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Polymarket has exploded in volume, and traders are earning real money through information edges, arbitrage, market making, or the potential token airdrop. Here’s the fast, practical breakdown of how people actually profit.

Polychain Capital

Founders Fund

Blockchain Capital

General Catalyst

Polymarket: How to Actually Make Money Trading It

United States of America

Jump Trading LLC, often referred to simply as Jump, is a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1999 by Paul Gurinas and Bill DiSomma, Jump Trading is one of the leading high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the world. It is known for its expertise in algorithmic trading and quantitative strategies, particularly in the fields of futures, options, and equities.

Jump Trading

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

United Kingdom

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wintermute

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures.

GSR, founded in 2013, is a global leader in digital asset trading and market making.
GSR is a crypto market maker and ecosystem partner

GSR Markets (GSR)

Ostium Labs

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

LocalGlobe is the pre-seed and seed fund from the Phoenix Court family of funds.

LocalGlobe

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Eric Wu is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor. Before Opendoor, Eric founded Movity.com, a location data analytics company that was acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of science in Economics.

Eric Wu

Ashwin Ramachandran

Alpen Capital (Prev. Comfy Capital)

smartestmoney

Vladimir Novakovski

Liquid

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Predictive VC

Road Capital

AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. We love technology heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to applications, mobile, and sensors

AME Cloud Ventures

Sancus Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups.

Sancus Ventures

Flourish Ventures

Enlight Capital

CipherOwl

BlackRock is a global investment company that provides a range of services to institutions, financial intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.

BlackRock

Altimeter is a technology-focused investment firm managing a public equity fund and growth-stage private equity funds.

Altimeter Capital

Fidelity

Spark Capital

Target Global

Dragoneer Investment Group

Durable Capital Partners

Latitude is a venture capital firm focused on being the first call and partner to founders scaling from 0 to 1.

Latitude

Whale Rock Capital Management

An early stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders building transformative technology companies in North America, Europe, & Israel.

Avid Ventures

Tal Capital

XBO.com

Rapyd

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

PayPal Ventures invests in companies at the forefront of innovation in fintech, payments, commerce enablement, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and regulatory and cyber technology.

PayPal Ventures

Alumni Ventures

Kite

South Korea

Empowering mass adoption of the decentralized future 
through network building of the protocol economy.

Hashed

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

Australia

King River Capital invests in high-growth software and AI-driven technology businesses that are solving critical problems.

King River Capital

GFR Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry.

GFR Fund

Aptos

Saudi Arabia

Nazara Technologies Limited is a well established Mobile Gaming Company with our HQ's in India and Offices in Dubai, Africa & Singapore

Nazara Technologies

Square Enix

Eximius Ventures

Bandai Namco Entertainment

TDV Partners

PixCapital

Google

STAN

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

India

CoinDCX operates as a cryptocurrency exchange aggregator.

CoinDCX

CoinSwitch is the largest crypto application in India.

CoinSwitch

Better Capital

Nakul Gupta

Aadil Mamujee

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi Capital

MIT Investment Management Company

Khosla Ventures

Blockchain Coinvestors

Haun Ventures

MassMutual Ventures is a multistage global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies.

MassMutual Ventures

Highland Capital Partners

Nikesh Arora

Bitwise

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

Adam Nash

Suna Said

Highlight Capital

Third Point Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on enterprise, fintech, mobile, and healthcare innovation.

Third Point Ventures

Blackstone

David McCormick

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm recognized for its strategic investments in innovative and high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, Lightspeed has played a pivotal role in shaping the success stories of numerous startups across various sectors.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Slow Ventures is known for its patient and supportive approach to investments. They often take a long-term view and provide guidance, mentorship, and resources to the startups they back.

Slow Ventures

Singapore

The Spartan Group primarily focuses on investments in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain-related projects. They actively manage a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as other tokens and blockchain assets.

The Spartan Group

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Francesco Agosti

Michael Shaulov

Kevin Weil

F-Prime Capital

Chaos Labs

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality

Avalanche Foundation

Primitive Ventures is an international venture investment firm that invests on blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.

Primitive Ventures

Third Prime

Tioga Capital operates as a private investment firm.

Tioga Capital

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Uniswap

THETA

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks.

Blockdaemon

OpenSea Ventures

Quiet Capital

Paul Veradittakit

Lyrik Ventures

Itay Malinger

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Robot Ventures primarily invests in projects and companies related to decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and the broader Web 3.0 ecosystem. They seek to identify promising early-stage projects that are building innovative solutions in these areas.

Robot Ventures

AUSD

Polymarket

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

1confirmation is a forward-thinking venture capital firm at the forefront of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Established in 2017 by Nick Tomaino, a visionary in the industry, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising early-stage projects that are shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

1confirmation

Canada

Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer, is best known for co-founding Ethereum, one of the most influential blockchain platforms.

Vitalik Buterin

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, specializing in investments in science and technology companies.

Finland

Founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and financial technology.

			Stage	Investors
Ostium Labs	$20.00 M	$250.00 M	Series A	+2	DeFi	Dec 3, 2025
Liquid	$7.60 M	~$76.00 M	Seed Round	+4	DEX	Nov 3, 2025
CipherOwl	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Seed Round	+5	Blockchain Service	Oct 9, 2025
Rapyd	$500.00 M	~$5.00 B	Series F	+10	Blockchain Service	Sep 10, 2025
KITE Kite	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Series A	+2	Blockchain	Sep 2, 2025
STAN	$8.50 M	~$85.00 M	Series A	+8	Social	Aug 1, 2025
Bitwise	$70.00 M	~$700.00 M	Funding Round	+7	Finance	Feb 25, 2025
KITE Kite	--	--	Funding Round	+1	Blockchain	Feb 6, 2025
Chaos Labs	$55.00 M	~$550.00 M	Series A	+12	--	Aug 15, 2024
AUSD AUSD	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Seed Round		Stablecoin	Apr 2, 2024
Polymarket	$25.00 M	~$250.00 M	Series A		DeFi	Jan 1, 2024
Ostium Labs	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Funding Round	+1	DeFi	Oct 6, 2023
Parallax	$4.50 M	~$45.00 M	Seed Round	+6	Finance	Sep 12, 2023
Lens Lens Chain	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Funding Round	+27	Blockchain Service	Jun 8, 2023
Chaos Labs	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Seed Round	+25	--	Feb 2023
SOV Sovryn	$5.40 M	~$54.00 M	Funding Round	+2	DeFi	Oct 9, 2022
SPEC Spectral	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Funding Round	+3	Blockchain Service	Aug 22, 2022
STAN	$2.40 M	~$24.00 M	Seed Round	+2	Social	May 25, 2022
Flowcarbon	$70.00 M	~$700.00 M	Funding Round	+4	--	May 2022
Jadu	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Seed Round	+8	--	Nov 2021

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