Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, 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. “The 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.”

Source: Polymarket