# Polymarket

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/polymarket

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: New York, US
- Website: www.polymarket.us/
- Total disclosed funding: $744M
- Investors on record: 5

## About

Based in New York, US, and founded in 2020 by CEO Shayne Coplan, Blockratize, Inc., d.b.a. Polymarket, operates as a provider of an information market that allows users to access the latest topic or news that turns into trading insight. In August 2026, Polymarket raised USD 1 billion in venture funding led by returning investor 1789 Capital, with participation from other unspecified investors. The company provides an online, blockchain-enabled, event-based trading platform that allows users to bet on whether a given event will occur. The platform is built on Polygon Layer-2 blockchain technology, which focuses on the crypto market, offering hundreds of trading (prediction) markets related to elections, crypto events, price predictions, meme coins, regulatory approvals, macroeconomic events, and various other themes. Polymarket revenue via trading fees on prediction markets, liquidity spreads, and platform usage, monetizing event-drive.  The company plans to use the August 2026 funding to strengthen liquidity, expand operational infrastructure, and support growth as it competes in the prediction-market sector.

## Funding rounds

- Round, Oct 22, 2026, $400M
- Series C, Jul 18, 2025, $135M — General Catalyst Partners, Polychain Capital
- Series B, Feb 11, 2025, $91M — Founders Fund, Polychain Capital
- Series B, Oct 4, 2024, $82M — Founders Fund, ParaFi Capital
- Series A, Mar 4, 2021, $31M — General Catalyst Partners, Polychain Capital
- Seed, Oct 19, 2020, $4M — Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, ParaFi Capital

## Investors

- Polychain Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/polychain-capital) — Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C
- Robot Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/robot-ventures) — Seed
- ParaFi Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/parafi-capital) — Seed, Series B
- General Catalyst Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/general-catalyst-partners) — Series A, Series C
- Founders Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/founders-fund) — Series B