Project - Analyzing Unicorn Companies

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You have been asked to support an investment firm by analyzing trends in high-growth companies. They are interested in understanding which industries are producing the highest valuations and the rate at which new high-value companies are emerging. Providing them with this information gives them a competitive insight as to industry trends and how they should structure their portfolio looking forward.

You have been given access to their unicorns database, which contains the following tables:

dates

Column	Description
company_id	A unique ID for the company.
date_joined	The date that the company became a unicorn.
year_founded	The year that the company was founded.

funding

Column	Description
company_id	A unique ID for the company.
valuation	Company value in US dollars.
funding	The amount of funding raised in US dollars.
select_investors	A list of key investors in the company.

industries

Column	Description
company_id	A unique ID for the company.
industry	The industry that the company operates in.

companies

Column	Description
company_id	A unique ID for the company.
company	The name of the company.
city	The city where the company is headquartered.
country	The country where the company is headquartered.
continent	The continent where the company is headquartered.

DataFrameas

df

variable

SELECT i.industry,
COUNT(i.company_id)AS num_unicorns
FROM industries i
JOIN dates d
ON i.company_id = d.company_id
WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) IN ('2019','2020','2021')
GROUP BY i.industry
ORDER BY num_unicorns DESC
LIMIT 3

DataFrameas

df

variable

WITH top_performers AS(
SELECT i.industry,
COUNT(i.company_id)AS num_unicorns
FROM industries i
JOIN dates d
ON i.company_id = d.company_id
WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) IN ('2019','2020','2021')
GROUP BY i.industry
ORDER BY num_unicorns DESC
LIMIT 3)

SELECT i.industry,
EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) AS year,
COUNT(c.company_id) AS num_unicorns,
ROUND(AVG(f.valuation)/1000000000,2) as average_valuation_billions
FROM companies c
JOIN industries i
ON c.company_id = i.company_id
JOIN dates d
ON c.company_id = d.company_id
JOIN funding f
ON c.company_id = f.company_id
WHERE industry IN(SELECT top_performers.industry FROM top_performers)
    AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) IN ('2019','2020','2021')
GROUP BY i.industry,year
ORDER BY i.industry,year DESC