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It\u2019s a rote<\/span> story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries\u00a0are falling, leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies.<\/p>\n That\u2019s true when we consider nation-level populations. It\u2019s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the pace at which global startups reach the $1 billion valuation threshold. Once rare, unicorns became far more pedestrian during the 2020-2021 peak of the last venture capital cycle. What\u2019s old is new again \u2014 we\u2019re seeing unicorn formation slow.<\/p>\n And rapidly. Per Crunchbase data, the rate at which unicorns are being born has fallen nearly 80% from its peak, which was notably reached one year ago.<\/p>\n That unicorn formation is slowing should not surprise; after all, we\u2019ve seen a deceleration in the pace at which prime unicorn rounds were disbursed. With mega-rounds slowing, it makes sense that fewer startups are able to raise new funding that pushes their valuation above the $1 billion mark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a rote story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries\u00a0are falling, leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies. That\u2019s true when we consider nation-level populations. It\u2019s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From a trickle to a rush to a trickle<\/h2>\n