Posted on: February 4, 2026, 12:39h.
Last updated on: February 4, 2026, 12:39h.
- Company is building a Bloomberg Terminal-esque product for prediction market traders
- The startup landed $2.5 million in financing in a funding round led by a16z crypto
Kairos, a startup company developing a unifying terminal for prediction market traders, raised $2.5 million in a financing round led by a16z crypto.
The company’s prediction markets product is aimed at professional market participants trading across multiple prediction markets, usually in simultaneous fashion. It appears to be inspired by one of Wall Street’s most beloved tools.
What the Bloomberg Terminal did for Wall Street, Kairos does for prediction market traders. Real-time data, news, analytics, and low-latency execution all in one place,” said Kairos founders Jay Malavia and Zayd Alzein in a post on X. “The power of an institutional trading desk on your laptop.”
a16z led the funding round with participation from Geneva Trading, the University of Illinois, DB News and more than 20 angel investors.
Kairos Terminal Could Be Well-Timed Product
Kairos is raising capital at a time when a variety of brokerage firms are getting into the consumer- and trader-facing side of the prediction markets space and as the young industry looks for ways to be more appealing to institutional investors.
Use cases for prediction markets for hedge funds and institutional traders are there, including trading on economic events, arbitrage, and hedging existing asset-level positions, but those market participants also have to contended with fragmentation.
For example, a professional trader attempting to arbitrage multiple event contracts across different platforms, say Kalshi and Polymarket, is likely forced to visit both sites to put on the trades. The Kairos Terminal would eliminate that burden, offering professional traders time efficiencies in a business where time is money.
“We believe that Kairos will be the foundational layer for prediction markets. One that connects traders, builders, and exchanges in an open ecosystem,” add Malavia and Alzein. “A network where developers can leverage our performant infrastructure to build new apps for an existing community of traders.”
The duo have the technological expertise as they previously created technology used by professional market participants.
a16z crypto Expands Prediction Markets Reach
The cryptocurrency investing arm of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto is expanding its prediction markets footprint with its investment in Kairos. The venture capital firm is also an investor in Kalshi, the operator of the largest US event contracts exchange by volume.
a16z crypto was also an early investor in Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN). That company is the largest cryptocurrency broker in the US and recently entered the prediction markets arena via a partnership with Kalshi.
“We believe prediction markets are only in their early innings, and tools like Kairos that support real traders, real liquidity, and real performance will accelerate their next leg of growth,” said the investor in a post on its website.
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