Also: Former LeoVegas CEO raises $5.8M for virtual dealers, and Trendline Labs' plans to equip prediction market traders with their own Bloomberg Terminal.
Founder Gregory Tolmochow argues "anyone can have an advantage with information," and wants to help equip everyday users with it.
The New York startup's Momentum Markets create new in-game markets from live game events, instead of repricing old ones.
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.
Five finalists. Three minutes each. One stage in Fort Lauderdale, FL on June 11—here's who they are and what they're building.
Benjie Cherniak, who helped see Don Best Sports through to acquisition, now advises early-stage companies, and shared some thoughts during an AMA.
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.
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.
Also: Fast Draft and FantasySpin merge to win over the 60M fantasy players sportsbooks left behind, and ChatBet expands WhatsApp-based betting to LATAM.
Fast Draft founder Matt Kelley says the combined entity plans to “make fantasy great again” by staying focused on the core audience and not deviating to adjacent product segments.
Also: Elastic’s $2M raise to develop AI agents for prediction markets, and how Hydrastack converts land-based slot games into online-ready versions at a fraction of the time and cost.
