The 56 companies — or "minotaurs" — that have raised more than $1 billion

Data: PitchBook; Chart: Chris Canipe/Axios

Here, now: The world's 56 minotaurs — our term for companies that have raised more than $1 billion — generated for Axios by PitchBook. Tap on the graphic to get the names of the companies and how much they've raised.

The big picture: In aggregate, they've raised more than $150 billion of equity capital. That's an average of $2.8 billion each.

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• The two biggest minotaurs are closely affiliated with large public companies: Ant Financial is related to Alibaba, while Juul received $12.8 billion from tobacco giant Altria. Even so, Ant's $14 billion Series C included many big-name American financial investors.
• The fifth-largest minotaur, ByteDance, is the company that owns social network TikTok.
• The largest European minotaur is Auto1, a Germany-based online car dealer that Softbank bought into last year.