Billion Dollar Unicorns: Aiwujiwu Rides High on Chinese Real Estate Sector

The residential real estate market is a high growth industry in China. According to an Ibisworld report, the industry grew 9% annually over the last five years to be worth $949 billion in 2015. The industry is also not immune to the advancement of Internet in the country. There is an increasing presence of an online-to-offline model where online portals such as SouFun and Leju not only help facilitate buying and selling of houses but also offer additional services geared towards the home owner. Then there are several smaller ones that are creating a ripple by creating pricing wars and following a niche market focus. One such player is Billion Dollar Unicorn Aiwujiwu.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Quanergy Rides Into the Club

Self-driving seems to be the hot, new sector for funding. General Motors this year bought autonomous-driving startup Cruise Automation for $1 billion while other leading automakers like Mercedes, BMW, and Tesla are also making large investments in this sector. Self-Driving car startup Zoox raised $200 million this year at a billion dollar valuation. And now, all this attention in the sector is working in favor of Quanergy Systems, which makes sensors for self-driving cars and has just joined the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club. >>>

2016 IPO Prospects: Deliveroo Delivers its Way to the Bank

Market reports estimate that in the UK, online orders account for 40% of all food delivery compared with 8% market share in 2008. Deliveroo is one company that has helped drive this percentage upwards. The company is fast approaching the Billion Dollar Unicorn status and is also expected to be an IPO prospect.

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HPE Goes Ultra Lean

After its $8.5 billion spin-merger of its Enterprise Service business with Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) last quarter, HP Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has just announced an $8.8 billion deal to spin-merge its non-core software assets with Micro Focus. Hybrid cloud will be the focus for the new HP Enterprise while HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) continued to struggle with declining printing revenues. >>>

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Go-Jek Hails its Way into the Club

It isn’t every day that one comes across a Billion Dollar Unicorn club member out of the South East Asian islands. Recently though, a localized ride-sharing and other sharing services provider Go-Jek has made big news by announcing its entry into the club.

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Blue Nile Experimenting with Online to Offline Model

According to a Research and Markets report, the global jewelry market is projected to grow 5% annually to be worth $257 billion in 2017. The online fine jewelry market accounts for 4%–5% of this market and is expected to grow at a much faster rate to be worth 10% of the market share by 2020.
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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hike is the Latest Entrant from India

According to eMarketer, the global mobile phone messaging apps user base grew 32% over the year to 1.4 billion consumers in 2015 and is expected to grow to 2.19 billion users by the year 2019. Over-the-top (OTT) mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and WeChat, have shown heavy usage in Asia-Pacific, which accounts for 58% of the world’s messaging app population. Latin America has the biggest usage with 68.1% of mobile internet users using a mobile messaging app once a month. India’s home-grown service Hike is the latest member to join the Billion Dollar Unicorn club in the sector.

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Salesforce’s Buying Spree

The year 2016 has seen the valuations of quite a few cloud companies drop as they’re unable to grow at quite the frantic pace that investors demand. But bigger companies like Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) are milking this opportunity by going on a buying spree. >>>