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Better Opinions raises over $1 million in pre-seed round

Srikanth by Srikanth
February 10, 2022
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Better Opinions raises over $1 million in pre-seed round
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Better Opinions, a Y-Combinator backed company, has raised over $1 million in a pre-seed round from Y Combinator, Java Capital, Soma Capital, and angels including Mayank Kumar, Co-founder, UpGrad, Sudhanshu Raheja, Head of Product and Engineering, GoTo Financials (Gojek-Tokopedia), Pratyush Prasanna, SVP, Gojek, Chinmaya Sharma, Chief Commercial Officer Namshi and the Ranadive Family, the co-owners of Sacramento Kings.

Better Opinions is an event trading platform that allows users to trade their opinions on events in various categories such as cricket, football, finance and entertainment, and allows users to trade on events while matching them with a person with a complimentary trade. It is the stock market exchange of opinions. With events trading emerging as a whole new asset class across the globe, Better Opinions is targeting Rs 1 crore monthly GMV in Q2 and 1 million users in Q4.

Samay Jain, Samay Jain Co-founder & CEO, Better Opinions explained that the app is also targeted at those individuals who may not be financially literate. “Our aim is to make the app inclusive for all. The stock market unfortunately can be very technical and opaque and therefore isn’t always accessible for all. However, when we start allowing trading in categories such as cricket, politics and entertainment, not only do we make trading more relatable, but we also help improve their financial literacy. In the process, they also start experiencing the excitement of trading.”

The funds raised will be used to build & expand the product and tech team, grow the existing user base and educate the users about events trading. Better Opinions is an app where events are created in the form of binary yes/no questions to make trading more relatable, accessible and widespread.

Vinod Shankar, Co-founder and Partner, Java Capital, said “We at Java Capital are very excited to invest in Better Opinions and back Samay and Soumyajit, who have shown maturity and purpose in building Better Opinions, and scaling it at a fast pace. As a VC, I make decisions on companies to invest/trade, a reflection of our opinion, knowledge and information at a point in time. We are in a privileged position as a VC to make such decisions as part of our jobs. What if you and anyone else want to trade on their opinions? Better Opinions – is a product for everyone who has an opinion on any world event to trade and take a position on the same.”

Founded in 2021, Better Opinions launched its Real Money Gaming App (“RMG App”) in December last year and within a month of its launch has seen 150K sign ups with a week on week (WoW) growth of 30%. The launch comes after the Beta version of the Better Opinions App, played with virtual money.

Better Opinions has been shortlisted for W22 batch of Y Combinator. The team consists of founders, Samay Jain and Soumyajit Das, who are former employees of Gojek. The team also consists of graduates from IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and NALSAR, among others.

Prediction markets sit at the intersection of three of the strongest trends that are being observed today: a propensity to speculate, real money gaming, and social. Prediction market allows you to trade on everyday topics. RMG business is growing at a CAGR of 23% YOY.

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