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About Kairos
Kairos is a professional trading terminal for prediction markets, aggregating data and execution across platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. Its core business is a unified API interface that lets traders view market data, place orders, and manage portfolios across multiple venues from one dashboard.
The main competitive edge is threefold: first, a unified access layer that solves the fragmentation problem — traders no longer need to switch between different platforms; second, a non-custodial design where users control their own keys, so Kairos never directly holds funds; third, professional-grade tools including batch orders, multiple order types, and real-time data streams.
The market pain point is clear: prediction markets are highly fragmented, with inconsistent data formats and trading interfaces across venues, and professional traders lack efficient tooling. Kairos aims to fix this by offering a single terminal.
As for recent developments: as of February 2026, Kairos remains in a pre-beta stage with a waitlist open. According to information from February 3, 2026, the team planned to launch a private beta in the "coming weeks." Currently, only Polymarket and Kalshi are supported, and no revenue model has been publicly disclosed.
Kairos was founded by Jay Malavia and Zayd Alzein, who come from quantitative research at Cboe Labs and low-latency trading infrastructure at Cboe, respectively. On February 3, 2026, Kairos announced a $2.5 million seed round led by a16z crypto, with participation from Geneva Trading and others — a notable signal of institutional capital entering prediction-market infrastructure. Its core product is a unified trading terminal that aggregates order books across Kalshi, Polymarket, Predict.fun and more, offering cross-platform NBBO and smart order routing, so traders can access the best market-wide prices without switching between venues. Described as a 'Bloomberg Terminal for prediction markets,' this marks a transition from fragmented consumer apps to an institutional-grade event-risk asset class, and lays foundational infrastructure for developer ecosystems and algorithmic trading.
Kairos, a prediction market trading terminal backed by a16z crypto, has made notable progress in the past six months. In March 2026, it integrated its backend with Opinion's order book and launched an invite-only Early Access program, expanding its distribution within the Opinion ecosystem. The company raised $2.5 million in a funding round led by a16z crypto in February 2026, with participation from Geneva Trading. Future development priorities include broadening exchange integrations beyond Kalshi and Polymarket, targeting both professional and retail traders, and enhancing platform speed and data aggregation capabilities. The roadmap emphasizes becoming a comprehensive execution and intelligence layer for prediction markets, with plans to scale hiring and expand features post-launch.
Co-founders:
Jay Malavia (Co-founder & CEO): Previously worked in quantitative research at Cboe Global Markets, data science at Geneva Trading, and ML engineering at NASA.
Zayd Alzein (Co-founder & CTO): Previously worked as a software engineer at Cboe Global Markets, blockchain developer at Sendink, and studied computer science at UIC.