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Kalshi Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Kalshi is valued at $40B as of October 2026, a 10.0x revenue multiple. Kalshi revenue was $4B, as disclosed with its latest round.
Last Kalshi valuation
$40B
Series G · Oct 2026
Last Kalshi funding round
$1B
Series G · Oct 2026
Kalshi revenue
$4B
Series G · Oct 2026
Key investors in Kalshi
Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Y Combinator
Paradigm
Coatue
Morgan Stanley
About Kalshi
Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange enabling trades on event outcomes in economics, climate, public health, media, and international affairs. New York-based since its 2021 launch, the platform offers granular markets beyond traditional stocks or bonds, providing direct exposure to specific trends. Kalshi serves retail and institutional investors with cash-settled contracts on over 1,000 monthly events.
Founded
2018
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B & B2C
Revenue model
Commission
Revenue
$4B (Oct 2026)
Valuation
$40B (Oct 2026)
Kalshi Valuation
Kalshi is currently valued at $40B, based on its Series G in October 2026. Read the announcement ↗
The $1B round was led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Dragoneer, Andreessen Horowitz, Morgan Stanley, Tiger Global and 1 other investor.
Kalshi's valuation has grown 20x from $2B at its Series C in June 2025 to $40B in October 2026, across 7 priced rounds.
Kalshi valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Series G | $40B | 10.0x |
| Jul 2026 | Undisclosed stage | $22B | - |
| May 2026 | Series F | $22B | - |
| Mar 2026 | Series F | $22B | 14.7x |
| Dec 2025 | Series E | $11B | - |
| Oct 2025 | Series D | $5B | - |
| Jun 2025 | Series C | $2B | - |
Kalshi Revenue
Kalshi's latest recorded revenue is $4B, as of its Series G in October 2026. At a $40B valuation, that implies a 10.0x revenue multiple.
Revenue grew from $1.5B in March 2026 to $4B in October 2026, while the revenue multiple moved from 14.7x to 10.0x.
Kalshi revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | $4B | $40B | 10.0x | Series G |
| Mar 2026 | $1.5B | $22B | 14.7x | Series F |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Kalshi Funding History
Kalshi has raised a total of $3.7B across 10 funding rounds.
Kalshi's first fundraising round was a $200K pre-seed round in March 2019. The most recent completed round was a $1B Series G in October 2026.
Kalshi funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Series G | Sequoia Capital (lead); Wellington Management (lead); Baillie Gifford; Dragoneer; Andreessen Horowitz; Morgan Stanley; Tiger Global; Coatue | $1B | $40B | Kalshi raised $1 billion in a Series G round at a $40 billion valuation, announced in October 2026. Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management co-led the round, with Baillie Gifford, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Coatue Management and Andreessen Horowitz also participating. The valuation is up from $22 billion at the company's previous round in May 2026. Co-founder and chief executive Tarek Mansour said the company had completed the round, and press reports say the proceeds will fund product development for retail and institutional customers as Kalshi expands beyond prediction markets into multi-asset trading, including perpetual futures. Kalshi operates a regulated exchange where users trade contracts on the outcome of future events, including sports, economic indicators, politics, weather and awards, and sports account for most of its activity. The company was founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara and is headquartered in New York City. |
| Jul 2026 | Undisclosed stage | ERShares ETF (lead) | $30M | $22B | ERShares announced on 13 July 2026 that its Private-Public Crossover ETF, listed on Nasdaq as XOVR, had invested USD 30 million in Kalshi as part of the fund's latest rebalance, adding the privately held prediction market operator to a portfolio that already included SpaceX. The purchase price per share and the implied valuation were not disclosed; after the purchase Kalshi represented about 1.4 percent of the fund, which managed roughly USD 2.1 billion at the time. ERShares said the position was identified through its proprietary VC Lens screen, which seeks category-defining private companies before they appear in public benchmarks, and the investment gave retail ETF holders exposure to Kalshi ahead of a possible listing. Kalshi is a New York-based exchange founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a designated contract market. It lists binary event contracts on economic data, politics, sport, weather and entertainment, earns fees on trading volume and had been valued at USD 22 billion in its Coatue-led Series F two months earlier; at the time of the ETF purchase it was reported to be exploring a further raise at around USD 40 billion. |
