Kalshi is a New York-based contract markets company operating an exchange for trading on the outcomes of real-world events. The platform allows users to buy and sell yes-or-no “event contracts” on topics ranging from macroeconomic indicators and elections to sports games and cultural trends. As the first U.S. exchange of its kind under U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversight, Kalshi aims to provide a legally compliant environment for event-driven trading nationwide.
Founded: 2018
| Tarek Mansour Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
| Luana Lopes Lara Co-Founder |
| Saurabh Tejwani Chief Financial Officer |
Prediction market platform Kalshi’s CEO Tarek Mansour confirmed the company is in the early stages of planning a potential IPO in an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Mansour said a public markets debut of the company won’t come this year, but that it makes sense for Kalshi at this stage of its growth to begin thinking about an IPO.
Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour discusses the increased utilization of hedging at the Bloomberg Market Structure Conference.
Prediction market platform Kalshi is rolling out a new index to measure which political party has a firmer grip on power in Washington, the company shared exclusively with Axios.