Kalshi

Founders

• Tarek Mansour (Lebanon · ♂) — A Lebanese MIT grad who traded derivatives at Goldman Sachs, he wanted a regulated way for people to hedge real-world events and co-founded Kalshi, the first CFTC-regulated event exchange, in 2018.
• Luana Lopes Lara (Brazil · ♀) — A former Bolshoi-trained ballerina turned MIT computer scientist and quant trader, she co-founded Kalshi with classmate Tarek Mansour in 2018 to turn events into tradable assets.
• Catherine Jackson

Team & hubs

Around 535 people on the team.

In the network

Kalshi, a US-regulated prediction market platform, has raised $2300M across three rounds and carries a network centrality score of 76, placing it near the center of its funding graph. It is backed by Coatue, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, CapitalG, and Paradigm, a roster that puts it squarely in the a16z/Sequoia fintech and AI cluster. Through shared capital it connects most tightly to Anthropic, Deel, Mercury, and Fireblocks (four common investors each), with further overlap into Harvey, Base Power, Whatnot, and Stripe (three each). That mix signals a position spanning regulated finance and frontier AI, with the bulk of its 535-person team in New York (55%), the San Francisco Bay Area (15%), and Miami (10%).