| May 2026 | Series F | Baillie Gifford | $200M | $22B | Baillie Gifford invested in Kalshi for the first time through a USD 200 million extension of the prediction market operator's Series F, reported on 20 May 2026 and struck at the same USD 22 billion post-money valuation as the original round. The extension took the Series F to USD 1.2 billion in total; the initial USD 1 billion tranche had been announced earlier the same month, led by Coatue with Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley and ARK Invest. Layer Global, the firm founded by former General Atlantic executive Anton Levy, was reported alongside Baillie Gifford in the extension. Kalshi's management said demand had run well ahead of the amount originally sought. Kalshi is a New York-based exchange founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a designated contract market. It lists binary event contracts on elections, macroeconomic releases, sport, weather and entertainment, and earns fees on trading volume. The company reported an annualised revenue run rate above USD 1.5 billion at the time of the raise. |
| Mar 2026 | Series F | Coatue (lead); Andreessen Horowitz; Sequoia Capital; ARK Investment Management; Morgan Stanley | $1B | $22B | Kalshi raised USD 1 billion in a Series F round led by Coatue Management at a USD 22 billion post-money valuation. The round was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in March 2026 while still in progress and was formally announced by the company on 7 May 2026, with Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley and ARK Invest participating. The valuation doubled the USD 11 billion set by the USD 1 billion Series E of December 2025, five months earlier, and was later extended by a further USD 200 million from Baillie Gifford and Layer Global at the same price. Kalshi said annualised revenue exceeded USD 1.5 billion, that annualised trading volume had risen from USD 52 billion to USD 178 billion in six months and that institutional activity was up eightfold; it planned to use the capital to build services for hedge funds, asset managers, proprietary trading firms and insurers. Kalshi is a New York-based exchange founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a designated contract market. It lists binary event contracts on elections, economic releases, sport, weather and entertainment, earns fees on volume, and accounts for more than 90 percent of regulated prediction market activity in the United States. |
| Feb 2026 | Strategic investment | Tradeweb Markets (lead) | - | - | Tradeweb Markets announced on 19 February 2026 that it had made a minority investment in Kalshi as part of a strategic partnership between the electronic bond and derivatives marketplace and the prediction market operator. The size of the stake and the price were not disclosed. Under the partnership the two companies plan to build the first institutional-focused marketplace for event contracts, co-develop analytics that combine Kalshi's event probabilities with Tradeweb's pricing, liquidity and macro datasets, and, as a first step, feed Kalshi's real-time event probabilities directly into Tradeweb's rates and credit trading screens. Tradeweb shares rose about 2.5 percent on the announcement. Kalshi is a New York-based exchange founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a designated contract market. It lists binary event contracts on economic data, politics, sport, weather and entertainment and earns fees on trading volume. The investment came two months after Kalshi's USD 1 billion Series E at an USD 11 billion valuation and shortly before a Coatue-led round that doubled the valuation to USD 22 billion. |
| Dec 2025 | Series E | CapitalG (lead); Paradigm (lead); Sequoia Capital (lead); IVP; Y Combinator; Anthos Capital; Andreessen Horowitz; ARK Investment Management; Meritech Capital Partners | $1B | $11B | Kalshi, the world's largest regulated prediction market platform founded in 2018, enables users to trade on real-world events across over 3,500 markets including economic indicators, policy, sports, and entertainment. The company announced a $1 billion Series E funding round on December 2, 2025, at an $11 billion post-money valuation, doubling its value from a $5 billion valuation in a prior $300 million round less than two months earlier. The round was led by Paradigm with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, Meritech Capital Partners, IVP, ARK Invest, Anthos Capital, and Y Combinator. Kalshi reported weekly trading volumes exceeding $1 billion, up over 1,000% since 2024, with millions of users and record monthly volumes of $4.54 billion in November 2025. Proceeds will fund consumer adoption, brokerage integrations, media partnerships like CNN, and new market categories. Kalshi has established prediction markets as a new financial asset class, shifting consumers from passive observers to active participants, and serves reporters, politicians, Wall Street, and retail users for forecasting events. |
