{"id":19735,"date":"2026-05-05T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/elastics-raises-2m-pre-seed-to-build-ai-os-for-prediction-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:19:21","slug":"elastics-raises-2m-pre-seed-to-build-ai-os-for-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/elastics-raises-2m-pre-seed-to-build-ai-os-for-prediction-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Elastics raises $2M pre-seed to build AI OS for prediction markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/crypto-news-crypto-exchange-people-option03.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_2a102b5a2d62be870756d57ac6c567be\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI prediction-market operating system Elastics has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by Paris-based VC Frst, with participation from angels affiliated with ElevenLabs, XBTO, RedStone, and a16z.<\/li>\n<li>The Warsaw-based startup is building an \u201cAI-native operating system for prediction markets\u201d that lets users \u201ctrade with words,\u201d while autonomous agents handle research, execution, and risk management across venues.<\/li>\n<li>Funding will be used to hire AI and quantitative talent in Poland and to expand integrations with major prediction markets such as Polymarket, Kalshi, and Limitless.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Elastics, which describes itself as an \u201cAI predictive market operating system,\u201d announced it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by early-stage investor Frst.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frst leads oversubscribed round into Elastics<\/h2>\n<p>According to details shared by Menlo Times and startup databases, the round includes participation from angels and operators across the AI and crypto ecosystem, including co-founders of voice-AI firm ElevenLabs, partners from crypto trading group XBTO, a co-founder of oracle project RedStone, and an a16z scout.<\/p>\n<p>Elastics is headquartered in Warsaw and led by co-founders Szymon Pawica and Mateusz Brodowicz, who are positioning the company at the intersection of quant trading, large language models, and on-chain prediction infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In its pre-seed announcement, the team said it intends to \u201cdemocratize quantitative trading by equipping individual traders with AI-powered tools for automated research and execution\u201d rather than limiting sophisticated prediction strategies to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"trade-with-words-on-an-ai-native-prediction-os\">\u201cTrade with words\u201d on an AI-native prediction OS<\/h2>\n<p>Elastics describes its product as an AI-native operating system for prediction markets \u201cwhere you trade with words, and agents automate your trading,\u201d suggesting a front end where users express views in natural language while backend agents translate those views into structured positions.<\/p>\n<p>Those agents are designed to scan thousands of markets across platforms like Polymarket, Kalshi, and Limitless, track where conviction and liquidity are building, and then execute and adjust trades 24\/7 based on changing probabilities and user-defined risk constraints.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>Industry research cited by Elastics shows aggregate prediction-market volume growing 340% year-over-year to about $2.1 billion notional in 2024, as venues focused on macro, elections, and AI topics moved from niche experiments to what Galaxy Research has called \u201ccrypto\u2019s first real consumer killer app.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent crypto.news\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/menlotimes.com\/\">overview<\/a>\u00a0of the round argued that as prediction markets mature into sizable venues for pricing everything from Fed policy to cloud margins, there is a \u201cclear gap\u201d for tools that help non-quant users discover, size, and manage bets algorithmically.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.menlotimes.com\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another crypto.news\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/section-8-prediction-markets-from-niche-experiment-discovery-davies-eytze\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0noted that if weekly volumes on platforms like Polymarket consistently exceed $1.5 billion as some forecasts suggest, demand for AI-powered execution and risk systems like Elastics could mirror the rise of algo platforms in traditional futures and FX.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/elastics-raises-2m-pre-seed-to-build-ai-os-for-prediction-markets\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary AI prediction-market operating system Elastics has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by Paris-based VC Frst, with participation from angels affiliated with ElevenLabs, XBTO, RedStone, and a16z. The Warsaw-based startup is building an \u201cAI-native operating system for prediction markets\u201d that lets users \u201ctrade with words,\u201d while autonomous agents handle research, execution, and risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"kronos_expire_date":[],"class_list":["post-19735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19735"},{"taxonomy":"kronos_expire_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kronos_expire_date?post=19735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}