Railbird

Acquired

A futures market for events.

Winter 2022Founded 20218 peopleNew York, NY, USA

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About

At Railbird, we are building a prediction market exchange designed to hedge and mitigate risk for the services sector. The Railbird team has years of experience analyzing companies in the service sector and has seen firsthand how little opportunity there is to hedge risk in volatile markets like hospitality, tourism, recreation, entertainment, and sports. The platform is designed to be open to all traders.

From their website

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Railbird is a federally regulated exchange where users can trade event-based contracts, effectively treating each event as a market whose price reflects the probability of outcomes. Users can buy and sell contracts and adjust positions as new information arrives, with the potential payout on resolved events.

Railbird offers tradable contracts tied to real-world event outcomes. Prices move with changing information and public sentiment, allowing users to buy or sell contracts at any time. Payout occurs when the specified event is resolved, on the scheduled settlement date or earlier if result is known. The platform positions itself as a regulated contract market with a focus on predictive markets for events such as inflation, elections, or other future outcomes, and provides a rulebook and governance framework for operations.

Who it’s for: Individuals 18+ with valid ID and a U.S. bank account; businesses and financial institutions may also apply to participate in trading.

Features

trade event-based contracts
prices reflect public belief about likelihood
buy and sell positions flexibly
regulated as a contract market by the CFTC
accessible in all 50 states
early access and education resources
clearing-house-backed transaction integrity

Regulatory oversight (CFTC designation) and claims of a federally regulated exchange; marketing of early access and upcoming trading hours imply product development and readiness signals.

Founders · 1

Miles SaffranFounder

Yale🎓 Yale University

Miles is the co-founder and CEO of Railbird Technologies Inc. Prior to founding Railbird, Miles was an investment research analyst at Point72 covering the fintech and gaming sectors. Before that, he was a data scientist at the Orlando Magic, where he built machine learning models to assist with scouting and in-game play. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.

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