ParlayX wins First Pitch at SBC Summit Americas 2026

Before last week’s SBC conference, Andrew Gonzalez had never delivered a pitch. He left anyway with $100,000.

ParlayX, Gonzalez's institutional infrastructure play for prediction markets, was named the winner of First Pitch at SBC Summit Americas in Fort Lauderdale on June 11—taking home a prize package valued at over $100,000 after beating four other finalists from across the industry.

The company describes itself as a middleware routing layer for institutions looking to access prediction markets without building the underlying blockchain infrastructure themselves. Rather than having each institution piece together their own connections to venues like Kalshi or Polymarket and hire a crypto dev team, ParlayX provides a single integration point, an OTC network for counterparty trading, and the compliance and tax reporting that institutional clients expect. Gonzalez's reference point for what he's building: Bloomberg or Fireblocks, but for prediction markets.