companies became unicorns, resulting in 119 private companies worldwide valued at $1 billion or more. In a different study done by Harvard Business Review, it was determined that startups founded between 20 were growing in valuation twice as fast as companies from startups founded between 20. At the time, 39 companies were identified as unicorns. 2.3 Increase of private capital availableĪileen Lee originated the term "unicorn" in a 2013 TechCrunch article, "Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar Startups".Other legends tell of the unicorn’s combat with the elephant, whom it finally spears to death with its horn, and of the unicorn’s purifying of poisoned waters with its horn so that other animals may drink. Medieval writers thus likened the unicorn to Christ, who raised up a horn of salvation for mankind and dwelt in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The unicorn leaps into the virgin’s lap, and she suckles it and leads it to the king’s palace. One of the earliest such interpretations appears in the ancient Greek bestiary known as the Physiologus, which states that the unicorn is a strong, fierce animal that can be caught only if a virgin maiden is placed before it. As a biblical animal, the unicorn was interpreted allegorically in the early Christian church. This word was translated “unicorn” or “rhinoceros” in many versions of the Bible, but many modern translations prefer “wild ox” ( aurochs), which is the correct meaning of the Hebrew reʾem. The actual animal behind Ctesias’s description was probably the Indian rhinoceros.Ĭertain poetical passages of the Bible refer to a strong and splendid horned animal called reʾem. It was very fleet of foot and difficult to capture. Those who drank from its horn were thought to be protected from stomach trouble, epilepsy, and poison. 400 bce), who related that the Indian wild ass was the size of a horse, with a white body, purple head, and blue eyes, and on its forehead was a cubit-long horn coloured red at the pointed tip, black in the middle, and white at the base. The earliest description in Greek literature of a single-horned (Greek monokerōs, Latin unicornis) animal was by the historian Ctesias (c. The unicorn appeared in early Mesopotamian artworks, and it also was referred to in the ancient myths of India and China. Unicorn, mythological animal resembling a horse or a goat with a single horn on its forehead. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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