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- The fundraising also attracted participation from Haun Ventures, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Rubik, Earl Grey, Cursor Capital, Asylum, and several angel investors.
- The company’s on-chain permissionless predictions market platform is designed to meet regulatory standards while remaining accessible to retail users.
- The Clearing Company has yet to disclose a target launch date for its platform, with a focus now centered on designing a regulatory-compliant product.
The Clearing Company has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Haun Ventures, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Rubik, Earl Grey, Cursor Capital, Asylum, and several angel investors.
Co-founded by the former head of growth at Polymarket, Toni Gemayel, with his colleagues, The Clearing Company is building a “permissionless on-chain prediction market platform” designed to meet regulatory standards while remaining accessible to retail users.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate the development of its platform. The team has not disclosed a target launch date for the platform, with a focus now mainly on designing an easy-to-use regulatory-compliant product.
Describing the evolution of the predictions market via a blog post on its website, The Clearing Company highlighted a series of practices that qualified as a predictions market for centuries, including Romans betting on papal succession, the pre-WW2 political elections featuring on Wall Street, all the way to the birth of the internet.
“The idea of markets as collective intelligence is even more powerful in the internet age, where information moves instantly,” the company wrote.
“Today, prediction markets function as a new kind of news, surfacing live forecasts rather than lagging headlines. Markets force honesty because being wrong carries a real cost, and traders are incentivized to price without bias.”
According to The Clearing Company, the next era of prediction markets will be shaped by the collective creativity of the internet, and their power “won’t come from complex financial mechanics and clunky user interfaces,” but from simplicity and imagination.
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