Abstract:Unicorn companies, as technology innovators and economic growth indicators, have infused significant dynamism into the city's economic development and technological innovation. This study focuses on unicorn companies in Beijing, with gazelle companies as a contrastive reference. First, the study constructs a profile label system for unicorns using the principles of comprehensiveness, relativity and high-growth characteristics. Next, key characteristics of companies are identified through Gower distance calculation, optimal feature binning and contrastive learning model. Finally, the key characteristics of unicorn companies in Beijing are visualized with word cloud technology. Specifically, a total of 170 Unicorn companies and 11,385 Gazelle companies were collected, and the Unicorn company portrait labels with 30 labels were constructed from 8 dimensions. Subsequently, on the basis of the initial sample set, the Gower distance was used to select the gazelle company comparison set for the Unicorn company experimental set, and the numerical features were discretized based on the optimal information value, and then a total of 4 clusters of Unicorn company's personality characteristics, 10 clusters of gazelle company's personality characteristics, and 5 clusters of common characteristics of the companies were identified using the common and distinctive topic model. Finally, the word cloud map was used to draw 7 company key characteristics portraits. The study indicates that unicorn companies in Beijing exhibit excellent financing performance, active outbound investment, a high level of technological innovation in patented inventions, but the international patents should be improved. In addition, high-risk issues concerning these companies warrant attention. To this end, Unicorn companies need to pay attention to the rational utilisation of funds and further enhance their outbound investment activity by ensuring the accuracy and long-term sustainability of their investments, and more importantly, establish a sound legal team and formulate a clear and legally compliant corporate development policy to avoid potential legal disputes. The findings provide valuable insights to the cultivation and development of unicorn companies and contribute to the economic growth of Beijing.