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Polymarket

Largest prediction market platform — trade on real-world events
Fintech 📍 New York, NY Founded 2020
Current Valuation
$9.0B
as of 2025-Q4
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Polymarket going public?
No. Polymarket has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Polymarket's valuation in 2026?
Polymarket is valued at $9.0B as of 2025-Q4, set by its Strategic round ($2.0B, Oct 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Polymarket filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Polymarket.
Who are Polymarket's investors?
Polymarket's investors include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, Vitalik Buterin, 1confirmation, ParaFi and 2 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction-market platform, where users trade USDC-denominated shares in the outcomes of real-world events — elections, sports, economic indicators, geopolitics. It processed over $10B in volume during the 2024 US presidential election cycle and became a mainstream alternative data source for political and macro forecasting. In July 2025 it acquired CFTC-licensed exchange QCEX/QCX to relaunch legally in the US, and in October 2025 closed a $2B strategic round led by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), valuing the company at ~$9B.

Company Profile

CEO
Shayne Coplan
Founded
2020
HQ
New York, NY
Employees
~100
Total Raised
$2.2B
Growth
$10B+ in 2024 election volume; explosive 2025 growth
Last Round
Strategic round — $2.0B (Oct 2025) · Lead: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Strategic round · $2.0B · 10 mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $2.2B

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$143.83
Last round price / share
$144.08
vs last round
-0.2%
Open interest
9
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$144Last round$144Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month-1.3%6-month+2.7%1-year+351%All-time+1338%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Strategic round$2.0BOct 2025Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
74
via ashby
Product-build share
47%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 47% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month74Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering22Other18Research6Ops & People5Legal & Policy4Sales & GTM4Finance & Strategy4Product4Data & ML2
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Director, Data PlatformSenior Data Scientist / Analyst, FinanceSoftware Engineer, Polymarket USSenior Systems Engineer (C/C++), Exchange CoreSenior Backend Engineer, Exchange CoreSoftware Engineer, Mission Control
Counted from Polymarket's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Shayne Coplan

Investors

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Vitalik Buterin · 1confirmation · ParaFi · Blockchain Capital · General Catalyst

Products

  • Polymarket prediction markets (politics, sports, crypto, culture)
  • Polymarket US (post-QCEX acquisition, CFTC-licensed)
  • API for market data
  • Embed widgets

Competitors

Kalshi · PredictIt · Manifold Markets · Augur (defunct)
FintechPrediction MarketsCryptoDecacorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.