Strategy & Portfolio
Unicorn Hunting
An investment strategy focused exclusively on finding and investing in potential unicorn companies (those likely to reach $1B+ valuation).
Unicorn hunting is an investment approach where a VC fund optimizes its entire strategy around identifying and investing in companies with the potential to reach billion-dollar valuations. This typically means investing only in large addressable markets, backing highly ambitious founders, and accepting higher failure rates in exchange for the chance at massive outlier returns. The strategy is driven by venture's power law dynamics.
In Practice
The fund's unicorn hunting strategy meant passing on a profitable $100M outcome company to invest in a moonshot with 95% failure probability but the potential to return the entire fund.
Why It Matters
Unicorn hunting is mathematically rational for large funds where only billion-dollar outcomes move the needle. But it can lead to irrational deal pricing and overlooks the many viable businesses that generate strong returns below $1B.
VC Beast Take
Not every great investment needs to be a unicorn. Some of the best risk-adjusted returns come from the 'boring' companies that return 5-10x reliably.
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