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Kalshi (YC W19) — 1st federally regulated exchange where people can trade on events

Kalshi (www.kalshi.com) is the first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of events. We built Kalshi because we believe that people should be able to capitalize on what they know and have opinions on.

Kalshi is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: 1st federally regulated exchange where people can trade on events. The founders listed are Luana Lopes Lara (Founder), Tarek Mansour (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 1, 2018).

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Kalshi

New accelerator entry · 2018-11-01 · the record

Winter 2019
batch
125
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2019
Announced2018-11-01
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size125
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsTrading
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNew York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://www.kalshi.com

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Kalshi (www.kalshi.com) is the first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of events. We built Kalshi because we believe that people should be able to capitalize on what they know and have opinions on. We make this possible by expanding what people can trade on and allowing them trade in the domain of everyday knowledge. Kalshi is developing a new asset class, “event contracts,” and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events: we are federally regulated by the CFTC as the first-ever legal futures exchange in the U.S. for trading on a broad category of events.

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