India is home to 100 unicorns across areas that are all in all esteemed at more than $240 billion, a Swiss brokerage said on March 23.

These unicorns, or new companies esteemed at more than $1 billion, are across enterprises, past innovation and tech-empowered areas also, similar to , pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, Credit Suisse India equity strategist Neelkanth Mishra told journalists.

Mishra said 67 percent of these 100 unicorns appeared after 2005 and added that among the recorded organizations' universe, there are 336 scrips instructing a market capitalisation of more than $1 billion.

From an enabling point of view, he said the shortage of risk capital is being tended to by private value finances who have increased their play and further more surpassed public issues, while telecom and infrastructure availability have likewise made a difference.

The monetary innovation (fintech) firms are among the pioneers in the unicorn club, with five new businesses esteemed at more than $22 billion, the brokerage said.

"Indian fintech organizations have pulled in $10 billion of capital and are currently at the front line of India's startup ecosystem," its head of India securities research Ashish Gupta said, attributing the investor to development in computerized payments.

Mishra said from a future point of view, the software as a service (SaaS) area is perhaps the most alluring ones as Indian IT takes the jump toward being an products-led story from being a service delivery-led one.

There are more than 7,000 SaaS organizations in India now and the development has been empowered by tremendous accessibility of IT prepared experts, low affordable expense of business set up, increased adoption of digital technology and accessibility of subsidizing, Mishra said.

He said the education technology area will likewise show a decent interest, and the Edtech market in India is relied upon to grow multiple times by 2025 to $4 billion with a majority of $1.5 billion opportunities resting in the K-12 fragment.

From a topographical spread viewpoint, the unicorns are spread the nation over with Bengaluru being the dominant hub and firmly followed by Delhi NCR and Mumbai.

An ascent in the quantity of unicorns can make more abundance as the business people put the assets in fresher endeavors, Mishra said, adding that he expects a significant number of the unicorns in its list to go world soon.