Polymarket Raises $70m From Thiel’s Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Vitalik Buterin to Scale Global Prediction Market

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, announced today that it has raised $70m of new capital across two unannounced rounds: a $45m Series B led by Founders Fund and existing investors 1confirmation and ParaFi, with participation from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Dragonfly and Eventbrite’s co-founder Kevin Hartz, as well as a $25m Series A led by General Catalyst, with participation from Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia, Polychain and other leading investors. On P