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About
Valence builds a unified trading platform that aggregates prediction-market contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, and other venues. It sells to active individual traders, systematic and algorithmic traders, and trading teams, differentiating through cross-venue execution, unified orderbooks, market-data infrastructure, APIs, and backtesting tools.
Market
Valence competes in the prediction-market trading infrastructure and terminal market, positioning itself as an exchange-agnostic layer above fragmented venues such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Its differentiation is the combination of a unified orderbook, smart routing, standardized APIs, cross-platform market matching, historical data, and support for both manual and systematic trading, whereas alternatives tend to focus on a single venue, a chat-based terminal, or a narrower unified API.
Valence targets active prediction-market traders, systematic/algo traders, and trading teams ranging from advanced retail users to professional and enterprise-scale operators. Its buyers are traders, quantitative developers, market makers, and team leads who need a shared interface, cross-venue execution, portfolio/risk monitoring, and APIs without building separate exchange integrations.
At a Glance
Problem
Prediction markets are becoming increasingly fragmented across exchanges such as Kalshi, Polymarket, and other venues. Liquidity is scattered, identical contracts are difficult to match, and traders must navigate different interfaces, fee structures, rules, and settlement risks. The result is market inefficiency, slower time-to-trade, and operational overhead that is especially painful for serious traders and teams.
The killer use case is for systematic traders, market makers, and high-volume individuals who need to identify cross-venue pricing discrepancies and execute quickly at scale. Without shared infrastructure, these users must build and maintain separate exchange connectors, data pipelines, risk systems, and trading interfaces, creating a substantial barrier to entering or scaling in prediction markets.
Product / Service
Valence is a unified prediction-market trading terminal and API layer. Its web-based terminal consolidates order books, positions, balances, P&L, charts, blotters, and risk information, while its execution system routes and shards orders across venues to seek the best available price. It supports both manual and systematic trading, allowing users to trade across multiple exchanges from one workspace rather than juggling separate accounts and interfaces.
For more advanced users, Valence provides standardized APIs, cross-platform ticker matching, historical and proprietary data for backtesting, and tools for deploying automated strategies. The product is delivered as a volume-priced software service with Pro, Premiere, and Automated tiers, including increasingly advanced execution, risk controls, integrations, API access, and support; the company advertises no monthly minimums and custom pricing for larger traders.
Market
Valence competes in the emerging prediction-market trading infrastructure and aggregation category. Its venue-level substitutes include trading directly on Kalshi, Polymarket, or Crypto.com, while other emerging tools include multi-venue terminals such as Stand and Polymtrade. Valence differentiates itself by combining cross-venue execution, unified data, low-latency infrastructure, portfolio monitoring, and systematic-trading capabilities in one product. Trading firms can also choose to build comparable connectors and infrastructure internally.
The company appears commercially live rather than pre-revenue: its site advertises volume-based fees, reports more than 1 billion contracts traded, and cites $200 million-plus in monthly volume, 99.9% uptime, and live trader testimonials. YC materials report growth from 7 million contracts in September to 250 million in December 2025, a top Kalshi trader executing more than 100 million contracts per month through Valence, and one team scaling P&L fivefold after adopting the platform. These are company-reported traction figures, and no revenue total was disclosed in the reviewed materials.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
The YC Tier List profiled Valence as a unified prediction-markets trading platform and highlighted reported traction of more than $200 million in monthly volume.
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Valence charges volume-based fees with no monthly minimums, tailoring pricing to each trader's profile and volume. Its plans range from platform access for everyday traders to custom enterprise partnerships offering API access, automated strategies, integrations, co-location options, and service-level guarantees.