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.
The Hydrastack co-founders are building an AI-powered platform that converts land-based casino games to online in weeks—solving a supply chain problem that's frustrated manufacturers, operators, and players for years.
Also: eyeDP closed a seed round to scale document fraud detection, and GridGorilla plans to reinvent the Super Bowl squares format into something digital, and bigger.
Co-founders Nathan Thomas and Brett Debari are bootstrapping a patented squares-style prediction game, and why they see it as a low-friction onboarding funnel for the broader real-money gaming category.
Also: We’re partnering with Defy The Odds to elevate startups and founders, and why LuckyDraw thinks prize draws can help operators court customers.
Former Bragg executive Yaniv Spielberg says anyone can win money, but customers will always remember the operator that gave them World Cup tickets or a Rolex watch.
CEO Nigel Eccles outlines BetHog’s ambitious plans to roll out AI dealers through its new B2B arm, Sentient Studios.
