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About K25.ai
K25.ai is an AI-native live streaming prediction market platform. Its core business allows audiences to watch live content—such as sports, esports, entertainment, and creator challenges—and place real-money predictions on what happens next. The platform's proprietary AI infrastructure handles real-time market generation, content monitoring, and outcome resolution, delivering a seamless watch-to-predict experience.
The core narrative centers on transforming passive viewing into active participation. By combining live streaming, AI-powered market creation, and creator-led event supply, K25.ai aims to turn live moments into interactive information markets, where quantified consensus through predictions helps audiences discover what is truly real in real time.
The market pain point it addresses is that the APAC region remains underserved by existing prediction platforms, particularly in localized sports, esports, entertainment, and culturally relevant regional events. Traditional live streaming is a one-way, passive experience; K25.ai seeks to make it interactive and monetizable for both audiences and creators. Additionally, prediction products often face gambling, securities, and derivatives regulations, so the platform restricts access to U.S. persons and users in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and other restricted jurisdictions, operating only where legally permitted.
In the past six months (2026-03-12 to 2026-09-12), K25.ai has made notable progress. By early July 2026, its Discord community reached 1,100 members and its waitlist accumulated 38,000 emails. In August 2026, the platform launched the KXXV token community round with a US$200,000 allocation, available exclusively through its official token portal, with no other authorized purchase channels.
Important negative developments within the past two years include: the product has not yet been officially launched; the valuation doubling was driven more by strategic support than competitive funding, raising questions about how the numbers were set; the market is crowded, with Polymarket and Kalshi dominating the category; and regulatory risks remain real, as prediction products often encounter gambling, securities, and derivatives rules.
Between May and June 2026, K25.ai closed a $10M Pre-A round at a $100M valuation. Nasdaq-listed NewGen invested a total of $6M, with an expected 10% stake and exclusive Asia-Pacific agency rights. Three co-founders joined NewGen's board, and CEO Andy Cheung will lead NewGen's digital asset treasury strategy. After the Pre-A close, the Series A was launched.
In July, K25.ai closed its Series A with strategic investment from Amber Group at a $200M post-money valuation, doubling in under 60 days. Amber will support market infrastructure, liquidity strategy, ecosystem development, and digital asset expertise.
Official future priorities and roadmap: accelerate product launch, pursue regulatory licensing in selected Asian markets, deepen creator and strategic partner ecosystems, build institutional liquidity infrastructure, drive global expansion and commercialization, and focus on sports, esports, entertainment and creator content, including APAC fan economies such as K-pop and J-pop. The platform is positioned as "Twitch × Polymarket × ChatGPT," with a waitlist exceeding 35,000 users.
Andy Cheung: Founder and CEO.
King T.: Co-founder and CTO.
K25.ai recently expanded its leadership team with two key hires. King T. joined in April 2026 as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, bringing deep technical expertise to drive the AI-native livestreaming prediction platform. Travis Tai joined in March 2026 as Head of Partnerships, leveraging his background in fintech and Web3 to build strategic alliances. No departures were reported.