Graduates Launch VC-Backed Prediction Market Startups

Recent graduates are launching VC-funded prediction-market startups in recent months, raising multiple seed rounds—examples include $5 million, $8 million and $7 million—from firms such as Andreessen Horowitz to build platforms forecasting elections, markets and consumer trends. These ventures aim to translate aggregated crowd wisdom into real-time decision tools for finance, healthcare and retail, but they face regulatory scrutiny, manipulation risks and privacy challenges.