The Clearing Company is building a new kind of prediction market – onchain, permissionless and regulated.
Today we are announcing our $15M seed round led by USV, with participation from Haun Ventures, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Rubik, Earl Grey, Cursor Capital, Asylum, Terrance Rohan, Soleio, Furqan Rydhan, Bill Lee, Henri Stern, Elena Nadolinski, Jonah Van Bourg, Ben Levy, and other amazing angel investors.
Everything is a market
For as long as humans have gathered, we’ve sought ways to understand the future.
Romans bet on papal succession centuries before prediction market traders chased a 100x on Pope Leo XIV.
Pre WW2, election markets were wildly popular on Wall Street and became the de facto method to aggregate election information.
The idea of markets as collective intelligence is even more powerful in the internet age, where information moves instantly.
Today, prediction markets function as a new kind of news, surfacing live forecasts rather than lagging headlines. Markets force honesty because being wrong carries a real cost, and traders are incentivized to price without bias.
The next era of prediction markets will be shaped by the collective creativity of the internet. Their power won’t come from complex financial mechanics and clunky user interfaces, but from simplicity and imagination.
To scale, markets must be fun to create, seamless to trade, and supported by novel structures that unlock liquidity.
We’re just at the start of what’s possible.
If you’re an engineer or designer excited about our vision, come build the future with us.