Prediction markets price the future.
They’re among some of the best mechanisms we have for aggregating information, expressing beliefs, and turning knowledge into probabilities.
From elections to product launches to sports and culture – we are increasingly seeing these markets evolve into a new financial tool.
Over the last two years, prediction markets have rapidly matured from a niche research phenomena into a product category attracting broader participation and expanding into more venues, events, and more use cases.
Despite these markets growing in signal, importance, and appeal, the trading experience hasn’t kept pace, and today, it fails to match the category’s ambition.
The market is evolving faster than its tools.
Enter Kairos: a unified terminal for prediction markets.
There’s a growing class of sophisticated participants looking to trade prediction markets using the cutting-edge technology used in the world’s biggest asset classes. Until today, these tools have been largely absent from prediction markets.
Kairos brings trading experience to the frontier with a single, composable interface that enables seamless trading across venues—engineered for speed and performance.
Kairos was founded by Jay Malavia & Zayd Alzein. Jay previously worked in quantitative research at CBOE, where he contributed to early prediction markets initiatives, as well as data science at Geneva Trading and ML engineering at NASA. Zayd worked on low-latency data streaming and orderbook reconstruction at CBOE, and built execution infrastructure for Solana trading platforms.
They have a deep passion for prediction markets and an even stronger affinity for building cutting-edge trading products. Their ambitious vision for this category and meticulous attention to every pixel and millisecond that affect the trading experience led us to today.
We believe prediction markets are only in their early innings, and tools like Kairos that support real traders, real liquidity, and real performance will accelerate their next leg of growth.
We’re thrilled to support them on their mission and are excited to announce that a16z crypto is leading Kairos’ $2.5M seed round.
