Top 5 Startups of 2025

Happy Monday.

As quickly as the year started, we bid 2025 farewell.

And what a year it was!

This year, we:

• Delivered over 3 million emails and doubled in readership

• Launched our new design in June after four years of weekly covers

• Announced our official investor syndicate (check out the announcement post for more details on how to invest in our deals)

• Hosted 20 events for over 5,000 people across the country, reaching SF, NYC, LA, Miami, and Salt Lake City

• Partnered with incredible brands like Bolt.new, Fidelity Private Shares, Mercury, Sydecar, Sunset, Intercom, and more

The party is just getting started. Whether you’ve been with us since 2020 or joined us last week, we’re happy to have you here for the ride.

Enjoy this selection of our top five startups from this year’s Unicorner covers. We chose these five mostly based on your input and votes. You can vote for startups you like at the bottom of each Unicorner article!

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Not many companies can command the mindshare of many consumers. Superpower took the world by storm with its 100+ biomarker health testing for $499. Since our cover, the team has dropped that price of entry to $199, continuing to double down on what makes it special. We have no doubt that this is a superb team that will continue to delight in 2026.

And if you haven’t already, check out our live fireside with Superpower co-founder Max Marchione.

Check out the cover: Superpower

When it comes to innovation, no progress is possible without core infrastructure. Fundamentally, infrastructure can’t exist without construction. Bedrock Robotics impresses us because it combines this massive opportunity with a stellar team and product. While construction is not sexy, the biggest successes tend to be the most overlooked.

Check out the cover: Bedrock Robotics

While the world is focused on AI (as it should be), there is a budding space economy that might be the world’s next fascination. In that universe (pun intended), any company that can solve basic financial problems will have a bright future. Starfish Space is making one of the most critical costs, satellite maintenance, affordable. And as more satellites go up, it’s guaranteed to have a long list of customers.

Check out the cover: Starfish Space

Ever wondered if you could clone yourself with AI? This is one of the great promises of AI, and Delphi is after it. It enables anyone to train a digital version of themself, available as text, voice, and video, and scale it. For people with large audiences, this provides the double benefit of being available for 1:1 conversations around the clock and insights into what their audience is interested in.

Check out the cover: Delphi

In the startup space, the numbers don’t lie. In the case of Finalis, the numbers point to a promising future. With hundreds of billions in active deal flow and hundreds of financial institutions, it is making much more than a dent in private market compliance. Its success fuels its future successes, too, through the exclusive data its positions allows it.

Check out the cover: Finalis

Before we close out the year, let’s take a moment to recognize the outstanding team that has been bringing you Unicorner. Every article is crafted to perfection by these wonderful folks. Thank you for all the care and quality you’ve brought in 2025, and to an even bigger 2026!