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Comparing unicorn & soonicorn founders in Germany vs Silicon Valley - by founders' gender, origin, and migration background.

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Lets take a look at Germany:

Out of 40 German unicorns/soonicorns:

🇩🇪 White Native - 24 (60%)

🇪🇺 White Non-Native but European migrants - 11 (27.5%)

🌍 Non-European Migrants in German teams - 2 (5%)

🌍 Non-European Migrants solo - 3 (7.5%)

In short: The German unicorn scene is overwhelmingly white - 35 out of 40 (88%) have exclusively white/European founders. Only 5 companies have founders from non-white countries, and of those, 2 teamed up with German co-founders. Just 3 non-European migrants built a German unicorn fully solo.

Based on the data in the database, here's the gender breakdown for German unicorns/soonicorns:

👨 Male - 37 companies (all-male founding teams)
👥 Mixed - 3 companies (male + female co-founders)
👩 Female - 0 companies (no all-female founding teams)

Of the 40 German unicorns/soonicorns, none were founded by an all-female team, and only 3 had any female co-founders. That's 92.5% exclusively male founding teams.

What about Silicon Valley?

🦄 Silicon Valley Gender Breakdown (2026)

👨 Male - ~198 companies (79%) (all-male founding teams)
👥 Mixed - ~45 companies (18%) (male + female co-founders)
👩 Female - ~7 companies (3%) (no all-female founding teams)