| Oct 2025 | Series D | Andreessen Horowitz (lead); Sequoia Capital (lead); General Catalyst; Spark Capital; Coinbase Ventures; CapitalG; Paradigm | $300M | $5B | Kalshi is a federally regulated prediction market exchange under CFTC oversight, founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, headquartered in New York. It provides an institutional-grade platform for trading event contracts on outcomes like economic indicators, political events, sports, inflation, and weather, positioning itself as a next-generation CME with Wall Street reliability and Silicon Valley speed. The company distinguishes itself through legal compliance, distinguishing it from unregulated or offshore competitors like Polymarket. On October 10, 2025, Kalshi closed a $300 million Series D funding round at a $5 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Paradigm, CapitalG, Coinbase Ventures, General Catalyst, and Spark Capital. This more than doubled its prior $2 billion Series C valuation from June 2025, when it entered unicorn status. The round supports international expansion to over 140 countries via a single global liquidity pool, enhancing market depth and price discovery. Proceeds will scale infrastructure, integrate with digital asset services and brokerages like Robinhood and Webull, launch new market types including hybrid trading and parlays, and expand the team. Kalshi's growth is evidenced by surging annualized trading volume projected at $50 billion, up from $300 million the prior year, and weekly volumes exceeding $956 million in late September 2025, surpassing Polymarket. Sports markets and crypto deposits via partners like ZeroHash have driven recent traction amid booming prediction market interest from Wall Street and crypto investors. The raise occurs amid intensifying competition, with rivals like Polymarket attracting NYSE parent investments up to $2 billion, and regulatory scrutiny favoring compliant platforms. Kalshi plans further crypto primitives and broader TradFi bridges, capitalizing on prediction markets' shift to mainstream finance. |
| Jun 2025 | Series C | Paradigm (lead); Multicoin Capital; Neo; Peng Zhao; Sequoia Capital; Bond | $185M | $2B | Kalshi, a New York-based regulated prediction market platform founded by Tarek Mansour, allows users to trade yes-or-no event contracts on topics including elections, sports, entertainment, economic indicators, and weather. The company raised $185 million in a Series C funding round on June 25, 2025, led by Paradigm with participation from Multicoin Capital, NEO, BOND Capital, Sequoia Capital, Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao, and others including Alex Pall, Y Combinator, Charles Schwab, and Henry Kravis. This round achieved a $2 billion post-money valuation, marking a significant milestone more than three years after its prior funding. Kalshi plans to deploy the capital to expand broker integrations, scale its engineering and technology team, enhance liquidity, and develop new market structures. The platform has gained substantial traction following a key legal victory against the CFTC, enabling election-related contracts and positioning it as one of America's fastest-growing financial platforms despite regulatory hurdles and competition from unlicensed rival Polymarket. Investors view prediction markets as an emerging asset class akin to early cryptocurrency, with Paradigm's Matt Huang highlighting their potential to reach trillions in scale. This investment represents Paradigm's third non-crypto bet, alongside Stripe and Citadel, underscoring strong conviction in Kalshi's regulated approach amid a prediction markets boom, where rival Polymarket is reportedly seeking $200 million at over $1 billion valuation. |
| Feb 2021 | Series A | Sequoia Capital (lead); SV Angel; Y Combinator; Justin Mateen; Neo; Henry Kravis; Charles Schwab | $30M | - | Kalshi announced on 17 February 2021 that it had raised USD 30 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Charles Schwab, Henry Kravis, SV Angel and existing investors Neo and YC Continuity. The valuation was not disclosed. The round followed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's approval of Kalshi as a designated contract market in November 2020, which made it one of only sixteen such exchanges in the United States and the first dedicated to event contracts. Kalshi said it would use the money to bring the exchange to market and build out trading in binary contracts on outcomes ranging from economic data releases and weather to political and cultural events. The company was founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, who met at MIT and went through Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch. At the time of the round it was a pre-launch business based in New York; the exchange opened to the public in mid-2021 and later became the largest regulated prediction market in the country. |
| Mar 2019 | Pre-seed | Y Combinator (lead); LYVC; Esas Ventures; SGH CAPITAL; Seth Weinstein; Justin Mateen; Cem Garih | $200K | - | Kalshi took its first outside capital in early 2019 when it joined Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch, receiving the accelerator's standard investment of roughly USD 150,000 alongside a small group of angel and seed backers. Kalshi's February 2021 Series A release later identified Y Combinator and Neo as existing investors. The company was founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, who met at MIT, with the aim of building the first federally regulated exchange for trading event contracts, binary yes-or-no instruments that pay out on real-world outcomes such as economic data releases, weather and political events. At the time of the round it was a pre-launch startup pursuing registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which it obtained in November 2020. Kalshi is based in New York and has since grown into the largest regulated prediction market in the United States. |
Who has invested in Kalshi?
