Polymarket Valued at $9 Billion After NYSE Owner Invests $2B in Prediction Market

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan said on Tuesday that the prediction-market platform will receive up to a $2 billion investment from Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE, linking the startup with the owner of the 233-year-old New York Stock Exchange. On X, Coplan said the deal gives Polymarket a post-money valuation of $9 billion, while a partnership with ICE will allow for the distribution of Polymarket’s data to “thousands of financial institutions around the world” through the company’s financial infrastructure ...