{
  "id": 13181794,
  "title": "A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/a-record-42-startups-became-decacorns-so-far-in-2026-beating-2021s-34",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-09T18:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/decacorns-record-venture-capital"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We're in the golden age of decacorns. — The average time from launch to decacorn has been cut in nearly half, and some decacorns arrive literally overnight.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}