33 investors have backed Kalshi across its funding rounds, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Paradigm, Coatue and Morgan Stanley.
Lead investors include Sequoia Capital, Wellington Management, ERShares ETF, Coatue, Tradeweb Markets and 4 other investors.
Kalshi Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Lead | Feb 2021 | ||
| 4 | Lead | Oct 2025 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Mar 2019 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jun 2025 | ||
| 2 | Participant | May 2026 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2019 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Feb 2021 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Oct 2025 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Dec 2025 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2026 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Mar 2026 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Oct 2025 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Oct 2026 | ||
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Kalshi competitors include listed companies like Tradeweb Markets, Allfunds, StoneX Group and MarketAxess, and private ones like Clear Street and Euroclear.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publicly listed | $2.1B | $1.4B | $26B | 10.6x | ||
| Private | $940M | - | $12B | 12.8x | ||
| Private | $3B | - | $6.7B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $727M | $287M | $6.7B | 8.7x | ||
| Publicly listed | $132B | $2B | $6.4B | 4.7x | ||
| Publicly listed | $846M | $428M | $5.8B | 6.3x |
Kalshi Public Comps
Kalshi is still privately-owned, but its public comps include National Stock Exchange, Tradeweb Markets, Allfunds, StoneX Group, MarketAxess, Virtu Financial, Tadawul Group, Tradition and Tradegate.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $1.7B | $1.4B | 24.0x | 22.0x | 28.0x | 29.9x | |||
| $2.1B | $1.4B | 12.0x | 10.6x | 18.1x | 19.6x | |||
| $727M | $287M | 9.1x | 8.7x | 23.1x | 13.1x | |||
| $132B | $2B | 0.2x | 4.7x | 13.8x | - | |||
| $846M | $428M | 6.6x | 6.3x | 13.1x | 12.9x | |||
| $3.6B | $2B | 4.1x | 5.5x | 7.5x | 9.2x | |||
| $336M | $162M | 8.6x | 8.6x | 17.8x | 25.0x | |||
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Common questions about Kalshi
| When was Kalshi founded? | Kalshi was founded in 2018. |
| Where is Kalshi headquartered? | Kalshi is headquartered in New York City, NY, United States. |
| Is Kalshi publicly listed? | No, Kalshi is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Kalshi's valuation? | Kalshi was last valued at $40B in its Series G in October 2026. |
| How much funding has Kalshi raised? | Kalshi has raised $3.7B across 10 funding rounds. |
| What was Kalshi's last funding round? | Kalshi's last funding round was a $1B Series G in October 2026, led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management. |
| Who are Kalshi's investors? | Kalshi's investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Paradigm, Baillie Gifford, Justin Mateen, Neo, CapitalG, ARK Investment Management, Morgan Stanley and 23 others. |
| What is Kalshi's revenue? | Kalshi's latest recorded revenue is $4B (October 2026). |
| What is Kalshi's revenue multiple? | Kalshi's latest valuation implies a 10.0x revenue multiple ($40B valuation on $4B of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Kalshi? | Companies comparable to Kalshi include Tradeweb Markets, Clear Street, Euroclear, Allfunds, StoneX Group and MarketAxess. |
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