{"id":1007349,"date":"2026-05-08T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007349"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:23:44","slug":"kalshi-valued-at-22-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/08\/kalshi-valued-at-22-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalshi valued at $22 billion in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction market platform Kalshi said on Thursday it had raised $1 billion in its latest funding round that valued the company at $22 billion, as \u200cinstitutional investors increasingly \u2060adopt \u2060event-based trading contracts. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Coatue, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. <\/p>\n<p>Venture capital firms have poured money into late-stage startups, helping these companies remain private \u200bfor longer and avoid the public \u2060market fluctuations \u200cseen last year and in \u200bearly 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction market platform Kalshi said on Thursday it had raised $1 billion in its latest funding round that valued the company at $22 billion, as \u200cinstitutional investors increasingly \u2060adopt \u2060event-based trading contracts. The round was led by Coatue, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Venture capital firms have poured money into late-stage startups, helping these companies remain private \u200bfor longer and avoid the public \u2060market fluctuations \u200cseen last year and in \u200bearly 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007372,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007349\/revisions\/1007372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}