Shen Si, the president of the Deep Private Association, said: Capital should gather strength to jointly build the ecosystem of domestic technology unicorns.

On July 16, 2026, the China (Shenzhen) Unicorn Conference was held in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. At the conference, Zuo Ding, Chairman of the Shenzhen Private Equity Fund Industry Association, Director of the Shenzhen Gazelle Unicorn Enterprise Evaluation Committee, and Chairman of Shenzhen Venture Capital, released the "Shenzhen Gazelle Unicorn Enterprise Report 2026". The report stated that there are 47 unicorn companies in Shenzhen, including 4 super unicorns with valuation exceeding 70 billion RMB, 14 newly emerged unicorns, a net increase of 5, with a growth rate of 11.9%, and a total valuation scale close to 1.2 trillion RMB; there are 167 potential unicorn companies, with a net increase of 18 compared to the previous year, a growth rate of 12.08%, and a total valuation of nearly 360 billion RMB; there are 278 seed unicorn companies, with a net increase of 135 compared to the previous year, and a growth rate of 94.41%; there are 401 gazelle enterprises, with a net increase of 186 compared to the previous year and a growth rate of 86.51%, with a total revenue exceeding 150 billion RMB. The listed companies have a strong hard-tech attribute, with semiconductor and integrated circuits, software and information services, intelligent robots, and artificial intelligence being the top four race tracks for the listed companies. Zuo Ding stated that Shenzhen has already built a gradient growth team of "seed unicorn - potential unicorn - unicorn", with a closed-loop full lifecycle cultivation chain, deeply integrated into the development layout of the strategic emerging industry cluster of "20+8" in Shenzhen, continuously providing new productive forces for industrial upgrading.