Abstract:Through literature review and analysis of the overall situation of unicorn companies, the following four factors are the key factors affecting the growth of unicorn companies: founder characteristics (founder’s academic degree and concurrent CEO), enterprise innovation abilities, business growth years and regional factors. By collecting relevant data of 51 unicorn enterprises in 2018 in China, using linear regression and quadratic function nonlinear regression method to test the relationship between the first three factors and the growth of unicorn enterprises; By collecting data on 36 cities and corresponding unicorn companies in 2017 in China,the relationship between regional factors and the growth of unicorn enterprises was tested by the location influence factor method. The empirical research found that: ①founder’s academic degree and concurrent CEO of the company are necessary and insufficient conditions for the growth of the unicorn enterprise; ② the innovation ability of the enterprise has a positive influence on the growth of the unicorn enterprise, and the growth time of the company has a significant impact on the growth of the unicorn company and there is a best growth time of about 6 years;③The city's new economic development level and high-quality population have a significant positive impact on the growth of unicorn enterprises.