This week: EDGE Markets courts $29.2M for payment rails

Also: BettingStartups Capital fields founders’ questions during an AMA, and WagerWire’s plans to develop a prediction market platform on the back of its pending Gibraltar license.

BettingStartups Capital on what makes them write a check—and what sends them away

Partners Jesse Learmonth and Paris Smith took live questions from founders in a Defy the Odds AMA, covering due diligence, AI, and the frothiness they're seeing in the PM space.

PlaySignal wants to reach at-risk players before self-exclusion, and not after

The London-based startup is building a real-time, player-facing RG tool—and argues the industry's current approach is intervening too late.

This week: SpeedLabs raises $6.5M to create new sports markets from in-game moments

Also: Former LeoVegas CEO raises $5.8M for virtual dealers, and Trendline Labs' plans to equip prediction market traders with their own Bloomberg Terminal.

Trendline Labs wants to close the information gap between casual and pro prediction market traders

Founder Gregory Tolmochow argues "anyone can have an advantage with information," and wants to help equip everyday users with it.

SpeedLabs raises $6.5M to create new sports markets from in-game moments

The New York startup's Momentum Markets create new in-game markets from live game events, instead of repricing old ones.

Waterhouse VC: Hearts and Goliath

This week: Meet the five startups competing for $100K at First Pitch

Also: Benjie Cherniak lays out what founders should know before they pitch in an AMA, and Betr acquires an introducing broker to fast track a path to prediction markets later this year.

Meet the five startups pitching at SBC Summit Americas 2026

Five finalists. Three minutes each. One stage in Fort Lauderdale, FL on June 11—here's who they are and what they're building.

What a gaming industry veteran wants founders to know before they pitch

Benjie Cherniak, who helped see Don Best Sports through to acquisition, now advises early-stage companies, and shared some thoughts during an AMA.

This week: Hedge funds are coming for sports betting, prediction market arbitrage

Also: SBC reveals the lineup of startups heading to First Pitch next month, and how Soap Payments plans to clean up a messy payment landscape for operators.

Payments are messy for operators, and Soap Payments wants to clean it up

Filip Michalsky and his co-founders are building the payments layer that real-money gaming operators have always needed but had to cobble together themselves.