Wall Street’s High-Stakes Gamble: Kalshi’s $300 Million Raise Ignites Prediction Market Wars
Kalshi’s $300 Million Cash Infusion and Rapid Ascent Kalshi’s latest funding round – over $300 million at a $5 billion valuation – marks one of the largest bets yet on the emerging prediction market industry tradingview.com. The startup, founded by young MIT graduates in 2018, became the first federally regulated events exchange in the U.S. after gaining CFTC approval in 2020. Investors have now more than doubled Kalshi’s valuation since June, when it was valued at $2 billion following a $185 million Series C tradingview.com. The hefty new round was led by top-tier Silicon Valley firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, joined by crypto-focused backers like