Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, August 15th.

Today on Forbes, Forbes Next Billion

Dollar Startups list has accurately predicted 100 plus unicorns in 10 years.

This year was the 10th year in a row that Forbes teamed up with Truebridge Capital Partners

to search for the 25 U.S. backed companies most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation.

Of the list's 225 alumni, 131, or 58 percent, became unicorns, including Door Dash, Figma, Andoril, Benchling, and Ripling.

Although 21 of those are now worth less than 1 billion dollars.

42 were acquired.

Only 3, 1%, went public for less than 1 billion dollars.

There have been surprisingly few disasters,

just five startups imploded or shut down,

most spectacularly,

Microbiome startup U biome,

an alum of the 2018 list, which liquidated after being rated by

the FBI over its billing practices.

Only the tiniest fraction of the nation's tens of thousands of venture-backed startups will ever reach a billion dollar valuation.

When Forbes first launched this list in partnership with Truebridge in 2015,

the goal was to find those that looked poised to become

unicorns well before they became household names. From the start the list

was grounded in quantitative analysis based on data provided by companies on metrics that include

revenue, revenue growth, valuation, valuation growth, and head count.

One of the standout companies that first year was TANiam, the cybersecurity startup

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