Ritesh Malpani
Founder of Oddpool, Institutional infrastructure for prediction markets
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Ritesh Malpani is listed as a founder of Oddpool. Oddpool is a platform that helps quant funds and trading desks harness the power of prediction markets. We make it easy to access, search, and analyze every venue from one place. Avi and Ritesh have been roommates since freshman year at Georgia Tech. Avi has a Master's in ML and saved Microsoft $6M/year by building a more accurate model on half the hardware. Ritesh has a Master's in Distributed Systems and made buy-side trading systems at Bloomberg 40% faster. We started trading prediction markets ourselves but couldn't backtest our strategies because the tooling for this emerging asset class didn't exist. The deeper we went, the more we saw that fragmentation between prediction markets and lack of clean data was going to be a big problem. We launched a prosumer tier and grew to several thousand dollars in MRR within months. Now we're bringing it to institutions, building tooling with the rigor and depth serious desks demand. They're the fastest growing asset class in finance, and CFTC applications for new exchanges keep climbing. Each new venue makes the market bigger, the fragmentation worse, and the unified data layer more valuable. It doesn't exist yet. We're building it.
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Very ironic of CME to call sports markets gambling when they have a joint venture with Fanduel, a literal sports book. Fanduel already ...
Very ironic of CME to call sports markets gambling when they have a joint venture with Fanduel, a literal sports book. Fanduel already brokers Nadex contracts, wonder if they’ll start relying on them more.
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Kalshi unveiled their new midterms hub today. Political markets are continuing to be a pm battle front. I think it brings lots of institu...
Kalshi unveiled their new midterms hub today. Political markets are continuing to be a pm battle front. I think it brings lots of institutional attention to the space. It's fun comparing the viz on both Kalshi and Poly, would recommend. P.S. Playing with Kalshi timeline feature...
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It’s funny how they only showed vibe traders watching the games and getting excited when their positions hit. Hope they also show all t...
It’s funny how they only showed vibe traders watching the games and getting excited when their positions hit. Hope they also show all the mechanical traders using models and not just intuition.
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Drake on his new album saying how he “on @Polymarket getting my bread”
Drake on his new album saying how he “on @Polymarket getting my bread”
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Snehal and I have been friends since we were kids. We were classmates in elementary shcool and now we’re in the YC office learning different lessons from people like @nottombrown . Come along way from doing multiplication problems and playing together during recess.
Snehal and I have been friends since we were kids. We were classmates in elementary shcool and now we’re in the YC office learning different lessons from people like @nottombrown . Come along way from doing multiplication problems and playing together during recess.
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With the YC deadline coming up I’ve noticed people use the RFS so incorrectly. If you’re looking at this list just to find something to a...
With the YC deadline coming up I’ve noticed people use the RFS so incorrectly. If you’re looking at this list just to find something to apply to YC with, you’re not getting in. Someone’s already been working on it for longer with far better founder market fit. Use it to solely...