 Houzz Adi Tatarko, Alon Cohen Israel 4 Actifio Ash Ashutosh India 1 Instacart Apoorva Mehta India 4 Gusto Tomer London Israel 1 Bloom Energy KR Sridhar India 3 Medallia Borge Hald Norway 1 Oscar Health Mario Schlosser Germany 3 Nigel Eccles, Unity David Helgason Iceland 3 FanDuel Tom Griffiths, UK 1 Technologies Lesley Eccles Al Goldstein, Uzbekistan / Avant 2 Daniel Saks, John Sun, Paul Zhang China / China AppDirect Canada 1 Nicolas Desmarais Zenefits Laks Srini India 2 Stepan Pachikov, Azerbaijan / Evernote 1 Phil Libin Russia AppNexus Mike Nolet Holland 2 Udacity Sebastian Thrun Germany 1 ZocDoc Oliver Kharraz Germany 2 Daniel Dines, Marius UiPath* Romania 1 Sprinklr Ragy Thomas India 2 Tirca Compass Ori Allon Israel 2 Zoom Video Eric Yuan China 1 Source for Valuation and Founders Backgrounds: Based on analysis by the Wall Street Journal, CB Insights, Forbes and Business Insider Note: Due to varying definitions of unicorns, may not align with various unicorn lists. As of April 2018 there are 105 US-based, venture-backed 291 unicorns (including rumored valuations). *UiPath is headquartered in New York, NY but was originally founded in Romania.