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Polymarket in Talks for New Investment at $15 Billion Valuation
A Polymarket advertisement in a subway station in New York.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergPolymarket is seeking an additional $400 million in funding, according to people familiar with the negotiations, after securing $600 million at a $15 billion valuation last month.
The new deal brings the prediction market startup’s value up from $9 billion last year, when Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, took a $1 billion stake in Polymarket in a blockbuster deal. Polymarket, though, is now worth less than the $22 billion valuation that its main rival, Kalshi Inc., fetched in a recent $1 billion fundraising round.