Polymarket Launches Prediction Markets on Private Companies Powered by Nasdaq Private Market Data

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market, today announced the launch of the first prediction markets tied to private company performance and milestones. These new offerings give individuals exposure to some of the most sought-after private companies for the first time, while providing a new real-time signal for institutional investors on how private markets are unfolding. Through an exclusive agreement, Nasdaq Private Market, a leading provider of liquidity and investment infrastructure for the private market, will serve as the resolution data provider for private company markets on Polymarket.

More value is being created in private companies today than at any point in modern history. Nearly 1,600 unicorns globally now hold more than $5 trillion in cumulative value, yet access has been largely reserved for institutions and high-net-worth investors – leaving the vast majority of individuals on the sidelines of the value creation that happens before a company goes public.

"Prediction markets are one of the most powerful tools we have for democratizing access to financial information and opportunity," said Shayne Coplan, Founder and CEO of Polymarket. "Today’s launch brings that power to one of the last frontiers of financial markets that retail participants have never been able to access. For the first time, anyone can engage with the outcomes driving value at the world's most consequential private companies."

By pairing Polymarket’s prediction market infrastructure with Nasdaq Private Market’s authoritative data on primary and secondary market activity, the new offering gives individuals a transparent way to engage with verifiable private company events, which may include valuation milestones, IPO timing and secondary market activity.

“Nasdaq Private Market has established itself as a trusted source of liquidity and investment infrastructure across the private market ecosystem,” said Tom Callahan, CEO of Nasdaq Private Market. “Polymarket has built the platform that can open access to a broader audience. We are proud to provide the data that ensures every market resolves accurately. When retail participants enter any market, high-integrity data matters.”

The new offering also creates an additional price discovery tool for institutional investors, complementing NPM’s transaction-based pricing data already relied on by some of the largest financial institutions in the world.

“The data flows in both directions,” said Rodolfo Sanchez, VP of Data at Nasdaq Private Market. “We anchor every market with institutional-quality data on the underlying companies, and the activity in those markets becomes a real-time signal that institutional investors can use on private company performance reflected back through a much broader market.”

The first private-company prediction markets launch on Polymarket today, with additional markets rolling out on an ongoing basis. Users can sign up at polymarket.com.

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform, where participants trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and the efficiency of markets, Polymarket generates real-time probability estimates that have proven to be among the most accurate forecasting tools available. Polymarket’s markets span global politics, economics, science, technology, sports, culture, and more, attracting hundreds of thousands of participants worldwide. For more information, visit polymarket.com

About Nasdaq Private Market (NPM)

Nasdaq Private Market is a leading provider of liquidity, capital, and investment solutions for private companies and their investors. The company is focused on building modern infrastructure for the private market ecosystem and has executed nearly $80 billion in secondary liquidity for 200,000+ individual eligible employee shareholders and investors across 1,000+ company-sponsored liquidity programs. Nasdaq Private Market is an independent company with strategic investments from Nasdaq and other institutional partners. Learn more at www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com.