{"id":222235,"date":"2025-09-21T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nearly-half-of-us-unicorn-founders-were-born-outside-the-us-immigrants-are-crucial-for-us-innovation-our-research-revealed-that-65-countries-apart-from-the-us-have-produced-at-least-one-founder"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:03:10","slug":"nearly-half-of-us-unicorn-founders-were-born-outside-the-us-immigrants-are-crucial-for-us-innovation-our-research-revealed-that-65-countries-apart-from-the-us-have-produced-at-least-one-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nearly-half-of-us-unicorn-founders-were-born-outside-the-us-immigrants-are-crucial-for-us-innovation-our-research-revealed-that-65-countries-apart-from-the-us-have-produced-at-least-one-founder","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of US Unicorn Founders Were Born Outside the US. Immigrants are crucial for US innovation: our research revealed that 65 countries (apart from the US) have produced at least one founder\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearly-half-of-us-unicorn-founders-were-born-outside-the-us-immigrants-are-crucial-for-us-innovation-our-research-revealed-that-65-countries-apart-from-the-us-have-produced-at-least-one-founder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immigrants are crucial for US innovation: our research revealed that 65 countries (apart from the US) have produced at least one founder of a US unicorn. Here is the list of countries with 10 or more US unicorn founders by continent:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Europe: The United Kingdom leads with 31 founders, followed by Germany (18), France (17), Russia (14), Ukraine (12), and Ireland (10).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Asia: India leads with 90 founders, followed by Israel (52), China (27), and Taiwan (12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants are crucial for US innovation: our research revealed that 65 countries (apart from the US) have produced at least one founder of a US unicorn. Here is the list of countries with 10 or more US unicorn founders by continent: \u2022 Europe: The United Kingdom leads with 31 founders, followed by Germany (18), France [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}