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Railbird (YC W22) — A futures market for events

At Railbird, we are building a prediction market exchange designed to hedge and mitigate risk for the services sector. The Railbird team has years of experience analyzing companies in the service sector and has seen firsthand how little opportunity there is to hedge risk in volatile markets like hospitality, tourism, recreation, entertainment, and sports.

Railbird is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: A futures market for events. The founder listed is Miles Saffran (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 17, 2022).

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Railbird

New accelerator entry · 2022-02-17 · the record

Winter 2022
batch
8
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2022
Announced2022-02-17
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size8
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsFintech, Marketplace
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNew York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.railbirdexchange.com/

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At Railbird, we are building a prediction market exchange designed to hedge and mitigate risk for the services sector. The Railbird team has years of experience analyzing companies in the service sector and has seen firsthand how little opportunity there is to hedge risk in volatile markets like hospitality, tourism, recreation, entertainment, and sports. The platform is designed to be open to all traders.

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Last updated 2026-10-20
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