Railbird

A futures market for events.

Y CombinatorWinter 2022AcquiredFintechFintechMarketplace

What they do

Problem

Service-sector businesses and traders have limited ways to hedge and mitigate risk tied to volatile event-driven outcomes in markets like hospitality, tourism, entertainment, and sports.

Solution

Railbird provides an open prediction-market futures exchange for events that enables trading and hedging of service-sector risk.

Who it's for

Service-sector businesses and individual traders who want to hedge or speculate on event outcomes.

Founders

Miles Saffran

Founder

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.