What's New in Tech Unicorn 1.9 Our biggest update yet: more story, more strategy, and your startup on your Home Screen. NEW WAYS TO PLAY • Daily Founder Challenge: everyone gets the same founder, market and luck each day. Compete on a new daily Game Center leaderboard. • Crunch Mode: fast-forward 8 hours when you need a push, at the cost of extra energy and stress. • Story chains: six multi-part storylines where your choices come back to shape what happens next. • Founder equity: raising money and hiring now dilute your stake. Track your net worth and climb the new Founder Net Worth leaderboard. • Race to $1B: a live card showing you against your rival founder. • Run timeline: see your key moments charted when a run ends. YOUR STARTUP, EVERYWHERE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your company at a glance. • Live Activity keeps your run on the Lock Screen. • New "While Away" setting: keep playing, let your founder rest, or pause the game while you're away. LOOK & FEEL • Original music and sound effects, with separate Music and Sound FX settings. • 96 new founder mood portraits that react to how your founder is doing. • Day and night office lighting, plus celebration effects. • Better layouts on every iPhone and iPad, and support for larger text sizes. NOW IN 6 LANGUAGES • Español, Français, Deutsch, Português (Brasil) and 日本語. IMPROVEMENTS • Faster launch and smoother gameplay. • Progress now saves automatically as you play. • Many bug fixes and balance improvements.

Version 1.8 — The Art & Journey Update Your startup's world just got a major glow-up: • Meet the new founder cast — 16 beautifully illustrated founders with cinematic portraits, now appearing across the whole game • Watch your surroundings evolve — all-new environment art for every stage, from garage to $1B unicorn • Rebuilt onboarding — a cleaner three-step setup with a helpful first-run guide • Redesigned management dashboard with clearer sections, metric cards, and smoother scrolling • New How to Play guide, profile view, and a catch-up report when you resume a run • Full VoiceOver accessibility support across every screen • More reliable game saves and dozens of stability and layout fixes

Version 1.7 makes Tech Unicorn smoother, cleaner, and more reliable across iPhone and iPad. This update refreshes the milestone visual style, improves layouts for setup, shop, settings, gameplay, game-over, and unicorn screens, makes saved companies more dependable when returning to a run, and improves premium pack purchase/restore handling. Share cards are cleaner, and the game includes additional stability fixes throughout the startup simulation.

New Rival Founder Mode is here. Every run now includes a competing startup founder watching your moves, challenging your market position, and creating new pressure around users, investors, talent, and distribution. This update also adds new rivalry events, a live rival status card in the Strategy view, and onboarding previews that show which rival you’ll face before starting a company. Players who want a tougher challenge can unlock the new Rivalry Pack, which adds advanced rival types including Copycat Builder, Capital Monster, Talent Raider, and Platform Partner.

A brand-new app icon and a bigger, more diverse founder lineup. • New icon. Meet your new Tech Unicorn — chunky glasses, an AirPod, a rainbow party-hat horn, pink cheeks, and a smirk that says "we're shipping at 2 a.m." Comes with proper light, dark, and tinted variants so it looks right on every home screen and on iOS 18's custom tint colors. • A more diverse founder lineup. The persona pool jumped from 12 to 16 to fill obvious gaps. Every group now has more than one face — multiple Black men and Black women, multiple White men and White women, alongside the existing East Asian, South Asian, Latino, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern personas. • Founders are random now. Pick your archetype and you'll roll a random founder from the full 16-persona catalog. Two playthroughs of "The Hacker" can look like completely different people — there's no longer a hidden archetype-to-face mapping anyone could memorize. • Names that match their faces. Every team member you hire now gets a culturally-coherent name that fits their persona. Imani Carter looks like Imani Carter; Marcus Johnson looks like Marcus Johnson. No more name/face mismatches. • Bug fix. The dreadlocks persona's locs now hang on the sides of the face instead of curtaining across the eyes.